A verb form indicating that an action or state has been completed at the present time, in the past, or shall be completed in the future.

(grammar, of a verb) Tense of a verb used when referring to something that happened before a past setting or the imperfect; formed in English by adding had before the past participle of a verb, or by adding had been before the present participle of the verb.

(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.

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

(intransitive) to become tense

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

(grammar) In Latin, the perfect, imperfect or pluperfect tense. / (grammar) In Greek, the aorist, imperfect or pluperfect tense.

(grammar) In Latin, the present or future tense. / (grammar) In Greek, the present, future or perfect tense.

Synonym of continuous tense.

(grammar) A verb tense expressing ongoing action; in English, any of the tenses formed with the present participle, namely present continuous ("I am dreaming"), past continuous ("I was dreaming"), present perfect continuous ("I have been dreaming"), past perfect continuous ("I had been dreaming"), future continuous ("I will be dreaming") or future perfect continuous ("I will have been dreaming").