tenter

 

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Via Old French, perhaps from Latin tentorium.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛn.təɹ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛntə(ɹ)

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.

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.
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     Woollen cloth will tenter, linen scarcely.

• tenterhook

• Netter, netter, retent

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

• IPA^(key): /tɑ̃.te/

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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.

• “tenter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• trente, Trente

tenter

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of tentō

From Latin temptō, temptāre.

tenter

1. (Jersey) to try

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