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tenting

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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.

[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.]

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.

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

tent 3  (tnt)
tr.v. tent·ed, tent·ing, tents Scots
1. To pay heed to.
2. To attend; wait on.

[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.]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.tentingtenting - the act of encamping and living in tents in a camp
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"


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