tent

Significado (inglés)

Noun

1. A pavilion or portable lodge consisting of skins, canvas, or some strong cloth, stretched and sustained by poles, used for sheltering people from the weather.
2. The representation of a tent used as a bearing.
3. A portable pulpit set up outside to accommodate worshippers who cannot fit into a church.
4. A trouser tent; a piece of fabric, etc. protruding outward like a tent.

Verb

1. To go camping.
2. 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. To form into a tent-like shape.
4. Synonym of fumigate

Verb

1. To attend to; to heed
2. to guard; to hinder.

Verb

To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent.

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/tɛnt/

Etimoloxía (inglés)

From Middle English tente, borrowed from Old French tente, from Vulgar Latin *tenta (“tent”), from the feminine of Latin tentus, ptp. of tendere (“to stretch, extend”), or contracted from *tendita as an alternate past participle. Displaced native Middle English tild, tilt (“tent, tilt”), from Old English teld (“tent”). Compare Spanish tienda (“store, shop; tent”).

Oracións

It was a tent like many at the oasis .

The following night , the boy appeared at the alchemist's tent with a horse .