future tense
31tense — 1 adjective 1 feeling very nervous and worried because of something bad that might happen: The robbers were tense as they waited the long minutes for the van to arrive. | tense moment/atmosphere etc: Marion spoke, eager to break the tense silence …
32future — fu|ture1 W1S1 [ˈfju:tʃə US ər] adj [only before noun] [Date: 1300 1400; : Old French; Origin: futur, from Latin futurus going to be ] 1.) likely to happen or exist at a time after the present ▪ We are now more able to predict future patterns of… …
33future — 1 adjective (only before noun) 1 likely to happen, become, or exist at a time after the present: Careful accounting may help to predict future costs. | future wife/husband etc (=someone who will be your wife, husband etc) 2 technical in grammar,… …
34Future (disambiguation) — The future is the time after the present.Future may also refer to:* Futures contract, a standardized financial contract * Future (programming) * Future tense * The Future, Al Mustaqbal ( ar. المستقبل), a Palestinian electoral listCompanies:*… …
35tense — 1. Taut. Iha iha, liolio; pa apū o loko (repressed). 2. Grammar. Wā (Cf. Gram. 5.2, 5.3). Present tense, wā ānō. Future tense, wā e hiki mai ana. Past tense, wā i hala …
36future — ► NOUN 1) (the future) time that is still to come. 2) events or conditions occurring or existing in that time. 3) a prospect of success or happiness: I might have a future as an artist. 4) Grammar a tense of verbs expressing events that have not… …
37tense — is the location in time of the state or action expressed by a verb. English verbs properly have only two tenses, the present (I stay) and past (I stayed). The future is formed with shall or will (I shall / will stay: see shall and will) or (to… …
38tense — tense1 [tens] adj. tenser, tensest [L tensus, pp. of tendere, to stretch < IE * tend < base * ten , to stretch > THIN] 1. stretched tight; strained; taut 2. feeling, showing, or causing mental strain; anxious 3. Phonet. articulated with… …
39future perfect — n. 1. a tense indicating an action as completed or a state as having ended in relation to a specified time in the future 2. a verb form in this tense (Ex.: will have gone, expressed analytically in English) …
40Tense — Tense, n. [OF. tens, properly, time, F. temps time, tense. See {Temporal} of time, and cf. {Thing}.] (Gram.) One of the forms which a verb takes by inflection or by adding auxiliary words, so as to indicate the time of the action or event… …
