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tent
1[ tent ]
noun
- a portable shelter of skins, canvas, plastic, or the like, supported by one or more poles or a frame and often secured by ropes fastened to pegs in the ground.
- something that resembles a tent.
verb (used with object)
- to lodge in tents.
- to cover with or as if with a tent:
In winter the tennis courts are tented in plastic.
verb (used without object)
- to live in a tent; encamp.
tent
2[ tent ]
noun
- a roll or pledget, usually of soft absorbent material, as lint or gauze, for dilating an orifice, keeping a wound open, etc.
- a probe.
verb (used with object)
- to keep (a wound) open with a tent.
tent
3[ tent ]
verb (used with object)
- to give or pay attention to; heed.
tent
1/ tɛnt /
noun
- a portable shelter of canvas, plastic, or other waterproof material supported on poles and fastened to the ground by pegs and ropes
- ( as modifier )
tent peg
- something resembling this in function or shape
verb
- intr to camp in a tent
- tr to cover with or as if with a tent or tents
- tr to provide with a tent as shelter
tent
2/ tɛnt /
noun
- obsolete.a red table wine from Alicante, Spain
tent
3/ tɛnt /
noun
- a plug of soft material for insertion into a bodily canal, etc, to dilate it or maintain its patency
verb
- tr to insert such a plug into (a bodily canal, etc)
tent
4/ tɛnt /
noun
- heed; attention
verb
- to pay attention to; take notice of
- to attend to
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Derived Forms
- ˈtentless, adjective
- ˈtentˌlike, adjective
- ˈtented, adjective
- ˈtenter, noun
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Other Words From
- tentless adjective
- tentlike adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
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Example Sentences
Finally, the future arrives in the Andes, at the ranch Hacienda El Porvenir, which translates as “the future,” where you’ll spend 24 hours venturing no more than 30 feet from a tent, alone, with a journal.
Over the course of 16 days, it’s what kept my key items—a sleeping bag, pillow, tent, cell phone, and journal—dry.
Maghsoodnia notes that having separate buildings, tents or dorms to quarantine sick students is a big challenge for universities.
Investing thousands of dollars in tents, fans and evaporative cooling equipment, they’ve managed to hide from the sun, keep social distancing and maintain business.
Give people a peek inside of the tent who think they know but don’t know.
Wedged between two marble buildings at the lavishly designed Lincoln Center, sits a single white tent.
While quarantined, she was seemingly powerless to challenge her banishment to a tent in Newark.
But there remains an underlying air of stress, from the media tent to the concession stands.
Santorum embraced a more pragmatic big-tent approach to these candidates.
The smaller “Flood Wall Street” eschewed the big-tent approach and focused on radical politics and aggressive activism.
The Duchess had also a tent for their sick men; so that we had a small town of our own here, and every body employed.
Two young lovers were exchanging their hearts' yearnings beneath the children's tent, which they had found unoccupied.
The children possessed themselves of the tent, and Mrs. Pontellier went over to join them.
It was a sad day for Ramona and Alessandro when the kindly Hyers pulled up their tent-stakes and left the valley.
They lived at first in a tent; no time to build a house, till the wheat and vegetables were planted.
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