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–noun

1.	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.

2.	something that resembles a tent.

3.	tent dress.

–verb (used with object)

4.	to lodge in tents.

5.	to cover with or as if with a tent: In winter the tennis courts are tented inplastic.

–verb (used without object)

6.	to live in a tent; encamp.

[Origin: 1250–1300; ME tente < OF < L tenta, fem. of tentus ptp. of tendere to extend, stretch; cf. tentōrium tent

]

—Related forms

tentless, adjective

tentlike, adjective

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–verb (used with object) Chiefly Scot.

to give or pay attention to; heed.

[Origin: 1250–1300; ME, deriv. of tent (n.) attention, aph. var. of attent < OF atente attention, intention < L attenta, fem. of attentus, ptp. of attendere to attend

]

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–noun

a probe.

2.	a roll or pledget, usually of soft absorbent material, as lint or gauze, for dilating an orifice, keeping a wound open, etc.

–verb (used with object)

3.	to keep (a wound) open with a tent.

[Origin: 1325–75; ME tente a probe < MF, n. deriv. of tenter < L tentāre, var. of temptāre to probe, test. See tempt

]

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n.

A portable shelter, as of canvas, stretched over a supporting framework of poles with ropes and pegs.
Something resembling such a portable shelter in construction or outline: "her hair a dark tent, her face a thin triangle" (Anne Tyler).

v.   tent·ed, tent·ing, tents

v.   intr.
To camp in a tent.

v.   tr.

To form a tent over.
To supply with or put up in tents.

[Middle English, from Old French tente, from Vulgar Latin *tendita, from feminine past participle of Latin tendere, to stretch out; see ten- in Indo-European roots.]

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n.   A small cylindrical plug of lint or gauze used to keep open or probe a wound or an orifice.

tr.v.   tent·ed, tent·ing, tents
To keep (a wound or orifice) open with such a plug.

[Middle English tente, from Old French, from tenter, to probe, from Latin tentāre, to feel, try; see tentative.]

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tr.v. tent·ed, tent·ing, tents Scots

To pay heed to.
To attend; wait on.

[Middle English tenten, from tent, attention, short for attent, from Old French attente, from Vulgar Latin *attendita, from feminine past participle of Latin attendere, to wait on; see attend.]

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1297, "portable shelter of skins or cloths stretched over poles," from O.Fr. tente (12c.), from M.L. tenta "a tent," noun use of fem. sing. of L. tentus "stretched," variant pp. of tendere "to stretch" (see tenet). The notion is of "stretching" hides over a framework. The verb meaning "to camp in a tent" is recorded from 1856. Tent caterpillar first recorded 1854.

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tent
noun
1.	a portable shelter (usually of canvas stretched over supporting poles and fastened to the ground with ropes and pegs); "he pitched his tent near the creek"
2.	a web that resembles a tent or carpet
verb
1.	live in or as if in a tent; "Can we go camping again this summer?"; "The circus tented near the town"; "The houseguests had to camp in the living room" [syn: camp]

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tent [tent] noun

a movable shelter made of canvas or other material, supported by poles or a frame and fastened to the ground with ropes and pegs
Example: When we go on holiday, we usually sleep in a tent.

Arabic:	خَيْمَه
Chinese (Simplified):	帐篷
Chinese (Traditional):	帳篷
Czech:	stan
Danish:	telt
Dutch:	tent
Estonian:	telk
Finnish:	teltta
French:	tente
German:	das Zelt
Greek:	σκηνή, αντίσκηνο
Hungarian:	sátor
Icelandic:	tjald
Indonesian:	tenda
Italian:	tenda

Japanese:	テント
Korean:	텐트
Latvian:	telts
Lithuanian:	palapinė
Norwegian:	telt
Polish:	namiot
Portuguese (Brazil):	tenda, barraca
Portuguese (Portugal):	tenda
Romanian:	cort
Russian:	палатка
Slovak:	stan
Slovenian:	šotor
Spanish:	tienda (de campaña)
Swedish:	tält
Turkish:	çadır

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Main Entry: tent
Pronunciation: 'tent
Function: noun
: a canopy or enclosure placed over the head and shoulders to retain vapors or oxygen during medical administration

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Poplar Tent, NC (CDP, FIPS 53450) Location: 35.40991 N, 80.63587 W
Population (1990): 3872 (1470 housing units)
Area: 14.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

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Lack"ey\, n.; pl. Lackeys. [F. laquais; cf. Sp. & Pg. lacayo; of uncertain origin; perh. of German origin, and akin to E. lick, v.] An attending male servant; a footman; a servile follower.

Like a Christian footboy or a gentleman's lackey. --Shak.

Lackey caterpillar (Zo["o]l.), the caterpillar, or larva, of any bombycid moth of the genus Clisiocampa; -- so called from its party-colored markings. The common European species (C. neustria) is striped with blue, yellow, and red, with a white line on the back. The American species (C. Americana and C. sylvatica) are commonly called tent caterpillars. See Tent caterpillar, under Tent.

Lackey moth (Zo["o]l.), the moth which produces the lackey caterpillar.

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Pa*vil"ion\, n. [F. pavillon, fr. L. pavilio a butterfly, also, a tent, because spread out like a butterfly's wings.]

1. A temporary movable habitation; a large tent; a marquee; esp., a tent raised on posts. "[The] Greeks do pitch their brave pavilions." --Shak.

2. (Arch.) A single body or mass of building, contained within simple walls and a single roof, whether insulated, as in the park or garden of a larger edifice, or united with other parts, and forming an angle or central feature of a large pile.

3. (Mil.) A flag, colors, ensign, or banner.

4. (Her.) Same as Tent (Her.)

5. That part of a brilliant which lies between the girdle and collet. See Illust. of Brilliant.

6. (Anat.) The auricle of the ear; also, the fimbriated extremity of the Fallopian tube.

7. A covering; a canopy; figuratively, the sky.

The pavilion of heaven is bare. --Shelley.

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Tempt\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tempted; p. pr. & vb. n. Tempting.] [OE. tempten, tenten, from OF. tempter, tenter, F. tenter, fr. L. tentare, temptare, to handle, feel, attack, to try, put to the test, urge, freq. from tendere, tentum, and tensum, to stretch. See Thin, and cf. Attempt, Tend, Taunt, Tent a pavilion, Tent to probe.]

1. To put to trial; to prove; to test; to try.

God did tempt Abraham. --Gen. xxii. 1.

Ye shall not tempt the Lord your God. --Deut. vi. 16.

2. To lead, or endeavor to lead, into evil; to entice to what is wrong; to seduce.

Every man is tempted when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. --James i. 14.

3. To endeavor to persuade; to induce; to invite; to incite; to provoke; to instigate.

Tempt not the brave and needy to despair. --Dryden.

Nor tempt the wrath of heaven's avenging Sire. --Pope.

4. To endeavor to accomplish or reach; to attempt.

Ere leave be given to tempt the nether skies. --Dryden.

Syn: To entice; allure; attract; decoy; seduce.

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1. To put to trial; to prove; to test; to try.

God did tempt Abraham. --Gen. xxii. 1.

Ye shall not tempt the Lord your God. --Deut. vi. 16.

2. To lead, or endeavor to lead, into evil; to entice to what is wrong; to seduce.

Every man is tempted when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. --James i. 14.

3. To endeavor to persuade; to induce; to invite; to incite; to provoke; to instigate.

Tempt not the brave and needy to despair. --Dryden.

Nor tempt the wrath of heaven's avenging Sire. --Pope.

4. To endeavor to accomplish or reach; to attempt.

Ere leave be given to tempt the nether skies. --Dryden.

Syn: To entice; allure; attract; decoy; seduce.

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Ten"a*ble\, a. [F. tenable, fr. tenir to hold, L. tenere. See Thin, and cf. Continue, Continent, Entertain, Maintain, Tenant, Tent.] Capable of being held, naintained, or defended, as against an assailant or objector, or againts attempts to take or process; as, a tenable fortress, a tenable argument.

If you have hitherto concealed his sight, Let it be tenable in your silence still. --Shak.

I would be the last man in the world to give up his cause when it was tenable. --Sir W. Scott.

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Tent\, n. [Sp. tinto, properly, deep-colored, fr. L. tinctus, p. p. of tingere to dye. See Tinge, and cf. Tint, Tinto.] 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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Tent\, n. [Cf. Attent, n.]

1. Attention; regard, care. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.] --Lydgate.

2. Intention; design. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.

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Tent\, v. t. To attend to; to heed; hence, to guard; to hinder. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] --Halliwell.

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Tent\, v. t. [OF. tenter. See Tempt.] To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent; as, to tent a wound. Used also figuratively.

I'll tent him to the quick. --Shak.

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Tent\, n. [F. tente. See Tent to probe.] (Surg.) (a) 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. (b) A probe for searching a wound.

The tent that searches To the bottom of the worst. --Shak.

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The tent that searches To the bottom of the worst. --Shak.

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Tent\, n. [OE. tente, F. tente, LL. tenta, fr. L. tendere, tentum, to stretch. See Tend to move, and cf. Tent a roll of lint.]

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, especially soldiers in camp.

Within his tent, large as is a barn. --Chaucer.

2. (Her.) The representation of a tent used as a bearing.

Tent bed, a high-post bedstead curtained with a tentlike canopy.

Tent caterpillar (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of gregarious caterpillars which construct on trees large silken webs into which they retreat when at rest. Some of the species are very destructive to fruit trees. The most common American species is the larva of a bombycid moth (Clisiocampa Americana). Called also lackery caterpillar, and webworm.

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Tent\, n. [OE. tente, F. tente, LL. tenta, fr. L. tendere, tentum, to stretch. See Tend to move, and cf. Tent a roll of lint.]

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, especially soldiers in camp.

Within his tent, large as is a barn. --Chaucer.

2. (Her.) The representation of a tent used as a bearing.

Tent bed, a high-post bedstead curtained with a tentlike canopy.

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Tent\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tented; p. pr. & vb. n. Tenting.] To lodge as a tent; to tabernacle. --Shak.

We 're tenting to-night on the old camp ground. --W. Kittredge.

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Tent"age\, n. [From Tent a pavilion.] A collection of tents; an encampment. [Obs.] --Drayton.

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Tint\, n. [For older tinct, fr. L. tinctus, p. p. of tingere to dye: cf. F. teinte, teint, It. tinta, tinto. See Tinge, and cf. Taint to stain, a stain, Tent a kind of wine, Tinto.] A slight coloring. Specifically: (a) A pale or faint tinge of any color.

Or blend in beauteous tints the colored mass. --Pope.

Their vigor sickens, and their tints decline. --Harte. (b) A color considered with reference to other very similar colors; as, red and blue are different colors, but two shades of scarlet are different tints. (c) (Engraving) A shaded effect produced by the juxtaposition of many fine parallel lines.

Tint tool (Eng.), a species of graver used for cutting the parallel lines which produce tints in engraving.

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Un*tent"ed\, a. [Pref. un- not + tented, p. p. of tent to probe.] Not tended; not dressed. See 4th Tent.

The untented woundings of a father's curse Pierce every sense about thee! --Shak.

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Web"form`\, n. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of various species of moths whose gregarious larv[ae] eat the leaves of trees, and construct a large web to which they retreat when not feeding.

Note: The most destructive webworms belong to the family Bombycid[ae], as the fall webworm (Hyphantria textor), which feeds on various fruit and forest trees, and the common tent caterpillar, which feeds on various fruit trees (see Tent caterpillar, under Tent.) The grapevine webworm is the larva of a geometrid moth (see Vine inchworm, under Vine).

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(1.) Heb. 'ohel (Gen. 9:21, 27). This word is used also of a dwelling or habitation (1 Kings 8:66; Isa. 16:5; Jer. 4:20), and of the temple (Ezek. 41:1). When used of the tabernacle, as in 1 Kings 1:39, it denotes the covering of goat's hair which was placed over the mishcan.

(2.) Heb. mishcan (Cant. 1:8), used also of a dwelling (Job 18:21; Ps. 87:2), the grave (Isa. 22:16; comp. 14:18), the temple (Ps. 46:4; 84:2; 132:5), and of the tabernacle (Ex. 25:9; 26:1; 40:9; Num. 1:50, 53; 10:11). When distinguished from 'ohel, it denotes the twelve interior curtains which lay upon the framework of the tabernacle (q.v.).

(3.) Heb. kubbah (Num. 25:8), a dome-like tent devoted to the impure worship of Baal-peor.

(4.) Heb. succah (2 Sam. 11:11), a tent or booth made of green boughs or branches (see Gen. 33:17; Lev. 23:34, 42; Ps. 18:11; Jonah 4:5; Isa. 4:6; Neh. 8:15-17, where the word is variously rendered). Jubal was "the father of such as dwell in tents" (Gen. 4:20). The patriarchs were "dwellers in tents" (Gen. 9:21, 27; 12:8; 13:12; 26:17); and during their wilderness wanderings all Israel dwelt in tents (Ex. 16:16; Deut. 33:18; Josh. 7:24). Tents have always occupied a prominent place in Eastern life (1 Sam. 17:54; 2 Kings 7:7; Ps. 120:5; Cant. 1:5). Paul the apostle's occupation was that of a tent-maker (Acts 18:3); i.e., perhaps a maker of tent cloth.

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