tenter

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

Via Old French, perhaps from Latin tentorium.

Noun

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.

Verb

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.
   • Francis Bacon

     Woollen cloth will tenter, linen scarcely.

Derived terms

• tenterhook

Anagrams

• netter

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French

Etymology

From Latin temptāre, present active infinitive of temptō.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /tɑ̃.te/

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Verb

tenter

1. to tempt
2. to try, risk

Conjugation

   Conjugation of tenter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		tenter			avoir tenté
gerund		en tentant			en ayant tenté
present participle		tentant
past participle		tenté
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il	nous	vous	ils
simple tenses	present	tente	tentes	tente	tentons	tentez	tentent
	imperfect	tentais	tentais	tentait	tentions	tentiez	tentaient
	past historic1	tentai	tentas	tenta	tentâmes	tentâtes	tentèrent
	future	tenterai	tenteras	tentera	tenterons	tenterez	tenteront
	conditional	tenterais	tenterais	tenterait	tenterions	tenteriez	tenteraient
compound tenses	present perfect	Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect	Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	past anterior1	Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	future perfect	Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	conditional perfect	Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il	que nous	que vous	qu’ils
simple tenses	present	tente	tentes	tente	tentions	tentiez	tentent
	imperfect1	tentasse	tentasses	tentât	tentassions	tentassiez	tentassent
compound tenses	past	Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect1	Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
		—	tente	—	tentons	tentez	—
1literary tenses

Anagrams

• trente, Trente

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Jèrriais

Etymology

From Latin temptō, temptāre.

Verb

tenter

1. to try

Synonyms

• tâchi

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Latin

Verb

tenter

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of tentō