tent

B1
Pronunciation
/tɛnt/
Noun
9 definition(s)
1 Definition

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.

Example Sentences
  • We were camping in a three-man tent.
2 Definition

The representation of a tent used as a bearing.

3 Definition

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

4 Definition

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

5 Definition

Attention; regard, care.

6 Definition

Intention; design.

7 Definition

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.

8 Definition

A probe for searching a wound.

9 Definition

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

Verb
6 definition(s)
1 Definition

To go camping.

Example Sentences
  • We’ll be tented at the campground this weekend.
2 Definition

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.

3 Definition

To form into a tent-like shape.

Example Sentences
  • The sheet tented over his midsection.
4 Definition

To attend to; to heed

5 Definition

To guard; to hinder.

6 Definition

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

Example Sentences
  • to tent a wound