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Definition of Tents

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.
Tent
Tent Tent, n. [Cf. Attent, n.] 1. Attention; regard, care. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.] --Lydgate. 2. Intention; design. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.
Tent
Tent Tent, v. t. To attend to; to heed; hence, to guard; to hinder. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] --Halliwell.
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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. 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. Within his tent, large as is a barn. --Chaucer. 2. (Her.) The representation of a tent used as a bearing. Tent bed, a high-post bedstead curtained with a tentlike canopy. Tent caterpillar (Zo["o]l.), 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.

Meaning of Tents from wikipedia

- While smaller tents may be free-standing or attached to the ground, large tents are usually anc****d using guy ropes tied to stakes or tent pegs. First...
- A tent city is a temporary housing facility made using tents or other temporary structures. State governments or military organizations set up tent cities...
- Savannah. Some of these tents are held at many venues, called Roving Caravans or Roving Tents. Such venues are still called "tents" because calypsonians...
- exercise performance at altitude. The tents themselves come in several styles. Unlike camping tents, altitude tents cannot have much ventilation and often...
- tent revivals have ranged from small, locally based tents holding as few as a hundred people to large organizations with a fleet of trucks and tents able...
- "tent roof" may also be applied in modern architecture to membrane and thin s**** structures comprising roofs of modern materials and actual tents. Modern...
- tarp-tent is a compromise position between the two. More sophisticated tarp tents are now manufactured or homemade with such things as bug screening and storm...
- domed shield making up the carapace. The tent tortoise has a beautiful geometric pattern of 'Bedouin tents' on its upper s****, and this is appropriate...
- improvised using common camping tents indoors or purchased as special indoor or bed tents to be mounted to normal beds. Bed tents were widely used in South...
- internal load-space free. The first example of roof tents appeared in Western Europe in the 1930s. Roof tents are particularly seen on expedition-prepared four...