Tent vs. Yurt — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Tent and Yurt
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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.
Yurt
A traditional yurt (from the Turkic languages) or ger (Mongolian) is a portable, round tent covered with skins or felt and used as a dwelling by several distinct nomadic groups in the steppes of Central Asia. The structure consists of an angled assembly or latticework of wood or bamboo for walls, a door frame, ribs (poles, rafters), and a wheel (crown, compression ring) possibly steam-bent.
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.
Yurt
A circular, domed, portable tent used by nomadic peoples of central Asia.
Tent
Something resembling such a portable shelter in construction or outline
"her hair a dark tent, her face a thin triangle" (Anne Tyler).
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Yurt
A large, round, semi-permanent tent with vertical walls and a conical roof, usually associated with Central Asia and Mongolia (where it is known as a ger).
Tent
A small cylindrical plug of lint or gauze used to keep open or probe a wound or an orifice.
Yurt
A circular domed dwelling that is portable and self-supporting; originally used by nomadic Mongol and Turkic people of central Asia but now used as inexpensive alternative or temporary housing
Tent
To camp in a tent.
Tent
To form a tent over.
Tent
To supply with or put up in tents.
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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