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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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thing
English
Alternative forms
- thang (slang, pronunciation spelling, usually used to denote a known fad or popular activity)
- thin' (informal, pronunciation spelling)
- thinge (archaic)
- thynge (obsolete)
- ting (Caribbean creoles, MLE)
Etymology
From Middle English thing, from Old English þing, from Proto-Germanic *þing?; compare West Frisian ding, Low German Ding, Dutch ding, German Ding, Swedish, Danish and Norwegian ting. The word originally meant "assembly", then came to mean a specific issue discussed at such an assembly, and ultimately came to mean most broadly "an object". Compare Latin r?s, also meaning "legal matter", and same transition from Latin causa (“legal matter”) to "thing" in Romance languages. Modern use to refer to a Germanic assembly is likely influenced by cognates (from the same Proto-Germanic root) like Old Norse þing (“thing”), Swedish ting, and Old High German ding with this meaning.
Pronunciation
- enPR: th?ng, IPA(key): /???/
- Rhymes: -??
Noun
thing (plural things)
- That which is considered to exist as a separate entity, object, quality or concept.
- 1611 — King James Version of the Bible, Luke 1:1
- Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us...
- 1611 — King James Version of the Bible, Luke 1:1
- A word, symbol, sign, or other referent that can be used to refer to any entity.
- An individual object or distinct entity.
- (informal) A genuine concept, entity or phenomenon; something that actually exists (often contrary to expectation or belief). [from 20th c.]
- 2014, Marianna Papastephanou, Torill Strand, Anne Pirrie, Philosophy as a Lived Experience
- Frequent statements of the kind “'Race' is not a thing”, “'races,' put simply, do not exist”, “'race' (as each essay subtly shows) simply does not exist” aim to discredit Todorov's claim that a relapse to an ontology of race is at place […]
- 2019, Adam Gopnik, A Thousand Small Sanities, Riverrun 2019, p. 88:
- Conservative philosophy, in other words, is, as we say now, a thing and deserves a serious listen.
- 2014, Marianna Papastephanou, Torill Strand, Anne Pirrie, Philosophy as a Lived Experience
- (law)
- Whatever can be owned.
- Corporeal object.
- (somewhat dated, with the) The latest fad or fashion.
- 1802, Anne Ormsby, "Memoirs of a Family in Swisserland", quoted in The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal page 45:
- To go to bed late, to rise late, to breakfast late, to dine late, and to visit late, is to be “quite the thing,” or in good English, which you may understand better than the first phrase, to be in the fashion.
- 2002, Roger Nichols, The Harlequin Years: Music in Paris 1917-1929, Univ of California Press (?ISBN)
- After a slow start it became the thing to do; 'everyone went to see Pbi-Pbi, no one talked of anything but Pbi-Pbi […] '
- 1802, Anne Ormsby, "Memoirs of a Family in Swisserland", quoted in The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal page 45:
- (in the plural) Clothes, possessions or equipment.
- (informal) A unit or container, usually containing edible goods.
- 2011, Juliette Fay, Deep Down True: A Novel, Penguin (?ISBN)
- I came home and ate a whole thing of ice cream.
- 2011, Juliette Fay, Deep Down True: A Novel, Penguin (?ISBN)
- (informal) A problem, dilemma, or complicating factor.
- (slang) A penis.
- 1959, William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, 50th anniversary edition (2009), p. 126:
- “Oh Gertie it’s true. It’s all true. They’ve got a horrid gash instead of a thrilling thing.”
- 1959, William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, 50th anniversary edition (2009), p. 126:
- A living being or creature.
- That which matters; the crux.
- Used after a noun to refer dismissively to the situation surrounding the noun's referent.
- 1914, Eugene Gladstone O'Neill, The Movie Man [playscript]:
- Don’t forget to have Gomez postpone that shooting thing. (in reference to the execution of Fernandez)
- 1914, Eugene Gladstone O'Neill, The Movie Man [playscript]:
- (informal) That which is favoured; personal preference. (Used in possessive constructions.)
- (chiefly historical) A public assembly or judicial council in a Germanic country.
- 1974, Jón Jóhannesson, A History of the Old Icelandic Commonwealth: Íslendinga Saga, translated by Haraldur Bessason, page 46:
- In accordance with Old Germanic custom men came to the thing fully armed, [...]
- 1974, Jakob Benediktsson, Landnám og upphaf allsherjarríkis, in Saga Íslands, quoted in 1988 by Jesse L. Byock in Medieval Iceland: Society, Sagas, and Power, page 85:
- The goðar seem both to have received payment of thing-fararkaup from those who stayed home and at the same time compensated those who went to the thing, and it cannot be seen whether they had any profit from these transactions.
- 1988, Jesse L. Byock, Medieval Iceland: Society, Sagas, and Power, page 59:
- All Icelandic things were skap-thing, meaning that they were governed by established procedure and met at regular legally designated intevals at predetermined meeting places.
- 1974, Jón Jóhannesson, A History of the Old Icelandic Commonwealth: Íslendinga Saga, translated by Haraldur Bessason, page 46:
- (informal) A romantic relationship.
Synonyms
- (referent that can be used to refer to any entity): item, stuff (uncountable equivalent), yoke (Ireland)
- (penis): see Thesaurus:penis
- (personal preference): see Thesaurus:predilection
Derived terms
Related terms
- diminutives: thingy / thingie, thingo [Aus]
Translations
Further reading
- thing in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- thing in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Verb
thing (third-person singular simple present things, present participle thinging, simple past and past participle thinged)
- (rare) To express as a thing; to reify.
Anagrams
- Night, night
Khumi Chin
Etymology
From Proto-Kuki-Chin *thi?, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *si?. Cognates include Mizo thing and Zou sing.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t???/
Noun
thing
- firewood
References
- K. E. Herr (2011) The phonological interpretation of minor syllables, applied to Lemi Chin?[1], Payap University, page 44
Middle English
Alternative forms
- thinge, ðhing
Etymology
From Old English þing, from Proto-West Germanic *þing.
Noun
thing (plural thinges)
- thing
Descendants
- English: thing
- Scots: thing, ting, hing
- Yola: dhing
References
- “thing, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Mizo
Etymology
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *si?. Akin to Khumi Chin thing.
Noun
thing
- tree
- wood
- firewood
References
- Matisoff, James A., Handbook of Proto-Tibeto-Burman, University of California Press.
Old Dutch
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *þing?.
Noun
thing n
- thing, object
- case, matter, issue
Inflection
Descendants
- Middle Dutch: dinc
- Dutch: ding
- Afrikaans: ding
- Limburgish: dink, ding
- Dutch: ding
Further reading
- “think”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012
Old High German
Alternative forms
- ding, dink
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *þing?
Noun
thing n
- thing, object
- matter, case
Declension
Descendants
- Middle High German: ding
- Cimbrian: ding
- German: Ding
- Luxembourgish: Déngen
- Pennsylvania German: Ding
Old Saxon
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *þing. Compare Old Dutch thing, Old Frisian thing, Old English þing, Old High German ding, Old Norse þing.
Noun
thing n
- thing, object
- matter, case
Declension
Descendants
- Middle Low German: dink
- German Low German: Ding
- Plautdietsch: Dinkj
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