Tend vs. Tent — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Tend and Tent
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Tend
To have a tendency
Paint that tends toward bubbling and peeling over time.
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.
Tend
To be disposed or inclined
Tends toward exaggeration.
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.
Tend
To move or extend in a certain direction
Our ship tended northward.
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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).
Tend
To have the care of; watch over; look after
Tend a child.
Tent
A small cylindrical plug of lint or gauze used to keep open or probe a wound or an orifice.
Tend
To manage the activities and transactions of; run
Tend bar.
Tend a store in the owner's absence.
Tent
To camp in a tent.
Tend
To be an attendant or servant.
Tent
To form a tent over.
Tend
To apply one's attention; attend
No time to tend to my diary.
Tent
To supply with or put up in tents.
Tend
To make a tender of; to offer or tender.
Tent
To keep (a wound or orifice) open with such a plug.
Tend
(followed by a to-infinitive) To be likely, or probable to do something, or to have a certain habit or leaning.
They tend to go out on Saturdays.
It tends to snow here in winter.
Tent
To pay heed to.
Tend
(intransitive) To contribute to or toward some outcome.
Tent
To attend; wait on.
Tend
(with to) To look after (e.g. an ill person.)
We need to tend to the garden, which has become a mess.
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.
Tend
To accompany as an assistant or protector; to care for the wants of; to look after; to watch; to guard.
Shepherds tend their flocks.
Tent
(archaic) The representation of a tent used as a bearing.
Tend
To wait (upon), as attendants or servants; to serve; to attend.
Tent
(Scotland) A portable pulpit set up outside to accommodate worshippers who cannot fit into a church.
Tend
(obsolete) To await; to expect.
Tent
A trouser tent; a piece of fabric, etc. protruding outward like a tent.
Tend
(obsolete) To be attentive to; to note carefully; to attend to.
Tent
Attention; regard, care.
Tend
To manage (an anchored vessel) when the tide turns, to prevent it from entangling the cable when swinging.
Tent
(archaic) Intention; design.
Tend
To kindle; ignite; set on fire; light; inflame; burn.
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.
Tend
To make a tender of; to offer or tender.
Tent
(medicine) A probe for searching a wound.
Tend
To accompany as an assistant or protector; to care for the wants of; to look after; to watch; to guard; as, shepherds tend their flocks.
And flaming ministers to watch and tendTheir earthly charge.
There 's not a sparrow or a wren,There 's not a blade of autumn grain,Which the four seasons do not tendAnd tides of life and increase lend.
Tent
(archaic) A kind of red wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain.
Tend
To be attentive to; to note carefully; to attend to.
Being to descendA ladder much in height, I did not tendMy way well down.
Tent
(intransitive) To go camping.
We’ll be tenting at the campground this weekend.
Tend
To wait, as attendants or servants; to serve; to attend; - with on or upon.
Was he not companion with the riotous knightsThat tend upon my father?
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.
Tend
To await; to expect.
Tent
(intransitive) To form into a tent-like shape.
The sheet tented over his midsection.
Tend
To move in a certain direction; - usually with to or towards.
Two gentlemen tending towards that sight.
Thus will this latter, as the former world,Still tend from bad to worse.
The clouds above me to the white Alps tend.
Tent
Synonym of fumigate
Tend
To be directed, as to any end, object, or purpose; to aim; to have or give a leaning; to exert activity or influence; to serve as a means; to contribute; as, our petitions, if granted, might tend to our destruction.
The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but of every one that is hasty only to want.
The laws of our religion tend to the universal happiness of mankind.
Tent
To attend to; to heed
Tend
Have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined;
She tends to be nervous before her lectures
These dresses run small
He inclined to corpulence
Tent
To guard; to hinder.
Tend
Have care of or look after;
She tends to the children
Tent
To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent.
To tent a wound
Tend
Manage or run;
Tend a store
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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