tents

/tɛnts/

IPA: /T EH1 N T S/

noun
  1. 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.

    We were camping in a three-man tent.

  2. 2

    The representation of a tent used as a bearing.

  3. 3

    A portable pulpit set up outside to accommodate worshippers who cannot fit into a church.

  4. 4

    A trouser tent; a piece of fabric, etc. protruding outward like a tent.

verb
  1. 1

    To go camping.

    We’ll be tented at the campground this weekend.

  2. 2

    To prop up aluminum foil in an inverted "V" (reminiscent of a pop-up tent) over food to reduce splatter, before putting it in the oven.

  3. 3

    To form into a tent-like shape.

    The sheet tented over his midsection.

noun
  1. 1

    Attention; regard, care.

  2. 2

    Intention; design.

verb
  1. 1

    To attend to; to heed

  2. 2

    To guard; to hinder.

noun
  1. 1

    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. 2

    A probe for searching a wound.

verb
  1. 1

    (sometimes figurative) To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent.

    to tent a wound

noun
  1. 1

    A kind of wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain; called also tent wine, and tinta.

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tent, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tents