Tent

Quick meaning: Tent is a noun meaning (Scotland) A portable pulpit set up outside to accommodate worshippers who cannot fit into a church.

Meaning

(Scotland) A portable pulpit set up outside to accommodate worshippers who cannot fit into a church.

More Meanings

1. A trouser tent; a piece of fabric, etc. protruding outward like a tent.
2. (intransitive) To go camping.
3. (intransitive) To form into a tent-like shape.
4. Synonym of fumigate.
5. A pavilion or portable lodge consisting of skins, canvas, or some strong cloth, stretched and sustained by poles, used for sheltering people from the weather.
6. (cooking) 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.
7. (archaic) The representation of a tent used as a bearing.

Example Sentences

We were camping in a three-man tent.

The sheet tented over his midsection.

Lo ! lo ! my frend , take tent to this womman

We’ll be tenting at the campground this weekend.

Word Forms

• tents
• tenting
• tented

Synonyms for tent

Depending on context, synonyms include fumigate, tinta.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pavilion, tentage, yurt, encamp, camping, canopy.

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