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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 people from the weather.

Example: We were camping in a three-man tent.

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.

To go camping.

Example: We’ll be tented at the campground this weekend.

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.

Example: The sheet tented over his midsection.

Attention; regard, care.

Intention; design.

To attend to; to heed

To guard; to hinder.

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.

(sometimes figurative) To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent.

Example: to tent a wound

A kind of wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain; called also tent wine, and tinta.