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tent

Pronunciation: (tent), [key]
—n.
1. a portable shelter of skins, canvas, plastic, or the like, supported by one or more poles or a frame and often secured by ropes fastened to pegs in the ground.
2. something that resembles a tent.
3. tent dress.

—v.t.
1. to lodge in tents.
2. to cover with or as if with a tent: In winter the tennis courts are tented inplastic.

—v.i.
to live in a tent; encamp.

tent

Pronunciation: (tent), [key]
—v.t. Chiefly Scot.
to give or pay attention to; heed.

tent

Pronunciation: (tent), [key] Surg.

—n.
1. a probe.
2. a roll or pledget, usually of soft absorbent material, as lint or gauze, for dilating an orifice, keeping a wound open, etc.

—v.t.
to keep (a wound) open with a tent.

ten-strike

tentacle

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