Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small cylindrical plug of lint or gauze used to keep open or probe a wound or an orifice.
- transitive verb To keep (a wound or orifice) open with such a plug.
- noun A portable shelter made of fabric or other material stretched over a supporting framework of poles and usually stabilized or secured to the ground with cords and stakes.
- noun Something resembling such a portable shelter in construction or outline.
- intransitive verb To camp in a tent.
- intransitive verb To form a tent over.
- intransitive verb To supply with or put up in tents.
- transitive verb To pay heed to.
- transitive verb To attend; wait on.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A probe.
- noun 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.
- noun Heed; care; notice; attention: usually in the phrase to take tent.
- noun Intent; purpose.
- noun The web of a colony of tent-caterpillars.
- noun A tent-shaped cover.
- 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 . - noun 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.
- noun A habitation; a dwelling.
- noun 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.
- noun An apparatus used in field-photography as a substitute for the dark room.
- To take heed; be careful: generally with to.
- To observe; take note of; give heed to.
- To attend; tend upon; take care of.
- noun 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 .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A kind of wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain; -- called also
tent wine , andtinta . - transitive verb Prov. Eng. & Scot. To attend to; to heed; hence, to guard; to hinder.
- transitive verb To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent. Used also figuratively.
- noun 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.
- noun (Her.) The representation of a tent used as a bearing.
- noun a high-post bedstead curtained with a tentlike canopy.
- noun (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 alsolackery caterpillar , andwebworm . - noun Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot. Attention; regard, care.
- noun Prov. Eng. Intention; design.
- intransitive verb To lodge as a tent; to tabernacle.
- 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.
- noun A probe for searching a wound.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun archaic A kind of wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain; called also
tent wine , andtinta . - noun 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.
- noun medicine A probe for searching a wound.
- verb medicine To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent; as, to tent a wound. Used also figuratively.
- noun 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.
- noun archaic The representation of a tent used as a bearing.
- verb intransitive To go
camping . - verb 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.
- verb intransitive To form into a tent-like shape.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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_.
A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition P. T. Ross
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A tent has been invented by Major H.H. Sibley, of the army, which is known as the "_Sibley tent_."
The Prairie Traveler A Hand-book for Overland Expeditions Randolph Barnes Marcy 1849
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[Illustration: "_Gravely passed from tent to tent_"] [Illustration: "_And threw her arms round little Ann_"] "Look at that child," said one, "I'm sure
Plain Jane G. M. George
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Getting the south's remaining archives out of a tent is the first step.
Sudan: problem of preserving the past Maggie Fick 2010
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My last excursion was indeed with a pop-up, to Glastonbury, and my other tent is an ultra light one for squishing into a backpack, so your Vango FBT is in a different league.
F*cking Big Tent « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog 2008
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Under the tent is the sensible and the ethical and the soulful place to be.
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Under the tent is the sensible and the ethical and the soulful place to be.
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Birdie lashed the full biscuit tin to the door to prevent its flapping, and also got what he called the tent downhaul round the cap and then tied it about himself outside his bag: if the tent went he was going too.
The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913 Apsley Cherry-Garrard 1922
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Our goal is to ultimately spend less in total on films but because we are making fewer films and there is a greater percentage of those films that are what we call tent-poles, the average price for a film isn't necessarily going down significantly.
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This guy's "tent" is probably more luxurious than many of the homes in the neighborhood.
chained_bear commented on the word tent
A kind of alcoholic drink (wine?).
Usages:
"'...Tent to begin with, and then the port with the yellow seal.'"
"'So this is tent,' said Martin, holding his purple glass up to the light. 'It is not unlike our altar-wine at home, but rounder, fuller, more...'"
--Patrick O'Brian, The Far Side of the World, 89 and 94 (respectively)
February 20, 2008