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tenting

/tent/US // tɛnt //UK // (tɛnt) //

帐篷,帐蓬,扎帐篷,搭帐篷

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a portable shelter of skins, canvas, plastic, or the like, supported by one or more poles or a frame and often secured by ropes fastened to pegs in the ground.
    • : something that resembles a tent.
    • : tent dress.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to lodge in tents.
    • : to cover with or as if with a tent: In winter the tennis courts are tented in plastic.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to live in a tent; encamp.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as indwell

Examples

  • That has made the Democratic Party a big-tent, center-left coalition that puts an emphasis on pluralistic outreach.

  • Place the potatoes on one end of the sheet pan, fitting them snugly together, and loosely tent with aluminum foil, tucking it under the potatoes.

  • Your own discipline is the tent-pole architecture of your organization, and without it the structure will collapse, for lack of credibility.

  • The tent will look like a military barrack, but I could always dress it up by adding some faux-fur throws to the foot of the cots, retro lanterns, and Instagram-friendly wide-brim hats for the ladies.

  • A month ago, a site like this — a few pop-up tents and a van — would have tested 150 people a day, said Luis Mendoza, a city worker who registers people before testing them for the virus.

  • It jutted forth, white and mysterious—a monstrous tenting-ground left over from the Stone Age.

  • Its tenting once more on the old campground for us, fellows.

  • It is no marvel, if thy fingers foil'd Do leave the knot untied: so hard 't is grown For want of tenting.

  • Again the wand was drawn round the tenting place; but the white men had taught the savages that the taboo was no longer sacred.

  • Delightful as the auto camping grounds are, tenting is hardly to be recommended on account of the mosquitoes.