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tent
  1. A pavilion or portable lodge consisting of skins, canvas, or some strong cloth, stretched and sustained by poles, used for sheltering people from the weather.
  2. (archaic) The representation of a tent used as a bearing.
  3. (Scotland) A portable pulpit set up outside to accommodate worshippers who cannot fit into a church.
  4. A trouser tent; a piece of fabric, etc. protruding outward like a tent.
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  6. Examples:
    1. “I camped for the night in a tent next to a tarn just below tree line, and the next day I examined the prospect.”
tentpole
  1. One of the poles used to hold up a tent.
  2. (US, attributive, figuratively, film, television, theater) A large-scale entertainment production that is a major source of revenue for its studio, television network, or investors.
  3. Examples:
    1. “The tentpole movie is an attraction popular and exploitable enough to prop up the entire moviegoing tent for several weeks or even months.”
      “United Artists hasn't prospered in recent years, so a box office hit from its tentpole movie franchise is essential.”
      “Just coincidentally, it also provides the opportunity for the sorts of extravagant computerized effects that create tentpole movie attractions these days.”
tent
  1. (medicine) 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.
  2. (medicine) A probe for searching a wound.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “I camped for the night in a tent next to a tarn just below tree line, and the next day I examined the prospect.”
tent
  1. (archaic, Britain, Scotland, dialect) Attention; regard, care.
  2. (archaic) Intention; design.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “I camped for the night in a tent next to a tarn just below tree line, and the next day I examined the prospect.”
tent
  1. (archaic) A kind of wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain; called also tent wine, and tinta.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “I camped for the night in a tent next to a tarn just below tree line, and the next day I examined the prospect.”
tentory
  1. (obsolete) The awning or covering of a tent.
tentage
  1. accommodation in the form of a tent
  2. Examples:
    1. “In the American Civil War, textile shortages again hampered the Quartermaster Department's efforts to procure tentage.”
      “Added to that the venture has a 50000 sq ft events centre and temporary tentage.”
      “Police reinforcements in and around the IDP camps are operating from temporary tentage.”
tentmaker
  1. A manufacturer of tents.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Then he went to Corinth, where he stayed for some time preaching and working at his trade of tentmaker.”
      “And then he was a tentmaker who understood Greek and who could speak to the Greeks in their own language.”
      “How untrue, after all, was the nebulous philosophy of Omar, the tentmaker.”
tentmaking
  1. The manufacture of tents.
tentmate
  1. One who occupies the same tent.
  2. Synonyms:
tentful
  1. As much as a tent will hold.
tenting
  1. Material used for making tents.
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tentmakers
  1. plural of tentmaker
tentmates
tentpoles
  1. plural of tentpole
tentfuls
  1. plural of tentful
tentings
tentsful
  1. plural of tentful
tentages
  1. plural of tentage
tentories
  1. plural of tentory
tents
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