📖 T — The English dictionary · page 10

tease — Everyday, meaning 1: To tease someone means to laugh at them or make jokes about them, in a friendly way or an unkind way.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To tease an animal means to annoy it on purpose.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A tease is a person who likes to tease others.↗ Example: My big brother likes to tease me.↗ · Don't tease the dog; it might bite.↗ · They teased him about his new haircut.↗ · I was only teasing; I'm sorry.↗ · Stop teasing your sister!↗ · It's unkind to tease someone about their name.↗ · She's such a tease!↗

teased — Everyday, meaning 1: Laughed at someone or made jokes about them, either in a friendly, playful way or in an unkind way that hurts.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Annoyed an animal on purpose, for example by poking it or holding food out of reach.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Gently pulled apart or combed, as in teased hair or teased-out threads.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: "Teased out" means slowly found or worked out: she teased out the answer.↗ Example: The older kids teased him about his glasses.↗ · She was only teasing — she said sorry when he looked upset.↗ · The dog bit the boy who had teased it.↗ · My brother teased me for being scared of spiders.↗ · Being teased every day made her sad, so she told her teacher.↗ · They teased each other in a friendly way and both laughed.↗ · Grandma teased the knots out of my hair.↗ · The detective teased out the truth bit by bit.↗ · The girls were delighted, and laughed and teased each other.↗

teaser — Everyday, meaning 1: A teaser is a short puzzle or question that makes you think hard, often called a brain teaser.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A teaser is a short preview, like a clip or advert, that shows a little of something to make you curious.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A teaser can also be a person who teases others.↗ Example: Here's a brain teaser: what has hands but can't clap?↗ A clock!↗ · Our teacher gives us a maths teaser every morning.↗ · The teaser for the new film was only thirty seconds long.↗ · The teaser at the end of the book made me want to read the next one.↗ · Logic teasers help you think step by step.↗ · Don't be a teaser; stop poking fun at him.↗

teasing — Everyday, meaning 1: Teasing is making fun of someone or annoying them with words or tricks, sometimes in a friendly way and sometimes in a hurtful way.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Teasing can also mean playfully trying to make an animal or person want something.↗ Example: The teasing stopped when the teacher came in.↗ · His teasing made her cry.↗ · It was just friendly teasing; we were both laughing.↗ · Stop teasing the dog; it might bite.↗ · Teasing about someone's clothes is unkind.↗ · He gave her a teasing smile.↗ · If the teasing doesn't stop, tell an adult.↗ · But she was not teasing him; those times were past.↗

teaspoon — Everyday, meaning 1: A teaspoon is a small spoon used for stirring tea or coffee and for eating some foods.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A teaspoon, or teaspoonful, is the amount a teaspoon holds, used as a measure in cooking and for medicine: about 5 millilitres.↗ Example: Add one teaspoon of salt to the water.↗ · Stir your tea with a teaspoon.↗ · The medicine dose is one 5 ml spoonful, like a teaspoon.↗ · Three teaspoons make one tablespoon.↗ · The recipe says ½ tsp baking powder.↗ · Use a level teaspoon of sugar, not a heaped one.↗ · If 1 teaspoon holds 5 ml, then 4 teaspoons hold 20 ml.↗

teat — Everyday, meaning 1: A teat is the small, soft part on a female mammal's body that her babies suck to get milk; cows, goats and pigs have teats.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A teat is the rubber or plastic top of a baby's bottle that the baby sucks.↗ Example: The calf drank milk from its mother's teat.↗ · A cow has four teats on her udder.↗ · The farmer milked the goat's teats by hand.↗ · Each piglet found a teat and started to drink.↗ · Mum boiled the bottle teats to keep them clean.↗ · The baby lamb would not take the teat, so we fed it with a syringe.↗

teatime — Everyday, meaning 1: (UK, Ireland, Australia, NZ) The time in the late afternoon or early evening when people eat their evening meal, often called «tea».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (UK) The time in the afternoon when people have a cup of tea and maybe cake or biscuits.↗ Example: Come home by teatime!↗ · We had fish fingers at teatime.↗ · Grandma always has cake at teatime.↗ · Don't eat biscuits now — it's nearly teatime.↗ · Teatime is at six o'clock in our house.↗ · If teatime is at 5:30 pm and it is 4:45 pm now, there are 45 minutes to wait.↗ · The cat always comes in at teatime.↗ · But at teatime another thing happened.↗

tebet — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: The name of a month in the Jewish calendar, in winter, about December or January, often spelled Tevet.↗ Example: He produced Oin, predominant in Anger, crowned, combined, and formed Capricornus in the world, Tebet in the year, and the liver in man.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗ · He produced Oin, predominant in Anger, crowned it, combined and formed with it Capricornus in the Universe, Tebet in the Year, and the Hver of Man.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · He produced Oin, predominant in Anger, crowned it, combined and formed with it Capricornus in the Universe, Tebet in the Year, and the liver of Man.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗

tech — Everyday, meaning 1: Tech is a short word for technology, like computers, phones and the internet.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A tech is a person who fixes machines or computers (short for technician).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Tech can describe things using new technology: a tech company.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: In old dialect, tech means to touch or to lay a hand on something.↗ Example: The tech store sold 15 phones.↗ · A tech fixes 6 computers a day.↗ · She bought a tech toy for 20 dollars.↗ · The tech club has 12 members.↗ · Call tech support if the laptop won't start.↗ · Our school has a new high-tech science lab.↗ · A pencil and paper are low-tech but they always work.↗ · But dey didn't bodder nobody ner tech nuthin', en bimeby dey put out.↗

technical — Everyday, meaning 1: Technical means to do with science, machines, computers or practical skills.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Technical words are special words used by experts in a subject.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Technical can mean following the exact rules strictly.↗ e.g. "a technical foul".↗ Example: The show was delayed by a technical problem.↗ · Learn the technical words for the parts of a flower.↗ · Call technical support if the printer won't work.↗ · The skater showed great technical skill.↗ · The book was too technical for me.↗ · He won on a technical point.↗ · There still remain several technical trade terms requiring elucidation.↗ · Nevertheless, this work is expensive, so in order to keep providing this resource, we have taken steps to prevent abuse by commercial parties, including placing technical restrictions on automated querying.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗

technically — Everyday, meaning 1: Technically means according to the exact rules or facts, even if it doesn't seem that way in everyday life, as in "Technically, a tomato is a fruit".↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Technically means relating to skill or method, as in "technically brilliant".↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Technically can mean connected with machines, science or technology.↗ Example: Technically, a tomato is a fruit because it has seeds.↗ · Technically speaking, a spider is not an insect.↗ · The dancer is technically brilliant.↗ · "You said I couldn't eat the biscuits — technically, I only ate one!"↗ · It's technically possible to walk there, but it would take all day.↗ · The film was technically impressive with amazing special effects.↗ · The word סָפַר safar is technically a finite verb, and not a noun as the syntax requires.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗

technique — Everyday, meaning 1: A technique is a special way of doing something that needs skill, like a painting technique or a swimming technique.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Technique is how well you use the right moves or methods in a sport, art or job.↗ Example: Our coach showed us a new swimming technique.↗ · Good technique helps you throw further.↗ · We tried a printing technique with sponges.↗ · Column addition is a technique for adding big numbers.↗ · Breathing techniques can help you calm down.↗ · Practise the technique slowly before you go fast.↗ · Her drawing technique has really improved.↗

technology — Everyday, meaning 1: The use of science and knowledge to make useful tools, machines and ways of doing things.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Machines and equipment made this way, especially computers, phones and the internet.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (a technology) One particular kind of tool or method, like solar technology.↗ Example: Technology helps doctors save lives.↗ · Our school has new technology in every classroom.↗ · In D&T we designed a bird box.↗ · Solar technology turns sunlight into electricity.↗ · The wheel was an important early technology.↗ · My grandma is learning to use technology to video-call us.↗ · Too much screen technology before bed can stop you sleeping well.↗

tectonics — Everyday, meaning 1: (science) Tectonics, or plate tectonics, is the idea that the Earth's outer shell is broken into huge pieces called plates that move very slowly, and the study of how they move.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Tectonics can also mean big shifts or changes in politics or society (formal, figurative).↗ Example: Plate tectonics explains why earthquakes happen.↗ · The Himalayas formed because of plate tectonics.↗ · Iceland is splitting apart because of tectonics.↗ · We learned about tectonics in geography.↗ · Tectonic plates move about as fast as your fingernails grow.↗ · New Zealand lies where two tectonic plates meet.↗

ted — Everyday, meaning 1: (informal, UK, Australia) A teddy bear: «my old ted».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (UK, history) A Teddy boy, a young man in the past who wore a special smart style of long jackets and narrow trousers.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (farming) To spread out cut grass or hay so it dries.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Ted is also a short form of the names Edward and Theodore.↗ Example: I can't sleep without my old ted.↗ · Uncle Ted is coming for lunch.↗ · The farmer will ted the hay so it dries in the sun.↗ · Granddad was a Teddy boy, a ted, when he was young.↗ · My little sister gave her ted a bath.↗ · Ted is short for Edward.↗ · Th'se s5mbol8 contain in them the lirst elements, the forms of all crea- ted nature.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

teddy — Everyday, meaning 1: A teddy (or teddy bear) is a soft toy bear made of furry cloth and stuffed so it is cuddly.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A teddy can also be any favourite soft cuddly toy.↗ Example: My little brother sleeps with his teddy.↗ · I've had this teddy since I was a baby.↗ · We brought our teddies to the teddy bears' picnic.↗ · The teddy has a red bow tie.↗ · She hugged her teddy when she was scared.↗ · The teddy bear was named after a president.↗ · My teddy lost an eye, so Grandma sewed on a button.↗

tedious — Everyday, meaning 1: Long, slow and boring; tiring because it goes on and on.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (of a person) Annoying because they are boring.↗ Example: Sorting all the socks was a tedious job.↗ · The journey was long and tedious.↗ · Copying out the spelling list ten times is tedious.↗ · Instead of tedious adding, use multiplication.↗ · The speech was so tedious that half the audience fell asleep.↗ · Weeding the garden is tedious but useful.↗ · His tedious jokes made everyone groan.↗ · And then they went out for a walk, which was very slow and tedious.↗

tee — Everyday, meaning 1: A tee is a small peg, often wooden or plastic, that holds a golf ball up before it is hit.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The tee is also the flat area where each hole in golf begins.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (informal) A tee is short for a T-shirt.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To tee up is to put the ball on a tee, or to get something ready; to tee off is to make the first hit in golf.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: A tee is also the letter T or a T-shaped thing.↗ Example: Put the golf ball on the tee.↗ · We met at the first tee.↗ · Dad teed off and the ball flew into the bushes.↗ · He wore a white tee and shorts.↗ · In tee-ball, you hit the ball off a stand.↗ · The coach teed up the next game.↗ · That costume suits you to a tee.↗

teem — Everyday, meaning 1: To teem with something is to be full of it, crowded with lots of living things moving about: «The pond teemed with tadpoles».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (UK, informal) When rain is teeming down, it is raining very heavily.↗ Example: The rock pool was teeming with tiny crabs.↗ · Rainforests teem with insects and birds.↗ · It was teeming down, so we stayed inside.↗ · The market teemed with shoppers.↗ · The river teems with fish in spring.↗ · A drop of pond water teems with microbes under the microscope.↗ · The earth, no longer teeming with fruitfulness, only yielded her increase after much toil and labour.↗

teen — Everyday, meaning 1: (informal) A teenager, a person aged 13 to 19.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (adjective) For or about teenagers: a teen magazine.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In your teens: aged between 13 and 19.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: -teen: the ending of numbers 13 to 19, meaning «and ten».↗ Example: My sister is a teen now, she's 14.↗ · The library has a teen section.↗ · Grandpa started work in his teens.↗ · Fifteen is a teen number: 10 + 5.↗ · The film is not suitable for young teens.↗ · Thirteen is the first teen number.↗