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Tenth vs Tent - What's the difference?

tenth | tent |

As nouns the difference between tenth and tent

is that tenth is the person or thing in the tenth position while 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.

As an adjective tenth

is the ordinal form of the number ten.

As a verb tent is

to go camping.

tenth

English

(wikipedia tenth)

Adjective

(-)
  • The ordinal form of the number ten.

    • Synonyms

    10th, 10th; (in names of monarchs and popes ) X

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The person or thing in the tenth position.
  • One of ten equal parts of a whole.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Boundary problems , passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.}}
  • (music) The interval between any tone and the tone represented on the tenth degree of the staff above it, as between one of the scale and three of the octave above; the octave of the third.
  • (UK, legal, historical, in the plural) A temporary aid issuing out of personal property, and granted to the king by Parliament; formerly, the real tenth part of all the movables belonging to the subject.
    • (Webster 1913)

    See also

    tithe English ordinal numbers

    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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