Phonetic Breakdown of "tents"
Learn how to break down "tents" into its phonetic components. Understanding syllables and phonetics helps with pronunciation, spelling, and language learning.
Standard Phonetic Pronunciation:
/tɛnts/
Phonetic representation based on standard dictionaries
IPA Phonetic Pronunciation:
T EH1 N T S
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Definition of "tents"
Pronunciation: /tɛnts/
Noun
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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.Example: "We were camping in a three-man tent."
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The representation of a tent used as a bearing.
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A portable pulpit set up outside to accommodate worshippers who cannot fit into a church.
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A trouser tent; a piece of fabric, etc. protruding outward like a tent.
Verb
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To go camping.Example: "We’ll be tented at the campground this weekend."
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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.
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To form into a tent-like shape.Example: "The sheet tented over his midsection."
Noun
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Attention; regard, care.
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Intention; design.
Verb
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To attend to; to heed
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To guard; to hinder.
Noun
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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.
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A probe for searching a wound.
Verb
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(sometimes figurative) To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent.Example: "to tent a wound"
Noun
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A kind of wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain; called also tent wine, and tinta.