tensive
- adjective
- /ˈtɛnsɪv/
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tensivo
- After running the marathon, she felt a tensive strain in her calves.
- tensive language
Examples
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The physical therapist recommended tensive exercises to help strengthen the injured muscle.
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The artist used tensive lines in her drawing to create a sense of movement and energy.
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Metaphors and symbolic expressions are forms of tensive language.
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Rather than distinguishing realms of experience, tensive language conjoins them.
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Metals, we had a pretty good understanding of what their strengths were, their ultimate strength, their fatigue strength, their compressive strength or tensive tensile strength, what have you.
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As we focused on the parallels between wordings and gestures in the treaties and in the condolence rituals, we found many examples of tensive language.
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"It tensive language refers not so much to a single and definite item of reality as to a pattern of related kinds of experience," Mark Searle (1981: 105) writes.
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In the words of Philip Wheelwright, these directions are that of steno-language or tensive language (Wheelwright 1962: 23-26).
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In addition to the stenographer's way of using words, there is another, a tensive language which is open, sometimes undefined and ambivalent, but rich in associations and validated in trustworthy oral memory.
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STENO- AND TENSIVE LANGUAGES
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Synonyms
Antonyms
How Tense
Surface Forms
Morphology
tensive = tense (transparent) = tens + ive
The meaning of 'tensive' as causing tension is directly derived from 'tense'.
Etymology
Tensive comes from the Latin root tens meaning 'to stretch', the same root in tension and tendon. So when something is 'tensive' it is under pull or strain, like a rope or material that is being stretched.