tent

IPA: tˈɛnt

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.
(archaic) The representation of a tent used as a bearing.
(Scotland) 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.
(archaic, UK, Scotland, dialect) Attention; regard, care.
(archaic) Intention; design.
(medicine) 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.
(medicine) A probe for searching a wound.
(archaic) A kind of red wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain.

(intransitive) To go camping.
(cooking) 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.
(intransitive) To form into a tent-like shape.
Synonym of fumigate
(archaic, UK, Scotland, dialect) To attend to; to heed
(archaic, UK, Scotland, dialect) to guard; to hinder.
(medicine, sometimes figurative) To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent.

Examples of "tent" in Sentences

Getting the south's remaining archives out of a tent is the first step.
Under the tent is the sensible and the ethical and the soulful place to be.
This guy's "tent" is probably more luxurious than many of the homes in the neighborhood.
A tent has been invented by Major H.H. Sibley, of the army, which is known as the "_Sibley tent_."
[Illustration: "_Gravely passed from tent to tent_"] [Illustration: "_And threw her arms round little Ann_"] "Look at that child," said one, "I'm sure
My last excursion was indeed with a pop-up, to Glastonbury, and my other tent is an ultra light one for squishing into a backpack, so your Vango FBT is in a different league.
It is quite an agreeable change to see a leaden sky and hear the rain softly pattering on the tent roof, after many days of sweltering, dazzling heat, _when one is in a comfortable tent_.
Birdie lashed the full biscuit tin to the door to prevent its flapping, and also got what he called the tent downhaul round the cap and then tied it about himself outside his bag: if the tent went he was going too.
Our goal is to ultimately spend less in total on films but because we are making fewer films and there is a greater percentage of those films that are what we call tent-poles, the average price for a film isn't necessarily going down significantly.