Tent
[tent] or [tɛnt]
Definition
(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'.
(noun.) a web that resembles a tent or carpet.
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Definition
(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. t.) To attend to; to heed; hence, to guard; to hinder.
(v. t.) To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent; as, to tent a wound. 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.
(v. i.) To lodge as a tent; to tabernacle.
Editor: Maggie
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Pavilion.
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Definition
n. a portable lodge or shelter generally of canvas stretched on poles: a plug or roll of lint used to dilate a wound or opening in the flesh—v.t. to probe: to keep open with a tent.—ns. Tent′-bed a bed having a canopy hanging from a central point overhead; Tent′-cloth canvas duck &c. suitable for tents.—adj. Ten′ted covered with tents.—ns. Ten′ter one who lives in a tent; Tent′-fly an external piece of canvas stretched above the ridge-pole of a tent shading from sun or shielding from rain; Tent′ful as many as a tent will hold; Tent′-guy an additional rope for securing a tent against a storm.—adjs. Ten′tiform shaped like a tent; Ten′ting (Keats) having the form of a tent.—ns. Tent′-mak′er one who makes tents; Tent′-peg -pin a strong peg of notched wood or of iron driven into the ground to fasten one of the ropes of a tent to; Tent′-peg′ging a favourite cavalry exercise in India in which the competitor riding at full speed tries to bear off a tent-peg on the point of a lance; Tent′-pole one of the poles used in pitching a tent; Tent′-rope one of the ropes by which a tent is secured to the tent-pins generally one for each breadth of the canvas; Tent′-stitch in worsted and embroidery a series of parallel diagonal stitches—also Petit point; Tent′-work work produced by embroidering with tent-stitch.
n. a Spanish wine of a deep-red colour.
v.t. (Scot.) to take heed.—v.i. to be careful.—n. care watchfulness.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of being in a tent, foretells a change in your affairs. To see a number of tents, denotes journeys with unpleasant companions. If the tents are torn or otherwise dilapidated, there will be trouble for you.
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Examples
- Samuel Edison, versatile, buoyant of temper, and ever optimistic, would thus appear to have pitched his tent with shrewd judgment. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The Khan came out from his tent about thirty paces to meet Yuan Chwang, who, after a courteous greeting, entered the tent. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Or iver you set up the pole o' your tent amang us, Mr. Moore, we lived i' peace and quietness--yea, I may say, in all loving-kindness. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Both his staff and mine retired to the camp-fire some yards in front of the tent, thinking our conversation should be private. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- But this last new horse I have got is trying to break his neck over the tent-ropes, and I shall have to go out and anchor him. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Since I made my last few notes, I have been sitting outside the tent for half an hour. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- On the other side of the lawn, facing the targets, was pitched a real tent, with benches and garden-seats about it. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- There was a stump a little to one side, and between the front of the tent and camp-fire. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- So our little wanderer went about setting up her tent in various cities of Europe, as restless as Ulysses or Bampfylde Moore Carew. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- May Welland was just coming out of the tent. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- I replied, Never mind the guard, and they were dismissed and went back to their tents. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- When Camargo was reached, we found a city of tents outside the Mexican hamlet. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- From the entrance into the lists, a gently sloping passage, ten yards in breadth, led up to the platform on which the tents were pitched. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The cords of the tents were of the same colour. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Her Ladyship, our old acquaintance, is as much at home at Madras as at Brussels in the cantonment as under the tents. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- There are two or three small clusters of Bedouin tents, but not a single permanent habitation. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- As we lay in our tents upon the sea-shore, the artillery at the fort on the Rio Grande could be distinctly heard. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- After nightfall we reached our tents, just outside of the nasty Arab village of Jonesborough. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- It is not even certain that they had tents or huts. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Confederate assaults were made with such a disregard of losses on their own side that our line of tents soon fell into their hands. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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