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The definition of a tent is a portable shelter made of canvas or other material that is stretched over poles and held up by stakes, or a plug of gauze placed in an open wound to keep it open.

(noun)

An example of a tent is what campers sleep in.
An example of a tent is a gauze plug placed in a bullet wound on the battlefield.

Tent means a shelter made of canvas or fabric that gets stretched over poles and attached to stakes.

(adjective)

An example of tent used as an adjective is the phrase "tent structure," which means a structure that resembles such a shelter.

Tent is defined as to lodge, live in or cover with canvas structures with metal poles and stakes for structure and support.

(verb)

An example of tent is to camp out for a week.

See tent in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

a portable shelter consisting of canvas, skins, etc. stretched over poles and attached to stakes
anything suggestive of a tent, as an oxygen tent

Origin: ME < OFr tente < L tenta, fem. pp. of tentus, alt. pp. of tendere, to stretch: see thin

adjective

of or like a tent

intransitive verb

to live in a tent; encamp

transitive verb

to lodge in tents
to cover with or as if with a tent

noun

Med. a plug of gauze, lint, etc. placed into an opening or wound to dilate it or keep it open

Origin: ME tente < OFr, a probe < tenter, to try, test < L tentare, var. of temptare: see tempt

transitive verb

to insert such a plug in

See tent in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

A portable shelter, as of canvas, stretched over a supporting framework of poles with ropes and pegs.
Something resembling such a portable shelter in construction or outline: “her hair a dark tent, her face a thin triangle” (Anne Tyler).

verb tent·ed, tent·ing, tents

verb, intransitive

To camp in a tent.

verb, transitive