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n. A portable shelter, as of canvas, stretched over a supporting framework of poles with ropes and pegs.

n. Something resembling such a portable shelter in construction or outline: "her hair a dark tent, her face a thin triangle” ( Anne Tyler).

verb-intransitive. To camp in a tent.

v. To form a tent over.

v. To supply with or put up in tents.

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

v. To keep (a wound or orifice) open with such a plug.

v. Scots To pay heed to.

v. Scots To attend; wait on.

n. 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.

n. The representation of a tent used as a bearing.

v. To go camping.

v. 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.

v. To form into a tent-like shape.

v. To attend to; to heed; hence, to guard; to hinder.

n. Attention; regard, care.

n. Intention; design.

n. 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.

n. A probe for searching a wound.

v. To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent; as, to tent a wound. Used also figuratively.

n. A kind of wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain; called also tent wine, and tinta.

n. A kind of wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain; -- called also tent wine, and tinta.

n. Attention; regard, care.

n. Intention; design.

v. To attend to; to heed; hence, to guard; to hinder.

v. To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent. Used also figuratively.

n. 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.

n. A probe for searching a wound.

n. 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.

n. The representation of a tent used as a bearing.

verb-intransitive. To lodge as a tent; to tabernacle.

n. The web of a colony of tent-caterpillars.

n. A tent-shaped cover.

n. A covering or shelter, or a portable lodge, made of some flexible material, as skins, coarse cloth, or canvas, supported by one or more poles, and stretched by means of cords secured to tent-pegs, or in some other way.

n. A habitation; a dwelling.

n. A. raised wooden box or platform set up in the open air, from which clergymen formerly used to preach when the hearers were too numerous to be accommodated within doors: still sometimes used.

n. An apparatus used in field-photography as a substitute for the dark room.

To pitch one's tent; live in or as in a tent.

To try; test.

To probe; sound.

To apply a tent or pledget to; keep open with a tent.

To tempt. See tempt.

n. A probe.

n. In surgery, a piece of some fabric, bunch of horsehairs or threads, or small cylinder of sponge, laminaria, or other substance introduced into some opening, either natural (as the cervical canal of the uterus) or artificial (as a wound), to keep it open or increase its caliber.

To stretch, as cloth.

n. Heed; care; notice; attention: usually in the phrase to take tent.

n. Intent; purpose.

To take heed; be careful: generally with to.

To observe; take note of; give heed to.

To attend; tend upon; take care of.

n. A kind of wine of a deep-red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain, much used as a sacramental wine. Also tent-wine.

n. a web that resembles a tent or carpet

n. a portable shelter (usually of canvas stretched over supporting poles and fastened to the ground with ropes and pegs)

v. live in or as if in a tent

"It is quite an agreeable change to see a leaden sky and hear the rain softly pattering on the tent roof, after many days of sweltering, dazzling heat, _when one is in a comfortable tent_."

tentatively    tented    tenting    tents   

web    dwell    populate    inhabit    live   

sibley tent    shelter-tent    hospital tent    bell tent    wall-tent    tangle tent    a-tent    sheet-tent    dark tent    tent of meeting   

tent wine    tinta   

tented    tenting    fold one's tent   

attention    intention    design    heed    hinder    tabernacle    pavilion    tilt    marquee    marquise   

Bendt    Brent    Gent    Ghent    Kent    Lent    Tashkent    Trent    accent    ascent   

hut    building    camp    clothe    hall    chamber    blanket    cave    bed    palace