tech

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English

Etymology

Clipping of technology, technician, and technique.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɛk/, [tʰɛk]
• Rhymes: -ɛk
• Homophone: TEK

Noun

tech (countable and uncountable, plural techs)

2. (informal) Technology.
   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.

4. (informal) Technician; technologist.

   Hyponyms: lab tech, surg tech
6. (informal) Technique.
8. (informal, used in titles) Technical college; technical school.

10. (informal) Short for technical rehearsal..

Derived terms

Related terms

• technology
• technological

Verb

tech (third-person singular simple present techs, present participle teching, simple past and past participle teched)

1. (video games) To perform a technical (a special move in fighting games that cancels out an opposing attack).

Anagrams

• Chet, chet, echt, etch, hect-

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English tech; superficially a clipping of technologie, which is also reflected in the pronunciation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɛx/, /tɛk/

Noun

tech m (uncountable)

1. tech (technology), particularly high-tech or digital technology

Derived terms

Related terms

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• teg

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *tegos, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tégos (“cover, roof”), from *(s)teg- (“to cover”); cognate with Ancient Greek τέγος (tégos).

The -ch is analogical to other nouns and adjectives where final non-palatal -ch alternates with palatal -ig.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʲex/

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
• ⇒ Middle Irish: tech midchuarta
• ⇒ Middle Irish: tech n-óil
• ⇒ Middle Irish: tech talman
• ⇒ Classical Gaelic: teach othuir

Mutation

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “tech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language