FinnHun Finnish-Hungarian-English on-line dictionary and thesaurus

n 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.

n (archaic) The representation of a tent used as a bearing.

v (intransitive) To go camping.

v (cooking) 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.

v (intransitive) To form into a tent-like shape.

v (archaic) To attend to; to heed; hence, to guard; to hinder.

n (archaic) Attention; regard, care.

n (archaic) Intention; design.

n (medicine) 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.

n (medicine) A probe for searching a wound.

v (medicine) To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent; as, to tent a wound. Used also figuratively.

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