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TENDED TO
I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having a caretaker or other watcher
Synonyms:
attended; tended to
Classified under:
Similar:
cared-for (having needed care and attention)
Context examples:
Existing treatments have tended to take hours to set.
(Materials scientists invent new coating for self-cleaning, water-efficient toilets, Wikinews)
Participants experiencing better empathy also tended to have a lower risk of cardiovascular disease events, although this was not statistically significant.
(Patients with an ‘empathic’ GP at reduced risk of early death, University of Cambridge)
Obese mothers in the study tended to have lower folate levels than normal weight mothers.
(Proper maternal folate level may reduce child obesity risk, NIH)
But because these earlier studies tended to analyze relatively small numbers of people, each individual study was too limited to detect common genetic variations that might exert subtle effects on disease risk.
(Over 100 Genetic Sites Tied to Schizophrenia, NIH)
Has not the general evidence since that date tended to—well, to strengthen his position?
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I make no allowance for innumerable feelings and circumstances that may have all tended to good.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
These plaques, a hallmark of atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries), also tended to be more structurally unstable, which means that they have an increased likelihood of causing heart attack and stroke.
(Researchers have found a link between allergen in red meat and heart disease, National Institutes of Health)
Surprisingly, the loss of woodlands tended to be greater in protected forest reserves than in the more populated Chobe District.
(Land cover change in Botswana savannas: Don't blame the elephants, National Science Foundation)
It was but a word or two that I could catch, and yet I gathered some important news, for besides other scraps that tended to the same purpose, this whole clause was audible: Not another man of them'll jine.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
The sports of the ring had, in his opinion, tended to that contempt of pain and of danger which had contributed so much in the past to the safety of the country, and which might, if what he heard was true, be very quickly needed once more.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
