tent
tent is a 4-letter English word with 13 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A kind of wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain; -- called also tent wine, and tinta. Face value is 4 in Scrabble and 5 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. A kind of wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain; -- called also tent wine, and tinta.
- noun. Attention; regard, care.
- noun. Intention; design.
- transitive verb. To attend to; to heed; hence, to guard; to hinder.
- transitive verb. To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent; as, to tent a wound. Used also figuratively.
- noun. 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.
- noun. A probe for searching a wound.
- noun. 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.
- noun. The representation of a tent used as a bearing.
- intransitive verb. To lodge as a tent; to tabernacle.
- noun. a portable shelter (usually of canvas stretched over supporting poles and fastened to the ground with ropes and pegs)
"he pitched his tent near the creek"
- noun. a web that resembles a tent or carpet
- verb. live in or as if in a tent
"Can we go camping again this summer?"
"The circus tented near the town"
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Common word forms
tents, tented, tenter, tentful, tenting, tentable, tentless
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