Tent

tent
    n 1: 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" [syn: {tent},
         {collapsible shelter}]
    2: a web that resembles a tent or carpet
    v 1: 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" [syn: {camp},
         {encamp}, {camp out}, {bivouac}, {tent}]
    

Tent \Tent\, n. [Sp. tinto, properly, deep-colored, fr. L.
   tinctus, p. p. of tingere to dye. See {Tinge}, and cf.
   {Tint}, {Tinto}.]
   A kind of wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or
   Malaga in Spain; -- called also {tent wine}, and {tinta}.
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Tent \Tent\, n. [Cf. {Attent}, n.]
   1. Attention; regard, care. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
      --Lydgate.
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   2. Intention; design. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.
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Tent \Tent\, v. t.
   To attend to; to heed; hence, to guard; to hinder. [Prov.
   Eng. & Scot.] --Halliwell.
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Tent \Tent\, v. t. [OF. tenter. See {Tempt}.]
   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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         I'll tent him to the quick.              --Shak.
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Tent \Tent\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Tented}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Tenting}.]
   To lodge as a tent; to tabernacle. --Shak.
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         We 're tenting to-night on the old camp ground. --W.
                                                  Kittredge.
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Tent \Tent\, n. [F. tente. See {Tent} to probe.] (Surg.)
   (a) 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.
   (b) A probe for searching a wound.
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             The tent that searches
             To the bottom of the worst.          --Shak.
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Tent \Tent\, n. [OE. tente, F. tente, LL. tenta, fr. L. tendere,
   tentum, to stretch. See {Tend} to move, and cf. {Tent} a roll
   of lint.]
   1. 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.
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            Within his tent, large as is a barn.  --Chaucer.
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   2. (Her.) The representation of a tent used as a bearing.
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   {Tent bed}, a high-post bedstead curtained with a tentlike
      canopy.

   {Tent caterpillar} (Zool.), any one of several species of
      gregarious caterpillars which construct on trees large
      silken webs into which they retreat when at rest. Some of
      the species are very destructive to fruit trees. The most
      common American species is the larva of a bombycid moth
      ({Clisiocampa Americana}). Called also {lackery
      caterpillar}, and {webworm}.
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Tent
(1.) Heb. 'ohel (Gen. 9:21, 27). This word is used also of a
dwelling or habitation (1 Kings 8:66; Isa. 16:5; Jer. 4:20), and
of the temple (Ezek. 41:1). When used of the tabernacle, as in 1
Kings 1:39, it denotes the covering of goat's hair which was
placed over the mishcan.

  (2.) Heb. mishcan (Cant. 1:8), used also of a dwelling (Job
18:21; Ps. 87:2), the grave (Isa. 22:16; comp. 14:18), the
temple (Ps. 46:4; 84:2; 132:5), and of the tabernacle (Ex. 25:9;
26:1; 40:9; Num. 1:50, 53; 10:11). When distinguished from
'ohel, it denotes the twelve interior curtains which lay upon
the framework of the tabernacle (q.v.).

  (3.) Heb. kubbah (Num. 25:8), a dome-like tent devoted to the
impure worship of Baal-peor.

  (4.) Heb. succah (2 Sam. 11:11), a tent or booth made of green
boughs or branches (see Gen. 33:17; Lev. 23:34, 42; Ps. 18:11;
Jonah 4:5; Isa. 4:6; Neh. 8:15-17, where the word is variously
rendered).

  Jubal was "the father of such as dwell in tents" (Gen. 4:20).
The patriarchs were "dwellers in tents" (Gen. 9:21, 27; 12:8;
13:12; 26:17); and during their wilderness wanderings all Israel
dwelt in tents (Ex. 16:16; Deut. 33:18; Josh. 7:24). Tents have
always occupied a prominent place in Eastern life (1 Sam. 17:54;
2 Kings 7:7; Ps. 120:5; Cant. 1:5). Paul the apostle's
occupation was that of a tent-maker (Acts 18:3); i.e., perhaps a
maker of tent cloth.
    

67 Moby Thesaurus words for "tent":
      A-tent, Ace bandage, Band-Aid, adhesive tape, application, band,
      bandage, bandaging, big top, binder, bivouac, brace, bungalow tent,
      cabin tent, camp, camp out, canvas, cast, cataplasm, compress,
      cotton, court plaster, cravat, dressing, drive stakes,
      elastic bandage, encamp, epithem, four-tailed bandage, gauze,
      go camping, highwall tent, lint, maroon, marquee, marquise,
      pavilion, pitch, pitch camp, plaster, plaster cast, pledget,
      poultice, pyramidal tent, roller, roller bandage, rough it,
      round top, rubber bandage, shelter tent, sleep out, sling, splint,
      sponge, stupe, tampon, tape, tentage, tepee, top, tourniquet,
      triangular bandage, tupik, umbrella tent, wall tent, whitetop,
      wigwam