PAST TENSE

Meaning of PAST TENSE in English

(also the past ) noun

[ sing. ] ( grammar ) the form of a verb used to describe actions in the past :

The past tense of 'take' is 'took'.

Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary. Оксфордский английский словарь для изучающик язык на продвинутом уровне. 2005

PAST TENSE — noun Date: 1813 a verb tense expressing action or state in or as if in the past:, a verb tense …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
PAST TENSE — noun : a verb tense expressing action or state in or as if in the past: a. : a verb …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
PAST TENSE — action done in the past (Grammar)
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
PAST TENSE — Date: 1813 : a verb tense expressing action or state in or as if in the past: a. : a …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
PAST TENSE — Function: noun Date: 1813 : a verb tense expressing action or state in or as if in the past: a …
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
PAST TENSE — [past tense] n (1813): a verb tense expressing action or state in or as if in the past: a: a …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
PAST TENSE — ˌpast ˈtense BrE AmE noun [countable] a form of a verb that shows that something happened or existed before the …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
PAST TENSE — noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ For instance, the past tense of regular verbs is expressed by adding -d or -ed …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
PAST TENSE — прошелшее время
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
PAST TENSE — Прошлое
Американский Англо-Русский словарь
PAST TENSE — прошедшее время
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
PAST TENSE — прошедшее время
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь - Апресян, Медникова
PAST TENSE — прошедшее время
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PAST TENSE — прошедшее время
English-Russian-dictionary - Bed release
PAST TENSE — прошедшее время
English-Russian-dictionary - Bed release
PAST TENSE — Прошлое
Британский Англо-Русский словарь
PAST TENSE — прошелшее время
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь
TENSE — I. ˈten(t)s noun ( -s ) Etymology: Middle English tens, tense time, tense, from Middle French tens, from Latin tempor-, …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
PAST — I. ˈpast, ˈpaa(ə)st, ˈpaist, ˈpȧst adjective Etymology: Middle English passed, past, from past participle of passen to pass 1. a. …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
TENSE — tense 1 — tensely , adv. — tenseness , n. /tens/ , adj., tenser, tensest , v. , tensed, tensing …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
PAST — /past, pahst/ , adj. 1. gone by or elapsed in time: It was a bad time, but it's all past …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
TENSE — I. ˈten(t)s noun Etymology: Middle English tens time, tense, from Anglo-French, from Latin tempus Date: 14th century 1. : a …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
PAST — I. ˈpast adjective Etymology: Middle English, from past participle of passen to pass Date: 14th century 1. a. : ago …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
TENSE — adj stretched tightly; strained to stiffness; rigid; not lax; as, a tense fiber. 2. tense ·noun one of the forms …
Webster English vocab
PAST — adv by; beyond; as, he ran past. 2. past ·prep above; exceeding; more than. 3. past ·prep beyond, in time; …
Webster English vocab
TENSE — [tense] n [ME tens time, tense, fr. MF, fr. L tempus] (14c) 1: a distinction of form in a verb …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
PAST — [past] adj [ME, fr. pp. of passen to pass] (14c) 1 a: ago "12 years ~" b: just gone or …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
TENSE — in grammar, a verbal category relating the time of a narrated event to the time of the speech event. In …
Britannica English vocabulary
PAST — past BrE AmE pɑːst § pæst AmE pæst ▶ ˌ past ˈ master BrE AmE ▶ ˌ past ˈ participle, …
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
TENSE — / tens; NAmE / adjective , noun , verb ■ adjective 1. ( of a person ) nervous or worried, …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
PAST — / pɑːst; NAmE pæst/ adjective , noun , preposition , adverb ■ adjective 1. gone by in time : in …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
TENSE — I. tense 1 AC /tens/ BrE AmE adjective [ Word Family: noun : ↑ tenseness , ↑ tension ; verb …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
PAST — I. past 1 S1 W1 /pɑːst $ pæst/ BrE AmE adjective [ Date: 1200-1300 ; Origin: Old past participle of …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
TENSE — n. Gram. 1 a form taken by a verb to indicate the time (also the continuance or completeness) of the …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
TENSE — adj. & v. --adj. 1 stretched tight, strained (tense cord; tense muscle; tense nerves; tense emotion). 2 causing tenseness (a …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
PAST — adj., n., prep., & adv. --adj. 1 gone by in time and no longer existing (in past years; the time …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
TENSE — n. Gram. 1 a form taken by a verb to indicate the time (also the continuance or completeness) of the …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
TENSE — adj. & v. adj. 1 stretched tight, strained (tense cord; tense muscle; tense nerves; tense emotion). 2 causing tenseness (a …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
PAST — adj., n., prep., & adv. adj. 1 gone by in time and no longer existing (in past years; the time …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
TENSE — 1. adj. & v. --adj. 1. stretched tight, strained (tense cord; tense muscle; tense nerves; tense emotion). 2 causing tenseness …
Oxford English vocab
PAST — adj., n., prep., & adv. --adj. 1. gone by in time and no longer existing (in past years; the time …
Oxford English vocab
TENSE — ( tenser, tensest, tenses, tensing, tensed) 1. A tense situation or period of time is one that makes people anxious, …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
PAST — ( pasts) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. Note: In addition to the …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
TENSE — (~r, ~st, ~s, tensing, ~d) 1. A ~ situation or period of time is one that makes people anxious, because …
Collins COBUILD - Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык
PAST — (~s) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. Note: In addition to the uses …
Collins COBUILD - Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык
TENSE — I. adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a strained/tense atmosphere (= not relaxed ) ▪ As soon as I went in, …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
PAST — I. adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES (a) quarter past (sth) British English ( also (a) quarter after (sth) American English …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
PAST — (BEYOND) [preposition], [adverb] [not gradable] - in or to a position that is beyond a particular pointI live on Station …
Cambridge English vocab
TENSE
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
TENSE — I. noun ADJECTIVE ▪ future , past , present ▪ verb VERB + TENSE ▪ use ▪ form ▪ The …
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
PAST — See ↑ AFTER 3, ↑ PASS/GO PAST 1, ↑ PAST 1, ↑ TIME 2 ◆◆◆ • ↑ be living in …
Longman Activator English vocab
PAST — INDEX: 1. the past 2. all the things that have happened in the past 3. when something happened or was …
Longman Activator English vocab
TENSE
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
PAST — n. 25B6; adjective memories of times past : GONE (BY), over (and done with), no more, done, bygone, former, (of) …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
TENSE — Of programs, very clever and efficient. A tense piece of code often got that way because it was highly bum …
FOLDOC Computer English Dictionary
TENSE — adj. 1 taut, strained, stiff, under tension, rigid One could see how tense the muscles were under the skin 2 …
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab
PAST — adj. 1 over, done, finished, (over and) done with, gone (and forgotten), dead (and buried or gone), defunct The day …
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab
TENSE — Of programs, very clever and efficient. A tense piece of code often got that way because it was highly bum …
Jargon File English vocabulary
PAST — preposition 1 BAD : I was 8 years old when my father past away. GOOD : I was 8 years …
Longman Common Errors English vocabulary
TENSE — I сущ.; грам. время the future tense ≈ будущее время the future perfect tense ≈ будущее совершенное время the past …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
PAST — 1. сущ. 1) прошлое; прошедшее in the past ≈ в прошлом to recapture the past ≈ вернуть прошлое checkered past …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
TENSE — tense.ogg _I tens n грам. время present past, future tense - настоящее прошедшее, будущее время _II 1. tens a 1. …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
PAST — past.ogg 1. pɑ:st n 1. (the past) 1> прошлое, минувшее, прошедшее we cannot change the past - прошлого не воротишь …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
PAST — 1) былой 2) мимо 3) прошедший 4) прошлый • automaton with finite past — автомат с конечным запоминанием automaton with infinite past — автомат с бесконечным …
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Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary

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