Sent vs. Tent — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Sent and Tent
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Sent
Sent is a former municipality in the district of Inn in the Swiss Canton of Graubünden. On 1 January 2015 the former municipalities of Ardez, Guarda, Tarasp, Ftan and Sent merged into the municipality of Scuol.
Tent
A tent ( (listen)) is a shelter consisting of sheets of fabric or other material draped over, attached to a frame of poles or attached to a supporting rope. While smaller tents may be free-standing or attached to the ground, large tents are usually anchored using guy ropes tied to stakes or tent pegs.
Sent
(until the introduction of the euro in 2011) a monetary unit of Estonia, equal to one hundredth of a kroon.
Tent
A portable shelter made of fabric or other material stretched over a supporting framework of poles and usually stabilized or secured to the ground with cords and stakes.
Sent
Past tense and past participle of send1.
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Tent
Something resembling such a portable shelter in construction or outline
"her hair a dark tent, her face a thin triangle" (Anne Tyler).
Sent
Simple past tense and past participle of send
Tent
A small cylindrical plug of lint or gauze used to keep open or probe a wound or an orifice.
Sent
A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of an Estonian kroon.
Tent
To camp in a tent.
Sent
Obsolete form of scent
Tent
To form a tent over.
Sent
100 senti equal 1 kroon
Tent
To supply with or put up in tents.
Sent
Caused or enabled to go or be conveyed or transmitted
Tent
To keep (a wound or orifice) open with such a plug.
Tent
To pay heed to.
Tent
To attend; wait on.
Tent
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.
We were camping in a three-man tent.
We bought a new tent that can be put up in five seconds, but it took about twenty minutes to take it down and pack it away.
Tent
(archaic) The representation of a tent used as a bearing.
Tent
(Scotland) A portable pulpit set up outside to accommodate worshippers who cannot fit into a church.
Tent
A trouser tent; a piece of fabric, etc. protruding outward like a tent.
Tent
Attention; regard, care.
Tent
(archaic) Intention; design.
Tent
(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.
Tent
(medicine) A probe for searching a wound.
Tent
(archaic) A kind of red wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain.
Tent
(intransitive) To go camping.
We’ll be tenting at the campground this weekend.
Tent
(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.
Tent
(intransitive) To form into a tent-like shape.
The sheet tented over his midsection.
Tent
Synonym of fumigate
Tent
To attend to; to heed
Tent
To guard; to hinder.
Tent
To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent.
To tent a wound
Tent
A kind of wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain; - called also tent wine, and tinta.
Tent
Attention; regard, care.
Tent
Intention; design.
Tent
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.
The tent that searchesTo the bottom of the worst.
Tent
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.
Tent
The representation of a tent used as a bearing.
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.
I'll tent him to the quick.
Tent
To lodge as a tent; to tabernacle.
We 're tenting to-night on the old camp ground.
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
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
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