"tenter" meaning in English

See tenter in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈtɛn.təɹ/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-tenter.wav Forms: tenters [plural]
Rhymes: -ɛntə(ɹ) Etymology: Via Old French, perhaps from Latin tentorium. Etymology templates: {{uder|en|fro|-}} Old French, {{uder|en|la|tentorium}} Latin tentorium Head templates: {{en-noun}} tenter (plural tenters)
  1. A framework upon which cloth is stretched and dried. Translations (a framework upon which cloth is stretched and dried): рамка (ramka) [feminine] (Bulgarian), разпънка (razpǎnka) [feminine] (Bulgarian), feszítőkeret (Hungarian)
    Sense id: en-tenter-en-noun-8wDg8w-x Disambiguation of 'a framework upon which cloth is stretched and dried': 91 5 4
  2. One who takes care of, or tends, machines in a factory; a kind of assistant foreman. Translations (one who takes care of, or tends, machines in a factory; a kind of assistant foreman): felügyelő (Hungarian), gépkezelő (Hungarian), gépész (Hungarian), gépmester (Hungarian), művezető (Hungarian)
    Sense id: en-tenter-en-noun-7sTjkXgE Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English undefined derivations, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 4 entries, Pages with entries, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Hungarian translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 14 44 18 5 19 Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 14 40 20 8 18 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 9 53 8 5 25 Disambiguation of Pages with 4 entries: 10 31 10 4 14 7 3 20 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 10 34 10 2 15 4 2 22 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 11 45 15 6 23 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 13 38 24 10 15 Disambiguation of 'one who takes care of, or tends, machines in a factory; a kind of assistant foreman': 2 95 3
  3. (engineering) A kind of governor, or regulating device. Categories (topical): Engineering
    Sense id: en-tenter-en-noun-P4I7me6- Topics: engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences

Verb

IPA: /ˈtɛn.təɹ/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-tenter.wav Forms: tenters [present, singular, third-person], tentering [participle, present], tentered [participle, past], tentered [past]
Rhymes: -ɛntə(ɹ) Etymology: Via Old French, perhaps from Latin tentorium. Etymology templates: {{uder|en|fro|-}} Old French, {{uder|en|la|tentorium}} Latin tentorium Head templates: {{en-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. Tags: transitive Translations (to stretch cloth on such a framework): kifeszít (Hungarian), keretre húz (Hungarian)
    Sense id: en-tenter-en-verb-7rc-JAPy Disambiguation of 'to stretch cloth on such a framework': 100 0
  2. (intransitive) To admit extension; to be stretchable. Tags: intransitive
    Sense id: en-tenter-en-verb-nNAANODl
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: tenterhook

Inflected forms

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.