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Verb

Tend is on the Academic Vocabulary List.

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1. (transitive & intransitive)Category:Transitive verbsCategory:Intransitive verbs If something tends to be true, it is often or usually true.

   The streets are very confusing in Tokyo and people tend to get lost.

   A clearly typed paper does tend to get a better mark.

   If we can't understand something, we tend to ignore it.

   Of course, millions of dollars in targeted advertising does tend to increase sales.

2. (transitive)Category:Transitive verbs If you tend something, you watch and take care of it.

   The children often help with chores, including cutting the grass and tending the garden.

3. If ${\displaystyle x}$ tends towards ${\displaystyle y}$, ${\displaystyle x}$ is usually ${\displaystyle y}$.

   My artwork tends towards the modern.

4. If you tend bar, you work at a bar selling drinks.
5. If something tends in a particular direction, you generally moves in that direction.

   The price of gold has tended upward for about three years.