different between tech vs teacher

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

English

Etymology

From Middle English techere, equivalent to teach +? -er. More at teach.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?tit???/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?ti?t???/
• Rhymes: -i?t??(?)
• Hyphenation: teach?er

Noun

teacher (plural teachers)

1. A person who teaches, especially one employed in a school.
2. The index finger; the forefinger.
3. An indication; a lesson.
4. (Mormonism) The second highest office in the Aaronic priesthood, held by priesthood holders of at least the age of 14.

Synonyms

• (person who teaches): preceptor
• (index finger): See Thesaurus:index finger

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• cheater, hectare, rechate, recheat, reteach

Spanish

Alternative forms

• tícher

Etymology

Borrowed from English teacher.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tit??e?/, [?t?i.t??e?]

Noun

teacher m or f (plural teachers)

1. a teacher of English