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English

Etymology

From Japanese ?? (meka), from an abbreviation of the English mechanical.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?k?
• Homophone: mecca

Noun

mecha (plural mechas or mecha)

1. (anime, manga) A large armoured robot on legs, typically controlled by a pilot seated inside.
   • 2007, Robin E. Brenner, Understanding manga and anime (page 170)

     […] to be a “lifter”—to pilot a mecha that can also transform into an air board […]

   • 2011, Kensuke Okabayashi, Manga For Dummies (page 275)

     In this section, I show you mechas that are large enough to be piloted by humans from the inside. Although most of them are designed for combat, some function as transportation or construction mechas.

Translations

Anagrams

• Cheam, Mache, mache, meach, mâche

Galician

Etymology

15th century. From Old French mesche.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?met??a?/

Noun

mecha f (plural mechas)

1. wick (burning cord)
   • 1455, X. Ferro Couselo (ed.), A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, page 315:

     et fogil et ysca et candea de çera et hun pente e mechas de xofre e hun cordón de sedas

     and a tinderbox, and tinder, and a candle made of wax, and a comb, and sulfur wicks, and a silk cord

   Synonyms: matula, pabío, torcida

2. lock of hair

References

• “mecha” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “mecha” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “mecha” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “mecha” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Japanese

Romanization

mecha

1. R?maji transcription of ???

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?xa/, [?mæxa]

Noun

mecha

1. inflection of mech:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative dual

Mayo

Noun

mecha

1. Obsolete spelling of meecha

Portuguese

Etymology

From French mèche.

Noun

mecha f (plural mechas)

1. lock (length of hair)

   Synonyms: cacho, madeixa

2. wick (burning cord of a candle)

   Synonym: pavio

Spanish

Etymology

Perhaps from French mèche.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?met??a/, [?me.t??a]

Noun

mecha f (plural mechas)

1. wick, fuse
2. lock (length of hair)

   Synonym: bucle

3. (hair) highlights (in the plural)

Derived terms

• mecha de lado
• mechero
• mechón

See also

• espoleta
• fusible

Further reading

• “mecha” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

Clipping of technology, technician, and technique.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?k/, [t??k]
• Rhymes: -?k

Noun

tech (countable and uncountable, plural techs)

1. (informal) Technology.

   I can't understand all this new tech.

   1. 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.

2. (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.

3. (informal) Technique.
4. (informal, used in titles) Technical college.

   Greenville Technical College is informally known as Greenville Tech.

Derived terms

Related terms

• technology
• technological

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 *steg- (“to cover”); cognate with Ancient Greek ????? (tégos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?ex/

Noun

tech n (genitive tige or taige, nominative plural tige or taige)

1. house

   Synonyms: attrab, dom, lann, tegdais, treb

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

• Irish: teach
• Manx: çhagh, thie
• Scottish Gaelic: taigh

Mutation

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “tech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language