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Definition: Tenter |
TenterNoun1. A framework with hooks used for stretching and drying cloth. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tenter" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
"Tenter" is a common misspelling or typo for: tainted, tender. |
| Domain | Definition |
Industry | To pass through a stenter. Source: European Union. (references) |
| An open-width fabric-finishing machine in which the selvedges of a textile fabric are held by a pair of endless travelling chains maintaining weft tension. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Tenter |
| English words defined with "tenter": Tentered, tenterhook, Tentering. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "tenter": cloth stretcher, COATER ♦ drier tender, drying-machine tender ♦ framing-machine tender ♦ hot-frame tender ♦ open-tenter operator ♦ pin-tenter operator ♦ steam-frame operator ♦ TENTER-FRAME OPERATOR, tentering-machine operator. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Tenter" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (appeal to, assay, attempt, endeavour, entice, essay, have a try, seek, study, tempt, try). |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Ware Shoals, South Carolina. Open tenter. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Tenter" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 87.50% of the time. "Tenter" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 87.5% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (proper) | 12.5% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 8 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "tenter": Lift tenter ♦ Tenter ground. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "tenter": Tenter-hook. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
tenter | 5 |
tenter frame | 3 |
frame tenter used | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "tenter"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | stativ, mbajtëse (abutment, brace, bracket, cleat, hold, holder, holdfast, hook, keeper, Mount, pendant, rack, retainer, stand, standard, support, supporter). (various references) | |
Arabic | المسؤول عن الآلات بمصنع, المخيم, المشدة أداة يشد عليها النسيج, باسط. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | ширилна машина. (various references) | |
Chinese | 拉幅机. (various references) | |
Czech | soukenický rám. (various references) | |
Danish | strække (stenter, stretch), spændramme (stenter), spænde (clasp, stenter, stretching). (various references) | |
Dutch | spanraam (stenter), door een spanraam voeren (stenter). (various references) | |
Farsi | مستحفظ (Caretaker, Guard), نگهدار (Backer, Buttress, Keeper, Looker, Patron, Prop, Protector, Stanchion), خیمه دوز, خیمه دار. (various references) | |
French | tendeur (tensioning device, tensor, twine tensioner), ramer, rame continue, rame, campeur. (various references) | |
German | Trockenrahmen (stenter), strecken (crane, dilute, drag out, eke out, elongate, extend, hammer out, make go further, pad out, put back, raise, routes, spin out, straighten, strech out, stretch, thin down, to stretch, unbend), Spannrahmen (stenter), spannen (be taut, be tight, catch on to, clamp, draw, flex, get wise to, harness, strech, stretch, tauten, tense, tension, tighten, to stretch, wind up), aufspannen (put on, put up, spread out, stretch, stretch out, to stretch), aufrahmen (creaming, stenter). (various references) | |
Greek | ράμα (rammer, stenter), περνώ στη ράμα (stenter), επεξεργάζομαι στη ράμα (stenter), τεντώνω ύφασμα επί τελάρου, τελάρο (gear, heald shaft). (various references) | |
Hungarian | feszítõkeret. (various references) | |
Indonesian | pembidangan (clasification). (various references) | |
Italian | stenditoio (stenter), stendere (distend, draft, draught, draw up, elongate, expand, extend, lay, lay out, reach, spread, stretch). (various references) | |
Korean | 텐터. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | entertay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | tempereiro (template, temple, templet), vigia (guard, household troops, keeper, look-out, night watch, overlooker, peephole, porthole, scuttle, taskmaster, tender, viewer, vigilante gang, ward, watch), râmola (stenter), guarda (caretaker, cater, check-taker, chokidar, custodian, guard, guardianship, headboard, household troops, keeper, keeping, minder, police officer, protector, safe conduct, safeguard, tendance, tender, trustee, ward, warden, watch, watcher, watchman), estendedouro, encarregado de máquina. (various references) | |
Russian | ширильная рама. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | okvir za sušenje. (various references) | |
Spanish | tender (draw, extend, lay, lay out, put forth, put out, shoot, spread, tend), ramear (stenter), rame (stenter), rama (bough, branch, embranchment, leaf, limb, line), estirar en rama tensadora (stenter). (various references) | |
Swedish | tältare. (various references) | |
Turkish | gergi (rack, spreader, stay, stretcher), gergefe germek, gergef (embroidery frame, tambour). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | гачок ширильної рами (tenter-hook). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "tenter": tentered, tenterhook, tenterhooks, tentering, tenters. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: netter. | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-n-r-t-t" | |
-1 letter: enter, rente, tenet, terne, treen. | |
-2 letters: erne, nett, rent, rete, teen, tent, tern, tree, tret. | |
-3 letters: ere, ern, nee, net, ree, ret, tee, ten, tet. | |
-4 letters: en, er, et, ne, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-n-r-t-t" | |
+1 letter: entreat, netters, nettier, nettler, ratteen, tenters, tentier, ternate. | |
+2 letters: anteater, antevert, attender, battener, brunette, enfetter, entirety, entreats, entreaty, entrepot, eternity, fattener, insetter, interest, intertie, nattered, nettlers, nettlier, ratteens, rattened, rattener, renitent, reticent, retinite, retinted, rottener, sternest, sternite, tenorite, tentered, thirteen, threaten, trecento, trientes, unfetter, untether. | |
+3 letters: advertent, alternate, anteaters, anteverts, argentite, attenders, batteners, bettering, brunettes, contester, detergent, determent, deterrent, detriment, enfetters, enteritis, entertain, entreated, entrechat, entrecote, entremets, entrepots, entrusted, fatteners, fettering, flattener, gettering, insetters, integrate, intercept, interests, interject, interlent, interment, interpret, intersect, interterm, interties, intreated, itinerate, lettering, letterman, lettermen, lorgnette, orientate, patienter, patterned, penetrant, penetrate, pertinent, pinsetter, prepotent, ratteners, recentest, reentrant, reinstate, reknitted, reletting, remitment, remittent, repattern, repentant, resetting, retention, retentive, retesting, retighten, retinites, revertant, revetment, revetting, rewetting, rewritten, rottenest, sternites, strewment, teentsier, teetering, tenderest, tenebrist, tenorites, tentering, teratogen, terebinth, terminate, ternately, tervalent, tethering, thereinto, thereunto, thirteens, threatens, tightener, tonometer, tormented, tormenter, treatment, trecentos, trendiest, trinketed, trinketer, triteness, unfetters, untethers, untreated, utterance, vignetter. | |
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