What is "tented"

Usage examples of "tented".

Also, figure 121 is a plain arch approximating a tented arch as the rising ridge cannot be considered an upthrust because it is a continuous, and not an ending, ridge.

These tented arches have two of the loop characteristics, recurve and delta, but lack the third, the ridge count.

The ridge count referred to as such in connection with the tented arches possessing ending ridges and no recurve is obtained by imagining that the ending ridges are joined by a recurve only for the purpose of locating the core and obtaining a ridge count.

These patterns are tented arches because they possess two of the characteristics of a loop, a delta and a recurve, but lack the third, a ridge count across a looping ridge.

He was reinspecting his trousers, spreading tented folds of material between his fingers, when he realized he was not alone in his attentions.

She had a sniping rifle on a tripod under their tented tarp, hidden in the shade of a stinkwood tree.

Long caravans of pack horses and mules and tented wagons came rumbling dust-covered across the fields, bells ajingle, driven by Cossacks all the way from St.

On the other hand, there are many patterns which at first sight resemble tented arches but which on close inspection are found to be loops, as where one looping ridge will be found in an almost vertical position within the pattern area, entirely free from and passing in front of the delta.

It looked like part of the parking lot, but tented with semiopaque plastic sheets.

Sir Kenneth, looking back on the moonlit camp, might now indeed seem banished, deprived at once of honour and of liberty, from the glimmering banners under which he had hoped to gain additional renown, and the tented dwellings of chivalry, of Christianity, and--of Edith Plantagenet.

The aquifers at the heads of these valleys had refilled over the eons since their outbreaks, and now big construction crews had tented Dao and were working on Harmakhis-Reull, and were letting the water from the aquifers run down the long enclosed canyons, to outlets on the basin floor.

One might have imagined he saw before him the tented camps of a beleaguering host of Brobdingnagians.

Fractal filth, bitrot, the corridor of their passage tented with crazy swoops of faintly flickering lines of some kind.

As he cudgelled his brain, he allowed the weapon to slide down the tented coverlet beyond his drawn-up toes.

Some of those caught on the bottom and being crushed to death ran barbed stingers out of their abdomens, driving them over and over into the substance of the bubble, which actually tented inward—giving, but not yet breaking.