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1.NounA pavilion or portable lodge consisting of skins, canvas, or some strong cloth, stretched and sustained by poles, used for sheltering people from the weather."We were camping in a three-man tent.; We bought a new tent that can be put up in five seconds, but it took about twenty minutes to take it down and pack it away."
2.NounThe representation of a tent used as a bearing.
3.NounA portable pulpit set up outside to accommodate worshippers who cannot fit into a church.
4.NounA trouser tent; a piece of fabric, etc. protruding outward like a tent.
5.VerbTo go camping."We’ll be tenting at the campground this weekend."
6.VerbTo 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.
7.VerbTo form into a tent-like shape."The sheet tented over his midsection."
8.VerbSynonym of fumigate.
9.VerbTo attend to; to heed.
10.VerbTo guard; to hinder.
11.NounAttention; regard, care.
12.NounIntention; design.
13.NounA 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.
14.NounA probe for searching a wound.
15.VerbTo probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent."to tent a wound"
16.NounA kind of red wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain.