Tensioned
(Ten"sioned) a. Extended or drawn out; subjected to tension. "A highly tensioned string."
Tyndall.
Tensity
(Ten"si*ty) n. The quality or state of being tense, or strained to stiffness; tension; tenseness.
Tensive
(Ten"sive) a. [Cf. F. tensif. See Tense, a.] Giving the sensation of tension, stiffness, or
contraction.
A tensive pain from distension of the parts.
Floyer. Tensor
(Ten"sor) n. [NL. See Tension.]
1. (Anat.) A muscle that stretches a part, or renders it tense.
2. (Geom.) The ratio of one vector to another in length, no regard being had to the direction of the
two vectors; — so called because considered as a stretching factor in changing one vector into another.
See Versor.
Ten-strike
(Ten"-strike`) n.
1. (Tenpins) A knocking down of all ten pins at one delivery of the ball. [U. S.]
2. Any quick, decisive stroke or act. [Colloq. U. S.]
Tensure
(Ten"sure) n. [L. tensura. See Tension.] Tension. [Obs.] Bacon.
Tent
(Tent) n. [Sp. tinto, properly, deep-colored, fr. L. tinctus, p. p. of tingere to dye. See Tinge,
and cf. Tint, Tinto.] A kind of wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain; —
called also tent wine, and tinta.
Tent
(Tent), n. [Cf. Attent, n.]
1. Attention; regard, care. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Lydgate.
2. Intention; design. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
Tent
(Tent), v. t. To attend to; to heed; hence, to guard; to hinder. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Halliwell.
Tent
(Tent), v. t. [OF. tenter. See Tempt.] To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a
tent; as, to tent a wound. Used also figuratively.
I'll tent him to the quick.
Shak. Tent
(Tent), n. [F. tente. See Tent to probe.] (Surg.) (a) 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. (b) A probe for searching a wound.
The tent that searches
To the bottom of the worst.
Shak.
Tent
(Tent) n. [OE. tente, F. tente, LL. tenta, fr. L. tendere, tentum, to stretch. See Tend to move,
and cf. Tent a roll of lint.]
1. 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, especially soldiers in camp.
Within his tent, large as is a barn.
Chaucer.
