different between tent vs chum

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: t?nt, IPA^(key): /t?nt/
  • (pin–pen merger) IPA^(key): /t?nt/
    • Homophone: tint
• Rhymes: -?nt
• Homophone: tint (with pin-pen merger)

Etymology 1

From Middle English tente, borrowed from Old French tente, from Vulgar Latin *tenta (“tent”), from the feminine of Latin tentus, ptp. of tendere (“to stretch, extend”). Displaced native Middle English tild, tilt (“tent, tilt”), from Old English teld (“tent”). Compare Spanish tienda (“store, shop; tent”).

Noun

tent (plural tents)

1. 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.

2. (archaic) The representation of a tent used as a bearing.
3. (Scotland) A portable pulpit set up outside to accommodate worshippers who cannot fit into a church.
   • 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner:

     A splendid tent was erected on the brae north of the town, and round that the countless congregation assembled.

4. A trouser tent; a piece of fabric, etc. protruding outward like a tent.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

tent (third-person singular simple present tents, present participle tenting, simple past and past participle tented)

1. (intransitive) To go camping.

   We’ll be tented at the campground this weekend.

2. (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.
3. (intransitive) To form into a tent-like shape.

   The sheet tented over his midsection.

Translations

See also

• camp
• lean-to
• lodge
• pavilion, pavillion
• pitch
• tarp

Etymology 2

From Middle English tent (“attention”), aphetic variation of attent (“attention”), from Old French atente (“attention, intention”), from Latin attenta, feminine of attentus, past participle of attendere (“to attend”).

Verb

tent (third-person singular simple present tents, present participle tenting, simple past and past participle tented)

1. (archaic, Britain, Scotland, dialect) To attend to; to heed
2. (archaic, Britain, Scotland, dialect) to guard; to hinder.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)

Noun

tent (plural tents)

1. (archaic, Britain, Scotland, dialect) Attention; regard, care.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Lydgate to this entry?)

2. (archaic) Intention; design.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)

Etymology 3

From Middle English tente (“a probe”), from Middle French tente, deverbal of tenter, from Latin tent?re (“to probe, test”), alteration of tempt?re (“to test, probe, tempt”).

Noun

tent (plural tents)

2. (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.
3. (medicine) A probe for searching a wound.

Verb

tent (third-person singular simple present tents, present participle tenting, simple past and past participle tented)

1. (medicine, sometimes figuratively) To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent.

   to tent a wound

Etymology 4

From Spanish tinto (“deep-colored”), from Latin tinctus, past participle of tingo (“to dye”). More at tinge, tint, tinto. Compare claret (“French red wine”), also from color.

Noun

tent (plural tents)

1. (archaic) A kind of wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain; called also tent wine, and tinta.

See also

• claret, hock, sack

Anagrams

• Nett, nett

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch tente, from Old French tente, from Vulgar Latin *tenta or *tenda.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?nt/
• Hyphenation: tent
• Rhymes: -?nt

Noun

tent m (plural tenten, diminutive tentje n)

1. tent (for camping, special occasions, etc.)
2. pavillion

   Synonym: paviljoen

3. (informal, Dutch, often in compounds) a building, especially one used for commercial purposes

   Synonym: keet

Derived terms

• circustent
• hottentottententententoonstelling
• kermistent

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

tent

1. past participle of tenne

Southern Kam

Adjective

tent

1. short

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA^(key): /t??m/
• Rhymes: -?m

Etymology 1

1675–85; of uncertain origin, possibly from cham, shortening of chambermate, or from comrade. Less likely from Welsh cymrawd (“fellow”), compare brawd (“brother”).

Noun

chum (plural chums)

1. (dated) A friend; a pal.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:friend

2. (dated) A roommate, especially in a college or university.
   • 1856 in The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine [1]

     Field had a 'chum,' or room-mate, whose visage was suggestive to the 'Sophs;' it invited experiment; it held out opportunity for their peculiar deviltry.

Derived terms

• chummy

Descendants

• ? Swedish: tjomme (Gothenburg dialect)
• ? Norwegian: tjommi (Bergen dialect)
• ? French: chum (Quebec)

Translations

Verb

chum (third-person singular simple present chums, present participle chumming, simple past and past participle chummed)

1. (intransitive) To share rooms with someone; to live together.
   • 1899 Clyde Bowman Furst, A Group of Old Authors [2]

     Henry Wotton and John Donne began to be friends when, as boys, they chummed together at Oxford, where Donne had gone at the age of twelve years.
2. (transitive) To lodge (somebody) with another person or people.
3. (intransitive) To make friends; to socialize.
   • 1902 Ernest William Hornung, The Amateur Cracksman [3]

     "You'll make yourself disliked on board!"

     "By von Heumann merely."

     "But is that wise when he's the man we've got to diddle?"

     "The wisest thing I ever did. To have chummed up with him would have been fatal -- the common dodge."

4. (transitive, Scotland, informal) To accompany.

Conjugation

Etymology 2

Originally American English, from the 1850s. Perhaps from Powhatan.

Noun

chum (uncountable)

1. (fishing) A mixture of (frequently rancid) fish parts and blood, dumped into the water as groundbait to attract predator fish, such as sharks

Derived terms

• chumsicle

Translations

Verb

chum (third-person singular simple present chums, present participle chumming, simple past and past participle chummed)

1. (fishing) To cast chum into the water to attract fish.
   • 1996 Frank Sargeant, The Reef Fishing Book: A Complete Anglers Guide [4]

     Small live baitfish are effective, and they will take bits of fresh cut fish when chummed strongly.

Etymology 3

Noun

chum (plural chums)

1. (pottery) A coarse mould for holding the clay while being worked on a whirler, lathe or manually.
   • 1915, The Pottery & Glass Salesman, volume 11, O'Gorman Publishing Company.

     ...self-supporting chum within the mould normally of corresponding and almost the same but lesser contour, whereby a space is provided between the chum and mould for the introduction of the powdered material and means for expanding the chum'.

   • 1920, The South African Journal of Industries, volume 3, part 2, p. 820

     He uses a round slab of clay, which he places on top of the chum and commences to thump down around the sides.

   • 1921, A Survey and Analysis of the Pottery Industry, bulletin no. 67, trade and industrial series no. 20, Washington: Federal Board for Vocational Training.

     Chum,—A mold used on the whirler to hold ware for scraping and finishing.

   • 1972, Neal French, Industrial Ceramics—Tableware, Oxford University Press

     Now that shapes were more uniform this was usually done on a horizontal lathe with the bowl automatically centred on a wooden chum

     This is a more useful method: it is used in making oval casseroles. The liner is made by spreading a bat and tehn forming it over a felt-covered chum, oval in shape.

     Chum or chuck: Lathe attachment for holding pots during turning process.

Anagrams

• much

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English chum

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??m/

Noun

chum m (plural chums, feminine blonde or chum de fille)

1. (Canada, informal, Quebec) boyfriend (feminine counterpart: blonde)

2. (Canada, chiefly slang, Quebec) a friend, usually male; a chum (feminine form: chum de fille)

Synonyms

• (boyfriend): petit ami, ami de cœur, fiancé (dated), conjoint
• (friend): copain, ami

Derived terms

• chum de fille

Irish

Etymology 1

Inflected form of cum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xu?m?/, /x?m?/

Verb

chum

1. past indicative analytic of cum
2. Lenited form of cum.

Etymology 2

From Old Irish dochum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /x?n?/

Preposition

chum (plus genitive, triggers no mutation)

1. Obsolete spelling of chun

Old Irish

Verb

·chum

1. Lenited form of ·cum.

Palauan

Etymology

From Pre-Palauan *quma?, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *quma?, from Proto-Austronesian *quma?. Cognate with Cebuano umang, Tiruray kumang, Marshallese om?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?um/

Noun

chum

1. hermit crab

Scottish Gaelic

Preposition

chum

1. Alternative form of chun

Verb

chum

1. past indicative of cum

Mutation

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [t??um??]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [t??um??]
• (H? Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [c?m??]

Noun

(classifier cái) chum • (????)

1. a kind of vase used to contain water

See also

• lu