tent
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.
Noun 4 meanings
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.”
A portable pulpit set up outside to accommodate worshippers who cannot fit into a church.
A trouser tent; a piece of fabric, etc. protruding outward like a tent.
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.
Verb 4 meanings
To go camping.
“We’ll be tenting at the campground this weekend.”
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.
To form into a tent-like shape.
“The sheet tented over his midsection.”
Synonym of fumigate.
Etymology
From Middle English tente, borrowed from Old French tente, from Vulgar Latin *tenta (“tent”), from the feminine of Latin tentus, ptp. of tendere (“to stretch, extend”), or contracted from *tendita as an alternate past participle. Displaced native Middle English tild, tilt (“tent, tilt”), from Old English teld (“tent”).
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TENT at a glance
TENT has 4 letters and scores 4 points in Scrabble (T 1 + E 1 + N 1 + T 1) and 5 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #6,532 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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