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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.
4 letters · Scrabble 4 · Words With Friends 5 · 13 senses
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- 1noun
A kind of wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain; -- called also tent wine, and tinta.
- 2noun
Attention; regard, care.
- 3noun
Intention; design.
- 4transitive verb
To attend to; to heed; hence, to guard; to hinder.
- 5transitive verb
To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent; as, to tent a wound. Used also figuratively.
- 6noun
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.
- 7noun
A probe for searching a wound.
- 8noun
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.
- 9noun
The representation of a tent used as a bearing.
- 10intransitive verb
To lodge as a tent; to tabernacle.
- 11noun
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"
- 12noun
a web that resembles a tent or carpet
- 13verb
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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