tent: Meaning and Definition of

tent

1. a portable shelter of skins, canvas, plastic, or the like, supported by one or more poles or a frame and often secured by ropes fastened to pegs in the ground.
2. something that resembles a tent.
3. tent dress.

1. to lodge in tents.
2. to cover with or as if with a tent: In winter the tennis courts are tented inplastic.

1. to live in a tent; encamp.

tent

1. to give or pay attention to; heed.

tent

1. a probe.
2. a roll or pledget, usually of soft absorbent material, as lint or gauze, for dilating an orifice, keeping a wound open, etc.

1. to keep (a wound) open with a tent.