tent
tent / tent/ • n. a portable shelter made of cloth, supported by one or more poles and stretched tight by cords or loops attached to pegs driven into the ground. ∎ Med. short for oxygen tent.• v. 1. [tr.] cover with or as if with a tent: the garden had been completely tented over for supper. ∎ arrange in a shape that looks like a tent: Tim tented his fingers. ∎ [as adj.] (tented) composed of or provided with tents: they were living in large tented camps.2. [intr.] (esp. of traveling circus people) live in a tent.
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tent.
1. Portable tension structure in which the supports (usually a wooden pole or poles) both carry and are held in place by a membrane of canvas, skins, or cloth stretched over them and fixed by means of pegs driven into the ground.
2. Portable compression structure in which a self-supporting frame or armature is constructed over which a protective membrane is draped. Tents are of great antiquity as a type, and very elaborate examples have evolved for religious, ceremonial, or status reasons. Tensile structures, developed from tent-like forms, have been experimented with by several architects in C20.
1. Portable tension structure in which the supports (usually a wooden pole or poles) both carry and are held in place by a membrane of canvas, skins, or cloth stretched over them and fixed by means of pegs driven into the ground.
2. Portable compression structure in which a self-supporting frame or armature is constructed over which a protective membrane is draped. Tents are of great antiquity as a type, and very elaborate examples have evolved for religious, ceremonial, or status reasons. Tensile structures, developed from tent-like forms, have been experimented with by several architects in C20.
Bibliography
Drew (1979);
Faegre (1979);
Prussin et al. (1995);
Jane Turner (1996)
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tent1 portable shelter of canvas, etc. XIII. — (O)F. tente :- Rom. *tenta n. pl. used as fem. of *tentum, for L. tentōrium tent, f. tent-, pp. stem of tendere stretch, TEND2, based on the use of phr. pelles tendere stretch out skins, in the sense ‘pitch tents’.
Hence tent vb., tented (see -ED1, -ED2) XVII.
Hence tent vb., tented (see -ED1, -ED2) XVII.
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tent (tent) n.
1. an enclosure of material (usually transparent plastic) around a patient in bed, into which a gas or vapour can be passed as part of treatment. oxygen t. a tent into which oxygen is passed.
2. a piece of dried vegetable material, usually a seaweed stem, shaped to fit into an orifice, such as the cervical canal. As it absorbs moisture it expands, dilating the orifice.
1. an enclosure of material (usually transparent plastic) around a patient in bed, into which a gas or vapour can be passed as part of treatment. oxygen t. a tent into which oxygen is passed.
2. a piece of dried vegetable material, usually a seaweed stem, shaped to fit into an orifice, such as the cervical canal. As it absorbs moisture it expands, dilating the orifice.
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tent2 †probe; roll of material for searching a wound XXV. — (O)F. tente, f. tenter :- L. temptāre feel, try, TEMPT.
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tent3 deep-red Spanish wine. XVI (tynt). — Sp. tinto dark-coloured :- L. tinctus, pp. of tingere, dye, TINGE.
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