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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024tent1 /tɛnt/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- a movable shelter of cloth, etc., held up by poles and held down by stakes in the ground.
v. - to (cause to) live or stay in a tent: [no object]to tent in the parks of Ontario.[~ + object]to tent the homeless victims of the hurricane.
See -tend-. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024tent1 (tent),USA pronunciation n. - 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.
- something that resembles a tent.
- tent dress.
v.t. - to lodge in tents.
- to cover with or as if with a tent:In winter the tennis courts are tented inplastic.
v.i. - to live in a tent;
encamp.
- Latin tenta, feminine of tentus past participle of tendere to extend, stretch; compare tentōrium tent
- Old French
- Middle English tente 1250–1300
- Scottish Termsto give or pay attention to;
heed.
- Latin attenta, feminine of attentus, past participle of attendere to attend
- Old French atente attention, intention
- Middle English, derivative of tent (noun, nominal) attention, aphetic variant of attent 1250–1300
- Surgerya probe.
- Surgerya roll or pledget, usually of soft absorbent material, as lint or gauze, for dilating an orifice, keeping a wound open, etc.
v.t. - Surgeryto keep (a wound) open with a tent.
- Latin tentāre, variant of temptāre to probe, test. See tempt
- Middle French, noun, nominal derivative of tenter
- Middle English tente a probe 1325–75
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