TENT

tent, collapsible shelter

(noun) 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”

tent

(noun) a web that resembles a tent or carpet

camp, encamp, camp out, bivouac, tent

(verb) 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”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology 1

Noun

tent (plural tents)

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.

(archaic) The representation of a tent used as a bearing.

(Scotland) A portable pulpit set up outside to accommodate worshippers who cannot fit into a church.

A trouser tent; a piece of fabric, etc. protruding outward like a tent.

Verb

tent (third-person singular simple present tents, present participle tenting, simple past and past participle tented)

(intransitive) To go camping.

(cooking) 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.

(intransitive) To form into a tent-like shape.

Etymology 2

Verb

tent (third-person singular simple present tents, present participle tenting, simple past and past participle tented)

(archaic, UK, Scotland, dialect) To attend to; to heed

(archaic, UK, Scotland, dialect) to guard; to hinder.

Noun

tent (plural tents)

(archaic, UK, Scotland, dialect) Attention; regard, care.

(archaic) Intention; design.

Etymology 3

Noun

tent (plural tents)

(medicine) 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.

(medicine) A probe for searching a wound.

Verb

tent (third-person singular simple present tents, present participle tenting, simple past and past participle tented)

(medicine, sometimes, figurative) To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent.

Etymology 4

Noun

tent (plural tents)

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

Anagrams

• Nett, nett

Source: Wiktionary

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

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

Tent, n. Etym: [Cf. Attent, n.]

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

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

Tent, v. t.

Definition: To attend to; to heed; hence, to guard; to hinder. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Halliwell.

Tent, v. t. Etym: [OF. tenter. See Tempt.]

Definition: 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.

Tent, n. Etym: [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.

Tent, n. Etym: [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.)

Definition: The representation of a tent used as a bearing. Tent bed, a high-post bedstead curtained with a tentlike canopy.

– Tent caterpillar (Zoöl.), 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.

Tent, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tented; p. pr. & vb. n. Tenting.]

Definition: To lodge as a tent; to tabernacle. Shak. We 're tenting to-night on the old camp ground. W. Kittredge.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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