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noun tɛnttɛnt 1A portable shelter made of cloth, supported by one or more poles and stretched tight by cords or loops attached to pegs driven into the ground. Example sentencesExamples - Some of the families here stay inside the mosque, but the rest are camped out in tents that provide little shelter from the winter wind that blows across the university.
- Before them lay row upon row of tents, pavilions, shelters, barracks and all other contrivable form of shelter.
- But within the clearing were dozens of tents and small shelters.
- The trip itself took about three days, but they had to sleep on the ground in their tents and sleeping bags every night.
- Some evacuees were accommodated in 15 temporary shelters in schools and canteens, but many people still had to shelter in tents.
- They will stay in tents on camp sites each night and are hoping to complete the journey in eight days.
- To her horror, it was already on fire and she worried about the huge wooden poles that supported the enormous tent.
- These refugees literally ‘camped out’ in tents on the grounds of the Embassy for up to three months.
- Some 500 homeless victims of the quake were being housed in relief tents and others were sheltering from the freezing cold winds in buses.
- A hundred American soldiers pitched tents on the legation grounds to be ready for any contingency.
- At one time, the nomadic Kazaks lived in yurts, cone-shaped tents of white felt stretched over a framework of wooden poles.
- The temperature has been dropping and locals fear that this winter may prove particularly harsh, especially for those sheltering in tents.
- Sheltered under a huge tent, more than 1 000 people converged to celebrate the heritage and rich history of Alexandra.
- Behind them hundreds of canvas tents stretch into the flat spaces of the desert.
- A boy about twelve years old knocked on the front supporting pole of the tent.
- He snatched his big horse's rope bridle from a post underneath the tent's shelter and stalked off.
- Television footage showed metal posts that held the tent still in the ground.
- Still, the wind snapped one of my tent's poles and it's oddly misshapen at first light.
- About two years ago I was running an extremely successful school for the blind out of a tent at a camp ground.
- Once again bears had been at the depot, and the tent, poles, groundsheets, cooking pot, and primus were all missing.
Synonyms camp, military camp, bivouac, cantonment, barracks, base, station, post - 1.1Medicine
verb tɛnttɛnt 1with object Cover with or as if with a tent. the garden had been completely tented over for supper Example sentencesExamples - If you can't leave, get fresh air by tenting your head with a blanket at a slightly open window or break it with a chair.
- A significant fact was that the house was tented with a fumigation tent.
- They tented the body up but a lot of the blood, footprints in the blood and forensic evidence got washed away.
- The alcohol fumes and oxygen/nitrous mixture would be able to dissipate if the drapes were tented.
- To avoid that problem, the building was tented and temporary heating provided so operation could continue.
- The ground has also been used to tent unskilled labourers laying fiber optic cables.
- If, after thirty or so minutes, the cake is browning too quickly, you may need to tent it with foil.
- 1.1as adjective tented Composed of or provided with tents.
they were living in large tented camps Example sentencesExamples - Its rugged charm has remained unspoilt by progress, while a bustling main street and its wide range of tented camps, hotels, and lodges have established it as a favourite holiday resort.
- We found the floor in the tented operating theatre was not stable enough.
- The tented village is in place and we are just looking forward to play getting under way in some good weather.
- Cooks normally cater for soldiers in their individual regiments but, in northern Kuwait, chefs from different units have been pooled together in one big tented kitchen to feed the large number of British troops.
- There were three main areas, a large camp for the prisoners who were considered to be political dissidents; a small camp that was called a quarantine camp, and tented section for the prisoners arriving from Poland.
- The Jeep made it's way along the old road, and finally came to a small tented checkpoint where Brad could see soldiers had dug foxholes and set up barriers.
- Besides this, the National Adventure Foundation is offering limited tented accommodation at the destination itself.
- The Army padre led prayers for the war dead, their families, for the armed forces and for politicians in their efforts to create peace, during services held in a concrete aircraft hangar and a tented cookhouse.
- What Jim calls ‘a tented village’ will spring up, complete with heaters to keep the November chill at bay.
- President Clinton is going to have a reception and luncheon in a tented area, they'll be happy to know, after this, for some of his friends.
- A colourful tented camp spread under these sylvan giants and virtually every tent was occupied.
- Kurichh has performed surgery on at least two inmates and will be among medical personnel manning a new tented field hospital.
- This is obvious from the enormous crowds that have descended on this tented village for the opening day.
- These were tented or prefabricated hut facilities and in theory mobile, although most tended to stay at the location in which they were first erected.
- The shells landed on a tented mess hall, wreaking havoc among US troops, Iraqi national guards, and civilians.
- Roly, who runs The Little Print Shop in Swindon's tented market, reckons at least £1, 000 can be raised.
- But you are unlikely to stumble upon either at the ‘Banjara Camps’, a tented resort that nestles on the banks of a river in the backdrop of some dramatic peaks.
- ‘I'm going to make all the kids in America jealous with all these pretty girls,’ he joked while posing for photographs in a tented classroom.
- The venue will be part of a small tented complex including toilets and kiosks for sweets and refreshments.
- ‘These tented restaurants tend to be more about the occasion than food - like eating strawberries at Wimbledon - but this is a very pleasant meal,’ he said.
- 1.2 Arrange in a shape like that of a tent.
Example sentencesExamples - As Mildred walks in, his long, slender fingers tent themselves in front of his face, a gesture that means he is focusing, deep in thought.
- Thomas laid down the pen and tented his fingers under his chin.
- The Matriarch calm sitting in her throne with her hands tented in front of her face.
- Then he rested his elbows on his desk, tenting his fingers.
- Garrett turned back to Kiv, tenting his fingers, tilting his head slightly to one side.
2no object (especially of travelling circus people) live in a tent. Example sentencesExamples - It is our first night of camping, and I am tenting with Dolly, Patricia, and Joanne.
- These cannot be dismissed unless the university will allow me to tent and maintain a garden in the Quad.
- I have been pestering Jayson, Leighton, Lorne, and Todd Peters all summer about how one goes about tenting and we finally made up our mind that we would get a tent.
- But can they be the decisive factor when comparing summer tenting in the rocks of the Rockies to the rocks of Ontario's Canadian Shield?
Origin Middle English: from Old French tente, based on Latin tent- 'stretched', from the verb tendere. The verb dates from the mid 16th century. Tent goes back to Latin tendere ‘stretch’, since early tents were made of skins or cloth stretched on poles. It is also the source of tense (late 17th century) in the sense ‘stretched, tight’, and tension (mid 16th century) first found as a medical term for the condition or feeling of being physically strained. To be on tenterhooks is to be in a state of nervous suspense. A tenter, from the same Latin root as tent, is a frame on which fabric can be held taut so that it does not shrink while drying or being manufactured, and tenterhooks were the hooks or bent nails used to fasten woollen cloth in position. This tightening procedure had obvious appeal as an image for person in difficulties or suspense, at first on tenters and later on tenterhooks. The phrase has survived long after real tenterhooks disappeared.
Rhymes absent, accent, anent, ascent, assent, augment, bent, cement, cent, circumvent, consent, content, dent, event, extent, ferment, foment, forewent, forwent, frequent, gent, Ghent, Gwent, lament, leant, lent, meant, misrepresent, misspent, outwent, pent, percent, pigment, rent, scent, segment, sent, spent, stent, Stoke-on-Trent, Tashkent, torment, Trent, underspent, underwent, vent, went noun tɛnttɛnt mass nounA deep red sweet wine chiefly from Spain, used especially as sacramental wine.
Origin Late Middle English: from Spanish tinto 'deep-coloured', from Latin tinctus 'dyed, stained', from the verb tingere. noun tɛnttɛnt Surgery A piece of absorbent material inserted into an opening to keep it open, or especially to widen it gradually as the material absorbs moisture.
Origin Late Middle English (also denoting a surgical probe): from Old French tente, from tenter 'to probe', from Latin temptare 'handle, test, try'. nountenttɛnt 1A portable shelter made of cloth, supported by one or more poles and stretched tight by cords or loops attached to pegs driven into the ground. Example sentencesExamples - He snatched his big horse's rope bridle from a post underneath the tent's shelter and stalked off.
- A hundred American soldiers pitched tents on the legation grounds to be ready for any contingency.
- Before them lay row upon row of tents, pavilions, shelters, barracks and all other contrivable form of shelter.
- Behind them hundreds of canvas tents stretch into the flat spaces of the desert.
- Some of the families here stay inside the mosque, but the rest are camped out in tents that provide little shelter from the winter wind that blows across the university.
- Once again bears had been at the depot, and the tent, poles, groundsheets, cooking pot, and primus were all missing.
- To her horror, it was already on fire and she worried about the huge wooden poles that supported the enormous tent.
- A boy about twelve years old knocked on the front supporting pole of the tent.
- Some evacuees were accommodated in 15 temporary shelters in schools and canteens, but many people still had to shelter in tents.
- At one time, the nomadic Kazaks lived in yurts, cone-shaped tents of white felt stretched over a framework of wooden poles.
- The temperature has been dropping and locals fear that this winter may prove particularly harsh, especially for those sheltering in tents.
- About two years ago I was running an extremely successful school for the blind out of a tent at a camp ground.
- These refugees literally ‘camped out’ in tents on the grounds of the Embassy for up to three months.
- Sheltered under a huge tent, more than 1 000 people converged to celebrate the heritage and rich history of Alexandra.
- Television footage showed metal posts that held the tent still in the ground.
- Still, the wind snapped one of my tent's poles and it's oddly misshapen at first light.
- Some 500 homeless victims of the quake were being housed in relief tents and others were sheltering from the freezing cold winds in buses.
- They will stay in tents on camp sites each night and are hoping to complete the journey in eight days.
- The trip itself took about three days, but they had to sleep on the ground in their tents and sleeping bags every night.
- But within the clearing were dozens of tents and small shelters.
Synonyms camp, military camp, bivouac, cantonment, barracks, base, station, post - 1.1Medicine
verbtenttɛnt 1with object Cover with or as if with a tent. the garden had been completely tented over for supper Example sentencesExamples - They tented the body up but a lot of the blood, footprints in the blood and forensic evidence got washed away.
- A significant fact was that the house was tented with a fumigation tent.
- The alcohol fumes and oxygen/nitrous mixture would be able to dissipate if the drapes were tented.
- The ground has also been used to tent unskilled labourers laying fiber optic cables.
- If you can't leave, get fresh air by tenting your head with a blanket at a slightly open window or break it with a chair.
- If, after thirty or so minutes, the cake is browning too quickly, you may need to tent it with foil.
- To avoid that problem, the building was tented and temporary heating provided so operation could continue.
- 1.1as adjective tented Composed of or provided with tents.
they were living in large tented camps Example sentencesExamples - Besides this, the National Adventure Foundation is offering limited tented accommodation at the destination itself.
- The Army padre led prayers for the war dead, their families, for the armed forces and for politicians in their efforts to create peace, during services held in a concrete aircraft hangar and a tented cookhouse.
- Cooks normally cater for soldiers in their individual regiments but, in northern Kuwait, chefs from different units have been pooled together in one big tented kitchen to feed the large number of British troops.
- ‘These tented restaurants tend to be more about the occasion than food - like eating strawberries at Wimbledon - but this is a very pleasant meal,’ he said.
- Kurichh has performed surgery on at least two inmates and will be among medical personnel manning a new tented field hospital.
- There were three main areas, a large camp for the prisoners who were considered to be political dissidents; a small camp that was called a quarantine camp, and tented section for the prisoners arriving from Poland.
- ‘I'm going to make all the kids in America jealous with all these pretty girls,’ he joked while posing for photographs in a tented classroom.
- But you are unlikely to stumble upon either at the ‘Banjara Camps’, a tented resort that nestles on the banks of a river in the backdrop of some dramatic peaks.
- We found the floor in the tented operating theatre was not stable enough.
- The tented village is in place and we are just looking forward to play getting under way in some good weather.
- The venue will be part of a small tented complex including toilets and kiosks for sweets and refreshments.
- Its rugged charm has remained unspoilt by progress, while a bustling main street and its wide range of tented camps, hotels, and lodges have established it as a favourite holiday resort.
- The shells landed on a tented mess hall, wreaking havoc among US troops, Iraqi national guards, and civilians.
- President Clinton is going to have a reception and luncheon in a tented area, they'll be happy to know, after this, for some of his friends.
- The Jeep made it's way along the old road, and finally came to a small tented checkpoint where Brad could see soldiers had dug foxholes and set up barriers.
- Roly, who runs The Little Print Shop in Swindon's tented market, reckons at least £1, 000 can be raised.
- A colourful tented camp spread under these sylvan giants and virtually every tent was occupied.
- These were tented or prefabricated hut facilities and in theory mobile, although most tended to stay at the location in which they were first erected.
- This is obvious from the enormous crowds that have descended on this tented village for the opening day.
- What Jim calls ‘a tented village’ will spring up, complete with heaters to keep the November chill at bay.
- 1.2 Arrange in a shape like that of a tent.
Example sentencesExamples - Thomas laid down the pen and tented his fingers under his chin.
- Garrett turned back to Kiv, tenting his fingers, tilting his head slightly to one side.
- As Mildred walks in, his long, slender fingers tent themselves in front of his face, a gesture that means he is focusing, deep in thought.
- The Matriarch calm sitting in her throne with her hands tented in front of her face.
- Then he rested his elbows on his desk, tenting his fingers.
2no object (especially of traveling circus people) live in a tent. Example sentencesExamples - But can they be the decisive factor when comparing summer tenting in the rocks of the Rockies to the rocks of Ontario's Canadian Shield?
- It is our first night of camping, and I am tenting with Dolly, Patricia, and Joanne.
- These cannot be dismissed unless the university will allow me to tent and maintain a garden in the Quad.
- I have been pestering Jayson, Leighton, Lorne, and Todd Peters all summer about how one goes about tenting and we finally made up our mind that we would get a tent.
Origin Middle English: from Old French tente, based on Latin tent- ‘stretched’, from the verb tendere. The verb dates from the mid 16th century. nountenttɛnt A deep red sweet wine chiefly from Spain, used especially as sacramental wine.
Origin Late Middle English: from Spanish tinto ‘deep-coloured’, from Latin tinctus ‘dyed, stained’, from the verb tingere. nountenttɛnt Surgery A piece of absorbent material inserted into an opening to keep it open, or especially to widen it gradually as the material absorbs moisture.
Origin Late Middle English (also denoting a surgical probe): from Old French tente, from tenter ‘to probe’, from Latin temptare ‘handle, test, try’. |