tenting
tenting Lexical Profile
tenting Game Scores & Validity
• noun
The activity or practice of camping outdoors in a tent.
"The national park offers designated areas for both RV parking and primitive tenting."
Canvas or other heavy fabric used to make tents, or a group of tents collectively.
"The festival organizers rented thousands of square feet of white tenting to shelter the outdoor exhibits."
A pest control method in which an entire building is covered in sealed tarpaulins and fumigated to eradicate termites or other pests.
"The homeowners had to vacate the property for three days during the termite tenting."
A clinical sign of dehydration in which pinched skin remains elevated in a tent-like ridge rather than immediately returning to its normal flat position.
"The nurse checked the elderly patient's forearm for skin tenting to assess the severity of his dehydration."