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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Camp \Camp\, v. i.
     1. To pitch or prepare a camp; to encamp; to lodge in a camp;
        -- often with out.
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              They camped out at night, under the stars. --W.


                                                    Irving.
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     2. [See {Camp}, n., 6] To play the game called camp. [Prov.
        Eng.] --Tusser.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Camp \Camp\ (k[a^]mp), n. [F. camp, It. campo, fr. L. campus
     plant, field; akin to Gr. kh^pos garden. Cf. {Campaign},
     {Champ}, n.]
     1. The ground or spot on which tents, huts, etc., are erected
        for shelter, as for an army or for lumbermen, etc. --Shak.
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     2. A collection of tents, huts, etc., for shelter, commonly
        arranged in an orderly manner.
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              Forming a camp in the neighborhood of Boston. --W.
                                                    Irving.
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     3. A single hut or shelter; as, a hunter's camp.
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     4. The company or body of persons encamped, as of soldiers,
        of surveyors, of lumbermen, etc.
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              The camp broke up with the confusion of a flight.
                                                    --Macaulay.
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     5. (Agric.) A mound of earth in which potatoes and other
        vegetables are stored for protection against frost; --
        called also {burrow} and {pie}. [Prov. Eng.]
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     6. [Cf. OE. & AS. camp contest, battle. See {champion}.] An
        ancient game of football, played in some parts of England.
        --Halliwell.
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     {Camp bedstead}, a light bedstead that can be folded up onto
        a small space for easy transportation.
  
     {camp ceiling} (Arch.), a kind ceiling often used in attics
        or garrets, in which the side walls are inclined inward at
        the top, following the slope of the rafters, to meet the
        plane surface of the upper ceiling.
  
     {Camp chair}, a light chair that can be folded up compactly
        for easy transportation; the seat and back are often made
        of strips or pieces of carpet.
  
     {Camp fever}, typhus fever.
  
     {Camp follower}, a civilian accompanying an army, as a
        sutler, servant, etc.
  
     {Camp meeting}, a religious gathering for open-air preaching,
        held in some retired spot, chiefly by Methodists. It
        usually last for several days, during which those present
        lodge in tents, temporary houses, or cottages.
  
     {Camp stool}, the same as {camp chair}, except that the stool
        has no back.
  
     {Flying camp} (Mil.), a camp or body of troops formed for
        rapid motion from one place to another. --Farrow.
  
     {To pitch (a) camp}, to set up the tents or huts of a camp.
        
  
     {To strike camp}, to take down the tents or huts of a camp.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Camp \Camp\ (k[a^]mp), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Camped} (k[a^]mt;
     215); p. pr. & vb. n. {Camping}.]
     To afford rest or lodging for, as an army or travelers.
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           Had our great palace the capacity
           To camp this host, we all would sup together. --Shak.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  camp
       adj : providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having
             artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or
             sentimental qualities; "they played up the silliness of
             their roles for camp effect"; "campy Hollywood musicals
             of the 1940's" [syn: {campy}]
       n 1: temporary living quarters specially built by the army for
            soldiers; "wherever he went in the camp the men were
            grumbling" [syn: {encampment}, {cantonment}, {bivouac}]
       2: a group of people living together in a camp; "the whole camp
          laughed at his mistake"
       3: temporary lodgings in the country for travelers or
          vacationers; "level ground is best for parking and camp
          areas"
       4: an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose [syn: {clique},
           {coterie}, {ingroup}, {inner circle}, {pack}]
       5: a prison for forced laborers; "China has many work camps for
          political prisoners"
       6: something that is considered amusing not because of its
          originality but because of its unoriginality; "the
          livingroom was pure camp"
       7: shelter for persons displaced by war or political oppression
          or for religious beliefs [syn: {refugee camp}]
       8: a site where care and activities are provided for children
          during the summer months; "city kids get to see the
          country at a summer camp" [syn: {summer camp}]
       v 1: live in or as if in a tent; "Can we go camping again this
            summer?"; "The circus tented near the town"; "The
            houseguests had to camp in the living room" [syn: {encamp},
             {camp out}, {bivouac}, {tent}]
       2: establish or set up a camp [syn: {camp down}]
       3: give an artificially banal or sexual quality to

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  247 Moby Thesaurus words for "camp":
     American Party, Anti-Monopoly Party, Babbittry, Bull Moose Party,
     Communist Party, Conservative Party, Constitutional Union Party,
     Democratic Party, Democratic-Republican Party, Farmer-Labor Party,
     Federalist Party, Free Soil Party, Greenback Party,
     Know-Nothing Party, Konzentrationslager, Labour Party, Lager,
     Liberal Party, Liberal Republican Party, Liberty Party,
     National Republican Party, Populist Party, Progressive Party,
     Prohibition Party, Republican Party, Socialist Labor Party,
     Socialist Party, Socialist Workers Party, Tammany Hall, Thalia,
     Tory Party, Whig Party, affected, anchor, arlequinade, artificial,
     artless, bad taste, barrack, barracks, billet at, bivouac,
     bivouacking, black comedy, body, bourgeois taste, box,
     breakaway group, broad comedy, burlesque, burletta, burrow, cabal,
     cabin, caboose, camarilla, camp out, campground, campiness,
     camping, campsite, campy, cantonment, casern, caucus, circle,
     city hall, clan, clique, colonize, come to anchor, comedie bouffe,
     comedie larmoyante, comedie rosse, comedietta, comedy,
     comedy ballet, comedy of humors, comedy of ideas,
     comedy of intrigue, comedy of manners, comedy of situation,
     comedy relief, comic, comic muse, comic opera, comic relief,
     concentration camp, cot, coterie, cottage, crash, dark comedy,
     detention camp, division, domestic comedy, domesticate,
     drive stakes, drop anchor, effeminate, encamp, encampment,
     ensconce, establish residence, ethnic group, exaggerate,
     exaggerated, exode, extravagant, faction, farce, farce comedy,
     farcical, flamboyant, flaunt, flounce, genteel comedy, go camping,
     group, ham, harlequinade, high camp, hive, hobo jungle, hut,
     impropriety, inappropriateness, inartistic, indecency,
     indecorousness, indecorum, indelicacy, inelegance, inelegancy,
     ingroup, inhabit, interest, interest group, keep house, kitsch,
     light, light comedy, lines, live at, locate, lodge, low camp,
     low comedy, machine, major party, mannered, maroon, mime,
     minor party, minority group, mob, moor, move,
     multiple party system, musical, musical comedy, nest, offshoot,
     one-party system, opera buffa, opposition party, ostentatious,
     outrageous, outre, park, party, party in power, people, perch,
     philistinism, pitch, pitch camp, political machine,
     political party, poor taste, pop, pop culture, populate, posture,
     prance, pressure group, raw comedy, realistic comedy, relocate,
     reside, ring, romantic comedy, roost, rough it, satyr play, sect,
     sentimental comedy, set, set up housekeeping, set up shop, settle,
     settle down, settlement, shack, shanty, show off, showy, side,
     silent majority, sit down, situation comedy, slapstick,
     slapstick comedy, sleep out, splinter, splinter group,
     splinter party, squat, stand, stay at, strike root, strut,
     take residence at, take root, take up residence, tastelessness,
     tent, tented field, tenting, theatrical, third party, tragicomedy,
     tragicomic, two-party system, unaestheticism, unaestheticness,
     unbecomingness, unfittingness, unseemliness, unsuitability,
     unsuitableness, vocal minority, vulgar taste, vulgarism, vulgarity,
     vulgarness, wing
  
  

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Camp
     During their journeys across the wilderness, the twelve tribes
     formed encampments at the different places where they halted
     (Ex. 16:13; Num. 2:3). The diagram here given shows the position
     of the different tribes and the form of the encampment during
     the wanderings, according to Num. 1:53; 2:2-31; 3:29, 35, 38;
     10:13-28.
     
       The area of the camp would be in all about 3 square miles.
     After the Hebrews entered Palestine, the camps then spoken of
     were exclusively warlike (Josh. 11:5, 7; Judg. 5:19, 21; 7:1; 1
     Sam. 29:1; 30:9, etc.).
     

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:

  Camp, AR
    Zip code(s): 72520

From U.S. Gazetteer Counties (2000) [gaz-county]:

  Camp -- U.S. County in Texas
     Population (2000):    11549
     Housing Units (2000): 5228
     Land area (2000):     197.510922 sq. miles (511.550919 sq. km)
     Water area (2000):    5.686609 sq. miles (14.728248 sq. km)
     Total area (2000):    203.197531 sq. miles (526.279167 sq. km)
     Located within:       Texas (TX), FIPS 48
     Location:             32.983837 N, 95.000064 W
     Headwords:
      Camp
      Camp, TX
      Camp County
      Camp County, TX
  

















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