tech
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Clipping of technology, technician, and technique.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
tech (countable and uncountable, plural techs)
- (informal) Technology.
- I can't understand all this new tech.
- 2012, Nancy Lyons, Meghan Wilker, Interactive Project Management: Pixels, People, and Process
- Remember, something that seems straightforward to you can be very scary to people who don't have enough info or tech knowledge to provide a context or meaning on their own.
- Denotes technology businesses or the technology industry, especially in the field of computing and the Internet.
- Tech giants such as Google and Facebook have too much power.
- Tech stocks are down on NASDAQ.
- Tech workers can earn big money.
- (informal) Technician.
- He works as a lab tech.
- 2014, Jeff Jacobson, Growth (page 23)
- A man dressed as a lab tech, his blue scrubs startlingly pale against the vivid red and black chaos, moved into sight from behind the SUV. He carried an assault rifle.
- (informal) Technique.
- (informal, used in titles) Technical college.
- Greenville Technical College is informally known as Greenville Tech.
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VerbEdit
tech (third-person singular simple present techs, present participle teching, simple past and past participle teched)
- (video games) To perform a technical (a special move in fighting games that cancels out an opposing attack).
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Old IrishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Celtic *tegos, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tégos (“cover, roof”), from *(s)teg- (“to cover”); cognate with Ancient Greek τέγος (tégos).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
tech n (genitive tige or taige, nominative plural tige or taige)
DeclensionEdit
Neuter s-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | techN, teg | techN, teg | tigeL, taigeH |
Vocative | techN, teg | techN, teg | tigeL, taigeH |
Accusative | techN, teg | techN, teg | tigeL, taigeH |
Genitive | tigeL, taigeH | tige, taigeH | tigeN, taigeH |
Dative | tigL, taigL | tigib | tigib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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MutationEdit
Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
tech | thech | tech pronounced with /d(ʲ)-/ |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further readingEdit
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “tech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language