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English to English noun
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a portable shelter (usually of canvas stretched over supporting poles and fastened to the ground with ropes and pegs) |  | Example: he pitched his tent near the creek
source: wordnet30
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a web that resembles a tent or carpet | | source: wordnet30
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A kind of wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain; -- called also tent wine, and tinta. | | source: webster1913
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Attention; regard, care. | | source: webster1913
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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. | | source: webster1913
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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 persons from the weather, especially soldiers in camp. | | source: webster1913 verb
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live in or as if in a tent | | Example: Can we go camping again this summer?
The circus tented near the town
The houseguests had to camp in the living room
source: wordnet30
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To attend to; to heed; hence, to guard; to hinder. | | source: webster1913
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To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent; as, to tent a wound. Used also figuratively. | | source: webster1913
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To lodge as a tent; to tabernacle. | | source: webster1913
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