Tent (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

noun
  1. a portable shelter of skins, canvas, plastic, or the like, supported by one or more poles or a frame and often secured by ropes fastened to pegs in the ground.
  2. something that resembles a tent.
  3. tent dress.
verb (used with object)
  1. to lodge in tents.
  2. to cover with or as if with a tent: In winter the tennis courts are tented in plastic.
verb (used without object)
  1. to live in a tent; encamp.
noun
  1. a roll or pledget, usually of soft absorbent material, as lint or gauze, for dilating an orifice, keeping a wound open, etc.
  2. a probe.
verb (used with object)
  1. to keep (a wound) open with a tent.
verb (used with object) Chiefly Scot.
  1. to give or pay attention to; heed.
noun
    • a portable shelter of canvas, plastic, or other waterproof material supported on poles and fastened to the ground by pegs and ropes
    • (as modifier)
  1. something resembling this in function or shape
verb
  1. to camp in a tent
  2. to cover with or as if with a tent or tents
  3. to provide with a tent as shelter
noun
  1. a plug of soft material for insertion into a bodily canal, etc, to dilate it or maintain its patency
verb
  1. to insert such a plug into (a bodily canal, etc)
noun
  1. a red table wine from Alicante, Spain
noun
  1. heed; attention
verb (tr)
  1. to pay attention to; take notice of
  2. to attend to
Tent (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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