Tents meaning : A pavilion or portable lodge consisting of skins, canvas, or some strong cloth, stretched and sustained by poles, used for sheltering people from the weather. The representation of a tent used as a bearing. A portable pulpit set up outside to accommodate worshippers who cannot fit into a church. A trouser tent; a piece of fabric, etc. protruding outward like a tent. To go camping. 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. Attention; regard, care. Intention; design. To attend to; to heed To guard; to hinder. 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. A probe for searching a wound. (sometimes figurative) To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent. A kind of wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain; called also tent wine, and tinta.