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teem
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English temen (“to bear, to support”), from Old English t?man (“to give birth”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ti?m/
- Rhymes: -i?m
- Homophone: team
Verb
teem (third-person singular simple present teems, present participle teeming, simple past and past participle teemed)
- To be stocked to overflowing.
- To be prolific; to abound; to be rife.
- (obsolete) To bring forth young, as an animal; to produce fruit, as a plant; to bear; to be pregnant; to conceive; to multiply.
Related terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English temen (“to drain”), from Old Norse tœma, from Proto-Germanic *t?mijan? (“to empty, make empty”). Related to English toom (“empty, vacant”). More at toom.
Verb
teem (third-person singular simple present teems, present participle teeming, simple past and past participle teemed)
- (archaic) To empty.
- 1849, G. C. Greenwell, A Glossary of Terms used in the Coal Trade of Northumberland and Durham
- [The banksman] also puts the full tubs to the weighing machine, and thence to the skreens, upon which he teems the coals. It is also his duty to keep an account of the quantity of coals and stones drawn each day.
- 1849, G. C. Greenwell, A Glossary of Terms used in the Coal Trade of Northumberland and Durham
- To pour (especially with rain)
- To pour, as steel, from a melting pot; to fill, as a mould, with molten metal.
Translations
Etymology 3
From Middle English temen (“to be suitable, befit”), from Old English *teman, from Proto-Germanic *teman? (“to fit”). Cognate with Low German temen, tamen (“to befit”), Dutch betamen (“to befit”), German ziemen. See also tame (adjective) and compare beteem.
Verb
teem (third-person singular simple present teems, present participle teeming, simple past and past participle teemed)
- (obsolete, rare) To think fit.
- 1603, George Gifford, Dialogue of Witches
- Ah, said he, thou hast confessed and bewrayed all, I could teem it to rend thee in pieces
- 1603, George Gifford, Dialogue of Witches
Anagrams
- Teme, etem, meet, mete, teme
Dutch
Pronunciation
Verb
teem
- first-person singular present indicative of temen
- imperative of temen
Farefare
Etymology
Cognate with Moore toeeme (“to change”)
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /té?m/
Verb
teem
- to move something
- S??? ka teem b??s? la
- Go move the goats
- S??? ka teem b??s? la
Middle English
Noun
teem
- Alternative form of teme (“folk”)
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cram
English
Etymology
From Middle English crammen, from Old English crammian (“to cram; stuff”), from Proto-West Germanic *kramm?n, from Proto-Germanic *kramm?n?, a secondary verb derived from *krimman? (“to stuff”), from Proto-Indo-European *ger- (“to assemble; collect; gather”). Compare Old English crimman (“to cram; stuff; insert; press; bruise”), Icelandic kremja (“to squeeze; crush; bruise”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?æm/
- Rhymes: -æm
Verb
cram (third-person singular simple present crams, present participle cramming, simple past and past participle crammed)
- (transitive) To press, force, or drive, particularly in filling, or in thrusting one thing into another; to stuff; to fill to superfluity.
- (transitive) To fill with food to satiety; to stuff.
- (transitive) To put hastily through an extensive course of memorizing or study, as in preparation for an examination.
- (intransitive) To study hard; to swot.
- (intransitive) To eat greedily, and to satiety; to stuff oneself.
- (intransitive, dated, British slang) To lie; to intentionally not tell the truth.
- (transitive, dated, British slang) To make (a person) believe false or exaggerated tales.
Derived terms
- crammable, crammer, cram school, cram-full, cram session
Translations
Noun
cram (countable and uncountable, plural crams)
- The act of cramming (forcing or stuffing something).
- Information hastily memorized.
- (weaving) A warp having more than two threads passing through each dent or split of the reed.
- (dated, British slang) A lie; a falsehood.
- (uncountable) A mathematical board game in which players take turns placing dominoes horizontally or vertically until no more can be placed, the loser being the player who cannot continue.
- A small friendship book with limited space for people to enter their information.
- 2017, Mark Duffett, Fan Identities and Practices in Context: Dedicated to Music (page 194)
- Regular friendship books had a variety of variations, such as slams, crams, and decos.
- 2017, Mark Duffett, Fan Identities and Practices in Context: Dedicated to Music (page 194)
Synonyms
- (lie): see Thesaurus:lie
Translations
Anagrams
- MRCA, Marc, macr-, marc, mrca
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