different between tech vs techno

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

Clipping of technology.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?t?kno?/

Noun

techno (uncountable)

1. (music) A repetitive style of music originally produced for use in a continuous DJ set. The central rhythmic component is most often in common time (4/4), where time is marked with a bass drum on each quarter note pulse, a backbeat played by snare or clap on the second and fourth pulses of the bar, and an open hi-hat sounding every second eighth note.

Derived terms

• technopop
• technorock

Translations

See also

• techno-
• house
• trance

Anagrams

• Conteh, Tonche

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?t?xno]

Noun

techno n

1. techno (music style)

Related terms

• See technika

Further reading

• techno in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz

French

Etymology

From English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?k.no/

Noun

techno m (uncountable)

1. techno

Further reading

• “techno” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?k.no/
• Rhymes: -?kno
• Hyphenation: tèch?no

Noun

techno m (invariable)

1. (music) techno

Polish

Etymology

From English techno.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?x.n?/

Noun

techno n (indeclinable)

1. techno music

Further reading

• techno in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• techno in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Noun

techno m (plural technos)

1. (music) techno (a style of electronic dancing music)

Spanish

Noun

techno m (uncountable)

1. techno