Tent can be categorized as a noun and a verb.
Verb |
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| tent - To go camping. | ||
| tent - 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. | ||
| tent - To form into a tent-like shape. | ||
| tent - To attend to; to heed; hence, to guard; to hinder. | ||
| tent - To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent; as, to tent a wound. Used also figuratively. | ||
Noun |
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| tent - 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" | ||
| tent - a web that resembles a tent or carpet |
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| 1. | noun | He pitched his tent near the creek. | |
| 2. | noun | Dr. Fortier, an orthodontist, learned there was at least one polar bear in the central region of Baffin Island in July 2001 when he felt what he thought was a dog leaning on his tent wall. | |
| 3. | noun | "A few seconds later my girlfriend saw the shadow of a bear's paw through the tent fly and then it started ripping through the ceiling." | |
| 4. | noun | The two screamed to frighten the bear and warn their friends in a tent several metres away but the bear ripped into that tent and began mauling 31-year-old Alain Parenteau. | |
| 5. | noun | "I grabbed my glasses and my knife and unzipped my tent and headed out." | |
| 6. | noun | Dr. Fortier threw a large rock at the bear, distracting it and allowing Parenteau to escape but it then turned on 25-year-old Patricia Doyon, who was in the same tent. | |
| 7. | noun | The bear began tearing at the tent. | |
| 8. | noun | Dark as it was, we managed to find our way back to our tent. | |
| 9. | noun | The leader should know where to set up the tent. | |
| 10. | noun | How will they get through the cold winter in that tent? | |
| 11. | noun | It took us half an hour to set up the tent. | |
| 12. | noun | In the tent we talked and talked. | |
| 13. | noun | Inside the tent that night she shivered with cold. | |
| 14. | noun | Let's put up our tent here. | |
| 15. | noun | We slept in a tent. |
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| noun | |
| He pitched his tent near the creek. |
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| Dr. Fortier, an orthodontist, learned there was at least one polar bear in the central region of Baffin Island in July 2001 when he felt what he thought was a dog leaning on his tent wall. |
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| "A few seconds later my girlfriend saw the shadow of a bear's paw through the tent fly and then it started ripping through the ceiling." |
|
| The two screamed to frighten the bear and warn their friends in a tent several metres away but the bear ripped into that tent and began mauling 31-year-old Alain Parenteau. |
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| "I grabbed my glasses and my knife and unzipped my tent and headed out." |
|
| Dr. Fortier threw a large rock at the bear, distracting it and allowing Parenteau to escape but it then turned on 25-year-old Patricia Doyon, who was in the same tent. |
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| The bear began tearing at the tent. | |
| Dark as it was, we managed to find our way back to our tent. | |
| The leader should know where to set up the tent. | |
| How will they get through the cold winter in that tent? | |
| It took us half an hour to set up the tent. | |
| In the tent we talked and talked. | |
| Inside the tent that night she shivered with cold. | |
| Let's put up our tent here. | |
| We slept in a tent. | |