teek

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: tēk
• IPA^(key): /tiːk/

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• Rhymes: -iːk

Etymology 1

From Portuguese teca, from Malayalam തേക്ക് (tēkkŭ) or Tamil தேக்கு (tēkku).

Noun

teek (countable and uncountable, plural teeks)

1. Obsolete form of teak.
   • 1794–95, Proceedings Relative to Ships Tendered for the Service of the United East-India Company, from the Twenty-sixth of March, 1794, to the Sixth of January, 1795:‎^[1], Extract from Major Rennel's Memoir, page 885:

     The Teek forests, from whence the marine yard at Bombay are furnished with that excellent species of ship timber, lie along the western side of the Gaut Mountains, and other contiguous ridges of hills, on the north and north-east of Basseen; the numerous rivulets that descend from thence affording water-carriage for the timber. I cannot close this account, without remarking the unpardonable negligence we are guilty of, in delaying to build Teek ships of war for the use of the Indians seas.

Etymology 2

Clipping of telekinetic

Noun

teek (plural teeks)

1. (science fiction) A telekinetic person; a person who has telekinetic abilities.
   • 2011, Nate Kenyon, StarCraft Ghost: Spectres, →ISBN, page 140:

     She stood there dumbfounded as the door swung open and banged against the inside wall, narrowly missing her.¶ I did that, she thought. I'm a... teek?

Synonyms

• telekinetic

Verb

teek (third-person singular simple present teeks, present participle teeking, simple past and past participle teeked)

1. (science fiction, transitive) To use telekinesis on; to move (something) with the power of one's mind.
   • 1957 April, Robert Silverberg, “Hidden Talent”, in Worlds of If‎^[2], page 27:

     Tears of pain came to his eyes—and he didn’t know which hurt more, the pain of the soup on his arm or the real shock he had received when he had forced himself to keep from teeking the falling soup halfway across the room.

   • 2011, Nate Kenyon, StarCraft Ghost: Spectres, →ISBN, page 44:

     With a brief psionic push, Nova teeked them aside and into the rock, firing her rifle at the soft areas just above the creature's rib cage.

See also

• teep (“telepathy”)

Anagrams

• 'keet, keet

Basque

Noun

teek

1. ergative plural of te

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch teke, from Old Dutch *tika, from Proto-West Germanic *tīkō (“tick”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /teːk/

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• Hyphenation: teek
• Rhymes: -eːk

Noun

teek m (plural teken, diminutive teekje n)

1. tick (insect)

Derived terms

• schapenteek
• tekenkaart
• tekentang

 

Anagrams

• keet