(n.) A kind of wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain; -- called also tent wine, and tinta.
(n.) Attention; regard, care.
(n.) Intention; design.
(v. t.) To attend to; to heed; hence, to guard; to hinder.
(v. t.) To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent; as, to tent a wound. Used also figuratively.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A probe for searching a wound.
(n.) A pavilion or portable lodge consisting of skins, canvas, or some strong cloth, stretched and sustained by poles, -- used for sheltering persons from the weather, especially soldiers in camp.
(n.) The representation of a tent used as a bearing.
(v. i.) To lodge as a tent; to tabernacle.
Example Sentences:
(1) Pharmaceutical services were provided from a large tent near the hospital, which consisted of an emergency treatment facility, two operating rooms, and a small medical-surgical ward.
(2) The dog was discovered in a tent during a clean-up after thousands of festival-goers left the site.
(3) In fact the aim for many of those braving increasingly chilly nights inside the tents is to be here until Christmas at least.
(4) Hugo de Armas, 37, from Tenerife, whose tent was one of the first to arrive outside St Paul's, said: "We have created a space for dialogue, I hope to stay here for Christmas, longer."
(5) They need tents very badly,” said Kempo Chimed Tsering.
(6) We chat to a lovely woman in the Samaritans tent, which is manned in shifts.
(7) Protesters crawl out from the tents they have pitched on the cobblestones and huddle in the cold around makeshift fires, as volunteers distribute hot tea and soup.
(8) Stuart Fraser, the corporation's policy chairman, said: "We took this action to clear the tents and equipment at St Paul's.
(9) Nico Stevens from Help Refugees said at least 150 people had so far lost their shelters, but many of those had remained in the camp, sleeping in tents or communal buildings.
(10) Thirty-day-old corn seedlings, grown in the greenhouse with different concentrations of supplemental nitrate nitrogen, were moved to a constant-temperature growth chamber and sealed in a 560-liter tent made of polyvinyl chloride.
(11) In a tent for those recovering, a talkative man wearing a heavy gold chain played up to amused doctors during the lunch break.
(12) Molly Prince, managing director of the company, refuted the Guardian story with some lustily expressed but random facts: "CPUK have not only purchased tents for everyone (some stewards wanted to use their own but it was too wet to put them up, they insisted in having a go!).
(13) "I am an old lady, and have many grandchildren," she says, pointing to the gaunt, grubby faces baking around her in the tent.
(14) Hastily packing his one-man tent, the youngster set off walking from Idomeni, alone.
(15) Nosheen Iqbal, writer Discovering the Acoustic Tent (and its real ale supplies) After nearly three decades of Glastonbury attendance, this year I finally made it up the hill to the Acoustic Tent.
(16) In 2013 , a 16-year-old boy was lounging outside his tent at a Minnesota campsite when a wolf clamped its jaws around his head.
(17) We need a different, big-tent approach – one in which no one is too rich or poor to be part of our party.
(18) Their red and black flag flies above several of the tents in Kiev's sprawling downtown protest city; young volunteers – unarmed but wearing khaki fatigues – have commandeered a boutique and a city council office.
(19) The tented village around St Paul's – 200 canvas homes and counting – has acquired an increasingly permanent feel, and now boasts a bookshop, information centre and a prayer room.
(20) The more the president rules by decree – and one faction in the Brotherhood argues that he should issue a constitutional decree of his own, annulling the content of the decree Scaf issued within hours of the closing of the presidential polls – the more he risks alienating his future political partners in the broad-tent political coalition he intends to set up both under him as president, and under the prime minister he intends to nominate.
Tentage
Definition:
(n.) A collection of tents; an encampment.
Example Sentences:
(1) Investigations on utilization of fats have been carried out at altitudes of 3,500, 3,800, and 4,700 m, respectively, on 27, 7, and 12 soldiers staying at these altitudes for over 4 months in tentage accommodation.