tendue

Phonetic: "/ˈfɛmənɪn/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: That which is feminine.

Definition: (possibly obsolete) A woman.

Definition: (grammar) The feminine gender.

Definition: (grammar) A word of the feminine gender.

Phonetic: "/ˈfɛmənɪn/"

Part Of Speech: adjective

Definition: Of or pertaining to the female gender; womanly.

Definition: Of or pertaining to the female sex; biologically female, not male.

Definition: Belonging to females; typically used by females.

Example: Mary, Elizabeth, and Edith are feminine names.

Definition: Having the qualities stereotypically associated with women: nurturing, not aggressive.

Definition: (grammar) Of, pertaining or belonging to the female grammatical gender, in languages that have gender distinctions.

Phonetic: "/pɑːst/"

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To change place.

Definition: To change in state or status

Definition: To move through time.

Definition: To be accepted.

Definition: In any game, to decline to play in one's turn.

Definition: To do or be better.

Definition: To take heed.

Phonetic: "/pɑːst/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: The period of time that has already happened, in contrast to the present and the future.

Example: a book about a time machine that can transport people back into the past

Definition: (grammar) The past tense.

Phonetic: "/pɑːst/"

Part Of Speech: adjective

Definition: Having already happened; in the past; finished.

Example: past glories

Definition: (postmodifier) Following expressions of time to indicate how long ago something happened; ago.

Definition: Of a period of time: having just gone by; previous.

Example: during the past year

Definition: (grammar) Of a tense, expressing action that has already happened or a previously-existing state.

Example: past tense

Phonetic: "/pɑːst/"

Part Of Speech: adverb

Definition: In a direction that passes.

Example: I watched him walk past

Definition: Passing by, especially without stopping or being delayed.

Example: Ignore them, we'll play past them.

Phonetic: "/pɑːst/"

Part Of Speech: preposition

Definition: Beyond in place, quantity or time.

Example: count past twenty

Definition: No longer capable of.

Example: I'm past caring what he thinks of me.

Definition: Having recovered or moved on from (a traumatic experience, etc.).

Phonetic: "/pɑːˈtɪsɪpəl/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: (grammar) A form of a verb that may function as an adjective or noun. English has two types of participles: the present participle and the past participle. In other languages, there are others, such as future, perfect, and future perfect participles.

Phonetic: "/ɔv/"

Part Of Speech: preposition

Definition: Expressing distance or motion.

Definition: Expressing separation.

Definition: Expressing origin.

Definition: Expressing agency.

Definition: Expressing composition, substance.

Definition: Introducing subject matter.

Definition: Having partitive effect.

Definition: Expressing possession.

Definition: Forming the "objective genitive".

Definition: Expressing qualities or characteristics.

Definition: Expressing a point in time.

Part Of Speech: adjective

Definition: Sensitive or painful to the touch.

Definition: Easily bruised or injured; not firm or hard; delicate.

Example: tender plants; tender flesh; tender fruit

Definition: Physically weak; not able to endure hardship.

Definition: (of food) Soft and easily chewed.

Definition: Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained.

Definition: Fond, loving, gentle, sweet.

Example: Suzanne was such a tender mother to her children.

Definition: Young and inexperienced.

Definition: Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the softer passions; pathetic.

Example: tender expressions; tender expostulations; a tender strain

Definition: Apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate.

Example: a tender subject

Definition: Heeling over too easily when under sail; said of a vessel.

Definition: Exciting kind concern; dear; precious.

Definition: Careful to keep inviolate, or not to injure; used with of.

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To make tender or delicate; to weaken.

Definition: To feel tenderly towards; to regard fondly or with consideration.

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To work on a tender.

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To offer, to give.

Example: to tender one’s resignation

Definition: To offer a payment, as at sales or auctions.

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: Tender feeling or fondness; affection.