(grammar) A tense used to describe a past action that is ongoing, incomplete or continuous, or coincident with another action.

The conditional mood.

(phonology) a process that occurs almost ubiquitously in North American English in which the phoneme /æ/ is raised and lengthened or diphthongized in certain or all environments.

(Swedish grammar) A verb form, used together with a form of the auxiliary verb ha (="have") to create the perfect and pluperfect tenses.

(intransitive) to become tense

(phonetics) A vowel produced with relative constriction of the vocal tract.

plural of tense vowel

(grammar) A grammatical category in some languages expressing perfective aspect and past tense of verbs; the aorist.

(grammar) A verb tense indicating action in the past and marked by verb inflection; the preterite.

(grammar) In English, the tense of a verb which is used specifically in the simple aspect--that is, the verb alone does not indicate whether the action is complete or habitual--and is usually used independently of any auxiliary verbs, with the known exceptions of 'will', 'shall', and 'would'.