tech

English

Etymology

Clipping of technology, technician, and technique.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɛk/,

• Audio (Southern England)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛk
• Homophone: TEK

Noun

tech (countable and uncountable, plural techs)

1. (informal) Technology.

   I can't understand all this new tech.

   • 2012, Nancy Lyons, Meghan Wilker, Interactive Project Management: Pixels, People, and Process:

     Remember, something that seems straightforward to you can be very scary to people who don't have enough info or tech knowledge to provide a context or meaning on their own.

   • 2023 July 12, Paul Clifton, “Network News: Training starts on heavily delayed SWR Arterios”, in RAIL, number 987, page 22:

     "The tech on this is really good. But in essence, it's still a train any competent driver should be able to learn easily.

   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.

2. (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.

3. (informal) Technique.
4. (informal, used in titles) Technical college.

   Greenville Technical College is informally known as Greenville Tech.

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-

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

Mutation

Further reading

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “tech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language