tented
[ten-tid]
Origin of tented
tent1
[tent]
- 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.
- something that resembles a tent.
- tent dress.
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- to lodge in tents.
- to cover with or as if with a tent: In winter the tennis courts are tented inplastic.
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- to live in a tent; encamp.
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Origin of tent1
1250–1300; Middle English tente < Old French < Latin tenta, feminine of tentus past participle of tendere to extend, stretch; compare tentōrium tent
tent2
[tent]
- to give or pay attention to; heed.
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Origin of tent2
1250–1300; Middle English, derivative of tent (noun) attention, aphetic variant of attent < Old French atente attention, intention < Latin attenta, feminine of attentus, past participle of attendere to attend
tent3
[tent]Surgery
- a probe.
- a roll or pledget, usually of soft absorbent material, as lint or gauze, for dilating an orifice, keeping a wound open, etc.
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- to keep (a wound) open with a tent.
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Origin of tent3
1325–75; Middle English tente a probe < Middle French, noun derivative of tenter < Latin tentāre, variant of temptāre to probe, test. See tempt
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Examples from the Web for tented
Contemporary Examples
By 6:15, the tented concession stands have run out of sandwiches and chips and are only selling granola bars and soda.
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September 28, 2014
It was a precarious life, tented on the fairgrounds with all earnings in cash.
Historical Examples
They have won many a battle for us already upon the tented field.
Preventable DiseasesWoods Hutchinson
As to Erick, you will readily guess how carefully he has tented me.
The Manchester Rebels of the Fatal '45William Harrison Ainsworth
He has had experience of the arts of war and the tented field.
The WouldbegoodsE. Nesbit
And lot in the cytes of the playne/ & tented tyll he came to Sodome.
The First Boke of Moses called GenesisWilliam Tyndale
Tented Gipsies have been seen about Baltimore for the last seventy years.
A History of the GipsiesWalter Simson
tent1
- a portable shelter of canvas, plastic, or other waterproof material supported on poles and fastened to the ground by pegs and ropes
- (as modifier)tent peg
- something resembling this in function or shape
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- (intr) to camp in a tent
- (tr) to cover with or as if with a tent or tents
- (tr) to provide with a tent as shelter
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Word Origin
C13: from Old French tente, from Latin tentōrium something stretched out, from tendere to stretch
tent2
- a plug of soft material for insertion into a bodily canal, etc, to dilate it or maintain its patency
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- (tr) to insert such a plug into (a bodily canal, etc)
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Word Origin
C14 (in the sense: a probe): from Old French tente (noun), ultimately from Latin temptāre to try; see tempt
tent3
- obsolete a red table wine from Alicante, Spain
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Word Origin
C16: from Spanish tinto dark-coloured; see tint
tent4
- heed; attention
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- to pay attention to; take notice of
- to attend to
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Word Origin
C14: from attent attend and intent
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Word Origin and History for tented
tent
v.
"to camp in a tent," 1856, from tent (n.). Related: Tented; tenting.
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tent
n.
c.1300, "portable shelter of skins or cloths stretched over poles," from Old French tente (12c.), from Medieval Latin tenta "a tent," noun use of fem. singular of Latin tentus "stretched," variant past participle of tendere "to stretch" (see tenet). The notion is of "stretching" hides over a framework. Tent caterpillar first recorded 1854.
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