tent
IPA: tˈɛnt
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.
- (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.
verb
- (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.
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Examples of "tent" in Sentences
- He is the only child in the tent.
- The angry citizens ripped the tents.
- The tent in the background is a lavvu.
- Rest of the tents are waterproof summer tents.
- The property is currently on the tentative list.
- They lived in tents in the dense forest of the area.
- The afflicted are segregated from the main camp, housed in tents.
- Tents flap, camp stoves hiss, people laugh, sniffle, adjust their packs.
- The most notorious of the outbreak species is the forest tent caterpillar.
- A tarp tent is a tarpaulin, a plastic or nylon sheet, used in place of a tent.
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