Imp vs Tent - What's the difference?
imp | tent |
(obsolete) A young shoot of a plant, tree etc.
* Sir Orfeo , 69:
(obsolete) A scion, offspring; a child.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene I.3:
* Fairfax
A young or inferior devil; a malevolent supernatural creature, similar to a demon but smaller and less powerful.
* Beattie
A mischievous child.
* 1908 ,
(UK, dialect, obsolete) Something added to, or united with, another, to lengthen it out or repair it, such as an addition to a beehive; a feather inserted in a broken wing of a bird; or a length of twisted hair in a fishing line.
(obsolete) To plant or engraft.
(archaic) To graft, implant; to set or fix.
*1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.9:
*:That headlesse tyrants tronke he reard from ground, / And, having ympt the head to it agayne, / Upon his usuall beast it firmely bound, / And made it so to ride as it alive was found.
(falconry) To engraft feathers into a bird's wing.
To eke out, strengthen, enlarge.
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.
To go camping.
(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.
(archaic, UK, Scotland, dialect) To attend to; to heed; hence, to guard; to hinder.
(archaic, UK, Scotland, dialect) Attention; regard, care.
(archaic) Intention; design.
(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.
(medicine, sometimes, figurative) To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent.
* Shakespeare
(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)
As an initialism imp
is inosine monophosphate.As a noun 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 or tent can be (archaic|uk|scotland|dialect) attention; regard, care or tent can be (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 or tent can be (archaic) a kind of wine of a deep red color, chiefly from galicia or malaga in spain; called also tent wine, and tinta.As a verb tent is
to go camping or tent can be (archaic|uk|scotland|dialect) to attend to; to heed; hence, to guard; to hinder or tent can be (medicine|sometimes|figurative) to probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent.imp
English
Noun
(en noun)- Þai sett hem doun al þre / Vnder a fair ympe-tre.
- And thou most dreaded impe of highest Ioue'', / Faire ''Venus sonne, [...] come to mine ayde [...].
- The tender imp was weaned.
- to mingle in the clamorous fray of squabbling imps
- I've left my young children to look after themselves, and a more mischievous and troublesome set of young imps doesn't exist...
Synonyms
* (mischievous child) brat, urchin, little dickensDerived terms
* impish * implikeVerb
(en verb)- "For, if I imp my wing on Thine" – Herbert (1633)
Anagrams
* (l) * (l) * (l)tent
English
(wikipedia tent)Etymology 1
(etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* bender tent * fold one's tent * tent bed * tent caterpillarVerb
(en verb)- We’ll be tented at the campground this weekend.
- The sheet tented over his midsection.
See also
* camp * lean-to * tarpEtymology 2
(etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- (Halliwell)
Noun
(en noun)- (Lydgate)
- (Halliwell)
Etymology 3
(etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- to tent a wound
- I'll tent him to the quick.