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tach
English
Etymology 1
Clipping of tachometer
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tæk/
- Rhymes: -æk
Noun
tach (plural tachs)
- (informal) Tachometer
Etymology 2
Backslang for hat (with /t?/ substituted for the /h/).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tæt?/
- Rhymes: -æt?
Noun
tach (plural taches)
- (obsolete, costermongers) A hat.
Etymology 3
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tæk/
- Rhymes: -æk
Noun
tach (uncountable)
- (medicine, colloquial) Tachycardia.
Anagrams
- ACTH, CHAT, Cath, cath, cath., chat
Cimbrian
Alternative forms
- dach (Sette Comuni)
Etymology
From Middle High German dach, from Old High German dah, from Proto-Germanic *þak? (“roof, cover”). Cognate with German Dach, English thack.
Noun
tach f
- (Luserna) roof
Declension
References
- “tach” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien
Middle English
Etymology 1
Unknown. Perhaps related to trasch or Modern English tatch (“to set grass on fire”).
Noun
tach (uncountable)
- touchwood, tinder
Alternative forms
- tache, tasch, tasche, tasshe
References
- “tach(e, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 2
From Old French tache (“stain, spot”), of uncertain origin; perhaps a native derivation, or borrowed from Gothic.
Noun
tach (plural taches)
- characteristic
- disfigurement, blemish
- symbol, sign
Alternative forms
- tacche, tachche, tatche, tak, tech, teche, tecche, tetche
Descendants
- English: tache, tatch
- Scots: tache
- ?? English: tetchy
References
- “tach(e, n.(3).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 3
Verb
tach (third-person singular simple present tacheth, present participle tachinge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle taught)
- Alternative form of techen
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tech
English
Etymology
Clipping of technology, technician, and technique.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t?k/, [t??k]
- Rhymes: -?k
Noun
tech (countable and uncountable, plural techs)
- (informal) Technology.
- I can't understand all this new tech.
- 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
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)
- 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
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