Tense vs. Escalate — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Tense and Escalate
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Tense
Tightly stretched; taut.
Escalate
To increase in intensity, extent, or amount
Tensions that escalated into violence.
Tense
In a state of nervous tension or mental strain
Was very tense before the exam.
Escalate
To increase, enlarge, or intensify
Escalated the hostilities in the Persian Gulf.
Tense
Causing or characterized by nervous tension or mental strain
A tense standoff between border patrols.
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Escalate
To pass (a transaction or case) on to a higher level in an organizational hierarchy
Escalated the customer's complaint.
Tense
(Linguistics) Enunciated with taut muscles, as the sound (ē) in keen.
Escalate
(ambitransitive) To increase (something) in extent or intensity; to intensify or step up.
Violence escalated during the election.
The shooting escalated the existing hostility.
A small fight escalated into a big fight.
Tense
To make or become tense.
Escalate
(transitive) In technical support, to transfer a customer, a problem, etc. to the next higher level of authority
The tech 1 escalated the caller to a tech
Tense
A property of verbs in which the time of the action or state, as well as its continuance or completion, is indicated or expressed.
Escalate
(uncommon) To climb.
Tense
A category or set of verb forms that indicate or express the time, such as past, present, or future, of the action or state.
Escalate
Increase in extent or intensity;
The Allies escalated the bombing
Tense
Any of the forms of a verb which distinguish when an action or state of being occurs or exists.
The basic tenses in English are present, past, and future.
Tense
An inflected form of a verb that indicates tense.
English only has a present tense and a past tense; it has no future tense.
Tense
The property of indicating the point in time at which an action or state of being occurs or exists.
Dyirbal verbs are not inflected for tense.
Tense
To apply a tense to.
Tensing a verb
Tense
(transitive) To make tense.
Tense
(intransitive) To become tense.
Tense
Showing signs of stress or strain; not relaxed.
You need to relax, all this overtime and stress is making you tense.
Tense
Pulled taut, without any slack.
Tense
One of the forms which a verb takes by inflection or by adding auxiliary words, so as to indicate the time of the action or event signified; the modification which verbs undergo for the indication of time.
Tense
Stretched tightly; strained to stiffness; rigid; not lax; as, a tense fiber.
The temples were sunk, her forehead was tense, and a fatal paleness was upon her.
Tense
A grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time
Tense
Stretch or force to the limit;
Strain the rope
Tense
Increase the tension on;
Tense a rope
Tense
Become tense or tenser;
He tensed up when he saw his opponent enter the room
Tense
Make tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious;
Tense
In or of a state of physical or nervous tension
Tense
Pronounced with relatively tense tongue muscles (e.g., the vowel sound in `beat')
Tense
Taut or rigid; stretched tight;
Tense piano strings
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