Tent vs Shelter - What's the difference?
tent | shelter |
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.
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.
To form into a tent-like shape.
(archaic, UK, Scotland, dialect) To attend to; to heed; hence, to guard; to hinder.
(archaic, UK, Scotland, dialect) 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.
(medicine, sometimes, figurative) To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent.
* Shakespeare
(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)
A refuge, haven or other cover or protection from something.
* {{quote-book, year=1928, author=Lawrence R. Bourne
, title=Well Tackled!
, chapter=7 An institution that provides temporary housing for homeless people, battered women etc.
To provide cover from damage or harassment; to shield; to protect.
* Dryden
* Southey
To take cover.
In intransitive terms the difference between tent and shelter
is that tent is to form into a tent-like shape while shelter is to take cover.tent
English
(wikipedia tent)Etymology 1
(etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* bender tent * fold one's tent * tent bed * tent caterpillarVerb
(en verb)- We’ll be tented at the campground this weekend.
- The sheet tented over his midsection.
See also
* camp * lean-to * tarpEtymology 2
(etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- (Halliwell)
Noun
(en noun)- (Lydgate)
- (Halliwell)
Etymology 3
(etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- to tent a wound
- I'll tent him to the quick.
Etymology 4
(etyl) . More at tinge, tint, tinto.Noun
(en noun)Anagrams
* ----shelter
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=The detective kept them in view. He made his way casually along the inside of the shelter until he reached an open scuttle close to where the two men were standing talking. Eavesdropping was not a thing Larard would have practised from choice, but there were times when, in the public interest, he had to do it, and this was one of them.}}
Derived terms
* bus shelterVerb
(en verb)- Those ruins sheltered once his sacred head.
- You have no convents in which such persons may be received and sheltered .
- During the rainstorm, we sheltered under a tree.