tent

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Noun

1. 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.
   • We were camping in a three-man tent.
   • We bought a new tent that can be put up in five seconds, but it took about twenty minutes to take it down and pack it away.
2. The representation of a tent used as a bearing.
3. A portable pulpit set up outside to accommodate worshippers who cannot fit into a church.
4. A trouser tent; a piece of fabric, etc. protruding outward like a tent.

Verb

1. To go camping.
   • We’ll be tenting at the campground this weekend.
2. 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. To form into a tent-like shape.
   • The sheet tented over his midsection.
4. Synonym of fumigate.

Verb

1. To attend to; to heed.
2. To guard; to hinder.

Noun

1. Attention; regard, care.
2. Intention; design.

Noun

1. 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.
2. A probe for searching a wound.

Verb

1. To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent.
   • to tent a wound

Noun

1. A kind of red wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain.

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