Tent vs. Teepee — What's the Difference?

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.

Variant of tepee.

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.

A cone-shaped tent traditionally used by many native peoples of the Great Plains of North America.

Something resembling such a portable shelter in construction or outline

A conical formation of small flammable sticks leaning on each other, in roughly the shape of an Indian teepee, built over smaller tinder such as cotton or leaves.

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

Alternative form of TP

To camp in a tent.

A native American tent; usually of conical shape

To form a tent over.

To supply with or put up in tents.

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

To pay heed to.

To attend; wait on.

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.

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

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

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

Attention; regard, care.

(archaic) Intention; design.

(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.

(medicine) A probe for searching a wound.

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

(intransitive) To go camping.

(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.

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

Synonym of fumigate

To attend to; to heed

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;