tea
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Is tea a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (uncountable) The tea plant (Camellia sinensis); (countable) a variety of this plant.Examples: "Darjeeling tea is grown in India."uncountable
2. (uncountable) The dried leaves or buds of the tea plant; (countable) a variety of such leaves.Examples: "Go to the supermarket and buy some Darjeeling tea."; "Not for all the tea in China."uncountable
3. (uncountable) The drink made by infusing these dried leaves or buds in hot water.Examples: "Would you like some tea?"; "She is drinking her tea right now."; "Mother[…]considered that the exclusiveness of Peter's circle was due not to its distinction, but to the fact that it was an inner Babylon of prodigality and whoredom, from which every Kensingtonian held aloof, except on the conventional tip-and-run excursions in pursuit of shopping, tea and theatres."uncountable
4. Any drink which is similar to Camellia sinensis tea in some way:Examples: "Mushroom Tea / 8 cups water / 1 cup dried reishi mushroom pieces [...] 1. Start by making Reishi Mushroom Tea: Bring water to a boil in a medium saucepan. 2. Add the reishi mushroom pieces[…]"countableuncountable
5. Any drink which is similar to Camellia sinensis tea in some way:Examples: "camomile tea; mint tea"; "Curcuma tea relieves colds[…]"uncountable
6. Any drink which is similar to Camellia sinensis tea in some way:Examples: "beef tea"in-compoundsuncountable
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To drink tea.Examples: "We tea’d with May, and had to wait over an hour for a taxi!"; "I dined yesterday at | three on mutton chops and 1/2 pint of E[ast] I [ndian] sherry, and then tead and muffined' at 8."; "We coffeed and tead and smoked a trench torch with Grand Master Browning, and cranked our Cadillac for another station."intransitive
2. (intransitive) To take afternoon tea (a light meal).Examples: "The wind was high and the hills ditto, and both being against us we were late in reaching Hitchin (30 from Cambridge), so giving up the idea of reaching Oxford we toiled on through Luton, on to Dunstable (47), where we teaed moderately […]"intransitive
3. (transitive) To give tea to.Examples: "And they’ve got Professor Hummums with ’em, the great Everlasting Star of the Nineteenth Century, which he has breakfasted and dined and tea’d and supped here ever since yesterday."; "In half an hour they had all been tea’d and coffeed and refreshed by the nurses, and shortly after were all undressed and put to bed clean and comfortable, and in a droll state of grateful wonder;"; "But one or two evil-disposed characters muttered they might be sure the lady had her own turn to serve, and they might be sure they wasn't "teaed and muffined and sandwiched for nothing!""transitive
adj (English)
1. (slang) Good-looking, sexy.slang
noun (English)
1. (countable, Northern Ireland) Initialism of training and employment agency.Northern-Irelandabbreviationalt-ofcountableinitialism
2. (uncountable, organic chemistry) Acronym of triethylaluminium.abbreviationacronymalt-ofuncountable
3. (uncountable, organic chemistry) Abbreviation of triethylamine.abbreviationalt-ofuncountable
4. (uncountable, organic chemistry) Abbreviation of triethanolamine.abbreviationalt-ofuncountable
adj (English)
1. (US politics) Acronym of taxed enough already.USabbreviationacronymalt-ofnot-comparable
name (English)
1. (software engineering) Acronym of The Elm Architecture.abbreviationacronymalt-of
2. (computing) Acronym of Tiny Encryption Algorithmabbreviationacronymalt-of
3. (Texas, education) Acronym of Texas Education Agency.Examples: "Hinojosa presented state budget data going back to 2016 that she said shows TEA has grown by about 50% over the last decade under Gov. Greg Abbott, while the percentage of students who pass the state’s assessment tests has declined."Texasabbreviationacronymalt-of
Definition source: Wiktionary