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.

Editor: Sonya

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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