A Quick and Simple Dictionary

tent

1. Noun.  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.
2. Noun.  (archaic) The representation of a tent used as a bearing.
3. Verb.  (intransitive) To go camping.
4. Verb.  (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.
5. Verb.  (intransitive) To form into a tent-like shape.
6. Verb.  (archaic) To attend to; to heed; hence, to guard; to hinder.
7. Noun.  (archaic) Attention; regard, care.
8. Noun.  (archaic) Intention; design.
9. Noun.  (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. .
10. Noun.  (medicine) A probe for searching a wound.
11. Verb.  (medicine) To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent; as, to tent a wound. Used also figuratively.
12. Noun.  (archaic) A kind of wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain; called also tent wine, and tinta.