tech
See also: Tech., tech-, -tech, and těch
English
Etymology
Clipping of technology, technician, and technique.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɛk/, [tʰɛk]
Audio (UK) (file) - Rhymes: -ɛk
Noun
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.
Derived terms
- agrotech
- biotech
- cleantech
- cytotech
- edtech
- fintech
- high-tech
- histotech
- hi-tech
- legaltech
- low-tech
- martech
- medtech
- paytech
- tech abuse
- techie
- tech-savvy
- tech support
- tech wreck
Related terms
- technology
- technological
Verb
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).
Anagrams
- Chet, chet, echt, etch, hect-
Old Irish
Alternative forms
- teg
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *tegos, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tégos (“cover, roof”), from *(s)teg- (“to cover”); cognate with Ancient Greek τέγος (tégos).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tʲex/
Noun
tech n (genitive tige or taige, nominative plural tige or taige)
- house
- Synonyms: attrab, dom, lann, tegdais, treb
Declension
| Neuter s-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 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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Derived terms
- tech midchuarta
- tech n-óil
- tech n-othar
- tech othrais
- tech screptra
- tech sét
- tech talman
- teglach
Descendants
- Irish: teach
- Manx: çhagh, thie
- Scottish Gaelic: taigh
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 reading
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “tech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language