tenting

tent ¹  (tnt)

n.

1. A portable shelter, as of canvas, stretched over a supporting framework of poles with ropes and pegs.

2. Something resembling such a portable shelter in construction or outline: "her hair a dark tent, her face a thin triangle" (Anne Tyler).

v. tent·ed, tent·ing, tents

v.intr.

To camp in a tent.

v.tr.

1. To form a tent over.

2. To supply with or put up in tents.

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[Middle English, from Old French tente, from Vulgar Latin *tendita, from feminine past participle of Latin tendere, to stretch out; see ten- in Indo-European roots.]

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tent ²  (tnt)

n.

A small cylindrical plug of lint or gauze used to keep open or probe a wound or an orifice.

tr.v. tent·ed, tent·ing, tents

To keep (a wound or orifice) open with such a plug.

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[Middle English tente, from Old French, from tenter, to probe, from Latin tentre, to feel, try; see tentative.]

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tent ³  (tnt)

tr.v. tent·ed, tent·ing, tents Scots

1. To pay heed to.

2. To attend; wait on.

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[Middle English tenten, from tent, attention, short for attent, from Old French attente, from Vulgar Latin *attendita, from feminine past participle of Latin attendere, to wait on; see attend.]

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

tenting - the act of encamping and living in tents in a camp bivouacking, camping, encampment inhabitancy, inhabitation, habitation - the act of dwelling in or living permanently in a place (said of both animals and men); "he studied the creation and inhabitation and demise of the colony"