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Kent vs Tent - What's the difference?

kent | tent |

As verbs the difference between kent and tent

is that kent is past tense of ken while tent is to go camping.

As a proper noun Kent

is a maritime county in the southeast of England bordered by East Sussex, Surrey, Greater London, the North Sea and the English Channel.

As a noun tent is

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.

kent

English

(wikipedia Kent)

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • A maritime county in the southeast of England bordered by East Sussex, Surrey, Greater London, the North Sea and the English Channel.
  • A town in Connecticut
  • A CDP in Iowa
  • A city in Minnesota
  • A town in New York
  • A city in Ohio
  • A city in Washington, USA
  • derived from the place name.
  • transferred from the surname; of mostly American usage, but never popular.

    • Derived terms

    * Fort Kent * Kent Acres * Kent City * Kent Island * Kentland * Kent Narrows * Kent Peninsula * Kentville * South Kent

    tent

    English

    (wikipedia tent)

    Etymology 1

    (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.
  • (archaic) The representation of a tent used as a bearing.
    • Derived terms
    * bender tent * fold one's tent * tent bed * tent caterpillar

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To go camping.
    • We’ll be tented at the campground this weekend.
  • (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.
  • To form into a tent-like shape.
    • The sheet tented over his midsection.

    See also

    * camp * lean-to * tarp

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (archaic, UK, Scotland, dialect) To attend to; to heed; hence, to guard; to hinder.
    • (Halliwell)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic, UK, Scotland, dialect) Attention; regard, care.
    • (Lydgate)
  • (archaic) Intention; design.
    • (Halliwell)

    Etymology 3

    (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (medicine, sometimes, figurative) To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent.
    • to tent a wound
  • * Shakespeare
    • I'll tent him to the quick.

    Etymology 4

    (etyl) . More at tinge, tint, tinto.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) A kind of wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain; called also tent wine, and tinta.
    • (Webster 1913)

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