tent
Meanings
Plural: tents
Noun
- a portable shelter (usually of canvas stretched over supporting poles and fastened to the ground with ropes and pegs)
- "he pitched his tent near the creek"
- a web that resembles a tent or carpet
- 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.
- The representation of a tent used as a bearing.
- 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.
- Attention; regard, care.
- Intention; design.
- 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.
- A probe for searching a wound.
- A kind of red wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain.
Verb
- live in or as if in a tent
- "The circus tented near the town"
- To go camping.
- 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.
- Synonym of fumigate.
- To attend to; to heed
- to guard; to hinder.
- To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent.
Origin / 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”). Compare Spanish tienda (“store, shop; tent”).
Scrabble Score: 4
tent is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordtent is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
tent is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 5
tent is a valid Words With Friends word