different between tea vs bean

English

Etymology 1

Circa 1650, from Dutch thee, from Min Nan ? (tê) (Amoy dialect), from Old Chinese, ultimately from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-la (“leaf, tea”).

Introduced to English and other Western European languages by the Dutch East India Company, who sourced their tea in Amoy; compare Malay teh along the same trade route. Doublet of chai and cha (and, distantly, lahpet), from same Proto-Sino-Tibetan root; see discussion of cognates.

Alternative forms

• tay

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: t?, IPA^(key): /ti/, [t?i]
• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: t?, IPA^(key): /ti?/, [t?i?]
• Rhymes: -i?
• Homophones: T, te, tee, ti

Noun

tea (countable and uncountable, plural teas)

1. (uncountable) The tea plant (Camellia sinensis); (countable) a variety of this plant.

2. (uncountable) The dried leaves or buds of the tea plant; (countable) a variety of such leaves.

3. (uncountable) The drink made by infusing these dried leaves or buds in hot water.
4. (uncountable) Any similar drink made by infusing parts of various other plants.

5. (uncountable) Meat stock served as a hot drink.

6. (countable, Commonwealth of Nations, northern US) A cup or (East Asia, Southern US) glass of any of these drinks, often with milk, sugar, lemon, and/or tapioca pearls.
7. (uncountable, Britain) A light midafternoon meal, typically but not necessarily including tea.
   • 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, p. 23:

     Tea was a very special institution, revolving as it did around the ceremony and worship of Toast. In [public schools] where alcohol, tobacco and drugs were forbidden, it was essential that something should take their place as a powerful and public totem of virility and cool. Toast, for reasons lost in time, was the substance chosen.

8. (uncountable, Commonwealth of Nations) Synonym of supper, the main evening meal, whether or not it includes tea.

9. (cricket) The break in play between the second and third sessions.
10. (slang, dated) Synonym of marijuana.
    • 1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin 2010, page 103:

      So they were evidence. Evidence of what? That a man occasionally smoked a stick of tea, a man who looked as if any touch of the exotic would appeal to him. On the other hand lots of tough guys smoked marijuana […] .

    • 1946, Mezz Mezzrow & al., Really the Blues, Payback Press, 1999, page 74:

      Tea puts a musician in a real masterly sphere, and that's why so many jazzmen have used it.

    • 1947 March 11, William Burroughs, letter:

      Here in Texas possession of tea is a felony calling for 2 years.

11. (slang, especially gay slang and African-American Vernacular) Information, especially gossip.
    • 2015, Sonya Shuman, Doors of the Church Are Open: Smoke & Mirrors by Sonya Shuman:

      "What's the tea on you and China? Where she at Alicia? You should know where ya baby at."

Usage notes

In most places tea is assumed to mean hot tea, while in the southern United States, it is assumed to mean iced tea.

Synonyms

• (plant): tea plant, tea tree, tea bush
• (leaves): tea leaves
• (beverage): see Thesaurus:tea
• (beverages similar to tea): herb tea, herbal tea, infusion, tisane
• (a light meal): see afternoon tea & Thesaurus:meal

Hyponyms

• (beverage): see Thesaurus:tea

Derived terms

Descendants

• Gullah: tea
• Jamaican Creole: tea
• ? Abenaki: ti
• ? Chickasaw: tii'
• ? Cocopa: ?i·
• ? Cornish: té
• ? Cree:

  Canadian syllabics: ?? (tiy)

  Latin: tiy

• ? Inuktitut: ? (tii)
• ? Irish: tae
• ? Maori: t?
• ? Malecite-Passamaquoddy: ti
• ? Mikasuki: ti'g'tlo'q, ji'gitlo'q (“kettle”) (from "tea kettle")
• ? Panamint: tii
• ? Telugu: ?? (??)
• ? Unami: ti
• ? Welsh: te

Translations

See tea/translations § Noun.

Verb

tea (third-person singular simple present teas, present participle teaing, simple past and past participle teaed)

1. To drink tea.
2. To take afternoon tea (the light meal).
   • 1877, The Bicycling Times and Tourist's Gazette (page 38)

     The wind was high and the hills ditto, and both being against us we were late in reaching Hitchin (30 from Cambridge), so giving up the idea of reaching Oxford we toiled on through Luton, on to Dunstable (47), where we teaed moderately […]

Etymology 2

From Chinese ? (“tea”).

Noun

tea (plural teas)

1. A moment, a historical unit of time from China, about the amount of time needed to quickly drink a traditional cup of tea. It is now found in Chinese-language historical fiction.

Usage notes

This term is found in English translations of Chinese-language historical fiction, where it is used to give the work an ancient Chinese feel.

References

Anagrams

• -ate, AET, Até, Atë, ETA, a.e.t., aet, ate, eat, eta, æt.

Basque

Noun

tea

1. absolutive singular of te

Ese

Noun

tea

1. feces; excrement

Galician

Etymology 1

13th century (Cantigas de Santa Maria). From Old Galician and Old Portuguese tea, from Latin t?la. Cognate with Portuguese teia and Spanish tela.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tea?/

Noun

tea f (plural teas)

1. (uncountable) cloth
2. (countable) a piece of cloth
   • 1326, Antonio López Ferreiro (ed.), Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática. Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 300:

     It. mando que todollos lenços delgados et teas de rens que os tome Garcia perez. et que faça delles fazer uestimentas para o altar de Sta Maria.

     Item, I command that every fine linen and the clothes of Reims to be taken by Garcia Perez, who should make them into clothes for the altar of Saint Mary

3. spiderweb

   Synonym: arañeira

4. canvas

   Synonym: lenzo

5. film (skin)

   Synonym: película

Derived terms

• tear

Etymology 2

13th century (Cantigas de Santa Maria). From Latin taeda, from Ancient Greek ???? (dáos, “torch”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tea?/

Noun

tea f (plural teas)

1. torch

   Synonyms: facha, fachuzo

References

• “tea” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “tea” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “tea” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “tea” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “tea” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Hungarian

Etymology

From Dutch thee, from Min Nan ? (tê, “tea”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?t??], [?t?j?]
• Hyphenation: tea
• Rhymes: -?, -j?

Noun

tea (plural teák)

1. tea

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

• tea in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Maori

Adjective

tea

1. white

Derived terms

• Aotearoa

Rapa Nui

Noun

tea

1. dawn

Derived terms

• tea tea

Sedang

Noun

tea

1. water
2. body of water: river, lake, etc
3. liquid
4. wine

References

• Kenneth D. Smith, Sedang Dictionary (2012), page 375

Spanish

Alternative forms

• teda (rare)

Etymology

From Latin taeda.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tea/, [?t?e.a]

Noun

tea f (plural teas)

1. torch (a stick with a flame on one end, used chiefly as a light source)

   Synonym: antorcha
2. (colloquial) intoxication, drunkenness

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:borrachera

Further reading

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

English

Etymology

From Middle English bene, from Old English b?an (“bean, pea, legume”), from Proto-West Germanic *baunu, from Proto-Germanic *baun? (“bean”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?ab?- (“bean”). Cognate with Scots bene, bein (“bean”), West Frisian bean (“bean”), Dutch boon (“bean”), German Bohne (“bean”), Danish bønne (“bean”), Icelandic baun (“bean”), Latin faba (“bean”), Russian ??? (bob, “bean”), Serbo-Croatian ????/b?b. Doublet of fava.

Pronunciation

• enPR: b?n, IPA^(key): /bi?n/
• Homophone: been (in some dialects)
• Rhymes: -i?n

Noun

bean (plural beans)

1. Any plant of several genera of the taxonomic family Fabaceae that produces large edible seeds or edible seedpods.
   • 2004, T. N. Shivenanda, B. R. V. Iyengar, Phosphorus Management in French Bean (Phaseolus Vulgaris L.), Ramdane Dris, S. Mohan Jain (editors), Production Practices and Quality Assessment of Food Crops, Volume 2: Plant Mineral Nutrition and Pesticide Management, page 79,

     Beans are a large group of leguminous vegetables that serve as a main source of proteins in human diet. This group comprises several species and some of them are Adzuki bean (Vigna angularis); Broad bean (Vicia faba); Cluster bean (Cyamposis tetragonoloba); French bean (Phaseolus vulgaris); […] .

2. The large edible seed of such a plant (for example, a broad bean, navy bean or garbanzo bean).
3. The edible seedpod of such a plant.

   Green beans, also called French beans, can be pickled and made into pickled beans.

4. (by extension) The bean-like seed of certain other plants, such a a vanilla bean or (especially) a coffee bean.
5. (by extension) An object resembling a pea or bean in shape, often made from plastic or styrofoam and used in large numbers as packing material or as stuffing for beanbags and similar items.
6. (slang) The head or brain.
   • 1959, Maxwell Droke, You and the World to Come (page 173)

     Now, there was a perfectly sound forecast for you. Certainly a case of using the old bean. The surmise was perfectly logical.
7. (slang) The clitoris.
   • 2010, Cynthia W. Gentry & Dana Fredst, What Women Really Want in Bed: The Surprising Secrets Women Wish Men Knew about Sex, Quiver (2010), ?ISBN, page 64:

     For one, don't stage a full-frontal assault on her bean.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:bean.
8. (slang, often endearing) A person.
   • 2000, April 9, Richard G Cheek, "Apologies, DimWit Dana", talk.politics.guns, Usenet:

     Sparky is a good bean, even if he is a carpet-bagging bean at that.

   • 2002 March 21, Yena, "oh my bloody god boys!", microsoft.public.xbox, Usenet:

     i dont want boid (whoever said that) he is mean. boid is a mean bean.

   • 2007, Alex Bradley, Hot Lunch, Penguin (?ISBN)

     "Good, because we like you. You're okay. You're a good bean." "I never thought I'd be friends with a cheerleader," I said.

9. (Britain, slang, archaic) A guinea coin.
10. (Britain, slang, chiefly in the negative) Money.

11. (software) Clipping of JavaBean.

    • „AppletInitializer Methods in this interface are used to initialize Beans that are also applets.“

    • „The SelectionInList uses three ValueModels to hold the list, the selection and selection index and provides bound bean properties for these models. You can access, observe and replace these ValueModels. This is useful to connect a SelectionInList with other ValueModels; for example you can use the SelectionInList's selection holder as bean channel for a PresentationModel. Since the SelectionInList is a ValueModel, it is often used as bean channel. See the Binding tutorial classes for examples on how to connect a SelectionInList with a PresentationModel.“

Usage notes

Beans and peas are sometimes misidentified with one another; they are both legumes (belong to the family Fabaceae) and seeds. Bean was later extended to other seeds belonging to the New World genus Phaseolus (runner beans, lima beans etc.). Some other non-Fabaceae plants (coffee, cocoa, vanilla, soy, ...) are also referred to as beans because of their resemblance to ordinary beans.

Peas are a type of bean with smaller, round seeds in the pod, in contrast to oval or kidney-shaped seeds usually referred to as beans. Because both terms are applied to a wide range of different legumes the distinction is not always clear: garbanzo bean is a synonym of chickpea.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Fiji Hindi: biin

Translations

Verb

bean (third-person singular simple present beans, present participle beaning, simple past and past participle beaned)

1. (chiefly baseball) To hit deliberately with a projectile, especially in the head.

Further reading

• bean on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Bean (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Bane, Bena, bane, nabe

Basque

Noun

bean

1. inessive singular of be

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?an?/
• (Cois Fharraige) IPA^(key): /b?æ?n?/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish ben, from Proto-Celtic *ben?, from Proto-Indo-European *g??n.

Noun

bean f (genitive singular mná, nominative plural mná)

1. woman
2. wife
3. (of women, girls) one

Declension

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From a conflation of Old Irish benaid (“beat, strike”) and boingid (“break, cut”).

Verb

bean (present analytic beanann, future analytic beanfaidh, verbal noun beant, past participle beanta)

1. (transitive, intransitive) Alternative form of bain

Inflection

Mutation

Further reading

• "bean" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “ben”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “benaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “boingid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• “bean” in Foclóir Gae?ilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 2nd ed., 1927, by Patrick S. Dinneen.
• Entries containing “bean” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Middle English

Etymology 1

Verb

bean (third-person singular simple present is, present participle beinge, first-/third-person singular past indicative was, past participle beon)

1. Alternative form of been (“to be”)

Etymology 2

Noun

bean (plural beanen)

1. Alternative form of bene (“bean”)

Old English

Alternative forms

• b?en

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *baunu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bæ???n/

Noun

b?an f (nominative plural b?ana or b?ane)

1. bean (especially the broad bean)

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: bene, beane, beene, beyn, ben, bean
  • English: bean
  • Scots: bein, bene
  • Yola: beanès (plural)

Polish

Etymology

From French béjaune.

Noun

bean m anim

1. (archaic) greenhorn

   Synonym: ?ó?todziób

2. (archaic) rude person

   Synonyms: cham, prostak

References

Further reading

• bean in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish ben, from Proto-Celtic *ben?, from Proto-Indo-European *g??n.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [b??n], /p?n/

Noun

bean f (genitive singular mnatha or mnà, plural mnathan)

1. woman, wife

Declension

Derived terms

• ban-, bana-, bean-

Mutation

References

• “bean” in Edward Dwelly, Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic–English Dictionary, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, 1911, ?ISBN.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “ben”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

West Frisian

Alternative forms

• beane, beanne

Etymology

From Old Frisian b?ne, from Proto-West Germanic *baunu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b???n/

Noun

bean c (plural beanen, diminutive beantsje)

1. bean

Further reading

• “bean”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011