tent
91tent-fly — noun flap consisting of a piece of canvas that can be drawn back to provide entrance to a tent • Syn: ↑rainfly, ↑fly sheet, ↑fly, ↑tent flap • Hypernyms: ↑flap • Part Holonyms: ↑fly tent …
92tent dress — a loose fitting dress that gradually flares outward or grows fuller from the shoulder to the hem and has no waistline. Also called tent. * * * tent coat, tent dress, etc noun A coat, dress, etc shaped like a circular tent, narrow at the shoulders …
93tent caterpillar — 1. any of the larvae of several moths of the genus Malacosoma, which feed on the leaves of orchard and shade trees and live colonially in a tentlike silken web. 2. the North American larva of M. disstria (forest tent caterpillar), which spins a… …
94Tent shows — A popular entertainment tradition in the Midwest in the 1850s, tent shows featured plays and variety amusements staged inside tents of brown canvas (to distinguish them from the white of circus tents) illuminated by naphtha lamps. Tent shows,… …
95Tent map — In mathematics, the tent map is an iterated function, in the shape of a tent, forming a discrete time dynamical system. It takes a point x n on the real line and maps it to another point:: x {n+1}=left{ egin{matrix} mu x n mathrm{for} x n <… …
96tent´like´ — tent1 «tehnt», noun, verb. –n. 1. a movable shelter made of canvas or skins supported by a pole or poles. Modern tents often have fiberglass screen windows, sewed in floors, and zippered openings. 2. a tentlike device to regulate the temperature… …
97Tent pole programming — In the world of motion pictures and television programming, a tent pole is a production which, with heavy promotion, and probably carrying a large investment, is expected to hold up (as is the function of a tent pole) and balance out the… …
98tent caterpillar moth — any of a group of moths in the family Lasiocampidae (order Lepidoptera) in which the larvae (caterpillars) spin huge, tent shaped communal webs in trees, are often brightly coloured, and can defoliate forest, fruit, and ornamental trees. The… …
99tent stitch — noun a small diagonal needlepoint stitch • Syn: ↑petit point • Hypernyms: ↑sewing stitch, ↑embroidery stitch * * * noun : a short stitch slanting to the right that is used in embroidery and canvas work to form even lines of solid background… …
100tent bed — noun Etymology: tent (I) : field bed * * * a field bed having a canopy in the form of a tent. [1745 55] * * * tent bed noun A camp bed, a bed with a canopy hanging from a central point • • • Main Entry: ↑tent …
