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tent
A pavilion or portable lodge consisting of skins, canvas, or some strong cloth, stretched and sustained by poles, used for sheltering people from the weather.
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noun
A pavilion or portable lodge consisting of skins, canvas, or some strong cloth, stretched and sustained by poles, used for sheltering people from the weather.
“We were camping in a three-man tent.”
The representation of a tent used as a bearing.
A portable pulpit set up outside to accommodate worshippers who cannot fit into a church.
A trouser tent; a piece of fabric, etc. protruding outward like a tent.
verb
To go camping.
“We’ll be tented at the campground this weekend.”
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.
To form into a tent-like shape.
“The sheet tented over his midsection.”
noun
Attention; regard, care.
Intention; design.
verb
To attend to; to heed
To guard; to hinder.
noun
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.
A probe for searching a wound.
verb
(sometimes figurative) To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent.
“to tent a wound”
noun
A kind of wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain; called also tent wine, and tinta.
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Example Sentences
We were camping in a three-man tent.
We’ll be tented at the campground this weekend.
The sheet tented over his midsection.
to tent a wound
