"tending" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "tendings",
      "tags": [
        "gerund",
        "plural-of"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "verb form",
        "3": "plural of gerund",
        "4": "tendings"
      },
      "expansion": "tending (plural of gerund tendings)",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "tend‧ing"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1970, R. Grathoff, The Structure of Social Inconsistencies",
          "text": "In other words, the mutual tendings of all individuals in a given situation toward each other and toward a common object can be apprehended in toto by each actor.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "tend"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "present participle and gerund of tend"
      ],
      "id": "en-tending-en-verb-fWIET3iM",
      "links": [
        [
          "tend",
          "tend#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "form-of",
        "gerund",
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈtɛndɪŋ/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-tending.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/5b/En-us-tending.ogg/En-us-tending.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5b/En-us-tending.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "tending"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "tendings",
      "tags": [
        "gerund",
        "plural-of"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "verb form",
        "3": "plural of gerund",
        "4": "tendings"
      },
      "expansion": "tending (plural of gerund tendings)",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "tend‧ing"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English 2-syllable words",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English non-lemma forms",
        "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verb forms",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1970, R. Grathoff, The Structure of Social Inconsistencies",
          "text": "In other words, the mutual tendings of all individuals in a given situation toward each other and toward a common object can be apprehended in toto by each actor.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "tend"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "present participle and gerund of tend"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "tend",
          "tend#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "form-of",
        "gerund",
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈtɛndɪŋ/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-tending.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/5b/En-us-tending.ogg/En-us-tending.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5b/En-us-tending.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "tending"
}