tent

1. (intransitive) To go camping.Examples: "We’ll be tenting at the campground this weekend."intransitive

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.Examples: "The sheet tented over his midsection."intransitive

1. (archaic, UK, Scotland, dialect) To attend to; to heedExamples: "14th century, anonymous, The Romance of Syr Tryamoure He let hur have wemen at wylle, To tent hur, and that was skylle, And brought hur to bede"ScotlandUKarchaicdialectal

2. (archaic, UK, Scotland, dialect) to guard; to hinder.ScotlandUKarchaicdialectal

1. (archaic, UK, Scotland, dialect) Attention; regard, care.Examples: "Lo ! lo ! my frend , take tent to this womman"ScotlandUKarchaicdialectal

2. (archaic) Intention; design.Examples: "A-pon þe feild his fader went And soght abel wit al his tent"archaic

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.

1. (medicine, sometimes figurative) To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent.Examples: "to tent a wound"; "I'll tent him to the quick."figurativelysometimes