tech

Clipping of technology, technician, and technique.

• IPA^(key): /tɛk/, [tʰɛk]

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛk
• Homophone: TEK

tech (countable and uncountable, plural techs)

2. (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.

4. (informal) Technician; technologist.

   Hyponyms: lab tech, surg tech

   The service writers collaborate with the techs and communicate with the customers.

   • 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.

6. (informal) Technique.
8. (informal, used in titles) Technical college; technical school.

   Greenville Technical College is informally known as Greenville Tech.

   In high school, he attended the tech program, studying construction trades.

10. (informal) Short for technical rehearsal..
    • 2017 November 30, Marc J. Franklin, “Inside Tech Rehearsal for Broadway’s SpongeBob SquarePants, The Broadway Musical”, in Playbill‎^[1]:

      Despite his early preparation, the three-week tech period is Nigrini’s only opportunity to make his vision come to fruition.

    • 2020 December 31, Alyssa Bereznak, “Anyone Can Cook: The Oral History of Ratatouille: The Musical”, in The Ringer‎^[2]:

      Typically when you’re developing a musical you have hours of rehearsal and hours of tech, […] and everyone’s tired of the show by the end.

• technology
• technological

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).

• Chet, chet, echt, etch, hect-

• teg

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.

• IPA^(key): /tʲex/

tech n (genitive tige or taige, nominative plural tige or taige)

1. house

   Synonyms: attrab, dom, lann, tegdais, treb

Neuter s-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	techN, teg	techN, teg	tigeL, taigeH
Vocative	techN, teg	techN, teg	tigeL, taigeH
Accusative	techN, teg	techN, teg	tigeL, taigeH
Genitive	tigeL, taigeH	tige, taigeH	tigeN, taigeH
Dative	tigL, taigL	tigib	tigib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

• 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

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