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tenter

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Etymology

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Via Old French, perhaps from Latin tentorium.

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Noun

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tenter (plural tenters)

  1. A framework upon which cloth is stretched and dried.
  2. One who takes care of, or tends, machines in a factory; a kind of assistant foreman.
  3. (engineering) A kind of governor, or regulating device.

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Verb

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tenter (third-person singular simple present tenters, present participle tentering, simple past and past participle tentered)

  1. (transitive) To stretch cloth on such a framework.
  2. (intransitive) To admit extension; to be stretchable.
    • 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 by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee [], →OCLC:
      Woollen cloth will tenter, linen scarcely.

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French

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Etymology

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Inherited from Middle French tenter, from Old French tempter, from Latin temptāre.

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Verb

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tenter

  1. (with de for verbs) to attempt
    Synonyms: essayer, entreprendre
    L’ennemi tenta une attaque frontale.
    The enemy attempted a frontal attack.
    Le sultan tentait de se présenter comme un musulman pieux.
    The sultan attempted to present himself as a pious Muslim.
  2. to tempt
    Le serpent tenta Ève.
    The serpent tempted Eve.
  3. to be desirable or interesting to; to be something one feels like doing
    Ça te tente de prendre une bière?
    Do you feel like having a beer?
    J’ai tellement de devoirs à faire mais ça ne me tente pas.
    I have so much homework to do, but I don't feel like it.

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Latin

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Verb

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tenter

  1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of tentō

Norman

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Etymology

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From Latin temptō, temptāre.

Verb

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tenter

  1. (Jersey) to try

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