TENT

Tent

A tent is a shelter consisting of sheets of fabric or other material draped over, attached to a frame of poles or attached to a supporting rope. While smaller tents may be free-standing or attached to the ground, large tents are usually anchored using guy ropes tied to stakes or tent pegs. First used as portable homes by nomadic peoples, tents are now more often used for recreational camping and temporary shelters.

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tent

Noun

  1. A pavilion or portable lodge consisting of skins, canvas, or some strong cloth, stretched and sustained by poles, used for sheltering persons from the weather.
  2. The representation of a tent used as a bearing.

Noun (etymology 2)

  1. Attention; regard, care.
  2. Intention; design.

Noun (etymology 3)

  1. A roll of lint or linen, or a conical or cylindrical piece of sponge or other absorbent, used chiefly to dilate a natural canal, to keep open the orifice of a wound, or to absorb discharges.
  2. A probe for searching a wound.

Noun (etymology 4)

  1. A kind of wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain; called also tent wine, and tinta.

Verb

  1. To go camping.
    We’ll be tented at the campground this weekend.
  2. To prop up aluminum foil in an inverted "V" (reminiscent of a pop-up tent) over food to reduce splatter, before putting it in the oven.
  3. To form into a tent-like shape.
    The sheet tented over his midsection.

Verb (etymology 2)

  1. To attend to; to heed; hence, to guard; to hinder.

Verb (etymology 3)

  1. To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent.
    to tent a wound


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