Shelter vs. Tent — What's the Difference?

Something, especially a structure, that provides cover or protection, as from the weather

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.

An institution providing temporary housing and sometimes counseling, as for the homeless, runaways, or victims of domestic violence.

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.

An establishment that cares for unwanted or stray animals and tries to find owners for them.

Something resembling such a portable shelter in construction or outline

The state of being covered or protected

A small cylindrical plug of lint or gauze used to keep open or probe a wound or an orifice.

To provide cover or protection for

To camp in a tent.

To invest (income) to protect it from taxation.

To form a tent over.

To take cover; find refuge

To supply with or put up in tents.

A refuge, haven or other cover or protection from something.

To keep (a wound or orifice) open with such a plug.

An institution that provides temporary housing for homeless people, battered women, etc.

To pay heed to.

(transitive) To provide cover from damage or harassment; to shield; to protect.

To attend; wait on.

(intransitive) To take cover.

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.

That which covers or defends from injury or annoyance; a protection; a screen.

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

One who protects; a guardian; a defender.

(Scotland) A portable pulpit set up outside to accommodate worshippers who cannot fit into a church.

The state of being covered and protected; protection; security.

A trouser tent; a piece of fabric, etc. protruding outward like a tent.

To be a shelter for; to provide with a shelter; to cover from injury or annoyance; to shield; to protect.

Attention; regard, care.

To screen or cover from notice; to disguise.

(archaic) Intention; design.

To betake to cover, or to a safe place; - used reflexively.

(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.

To take shelter.

(medicine) A probe for searching a wound.

A structure that provides privacy and protection from danger

(archaic) A kind of red wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain.

Protective covering that provides protection from the weather

(intransitive) To go camping.

The condition of being protected;

(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.

A way of organizing business to reduce the taxes it must pay on current earnings

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

Temporary housing for homeless or displaced persons

Synonym of fumigate

Provide shelter for;

To attend to; to heed

Invest (money) so that it is not taxable

To guard; to hinder.

To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent.

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

Attention; regard, care.

Intention; design.

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.

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.

The representation of a tent used as a bearing.

To attend to; to heed; hence, to guard; to hinder.

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

To lodge as a tent; to tabernacle.

A portable shelter (usually of canvas stretched over supporting poles and fastened to the ground with ropes and pegs);

Live in or as if in a tent;