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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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
The representation of a tent used as a bearing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
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noun
A portable pulpit set up outside to accommodate worshippers who cannot fit into a church.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland
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noun
A trouser tent; a piece of fabric, etc. protruding outward like a tent.
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noun
Attention; regard, care.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland, UK, archaic, dialectal
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noun
Intention; design.
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Usage: archaic
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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: medicine, sciences
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noun
A probe for searching a wound.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: medicine, sciences
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noun
A kind of red wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
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Synonyms: tent wine, tinta
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verb
To go camping.
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Usage: intransitive
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verb
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: cooking, food, lifestyle
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verb
To form into a tent-like shape.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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verb
Synonym of fumigate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: fumigate
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verb
To attend to; to heed.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland, UK, archaic, dialectal
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verb
To guard; to hinder.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland, UK, archaic, dialectal
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verb
To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively, sometimes
Topics: medicine, sciences
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noun
a portable shelter (usually of canvas stretched over supporting poles and fastened to the ground with ropes and pegs)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: collapsible shelter
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: shelter
Narrower terms: backpacking tent, pack tent, bell tent, cabana, canvas tent, canvas, canvass, cottage tent, fly tent, lean-to tent, mountain tent, pavilion, marquee, pop tent, praetorium, pretorium, pup tent, shelter tent, pyramidal tent, tepee, tipi, teepee, tupik, tupek, sealskin tent, two-man tent, umbrella tent
noun
a web that resembles a tent or carpet
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: web
verb
live in or as if in a tent
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: camp, encamp, camp out, bivouac
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: populate, dwell, live, inhabit
History
From Middle English tente, borrowed from Old French tente, from Vulgar Latin *tenta (“tent”), from the feminine of Latin tentus, ptp. of tendere (“to stretch, extend”), or contracted from *tendita as an alternate past participle. Displaced native Middle English tild, tilt (“tent, tilt”), from Old English teld (“tent”). Compare Spanish tienda (“store, shop; tent”).
From Middle English tent (“attention”), aphetic variation of attent (“attention”), from Old French atente (“attention, intention”), from Latin attenta, feminine of attentus, past participle of attendere (“to attend”). Compare tend, from an aphetic variation of attend
From Middle English tente (“a probe”), from Middle French tente, deverbal of tenter, from Latin tentāre (“to probe, test”), alteration of temptāre (“to test, probe, tempt”).
From Spanish tinto (“deep-colored”), from Latin tīnctus, past participle of tingo (“to dye”). More at tinge. Doublet of tint and tinto. Compare claret (“French red wine”), also from color.
Across languages
194 source translations are retained for this English entry.
