tent /ˈtɛnt/
 帳篷,天幕,住處,塞條,塞子(vi.)住帳蓬,宿營,暫時居住(vt.)用帳篷遮蓋


 tent /ˈtɛnt/ 名詞
 塞條,帷幕


 Tent n.  A kind of wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain; -- called also tent wine, and tinta.


 Tent, n.
 1. Attention; regard, care. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
 2. Intention; design. [Prov. Eng.]


 Tent, v. t. To attend to; to heed; hence, to guard; to hinder. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]


 Tent, v. t.  To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent; as, to tent a wound. Used also figuratively.
    I'll tent him to the quick.   --Shak.


 Tent, n.  Surg. (a) 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. (b) A probe for searching a wound.
 The tent that searches
 To the bottom of the worst.   --Shak.


 Tent n.
 1. 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, especially soldiers in camp.
    Within his tent, large as is a barn.   --Chaucer.
 2. Her. The representation of a tent used as a bearing.
 Tent bed, a high-post bedstead curtained with a tentlike canopy.
 Tent caterpillar Zool., any one of several species of gregarious caterpillars which construct on trees large silken webs into which they retreat when at rest. Some of the species are very destructive to fruit trees. The most common American species is the larva of a bombycid moth (Clisiocampa Americana). Called also lackery caterpillar, and webworm.


 Tent, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tented; p. pr. & vb. n. Tenting.] To lodge as a tent; to tabernacle.
    We 're tenting to-night on the old camp ground.   --W. Kittredge.

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 tent
      n : a portable shelter (usually of canvas stretched over
          supporting poles and fastened to the ground with ropes
          and pegs); "he pitched his tent near the creek" [syn: {collapsible
          shelter]
      v : live in or as if in a tent; "Can we go camping again this
          summer?"; "The circus tented near the town"; "The
          houseguests had to camp in the living room" [syn: camp,
           encamp, camp out, bivouac]


 Tent
    (1.) Heb. 'ohel (Gen. 9:21, 27). This word is used also of a
    dwelling or habitation (1 Kings 8:66; Isa. 16:5; Jer. 4:20), and
    of the temple (Ezek. 41:1). When used of the tabernacle, as in 1
    Kings 1:39, it denotes the covering of goat's hair which was
    placed over the mishcan.

      (2.) Heb. mishcan (Cant. 1:8), used also of a dwelling (Job
    18:21; Ps. 87:2), the grave (Isa. 22:16; comp. 14:18), the
    temple (Ps. 46:4; 84:2; 132:5), and of the tabernacle (Ex. 25:9;
    26:1; 40:9; Num. 1:50, 53; 10:11). When distinguished from
    'ohel, it denotes the twelve interior curtains which lay upon
    the framework of the tabernacle (q.v.).

      (3.) Heb. kubbah (Num. 25:8), a dome-like tent devoted to the
    impure worship of Baal-peor.

      (4.) Heb. succah (2 Sam. 11:11), a tent or booth made of green
    boughs or branches (see Gen. 33:17; Lev. 23:34, 42; Ps. 18:11;
    Jonah 4:5; Isa. 4:6; Neh. 8:15-17, where the word is variously
    rendered).

      Jubal was "the father of such as dwell in tents" (Gen. 4:20).
    The patriarchs were "dwellers in tents" (Gen. 9:21, 27; 12:8;
    13:12; 26:17); and during their wilderness wanderings all Israel
    dwelt in tents (Ex. 16:16; Deut. 33:18; Josh. 7:24). Tents have
    always occupied a prominent place in Eastern life (1 Sam. 17:54;
    2 Kings 7:7; Ps. 120:5; Cant. 1:5). Paul the apostle's
    occupation was that of a tent-maker (Acts 18:3); i.e., perhaps a
    maker of tent cloth.