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Sent vs. Tent — What's the Difference?

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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