Meaning of तंबू in English

See Lodgment.
A slightly built or temporary habitation; especially, a tent.
A portable structure of wooden framework covered with curtains, which was carried through the wilderness in the Israelitish exodus, as a place of sacrifice and worship.
Hence, the Jewish temple; sometimes, any other place for worship.
Figuratively: The human body, as the temporary abode of the soul.
Any small cell, or like place, in which some holy or precious things was deposited or kept.
The ornamental receptacle for the pyx, or for the consecrated elements, whether a part of a building or movable.
A niche for the image of a saint, or for any sacred painting or sculpture.
Hence, a work of art of sacred subject, having a partially architectural character, as a solid frame resting on a bracket, or the like.
A tryptich for sacred imagery.
A seat or stall in a choir, with its canopy.
A boxlike step for a mast with the after side open, so that the mast can be lowered to pass under bridges, etc.
To dwell or reside for a time; to be temporary housed.
A kind of wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain; -- called also tent wine, and tinta.
Attention; regard, care.
Intention; design.
To attend to; to heed; hence, to guard; to hinder.
To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent; as, to tent a wound. Used also figuratively.
A roll of lint or linen, or a conical or cylindrical piece of sponge or other absorbent, used chiefly to dilate a natural canal, to keep open the orifice of a wound, or to absorb discharges.
A probe for searching a wound.
A pavilion or portable lodge consisting of skins, canvas, or some strong cloth, stretched and sustained by poles, -- used for sheltering persons from the weather, especially soldiers in camp.
The representation of a tent used as a bearing.
To lodge as a tent; to tabernacle.
Same as Tip-up.
The act of entombing or burying, or state of being entombed; burial.
A small drum used as an accompaniment to a pipe or fife, both being played by the same person.
To play on a tabor, or little drum.
To strike lightly and frequently.
To make (a sound) with a tabor.
A more or less elongated process or organ, simple or branched, proceeding from the head or cephalic region of invertebrate animals, being either an organ of sense, prehension, or motion.
Having tentacles.
Alt. of Tentaculated
of Tentaculum
Of or pertaining to a tentacle or tentacles.
Having tentacles, or organs like tentacles; tentacled.
A tentacle.
One of the stiff hairs situated about the mouth, or on the face, of many animals, and supposed to be tactile organs; a tactile hair.
A collection of tents; an encampment.
Trial; temptation.
A mode of adjusting or operating by repeated trials or experiments.
One who takes care of, or tends, machines in a factory; a kind of assistant foreman.
A kind of governor.
A machine or frame for stretching cloth by means of hooks, called tenter-hooks, so that it may dry even and square.
To admit extension.
To hang or stretch on, or as on, tenters.
As much, or as many, as a tent will hold.
of Tent
A fold of the dura mater which separates the cerebellum from the cerebrum and often incloses a process or plate of the skull called the bony tentorium.
The awning or covering of a tent.
A kind of small fern, the wall rue. See under Wall.