TENT
\tˈɛnt], \tˈɛnt], \t_ˈɛ_n_t]\
Definitions of TENT
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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live in or as if in a tent; "Can we go camping again this summer?"; "The circus tented near the town"; "The houseguests had to camp in the living room"
By Princeton University
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live in or as if in a tent; "Can we go camping again this summer?"; "The circus tented near the town"; "The houseguests had to camp in the living room"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Attention; regard, care.
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To attend to; to heed; hence, to guard; to hinder.
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To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent; as, to tent a wound. Used also figuratively.
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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.
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The representation of a tent used as a bearing.
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To lodge as a tent; to tabernacle.
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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 persons from the weather, especially soldiers in camp.
By Oddity Software
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Attention; regard, care.
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To attend to; to heed; hence, to guard; to hinder.
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To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent; as, to tent a wound. Used also figuratively.
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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.
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The representation of a tent used as a bearing.
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To lodge as a tent; to tabernacle.
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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 persons from the weather, especially soldiers in camp.
By Noah Webster.
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A shelter usually made of canvas, supported by poles and ropes.
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To camp out; pitch a tent.
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To cover with, or as with, a tent.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William R. Warner
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A portable lodge or shelter, gen. of canvas stretched on poles: a plug or roll of lint used to dilate a wound or opening in the flesh.
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To probe: to keep open with a tent.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To cover with or as with a tent; camp out.
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A shelter of canvas or the like, supported by poles, and fastened by cords to pegs in the ground.
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To keep open with a tent; also, to probe.
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A small roll, as of lint, to keep a wound, etc., open.
By James Champlin Fernald
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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A substance to be introduced into a wound or canal, so as to prevent it from closing or to dilate it slowly by its expansion when moistened. [Lat.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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n. [French, Welsh, Latin] A pavilion or portable lodge of canvas or other coarse cloth, stretched and sustained by poles;- In surgery, a roll of lint or linen, used to dilate an opening in the flesh, or to prevent the closing of a sore or opening from which matter has to be discharged.
