0 present participle of tend --
1 to be likely to behave in a particular way or have a particular characteristic: --
2 to care for something or someone: --
This study has illustrated the special individual needs of older spouses in a tending relationship.
Rural and urban children can and do contribute to family budgets by tending animals, harvesting crops, becoming apprentices, and working in shops.
Nothing definitive, but it all suggests that things are tending in a direction that is perfectly awful.
There are indications from the familial correspondence we have studied that it was tending towards disappearance even in the late 15th century.
Yes madam; while tending his flocks, some of them strayed and fell over a precipice.
With an incomplete understanding of ecological information, accounting for future tending, goal-directed behavior can be a daunting task.
Patients exhibit 'lateropulsion', a prominent strong motor disturbance tending to push both the patient and the eyes to the side of the lesion.
Tending to focus above, under, or behind particular events like the one described, however, it leaves important political aspects unseen.
