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Tentered vs Centered - What's the difference?

tentered | centered |

As verbs the difference between tentered and centered

is that tentered is past tense of tenter while centered is past tense of center.

As an adjective centered is

pertaining to the location that is middlemost to; located at the center.

tentered

English

Verb

(head)
  • (tenter)

  • tenter

    English

    (wikipedia tenter)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A framework upon which cloth is stretched and dried.
  • One who takes care of, or tends, machines in a factory; a kind of assistant foreman.
  • (engineering) A kind of governor, or regulating device.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To stretch cloth on such a framework.
  • To admit extension; to be stretchable.
  • * Francis Bacon
  • Woollen cloth will tenter , linen scarcely.

    Derived terms

    * tenterhook

    Anagrams

    * ----

    centered

    English

    Alternative forms

    * centred

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • pertaining to the location that is middlemost to; located at the center
  • (especially, North American) emotionally stable, calm, serene; having a balanced mind
  • Verb

    (head)
  • (center)
  • Anagrams

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