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What does tent mean?

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Noun
  1. 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.
  2. (archaic) The representation of a tent used as a bearing.
  3. (Scotland) A portable pulpit set up outside to accommodate worshippers who cannot fit into a church.
  4. A trouser tent; a piece of fabric, etc. protruding outward like a tent.
Verb
  1. (intransitive) To go camping.
  2. (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.
  3. (intransitive) To form into a tent-like shape.
Verb
  1. (archaic, Britain, Scotland, dialect) To attend to; to heed
  2. (archaic, Britain, Scotland, dialect) to guard; to hinder.
Noun
  1. (archaic, Britain, Scotland, dialect) Attention; regard, care.
  2. (archaic) Intention; design.
Noun
  1. (medicine) 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. (medicine) A probe for searching a wound.
Verb
  1. (medicine) To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent.
Noun
  1. (archaic) 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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