tend-, tendo-, ten-, teno-, tenot-, tenonto-, tens-, tent-, -tend, -tension, -tent, -tense, -tensive, -tentious

1. A tensing or being tensed.
2. Mental or nervous strain, often accompanied by muscular tautness.
3. A state of strained relations; uneasiness due to mutual hostility.
4. Stress on a material produced by the pull of forces tending to cause extension.
5. In physiology and pathology, the condition, in any part of the body, of being stretched or strained; a sensation indicating or suggesting this; a feeling of tightness.
6. In physics, a constrained condition of the particles of a body when subjected to forces acting in opposite directions away from each other (usually along the body’s greatest length), thus tending to draw them apart, balanced by forces of cohesion holding them together; the force or combination of forces acting in this way, especially as a measurable quantity.

A device for applying tension to cables, pipelines, etc.

The quality or condition of being tense; a state of tension.

Having the quality of stretching or straining; causing tension; in pathology, applied to a sensation of tension or tightness in any part of the body.

1. Any muscle that stretches, or tenses, some part of the body.
2. In mathematics, an abstract object representing a generalization of the vector concept and having a specified system of components that undergo certain types of transformation under changes of the coordinate system.

A portable shelter consisting of canvas, skins, etc. stretched over poles and attached to stakes.

1. In zoology, any of various slender, flexible processes or appendages in animals; especially, invertebrates, that serve as organs of touch, prehension, etc.; a feeler.
2. An elongated flexible unsegmented extension, as one of those surrounding the mouth or oral cavity of the squid, used for feeling, grasping, or locomotion.
3. One of the sensitive glandular hairs or filaments on the leaves of insectivorous plants, such as the sundew.
4. A similar part or extension, especially with respect to the ability to grasp or stretch: "There was an espionage network with far-reaching tentacles."
5. Something that acts like a tentacle in its ability to grasp; such as, "He was caught in the tentacles of organized crime."

In a covert pseudo, sense: An artificial identity created in cyberspace for nefarious and deceptive purposes. The implication is that a single person may have multiple tentacles. This term was originally floated in some paranoid ravings on the cypherpunk's list, and adopted in a spirit of irony by other, saner members. It has since shown up, used seriously, in the documentation for some remailer software, and has been widely recognized on the net (since 1994).

Provided with or having tentacles.

Long, thin, armlike parts of some sea animals, which are used for feeling and holding things, catching food, or moving around; such as, the octopus and jellyfish.

Pertaining to or of the nature of a tentacle or tentacles.

Furnished with tentacles or tentaculiform appendages.

A reference to sedentary forms of life, like the Hydra, the Sea-anemone, or some of the tentaculated worms.

Bearing tentacles: said of an animal or organ, in tentaculiferous animals; such as, a sea-anemone, tubiculous annelid, or cuttlefish.

Having the form or appearance of a tentacle.

Bearing or having tentacles.