different between technical vs technique

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

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French technique (“technicality; branch of knowledge”), noun use of technique (“technical”), from Ancient Greek ???????? (tekhnikós, “of or pertaining to art, artistic, skilful”), from ????? (tékhn?, “art, handicraft”), from ??????? (tíktein, “to bring forth, produce, engender”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /t?k?ni?k/

Noun

technique (countable and uncountable, plural techniques)

1. (uncountable) The practical aspects of a given art, occupation etc.; formal requirements. [from 19th c.]
   • 1924, HE Wortham, A Musical Odyssey, p. 97:

     Brahms, after realizing that the technique of the piano was developing along mistaken lines, and his own danger of stereotyping his style, keeps away from it for most of his middle age [...].
2. (uncountable) Practical ability in some given field or practice, often as opposed to creativity or imaginative skill. [from 19th c.]
   • 2011, "Bhimsen Joshi", The Economist, 3 Feb 2011:

     Yet those who packed concert halls to listen to him sing, as Indians did for over six decades, rarely mentioned his technique.

3. (countable) A method of achieving something or carrying something out, especially one requiring some skill or knowledge. [from 19th c.]
   • 2011, Paul Lewis & Matthew Taylor, The Guardian, 16 Mar 2011:

     They said executives were warned about one technique nicknamed "carpet karaoke", which involved bending deportees over in aircraft seats to silence them.

Derived terms

• teqball

Related terms

• technic
• technical
• technician
• techniquing

Translations

Further reading

• technique in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• technique in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• technique at OneLook Dictionary Search

French

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????? (tekhnikós, “of or pertaining to art, artistic, skilful”), from ????? (tékhn?, “art, handicraft”), from ??????? (tíktein, “to bring forth, produce”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?k.nik/

Adjective

technique (plural techniques)

1. technical

Noun

technique f (plural techniques)

1. technique, technology

Further reading

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