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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
tent
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
oxygen tent
pup tent
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
▪ They merely pointed where they wanted everyone to go, which was into the big tent.
▪ And those that can afford it have an even bigger tent.
▪ I see the big blue-green tent, created with sterile sheets, but it mostly hides Neil.
large
▪ The men ate in a large tent outside the perimeter of the fence.
▪ Because of a shortage of facilities at Lockheed, he put a lot of his design engineers into a large tent.
▪ The show takes place in a large tent that seats 100 to 150 people.
▪ We had a fairly large tent city, with some improvements, within a matter of two or three days of arrival.
▪ Another day and they passed the large green tents of the Red Cross.
▪ They followed the stretcher until they arrived at a large tent which had a hastily painted sign slung across its front.
▪ Stability: for such a large tent, its stability was good with all the guys pegged out.
▪ The cheapest beds in London either in your own tent or in dorm accommodation in fourteen large tents.
small
▪ In an effort to boost club funds, a small tent will soon be found on the far side of the ground.
▪ It would have required a quantity of material sufficient to make a small tent.
▪ A small grey tent was inexpertly pitched in a field just outside the town.
▪ And Oxfordshire's Harry Taylor, here on the left, is relying on a small tent for shelter.
▪ Before I knew it, she was lying beside me in the small white tent.
▪ Mr. Docherty told me that he was sleeping rough either in his car or in a small tent.
white
▪ The rows of white tents are numbered like a council estate.
▪ Impermanence reigns in Atlanta, where white tents dot the landscape like so many mushrooms on the forest floor.
▪ She indicated another mountain in the distance, dotted with cattle and white tents and suggested we try there.
▪ Before I knew it, she was lying beside me in the small white tent.
▪ Monday, the family erected a white tent of mourning outside their house in Rimal, on the outskirts of Gaza City.
▪ The once crowded white and khaki tents sagged emptily over mud.
■ NOUN
beer
▪ About 25 of us arrived and went straight to the beer tent, where we spent quite some time.
▪ The fight in the beer tent hardly gets a mention.
▪ Much to my surprise, he led me towards one of the public beer tents.
▪ Rows in the beer tent were quickly suppressed by the militia.
city
▪ Mobs of Right-wing thugs set ablaze a tent city housing refugees outside Leipzig and torched a hostel in Zielitz.
▪ We had a fairly large tent city, with some improvements, within a matter of two or three days of arrival.
▪ By nightfall, Oklahoma City was born on the prairie, a tent city of 10, 000.
▪ This was fine compared to the moldy tents and dirt floors at tent city.
▪ A few miles below, Southern California Edison was building a project and had erected a tent city for 140 men.
hospital
▪ The circular plan was derived from the hospital tents of the Crimea, where improved ventilation helped reduce the risk of cross-infection.
▪ We went by the tower like a flash and landed on the red cross near the newly set-up hospital tent.
▪ That week Leese and I flew more than a hundred wounded to the hospital tent.
oxygen
▪ And the idea of this odd man, his chimpanzee and oxygen tent in tow, running a business is bizarre.
pole
▪ We threw out a dummy made from sandbags and tent poles.
▪ It looked as if there was a tent pole underneath it.
▪ The parachute opened okay, but the tent poles smashed on landing.
▪ He referred to my rods as stepped-up fly rods, and his I called tent poles.
pup
▪ On our perimeter, some grunts hid in their pup tents trying to sleep while others stared into the gray foliage watching.
▪ Among the trees below I saw hundreds of pup tents.
▪ You have to set up a pup tent for the time being.
■ VERB
erect
▪ As we erected the tent Tony became wistful again.
▪ And, as is customary, the families would erect a mourning tent.
▪ The ganja farms increased in rapid frequency, with hastily erected tents dotting the hillsides.
▪ Monday, the family erected a white tent of mourning outside their house in Rimal, on the outskirts of Gaza City.
▪ The tent will then be held to the ground while you insert the poles and erect the tent. 5.
▪ If it were a horse race, they might be erecting tents right now on the first turn.
▪ The defendant's employees erected a tent over a manhole and surrounded the tent with paraffin lamps.
▪ A few miles below, Southern California Edison was building a project and had erected a tent city for 140 men.
find
▪ Her hand wanted to rise: he found and made a tent for it with his own.
▪ As Riker and I trudged off to find our tents, his voice faded to silence.
▪ Peter Jones, 19, was found in a tent where a group of young people had gathered for a party.
▪ I find only an empty tent with empty benches inside.
▪ Two weeks later, they found a tent.
▪ We found a tent where they were cooking omelettes filled with clams.
▪ Porches, also known as bellends, can be found anywhere on the tent, depending on the design.
▪ I know you found your tent, but perhaps you thought this might be a more comfortable bivouac than my cottage?
fold
▪ People say it should now fold its tents and steal away.
▪ Does that mean Starr must fold up his tent and go home?
▪ They clearly did not have the votes in 1992, and they agreed to fold their tent again this time.
▪ The itinerant peddlers had packed away their beadwork and knickknacks, folded their tents or shut their booths, and departed.
leave
▪ Don't leave your tent pitched all day for a prolonged period - this will degrade the flysheet.
▪ Fascinating, he said thoughtfully as he left the tent.
▪ Bring your sleeping bag but leave your tent behind.
▪ Fairfax leaves the tent and walks over to the fire.
live
▪ When Abdulrahman Bu Riziq explained why he lived in a tent he remarked the absence of policemen.
▪ Ever try living in a tent through a Dakota winter?
▪ Instead of living in a tent on the grassland, he lives in a sparse two-room flat in the city.
▪ Terry said we could live in tents on the job.
▪ It's like living in a circus tent under trainee trapeze artists.
▪ The thought of living in a tent and picking grapes in the cool California mornings hit me right.
▪ At one side of the hospital refugees living in tents and under corrugated iron were also cooking.
▪ During that pilgrimage, they lived in tents and booths, otherwise known as sukkot.
pack
▪ But perhaps they should all just pack up their corporate tents and go home.
▪ In Episode Two, they pack a tent and sleeping bags a weekend at a nearby state park.
pitch
▪ In which wilderness have they pitched their tents?
▪ If he keeps blossoming at this rate, too, basketball coaches soon will be pitching tents in his yard.
▪ Joel arrived in time to pitch my tent.
▪ That was how Master Yehudi came to pitch his tent in Kansas.
▪ After pitching their tents, the travellers held a rave party that went on for 3 days and nights.
▪ Troops could scarcely find dry ground on which to pitch their tents.
▪ It was late by the time we had finished chatting and they cycled off to find somewhere to pitch their tent.
▪ We trailed off into the canyons, and pitched tents under the conifers.
put
▪ Practise putting your tent up in the garden several times.
▪ To wit: Around 1920, Jess Swicegood put up a barbecue tent in Lexington, making himself one of the originals.
▪ I was past putting the tent up, celebrating and wondering why my arms did not drop off.
▪ They put him out of the tent to await transport to the casualty clearing station or death, whichever should come first.
▪ I don't know why the fairs don't put up their tents on a permanent basis.
▪ This year a travelling circus put up its tent and offered the public a horse-riding show.
▪ I enjoy putting up a tent, I like campfires and food for me tastes so much better outside.
set
▪ We sat down on the little grass patch where the strolling players set up their tent.
▪ After they left Koju and I set up a tent a quarter of a mile from the village.
▪ Mobs of Right-wing thugs set ablaze a tent city housing refugees outside Leipzig and torched a hostel in Zielitz.
▪ You have to set up a pup tent for the time being.
sit
▪ Many of the men who sat outside the tents were stripped to the waist and some of them were barefoot.
▪ Achilles sat by his tent waiting for Patroclus to return.
▪ Billy Stewart sits outside his tent and watches flies.
▪ Achilles sat alone in his tent, brooding over his wrongs.
sleep
▪ Going to camp is like going on Pack holiday but everyone sleeps outside in tents.
▪ The latest shocks caused panic among some 50, 000 people sleeping in tents, campers and public buildings.
▪ A 16-year-old girl was raped as she slept in her tent at the Reading music festival, Berkshire.
▪ Remember, all her life she had wandered from place to place, sleeping in a tent or under the stars.
▪ I could sleep inside the tent, just on the outskirts of the flock.
▪ In recent Grand Prix events, up to 200,000 people have slept in tents and trailers in the centre of the track.
▪ We slept in rough tents with cots in the mud.
stay
▪ Nobody had any good ideas, the best one being to stay in our tents until the fog cleared.
▪ While Achilles stayed in his tent a fierce battle followed, the hardest yet fought.
▪ Mr Lennox grumbled and glowered. Stay in a tent or caravan!
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
pitch a tent/pitch camp
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As we erected the tent Tony became wistful again.
▪ In her winter coat she appeared to be little more than a central pole with a tent draped from her shoulders.
▪ Resler and I were alone in our corner of the tent.
▪ So stick to your own tent if you want a snog.
▪ Tackle boxes and tents are being tossed into car trunks.
▪ That night, in their tents, they nearly died of cold.
▪ This was fine compared to the moldy tents and dirt floors at tent city.
▪ We made camp about 5 p. m. each night, using tents and gear provided by Amr and our own sleeping bags.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tent

Tent \Tent\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tented; p. pr. & vb. n. Tenting.] To lodge as a tent; to tabernacle.
--Shak.

We 're tenting to-night on the old camp ground.
--W. Kittredge.

Tent

Tent \Tent\, n. [Cf. Attent, n.]

  1. Attention; regard, care. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
    --Lydgate.

  2. Intention; design. [Prov. Eng.]
    --Halliwell.

Tent

Tent \Tent\, v. t. To attend to; to heed; hence, to guard; to hinder. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
--Halliwell.

Tent

Tent \Tent\, v. t. [OF. tenter. See Tempt.] To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent; as, to tent a wound. Used also figuratively.

I'll tent him to the quick.
--Shak.

Tent

Tent \Tent\, n. [F. tente. See Tent to probe.] (Surg.)

  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. A probe for searching a wound.

    The tent that searches To the bottom of the worst.
    --Shak.

Tent

Tent \Tent\, n. [OE. tente, F. tente, LL. tenta, fr. L. tendere, tentum, to stretch. See Tend to move, and cf. Tent a roll of lint.]

  1. 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.

    Within his tent, large as is a barn.
    --Chaucer.

  2. (Her.) The representation of a tent used as a bearing.

    Tent bed, a high-post bedstead curtained with a tentlike canopy.

    Tent caterpillar (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of gregarious caterpillars which construct on trees large silken webs into which they retreat when at rest. Some of the species are very destructive to fruit trees. The most common American species is the larva of a bombycid moth ( Clisiocampa Americana). Called also lackery caterpillar, and webworm.

Tent

Tent \Tent\, n. [Sp. tinto, properly, deep-colored, fr. L. tinctus, p. p. of tingere to dye. See Tinge, and cf. Tint, Tinto.] 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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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
tent

c.1300, "portable shelter of skins or coarse cloth stretched over poles," from Old French tente "tent, hanging, tapestry" (12c.), from Medieval Latin tenta "a tent," literally "something stretched out," noun use of fem. singular of Latin tentus "stretched," variant past participle of tendere "to stretch" (see tenet). The notion is of "stretching" hides over a framework. Tent caterpillar first recorded 1854, so called from the tent-like silken webs in which they live gregariously.

tent

"to camp in a tent," 1856, from tent (n.). Earlier "to pitch a tent" (1550s). Related: Tented; tenting.

Wiktionary
tent

Etymology 1 n. 1 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. 2 (context archaic English) The representation of a tent used as a bearing. vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To go camping. 2 (context cooking English) 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 (context intransitive English) To form into a tent-like shape. Etymology 2

n. 1 (context archaic UK Scotland dialect English) Attention; regard, care. 2 (context archaic English) Intention; design. vb. (context archaic UK Scotland dialect English) To attend to; to heed; hence, to guard; to hinder. Etymology 3

n. 1 (context medicine English) 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 (context medicine English) A probe for searching a wound. vb. (context medicine sometimes figurative English) To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent. Etymology 4

n. (context archaic English) A kind of wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain; called also tent wine, and tint

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WordNet
tent

n. 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" [syn: collapsible shelter]

tent

v. live in or as if in a tent; "Can we go camping again this summer?"; "The circus tented near the town"; "The houseguests had to camp in the living room" [syn: camp, encamp, camp out, bivouac]

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Wikipedia
Tent (album)

Tent is an album by The Nits. It was released in 1979 by Columbia Records.

Tent (protocol)

Tent is a protocol for open, decentralized social networking. Tent users share content with apps and each other. Anyone can run a Tent server, or write an app or alternative server implementation that uses the Tent protocol. Users can take their content and relationships with them when they change or move servers. Tent supports extensible data types so developers can create new kinds of interaction. Tent is inspired by Project Xanadu.

Tent

A tent is a shelter consisting of sheets of fabric or other material draped over, attached to a frame of poles or attached to a supporting rope. While smaller tents may be free-standing or attached to the ground, large tents are usually anchored using guy ropes tied to stakes or tent pegs. First used as portable homes by nomadic peoples, tents are now more often used for recreational camping and temporary shelters.

Tents range in size from " bivouac" structures, just big enough for one person to sleep in, up to huge circus tents capable of seating thousands of people. The bulk of this article is concerned with tents used for recreational camping which have sleeping space for one to ten people. Larger tents are discussed in a separate section below.

Tents for recreational camping fall into two categories. Tents intended to be carried by backpackers are the smallest and lightest type. Small tents may be sufficiently light that they can be carried for long distances on a touring bicycle, a boat, or when backpacking.

The second type are larger, heavier tents which are usually carried in a car or other vehicle. Depending on tent size and the experience of the person or people involved, such tents can usually be assembled (pitched) in between 5 and 25 minutes; disassembly (striking) takes a similar length of time. Some very specialised tents have spring-loaded poles and can be 'pitched' in seconds, but take somewhat longer to strike.

Tent (disambiguation)

A tent is a shelter made of fabric or similar material.

Tent or The Tent may also refer to:

  • TeNT, the tetanus neurotoxin Tetanospasmin
  • Tent (album), 1979 album by The Nits
  • Tent (protocol), decentralized communication protocol
  • The Tent (Paulsen novel), 1995 Gary Paulsen book
  • The Tent (Atwood book), 2006 Margaret Atwood book
  • Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963–1995 or The Tent, artwork by Tracey Emin
  • The Tent (film), 2008 film produced and directed by Hakan Haslaman
  • TEN-T, Trans-European Transport Networks, a planned set of road, rail, air and water transport networks in Europe
  • TPP Nikola Tesla, a power plant complex in Serbia
  • Tentpole film, a type of movie
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Usage examples of "tent".

Since Bull Shockhead would bury his brother, and lord Ralph would seek the damsel, and whereas there is water anigh, and the sun is well nigh set, let us pitch our tents and abide here till morning, and let night bring counsel unto some of us.

The tented arch is formed by the angle made when the curving ridge above the dot abuts upon the ridge immediately under and to the left of the dot.

When figure 188 is examined, it will be noticed that the recurve is spoiled by the appendage abutting upon it between the shoulders at a right angle, so it must also be classified with the tented arches.

Then someone was helping her, telling her in some strange accent to bring him in here, hands guiding her shoulders, leading her into a tent with a soft glow of lamplight.

She had asked him about adapting it to work with a spear-thrower when Mamut came into the tent.

Immediately before the battle of Verona, he visited the tent of his mother and sister, and requested, that on a day, the most illustrious festival of his life, they would adorn him with the rich garments which they had worked with their own hands.

Pitching your tent An example of continuity between the headline and the body copy is an advertisement for a line of tents sold by the Boy Scouts of America.

Red geraniums, white impatiens, and purple ageratum formed a patriotic border around the base of the tent platform.

San Francisco, Conrad Aiken, stood looking out over yet another tent city, this one in the Civic Center Park, directly below where he stood partially hidden behind the flags of the United States and of California on the ceremonial balcony area over the magnificently carved double-doorways of City Hall.

As I looked from the albergo I could see a gradation of colours, from the purple red to the deepest of sea blue, rising like an immense tent from the dark green of the trees and the fields, here and there dotted with little white houses, with their red roofs, while in front the Luzzara Tower rose majestically in the twilight.

Previously Jacqueline and Alienor had shared the third tent with their maids, but Jacqueline was more than happy to move into the newly empty tent.

Madame Alp and, so as not to be ogled for free by the gathered gawks, went to wait in the tent wagon, where she could be company for Magpie Maggie Hag, still enfeebled by her premonitions or whatever was ailing her.

He left the tent and, seeing Amine by the fire, asked her to bring in the morning meal.

In the late hours of the following morning, Christina was mending the hem on one of her skirts when Amine came into the tent very slowly.

Simone Amiot had not yet had a chance to speak to many of the German volunteers--the numbers of sick and dying exceeded a thousand now, and all her time was spent in the medical tent.