Word Finder - camp

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An outdoor place acting as temporary accommodation in tents or other temporary structures.

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An organised event, often taking place in tents or temporary accommodation.

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A base of a military group, not necessarily temporary.

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A single hut or shelter.

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a hunter's camp

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The company or body of persons encamped.

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A group of people with the same strong ideals or political leanings.

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Campus

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A summer camp.

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A prison.

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A mound of earth in which potatoes and other vegetables are stored for protection against frost

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• burrow
• pie

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Conflict; battle.

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An ancient game of football, played in some parts of England.

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To live in a tent or similar temporary accommodation.

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We're planning to camp in the field until Sunday.

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To set up a camp.

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To afford rest or lodging for.

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To stay in an advantageous location in a video game, such as next to a power-up's spawning point or in order to guard an area.

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Go and camp the flag for the win.

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To fight; contend in battle or in any kind of contest; to strive with others in doing anything; compete.

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To wrangle; argue.

They have a camp not far away.

They were at church camp with Katie today.

The camp ground was manned on a volunteer basis.

In order to minimize expenditures, Dean planned to skip the motel bit and camp out on the tour.

School was out and Jonathan was scheduled to start camp next week.

Why didn't we camp here?

They were running low on water, so it was a dry camp.

She stared down at the empty camp.

Toby hunched his shoulders.  He'd wandered far enough away from camp that he'd hoped to get some food before running from Ully, who was still sleeping.

The day Jonathan went to camp, she began working on her plan.

She glanced around at the arid camp, taking in the dusty tents and scraggly cacti..

The trunk was one of five that circled them, all large square affairs—foot lockers for summer camp.

Think we're safer at our base camp?

They started away from the tent towards the center of their camp.

Plan on disassembling our camp within the next forty-eight hours.

He toured the progress of the camp before going to the exercise area.

It looked as if the camp would be packed up—if not evacuated—before dark.

I thought maybe we could have guided tours and maybe camp out at night.

He rode into the camp and shoved the rifle into the boot.

This was a vacation, not an isolation camp.

In the spring of 1792 he received the rank of marechal de camp in command of the cavalry in the army of the north; but the influence of the extremists becoming predominant he took indefinite leave of absence, and settled at Auteuil, where, with Condorcet and Cabanis, he devoted himself to scientific studies.

When in November the duke of York encamped near Dartford, Waynflete with three others was sent from the king's camp at Blackheath to propose terms, which were accepted.

The motive was avowedly the same which in the Middle Ages led a medixval garrison to drive the civil population of a town into the camp of its would-be deliverers.

The siege lasted eight years, and Yusef turned his camp into a walled city.

I'll catch up after I cook these rabbits and clean up the camp.

The men silently devoured their food and then helped her clean up the camp.

Feeling a little hurt by his apparent disinterest, she picked up her plate and started cleaning up the camp.

After her two weeks in the Black God's chaotic camp, she'd almost forgotten what it was like to be in an organization that took care of its own.

If you'll take the wheelbarrow back to the camp, I'll ride Random back a ways and see what made the cow run through brush like that.

With the emperor in their camp, the Mahrattas were threatening the province of Oudh, and causing a large British force to be cantoned along the frontier for its defence.

Williams was killed in the battle of Lake George on the 8th of September 1 755, but while in camp in Albany, New York, a few days before the battle, he drew a will containing a small bequest for a free school at West Hoosac on condition that the township when incorporated should be called Williamstown.

The siege was long and costly; the army suffered severely; and only the tenacity of the tsar kept it in camp for six weeks.

He did not press the pursuit far, although the great king's camp with his harem fell into his hands.

Here another entrenched camp was made and from it the Moselle line (qv.) of forts darrit continues the barrier to Belfort (q.v.), another large entrenched camp, beyond which a series of fortifications at Montbliard and the Lomont range carries the line of defence to the Swiss border, which in turn is protected by works at Pontarlier and elsewhere.

When Titus and his army withdrew from Jerusalem, the 10th legion was left as a permanent Roman garrison, and a fortified camp for their occupation was established on the western hill.

Amidst universal anarchy, the young king, barely twenty years of age, inexperienced, ill-served, snatching at every expedient, worked day and night in his newly-formed camp in Scania (Skane) to arm the nation for its mortal struggle.

In 880 the invaders took Nijmwegen, erected a permanent camp at Elsloo and pushed on to the Rhine.

The emperor, Charles the Fat, was roused to collect a large army, with which he surrounded the main body of the Northmen under their leader Godfrey in the camp at Elsloo.

Then Louis, in company with his brothers William and Henry, made his way across the French frontier to the camp of the Huguenot leader, Admiral Coligny.

Santerre was appointed marechal de camp on the 23rd of October 1792, and subsequently general of division.

The sultan sent him back to the Christian camp, and he passed on to the Holy Land.

His camp was a school of chivalry, his court a nursery of poets and artists.

The banner of the church waves above the camp of those who aim at positive prosperity and republican equality.

Hurriedly retreating to Senaf, hard pressed by the Italians, who shelled Senaf on the evening of the 15th of January, Mangashh was obliged to abandon his camp and provisions to Baratieri, who also secured a quantity of correspondence establishing the complicity of Menelek and Mangash in the revolt of Bath-Agos.

The negotiations having failed, he marched to relieve the beleaguered garrison of Adigrat; but Menelek, discouraged by the heavy losses at Adowa, broke up his camp and returned southwards Abyssinto Shoa.

Another English merchant, named Jonas Hanway, arrived at Astrabad from Russia, and travelled to the camp of Nadir at Kazvin.

Dozsa's camp at Czegled was the centre of the jacquerie, and from thence he sent out his bands in every direction, pillaging and burning.

Then Achilles, to revenge his friend's death, returned to the war, slew Hector, dragged his body behind his chariot to the camp, and afterwards round the tomb of Patroclus.

In order to reply to accusations brought against them, or in order to be confirmed in their functions, they had to travel to the Golden Horde on the Volga or even to the camp of the grand khan in some distant part of Siberia, and the journey was considered so perilous that many of them, before setting out, made their last will and testament and wrote a parental admonition for the guidance of their children.

The Falkland Islands Company, having its headquarters at Stanley and an important station in the camp at Darwin, carries on an extensive business in sheep-farming and the dependent industries, and in the general import trade.