noun

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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.

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We were camping in a three-man tent.

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The representation of a tent used as a bearing.

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

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

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To go camping.

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We’ll be tented at the campground this weekend.

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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.

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To form into a tent-like shape.

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The sheet tented over his midsection.

noun

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Attention; regard, care.

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Intention; design.

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To attend to; to heed

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To guard; to hinder.

noun

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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.

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A probe for searching a wound.

verb

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

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to tent a wound

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

Examples of tents in a Sentence

In Roman times Cilicia exported the goats'-hair cloth, Cilicium, of which tents were made.

They also eschewed the luxuries and pursuits of settled life, and lived in tents, refusing to sow grain as well as to plant vineyards.

Tents, baggage-carts and battering-rams were carried on the march, and the tartan or commander-in-chief ranked next to the king.

He drew from the Moslems the mass of his infantry, and St Anselm visiting him at the siege of Capua, 1098, found "the brown tents of the Arabs innumerable."

A city of tents and shanties rose on the sand-dunes.

Some tribes of Kurds live in tents and huts near Lake Huleh.

The fields of young tobacco plants are usually protected by vast tents of white muslin.

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

The scent of the ocean was on the air, and the area in front of them was guarded by tourist police while tourists camped out in small tents up and down the road.

It was past dark, and the camp was filled with men and tents as far as she could see.

Wide grassy steppes lead to the organization of the people as nomads whose wealth consists in flocks and herds, and their dwellings are tents.

They live for the most part in tents, and support themselves by breeding live stock, and partly by agriculture.

The dressing station consisted of three tents with flaps turned back, pitched at the edge of a birch wood.

Around the tents, over more than five acres, bloodstained men in various garbs stood, sat, or lay.

At the Hindu Festival of Dasara, which lasted nine days from the new moon of October, tents made of canvas or booths made of branches were erected in front of the temples.

In recent years the growth of the leaf under cloth tents has greatly increased, as it has been abundantly proved that the product thus secured is much more valuable - lighter in colour and weight, finer in texture, with an increased proportion of wrapper leaves, and more uniform qualities, and with lesser amounts of cellulose, nicotine, gums and resins.

It shall be sodden and eaten, and in the morning they should go to their tents.

There was a street of tents called the City Road, which was daily thronged with visitors.

In 1864 Booth went to London and continued his services in tents and in the open air, and founded a body which was successively known as the East London Revival Society, the East London Christian Mission, the Christian Mission and (in 1878) the Salvation Army.

The wool is not of much value, and is spun by the women and woven into rugs, and made up into saddlebags or into the black Bedouin tents.

They were arranged in lines like the tents in an encampment, or the houses in a street.

The traders bring with them tents on the backs of camels and these are pitched near the native town.

Some 50,000 in number, they spend a nomad existence wandering from pasture to pasture, living in low skin tents, their herds providing their food.

Every winter employment is found for a great number of the unemployed in special depots, among them being the King's Labour Tents and the Queen's Labour Relief Depots.

Old lions, whose teeth have become injured with constant wear, become "man-eaters," finding their easiest means of obtaining a subsistence in lurking in the neighbourhood of villages, and dashing into the tents at night and carrying off one of the sleeping inmates.

The name of Peebles is said to be derived from the pebylls, or tents, which the Gadeni pitched here in the days of the Romans.

Tents embroidered with gold were pitched within the sacred enclosure; and the wealth of Dionysius was vividly shown by the number of chariots which he had entered.

The chief ceremonies take place in some large open spot round which are erected the tents of the khedive, of great state officials, and of the dervishes.

Besides their division into clans and tribes, the whole Afghan people may be divided into dwellers in tents and dwellers in houses; and this division is apparently not coincident with tribal divisions, for of several of the great clans at least a part is nomad and a part settled.

In the fields beyond the castle, tents to the number of 2800 were erected for less distinguished visitors, and the whole scene was one of the greatest animation.

Their tents are made of black goats' hair and their principal covering is a cloak of the same material.

His retreat becoming known, students flocked from Paris, and covered the wilderness around him with their tents and huts.

A considerable part of the population spends the summer in tents.

One of Isaac D'Israeli's reasons for quitting the tents of his people was that rabbinical Judaism, with its unyielding laws and fettering ceremonies, "cuts off the Jews from the great family of mankind."

In both P 1 and P 2 the disputants are summoned from their tents and ordered to assemble before the Dwelling of Yahweh; and in both cases the same fate overtook the rebels.

The world around her changed from forest to what resembled an army encampment with tents and mobile buildings hidden from sight by intricate nettings woven among the trees.

A good many people are sleeping outside in tents rather than risk having damaged walls fall on them during a severe aftershock.

People brought tents and built benders, many stayed in the tipis, 13 in mine one night.

A tipi and a large bender provided more space when needed, as well as smaller tents too.

The Professor returned to the theme first thing next morning, when the students emerged bleary-eyed from their tents.

The skins of the seals and the caribou were used for clothing and tents, while seal blubber was used for fuel and light.

We review caravans, motorhomes, trailer tents, folding campers, tents and accessories, visiting dealers in all parts of the country.

We bring warm bedding and waterproof clothing, tents and living spaces of our own.

A path marked by wands meanders over the glacier toward the tents avoiding the crevasses en route.

They have imposed a curfew on the 37,000 refugees to be inside their tents by 10pm.

Large circular encampment About 60 feet or so in diamater, this circular encampment is simply a forest glade with a few canvas tents.

The tents of an army encampment can be seen in the left middleground.

Following our arrival, a section of Woodham's yard soon resembled a Gipsy encampment with caravans, tents and vans arrayed!

A small village of tents and picnic gazebos provided an area for refreshments for the gathering crowd.

Gipsy encampment with caravans, tents and vans arrayed!

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