tent
noun
- temporary building which can be easily dismantled and which is portable
verb
- to live in a tent, camp
- to form into the shape of a tent (possibly over something)
- to insert a surgical tent into a wound or opening to keep it open (or more open)
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /tɛnt/ / /tɪnt/
noun
Etymology: From Spanish tinto (“deep-colored”), from Latin tīnctus, past participle of tingo (“to dye”). More at tinge. Doublet of tint and tinto. Compare claret (“French red wine”), also from color.
- A kind of red wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain.
verb
Etymology: From Middle English tente (“a probe”), from Middle French tente, deverbal of tenter, from Latin tentāre (“to probe, test”), alteration of temptāre (“to test, probe, tempt”).
- To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent.
“to tent a wound”
“I'll tent him to the quick.”