WordNet is a semantic lexicon for the English language. It was created and is being maintained at the Cognitive Science Laboratory of Princeton University under the direction of psychology professor George A. Miller.
The purpose is twofold: to produce a combination of dictionary and thesaurus that is more intuitively usable, and to support automatic text analysis and artificial intelligence applications.
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strain, tense, tense up,
1. NOUN. (tense)
a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time
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present, present tense, aorist, past, past tense, future, future tense, progressive, progressive tense, imperfect, imperfect tense, continuous tense, perfective, perfective tense, perfect, perfect tense,
2. VERB. (tense)
make tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious
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3. VERB. (tense)
become tense or tenser
"He tensed up when he saw his opponent enter the room"
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4. VERB. (tense)
increase the tension on
"tense a rope"
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5. VERB. (tense)
stretch or force to the limit
"strain the rope"
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6. ADJ. (tense)
taut or rigid
stretched tight
"tense piano strings"
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7. ADJ. (tense)
pronounced with relatively tense tongue muscles (e.g., the vowel sound in `beat'')
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8. ADJ. (tense)
in or of a state of physical or nervous tension
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aroused, wound up, cliff-hanging, suspenseful, suspensive, nail-biting, drawn, taut, edgy, high-strung, highly strung, in suspense(p), jittery, jumpy, nervy, overstrung, restive, uptight, electric, isotonic, nervous, strained, unrelaxed, pumped-up(a), pumped up(p), pumped(p), wired,
