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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 Latin technicus, from Ancient Greek ????? (tékhn?, “skill”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?k.n?k.?l/

Adjective

technical (comparative more technical, superlative most technical)

1. Specifically related to a particular discipline.
2. Of or related to technology.
3. (of a person) Technically-minded; adept with science and technology.
4. Relating to, or requiring, technique.

   The performance showed technical virtuosity, but lacked inspiration.
5. Requiring advanced techniques for successful completion.
6. (securities and other markets) Relating to the internal mechanics of a market rather than more basic factors.

   The market had a technical rally, due to an oversold condition.

7. In the strictest sense, but not practically or meaningfully.

   Crossing the front lawn of that house to get to the mailbox was a technical trespass.

Antonyms

• non-technical, nontechnical

Coordinate terms

• (securities and other markets): fundamental

Derived terms

Related terms

• technological
• technically
• technology

Translations

Noun

technical (plural technicals)

1. A pickup truck with a gun mounted on it.
2. (basketball) Short for technical foul.
3. (video games) A special move in certain fighting games that cancels out the effect of an opponent's attack.
4. Short for technical school.
5. Short for technical course.
6. Short for technical examination.

Translations

References

• “technical” in The New Oxford American Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2005
• "technical" in WordNet 3.0, Princeton University, 2006.
• technical at OneLook Dictionary Search

Further reading

• technical on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• catchline, clean chit