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noun

a place where an army or other group of persons or an individual is lodged in a tent or tents or other temporary means of shelter.

such tents or shelters collectively: The regiment transported its camp in trucks.

the persons so sheltered: The camp slept through the storm.

the act of camping out: Camp is far more pleasant in summer than in winter.

any temporary structure, as a tent or cabin, used on an outing or vacation.

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a group of troops, workers, etc., camping and moving together.

army life.

a group of people favoring the same ideals, doctrines, etc.: Most American voters are divided into two camps, Republicans and Democrats.

any position in which ideals, doctrines, etc., are strongly entrenched: After considering the other side's argument, he changed camps.

10.

a recreation area in the country, equipped with extensive facilities for sports.

11.

day camp.

12.

summer camp.

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verb (used without object)

13.

to establish or pitch a camp: The army camped in the valley.

14.

to live temporarily in or as if in a camp or outdoors, usually for recreation (often followed by out): They camped by the stream for a week.

15.

to reside or lodge somewhere temporarily or irregularly, especially in an apartment, room, etc.: They camped in our apartment whenever they came to town.

16.

to settle down securely and comfortably; become ensconced: The kids camped on our porch until the rain stopped.

17.

to take up a position stubbornly: They camped in front of the president's office.

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verb (used with object)

18.

to put or station (troops) in a camp; shelter.

Origin:
1520–30; < Middle French can, camp, orig. dial. (Normandy, Picardy) or < Old Provençal < Italian campo < Latin campus field; compare Old English campe, compe battle, battlefield (cognate with German Kampf struggle) < Germanic < Latin

Example Sentences

Students head out from dorms to become interns, caddies, and camp counselors.

Many teenage labourers find employment as lifeguards or summer camp counselors.

To make matters worse, when they returned to the refugee camp where the photo was taken, it was completely deserted.

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Students head out from dorms to become interns, caddies, and camp counselors.

Many teenage labourers find employment as lifeguards or summer camp counselors.

To make matters worse, when they returned to the refugee camp where the photo was taken, it was completely deserted.

The camp staff and the scientists who are waiting to leave talk of little else but flight schedules.

Like roasting marshmallows to make s'mores, a good summer camp song bridges generations.

Make the butter for these steaks at home before you head out to camp.

For girls, traditional camp activities have morphed into courses on how to be a computer programmer and run your own business.

Willingness to participate in summer field camp will be an advantage.

The camp medic will check the oxygen saturation levels of our blood several times a day.

The dance pays homage to the boxer's teacher and training camp.

Whisk together the dry ingredients at home and then add the wet ingredients and sliced bananas at camp.

To her roles as camp coordinator and hospital director she might add president, sheriff, magistrate and general.

The temperatures are beginning to drop and the carpenters are starting to get the camp ready for winter.

We still have our family reunions every few years at my cousin camp near the boy scout camp.

Make this recipe the morning of a camp cookout, so that the vegetables have time to soften.

To keep up the interest behind the mechanics, each camp had a storyline that the kids were following.

But that's not the issue here--he is now in the intelligent design camp.

Make these sandwiches in the morning to bring to the beach or to enjoy when back at camp.

They took temporary refuge in an oilfield camp in the open desert.

Here's a hearty seafood stew to cook on-site on a grill or camp stove.

The excavation field camp is visible in this view from above the cave.

The camp supporting genetically modified crops echoed several themes.

If you are not sold on this farce, you must go to a retraining camp.

The abnormal human camp seems to be on shaky ground.

It seems the camp has plenty to answer-for as it is.

Cannon and put through a boot camp to form a group and.

The doctor from the nearby camp gave the student oxygen that night.

The site now houses a sprawling camp of several thousand, with free-food stands and a barber doing a busy trade.

They move camp roughly once a month, when the berries run low or the hunting becomes tough or there's a severe sickness or death.

For you, kicking back in a camp chair is no vacation.

We camp frequently and that involves plenty of hiking, wading through water,.

The business of summer camp has grown tougher because of the economy, but parents also expect more.

We are complaining about the expense of summer camp and the need for it.

They say the camp lets them get fit without being mocked.

IS happening but is is not caused by man, then that would put one in the so called skeptics camp.

Now you can camp in style with a new generation of streamlined trailers and deluxe tent cabins.

Our family is still in search of ways to occupy four energetic children without summer camp or much funds for day trips.

It's sleep-away camp season and parents and their children, soon to be separated for weeks, are getting nervous.

But so were half of the department senior people who were solidly in my camp.

Though damned across the spectrum, the camp offered a solution to the problem of keeping dangerous detainees out of circulation.

He suggested they'd save time if they had a camp where they could create as many different scenes as they liked.

Where to camp, great camp food, and camping gear guide.

In the other camp are women who want to roughhouse with the boys on their home turf, playing action games and team-based shooters.

Summer may seem a long way off, but it is not too soon to start thinking about going to a summer music camp.

But along with saving the planet from global warming and closing down the prison camp at.

The problem is that whenever research surfaces to support one or the other, it is embraced by the relevant camp as yet more proof.

To camp on the moon, astronauts need to be shielded from solar radiation.

They were preparing to send their two girls to camp.

On the face of it, those in the mobile camp seem to have won.

Sometimes the camp ends up being more fun than educational.

Her father was shot, her mother sent to a labour camp.

The team began excavating what they thought was a midden, a pile of trash left behind when a settlement or camp is abandoned.

The go-slow camp can probably be bought off with promises of extra money for small farmers or mountain herds.

However, the motivations behind some of the whacky folks in this camp are off.

The grotto is a natural amphitheatre with a sandy floor that accommodates camp and lawn chairs.

In one scene, the tyrant stomps through camp and steps right on the expedition's scientist without a second thought.

Pound the chicken breasts before you get to camp and put the marinade ingredients in a re-sealable plastic bag.

Camp under starry skies and alongside glacier-fed sapphire lakes more.

We cooked in a microwave and used a camp stove or our gas barbecue.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

noun

something that provides sophisticated, knowing amusement, as by virtue of its being artlessly mannered or stylized, self-consciously artificial and extravagant, or teasingly ingenuous and sentimental.

a person who adopts a teasing, theatrical manner, especially for the amusement of others.

verb (used without object)

Also, camp it up. to speak or behave in a coquettishly playful or extravagantly theatrical manner.

adjective

campy: camp Hollywood musicals of the 1940s.

Origin:
1905–10; perhaps dial. camp impetuous, uncouth person (see kemp¹); hence, slightly objectionable, effeminate, homosexual; in some senses probably special use of camp¹ brothel, meeting place of male homosexuals

noun

Walter Chaun·cey

[chawn-see, chahn-] , 1859–1925, U.S. football coach and author.

noun Biochemistry.

cyclic AMP.

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World English Dictionary

camp¹ (kæmp)

—n
1.	a place where tents, cabins, or other temporary structures are erected for the use of military troops, for training soldiers, etc
2.	the military life
3.	tents, cabins, etc, used as temporary lodgings by a group of travellers, holiday-makers, Scouts, etc
4.	the group of people living in such lodgings
5.	(South African) a field or paddock fenced off as pasture
6.	a group supporting a given doctrine or theory: the socialist camp
7.	(Austral) a place where sheep or cattle gather to rest
8.	(modifier) suitable for use in temporary quarters, on holiday, etc, esp by being portable and easy to set up: a camp bed; a camp chair

—vb (often foll by down) (often foll by out)
9.	to establish or set up a camp
10.	to live temporarily in or as if in a tent
11.	(tr) to put in a camp

[C16: from Old French, ultimately from Latin campus field]

'camping¹

—n

camp² (kæmp)

—*adj*
1.	effeminate; affected in mannerisms, dress, etc
2.	homosexual
3.	consciously artificial, exaggerated, vulgar, or mannered; self-parodying, esp when in dubious taste

—vb
4.	(tr) to perform or invest with a camp quality
5.	camp it up
	a. to seek to focus attention on oneself by making an ostentatious display, overacting, etc
	b. to flaunt one's homosexuality

—n
6.	a camp quality, style, etc

[C20: of uncertain origin]

Camp (kæmp)

—n
	Walter (Chauncey). 1859--1925, US sportsman and administrator; he introduced new rules to American football, which distinguished it from rugby.

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Word Origin & History

camp

W.Gmc. *kampo-z, an early loan from L. campus "open field, level space" (cf. Fr. champ; see campus), especially "open space for military exercise." Originally borrowed as O.E. camp "contest," this was obsolete by mid-15c. Meaning "place where an army lodges temporarily" is

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a later reborrowing (1520s), from Fr. camp, from It. campo, from the same L. source. Transferred to non-military senses 1550s. Meaning "body of adherents of a doctrine or cause" is 1871. The verb meaning "to encamp" is from 1540s. Camp-follower first attested 1810. Camp-meeting is from 1809, originally usually in reference to Methodists.

camp

"tasteless," 1909, homosexual slang, perhaps from mid-17c. Fr. camper "to portray, pose" (as in se camper "put oneself in a bold, provocative pose"); popularized 1964 by Susan Sontag's essay "Notes on Camp." Campy is attested from 1959.

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American Heritage

Medical Dictionary

cAMP abbr.
cyclic AMP

Slang Dictionary

camp definition

n.
something cute and out of fashion; something of such an anachronistic style as to be intriguing. : Nobody really knows what style camp really is, and very few even care.
mod.
and campy. overdone; out of fashion and intriguing. : Most camp entertainment is pretentious and overdrawn.
mod.
having to do with homosexual persons and matters. : She is so camp, I could scream!

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Abbreviations & Acronyms

cAMP
cyclic adenosine monophosphate

CAMP

continuous air monitoring program
cyclophosphamide doxorubicin methotrexate procarbazine

Easton

Bible Dictionary

Camp definition

During their journeys across the wilderness, the twelve tribes formed encampments at the different places where they halted (Ex. 16:13; Num. 2:3). The diagram here given shows the position of the different tribes and the form of the encampment during the wanderings, according to Num. 1:53; 2:2-31; 3:29, 35, 38; 10:13-28. The area of the camp would be in all about 3 square miles. After the Hebrews entered Palestine, the camps then spoken of were exclusively warlike (Josh. 11:5, 7; Judg. 5:19, 21; 7:1; 1 Sam. 29:1; 30:9, etc.).

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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Idioms & Phrases

camp

In addition to the idioms beginning with camp, also see break camp; foot in both camps; happy camper.

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Encyclopedia

camp

in military service, an area for temporary or semipermanent sheltering of troops. In most usage the word camp signifies an installation more elaborate and durable than a bivouac but less so than a fort or billet

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