tent

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  1. noun A portable shelter, as of canvas, stretched over a supporting framework of poles with ropes and pegs.
  2. noun Something resembling such a portable shelter in construction or outline: "her hair a dark tent, her face a thin triangle” (Anne Tyler).
  3. intransitive verb To camp in a tent.
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  • "This tent is a way for them to express that anger," she said. —  Indybay newswire
  • At the end of the tent was a large green curtain that blocked off a section. —  San Francisco Sentinel
  • But since pitching a tent is a heckuva lot cheaper than paying for a hotel room, camping is suddenly for everyone. —  phillyBurbs.com: Home RSS feed
  • The Toyota tent will be at the center of it all, with a vibrant Matrix display. —  Latest News from SYS-CON ITALIA
  • I began the descent and found myself breathing unusually hard -- the weight of the pack, bad weather, and three days and three nights of inactivity in the confines of a tent were the cause of my being "out of shape".
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  1. Middle English, from Old French tente, from Vulgar Latin *tendita, from feminine past participle of Latin tendere, to stretch out; see ten- in Indo-European roots.
  2. Middle English tente, from Old French, from tenter, to probe, from Latin tentāre, to feel, try; see tentative.
  3. Middle English tenten, from tent, attention, short for attent, from Old French attente, from Vulgar Latin *attendita, from feminine past participle of Latin attendere, to wait on; see attend.

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  1. from Middle English tente, from Old French tente, tende, French tente = Provencal tenda = Spanish tienda = Portuguese Italian tenda, from Middle Latin tenta, tenda, also tentum, a tent, also a place where clothes are spread out to dry, properly feminine of Latin tentus, past participle of tendere, stretch: see tend. Cf. Latin tentonum, a tent, from the same verb.
  2. from tent, n.
  3. from Middle English tenten, also tempten, from Old French tenter, tempter, tanter, French tenter = Spanish Portuguese tentar = Italian tentare, try, tempt, from Latin tentare, temptare, handle, touch, feel, try, test, tempt, etc., freq. of tenere, past participle tentus, hold (see tenant), or, according to some, of tendere, past participle tentus or tensus, stretch: see tend. Cf. tempt, the same word in another form.
  4. from Middle English tente, from Old French (and F.) tente = Spanish tienta = Portuguese Italian tenta, from Middle Latin tenta, a probe, a tent for a wound; from the verb: see tempt.
  5. from Middle English tenten, stretch; a variant of *tenden, from Latin tendere, stretch (see tend, and cf. tent); or developed from tenter, Middle English tenture: see tenter.
  6. from Middle English tent; an aphetic form of atente, English attent, or of entente, English intent.
  7. from Middle English tenten; a variant of tend, or ult. of attend: see tent, n.
  8. from Spanish tinto (= French teint, dyed, colored), from Latin tinctus, past participle of tingere, dye: see tint.
 

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