mindmap root((TEN)) tenure 1、 The amount of time that a person holds a job, office, or title.
2、 The right to keep a job, especially the job of teacher or professor.
🌱I know two assistant professors who are so worried about being denied tenure this year that they can't sleep. 🌳Tenure is about holding on to something, almost always a job or position. So you can speak of someone's 30-year tenure as chairman, or someone's brief tenure in the sales manager's office. But tenure means something slightly different in the academic world. In American colleges and universities, the best （or luckiest） teachers have traditionally been granted a lifetime appointment known as tenure after about six years of teaching. Almost nobody has as secure a job as a tenured professor, but getting tenure can be difficult, and most of them have earned it. tenacious Stubborn or determined in clinging to something.
🌱He was known as a tenacious reporter who would stay with a story for months, risking his health and sometimes even his life. 🌳Success in most fields requires a tenacious spirit and a drive to achieve. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the entertainment business. Thousands of actors and actresses work tenaciously to build a TV or film career. But without talent or beauty, tenacity is rarely rewarded, and only a few become stars. tenable Capable of being held or defended; reasonable.
🌱She was depressed for weeks after her professor said that her theory wasn't tenable. 🌳Tenable means "holdable." In the past it was often used in a physical sense—for example, to refer to a city that an army was trying to "hold" militarily against an enemy force. But nowadays it's almost always used when speaking of "held" ideas and theories. If you hold an opinion but evidence appears that completely contradicts it, your opinion is no longer tenable. So, for example, the old ideas that cancer is infectious or that being bled by leeches can cure your whooping cough now seem untenable. tenet A widely held principle or belief, especially one held in common by members of a group or profession.
🌱It was soon obvious that the new owners didn't share the tenets that the company's founders had held to all those years. 🌳A tenet is something we hold, but not with our hands. Tenets are often ideals, but also often statements of faith. Thus, we may speak of the tenets of Islam or Hinduism, the tenets of Western democracy, or the tenets of the scientific method, and in each case these tenets may combine elements of both faith and ideals.