What's the difference between pensive and tensive?
Pensive
Definition:
(a.) Thoughtful, sober, or sad; employed in serious reflection; given to, or favorable to, earnest or melancholy musing.
(a.) Expressing or suggesting thoughtfulness with sadness; as, pensive numbers.
Example Sentences:
(1) Similarly literary and pensive was Clouds of Sils Maria , in which France's Olivier Assayas combined some modish themes — the internet, celebrity gossip, superhero movies — with some hoarier themes regarding the theatre-cinema divide, ageing and female rivalry.
(2) It celebrates smoking's conviviality and the splendid isolation of the smoker, the smoker's exhibitionism and her pensive introversion.
(3) Aware always of what he called "the desperately thin ice" we walked on, he surveyed the world and our place in it with a pensive realism, striking no heroic postures.
(4) Like Evra at Anfield the other week, he looks pensive.
(5) Watching 5,000 people stream into the UK's biggest nightclub, recently voted one of the top 20 clubs in the world by DJ magazine, boss Sacha Lord looks pensive.
(6) Gunduz, standing pensively before the image of Ataturk, seems to have a different idea of what is Turkish.
(7) His was a slow and pensive start, in which was not only overtaken by the Ferrari pair but also by Rosberg, Max Verstappen and Felipe Massa.
(8) The party leader, Pablo Iglesias , is featured looking pensive on his balcony, working at a table in a sparsely furnished room and watering a solitary ivy plant.
(9) The guitarist also revealed he is working on a new X-pensive Winos album, the first since 1992's Main Offender.
(10) Hou became Mao's personal photographer and, over 12 years, produced pictures that burnished his image and shaped the way he is seen even now: on the seashore; pensive before the Yellow river; jovial in a crowd.
(11) The plot of Anderson's pink gateau of a movie, with its dowager duchesses, murderers and bakers, turns on the fate of a "priceless" Renaissance portrait of a youth pensively clawing an apple with long, bony fingers.
(12) After all, the lead actor is Shia LaBeouf, a boy-man who never explains to viewers whether he's deliberately trying to be a cheap copy of pensive Ed Norton.
(13) Real Madrid's coach Carlo Ancelotti looks pensive ahead of the final.
(14) So it is right that data-privacy and data-retention issues involving Facebook, Google and their brethren are being scrutinised in the European courts , and that the European Commission is working up a consumer-data protection plan that would include the right to have your data erased – or as the EC puts it, with a pensive Mediterranean poetry, the "right to be forgotten".
(15) Messi runs around in delirium, Mascherano is in floods of tears, Sabella doesn't appear to believe he's led a team to a World Cup final (stop it, be nice), Kuyt, Robben and Sneijder look pensive, and Van Gaal goes around doing the polite thing, shaking hands.
(16) The rendition , complete with pensive stares, strummed chords and graceful spins of a floating guitar, went viral – Bowie himself retweeted it, quoting his 1995 song Hallo Spaceboy.
(17) Next was the high jump, the event she was more pensive about having had only four practice sessions this year.
(18) 7.57pm BST The teams are in the tunnel Liverpool skipper Steven Gerrard is looking pensive, staring straight ahead as he waits to lead out Liverpool, whose players are wearing largely white shirts with red trim, black shorts and black socks.
(19) The 16-year-old, a slight boy with a pensive air, had hoped to reach his brother in Germany but had spent two months stranded in the squalid improvised refugee camp at Idomeni in northern Greece, praying for Macedonia to reopen the gateway to central Europe.
(20) It'd be disingenuous to omit that there were a fair number of ding-dong-style celebratory messages amidst the pensive reflections on the end of an era.
Tensive
Definition:
(a.) Giving the sensation of tension, stiffness, or contraction.
Example Sentences:
(1) Strong differences between the two groups are revealed by a systematic correlation study: (i) correlations of blood pressure (with respectively heart rate and total blood volume) were significant in the normotensive group but not in the hypertensive group; (ii) correlations of cardiac output (with respectively heart rate and total blood volume) were significant in both groups; (iii) correlations of renal blood flow (with respectively cardiac output and blood pressure) were significant in the hypertensive group but not in the normo tensive group.
(2) Somewhat higher proportions of the black patients were receiving anti-hyper-tensive treatment compared with the whites, the difference was statistically significant in the case of males (P less than 0.02).
(3) In the population as a whole, CVA mortality in untreated or inadequately controlled hypertensives was significantly greater than in normo-tensives or adequately controlled hypertensives.
(4) In both normo- and hyper-tensive rats the hypertrophic effect of increased dietary sodium intake on the heart has been clearly established.
(5) Salvia miltiorrhiza cell culture extract (SCE) was shown to produce dose-dependent hypotensive response in normo-tensive rats.
(6) The authors describe the finding of extensive tensive pneumoperitoneum which developed during distension therapy (CNP) in an immature neonate.
(7) In conclusion, although both tests showed a rather low SE of a single observation for the blood pressure and heart rate responses in normo- and hyper-tensive subjects, there was a considerable individual variability.
(8) After furosemide administration, blood pressure fell down quickly in the rats with ureteral ligation and in those with captopril pretreatment, while the tensive response to furosemide was blunted by the indomethacin treatment.
(9) Fourteen parameters were investigated in the Montreal population, and the analyses indicated that, when other variables are controlled, age, pulse rate, some measure of serum lipid levels, and a family history of heart disease generally assist in the discrimination between the hyper- and normo-tensive groups, but the obesity measurement did not.
(10) She has remained normo-tensive and free of signs of adrenergic hyperactivity for 11 years.
(11) By contrast, CsA had no significant effect on blood pressure in Wistar-Kyoto rats, a normo-tensive control.
(12) Therefore, although the initial time course for microvascular responses tended to be similar for normo- and hypo-tensive doses of 5-HT, quantitative differences in regional flow distribution and Q emphasize (a) the importance of intra- and extra-hepatic determinants in the regulation of blood flow within hepatic (unit) lobules, and (b) the presence of microvascular heterogeneity within these lobular units.
(13) We have recorded ambulant intra-arterial blood pressure in five normo- and 14 hyper-tensive subjects over 24 h, particular attention being paid to the time of arousal.
(14) Hypertension together with other factors are etiological of both tensive and atherosclerotic, cerebro, reno, and cardiovascular complications.
(15) Also, in the Utah population, it was found that the proportion of persons with a family history of heart disease did not differ significantly in the hyper- and normo-tensive groups.
(16) First, the subdural tensive air separates and compresses the frontal lobes.
(17) Three patients with well documented unilateral chronic pyelonephritis (UCP) of bacterial origin, one hypertensive and two normo-tensive, were presented.
(18) chronic tensive headache (CTH), suggesting that this electrophysiological parameter may be useful in the clinical assessment of primary headache.
(19) The cerebral CT-scan results of 72 patients with chronic atrial fibrillation (AF) were compared to those of an age- and sex-matched control group, affected by muscle-tensive headache.
(20) These results show that there are the aortocaval compression by the heavy tensive uterus and subsequent sluice flow mechanism in fetoplacental circulation in the supine position in late pregnancy.