tend to someone/something

Examples of tending

tending

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

In summary, we have three outputs: afforestation area, reforestation area, and junior-forest tending area, and one input: total expense in silviculture.
It is objective, factual, formal, official, sometimes tending to hostility.
As before, the stress saturates, tending at large times to a position-independent value, away from the boundary.
The deflection would result in resistance tending to return the system to its initial position.
The lift force is in a direction tending to increase e, and so in a pure liquid a vertical line of two bubbles is unstable.
All the project's interviewers observed much tending of people as children: wiping hands, fixing bibs, and putting food directly into their mouths.
Jobbers and workers found that, step by painful step, their material interests, social experience and political perceptions were tending gradually and unevenly to converge.
Tending to focus above, under, or behind particular events like the one described, however, it leaves important political aspects unseen.
Patients exhibit 'lateropulsion', a prominent strong motor disturbance tending to push both the patient and the eyes to the side of the lesion.
With an incomplete understanding of ecological information, accounting for future tending, goal-directed behavior can be a daunting task.
Yes madam; while tending his flocks, some of them strayed and fell over a precipice.
There are indications from the familial correspondence we have studied that it was tending towards disappearance even in the late 15th century.
Nothing definitive, but it all suggests that things are tending in a direction that is perfectly awful.
Rural and urban children can and do contribute to family budgets by tending animals, harvesting crops, becoming apprentices, and working in shops.
This study has illustrated the special individual needs of older spouses in a tending relationship.
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