tenter
/ˈtɛntəɹ/
tenter noun: a framework upon which cloth is stretched and dried.
Noun
tenter (plural tenters)
Verb
tenter (third-person singular simple present tenters, present participle tentering, simple past and past participle tentered)
- To stretch cloth on such a framework.
- To admit extension; to be stretchable.
- Woollen cloth will tenter, linen scarcely.1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted...
Synonyms of tenter
Forms of tenter
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | tenters |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | tenters |
| present participle | tentering |
| past participle | tentered |
| past | tentered |
Origin of tenter
Via Old French, perhaps from Latin tentorium.
Words formed from tenter
Phrases with tenter
Words that rhyme with tenter
- center
- enter
- tormentor
- concentre
- presenter
- renter
- stentor
- venter
- accentor
- cementer
- decentre
- preventer
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- reenter
- assenter
- fermenter
- hypocentre
- indenter
- off-centre
- Valley Center
- absenter
- assentor
- augmenter
- augmentor
- barycentre
- centre
- coinventor
- concenter
- consenter
- correction center
- correction centre
- decenter
- dementor
- dissenter
- entre
- fermentor
- fomenter
- incenter
- incentre
- indentor
- innoventor
- inventer
- inventor
- inventour
- lamenter
- mentor
- metacentre
- misenter
- off-center
- orthocenter
- orthocentre
- precentor
- re-enter
- re-entre
- reentre
- repenter
- representer
- salipenter
- Siberian accentor
- tormenter
Questions about tenter
- What does tenter mean?
- Tenter means a framework upon which cloth is stretched and dried.
- What part of speech is tenter?
- Tenter can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce tenter?
- Tenter is pronounced /ˈtɛntəɹ/.
- What is the plural of tenter?
- The plural of tenter is tenters.
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