Money vs Tea - What's the difference?
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A legally or socially binding conceptual contract of entitlement to wealth, void of intrinsic value, payable for all debts and taxes, and regulated in supply.
A generally accepted means of exchange and measure of value.
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, title= A currency maintained by a state or other entity which can guarantee its value (such as a monetary union).
Hard cash in the form of banknotes and coins, as opposed to cheques/checks, credit cards, or credit more generally.
The total value of liquid assets available for an individual or other economic unit, such as cash and bank deposits.
Wealth.
An item of value between two parties used for the exchange of goods or services.
A person who funds an operation.
(as a modifier) Of or pertaining to money ; monetary.
(uncountable) The dried leaves or buds of the tea plant, .
(uncountable) The drink made by infusing these dried leaves or buds in hot water.
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, chapter=2 (countable) A variety of the tea plant.
(uncountable) By extension, any drink made by infusing parts of various other plants.
A cup of any one of these drinks, often with a small amount of milk or cream added and sweetened with sugar or honey.
(countable, Southern US) A glass of iced tea, typically served with ice cubes and sometimes with a slice or wedge of lemon.
(uncountable, UK) A light meal eaten mid-afternoon, typically with tea.
(uncountable, New Zealand, British, Australia) The main evening meal, irrespective of whether tea is drunk with it.
(cricket) The break in play between the second]] and [[third session, third sessions.
(slang, dated) Marijuana.
* 1940 , (Raymond Chandler), Farewell, My Lovely , Penguin 2010, page 103:
* 1946 , (Mezz Mezzrow) and (Bernard Wolfe), Really the Blues , Payback Press 1999, page 74:
* 1947 , (William Burroughs), letter, 11 Mar 1947:
To drink tea.
To take afternoon tea (the light meal).
* 1877 , The Bicycling Times and Tourist's Gazette (page 38)
As a noun money
is a legally or socially binding conceptual contract of entitlement to wealth, void of intrinsic value, payable for all debts and taxes, and regulated in supply.As an initialism tea is
(northern ireland) training and employment agency.money
English
(money)Noun
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Synonyms
* beer tickets, bread, bucks, cake, cash, cheddar, coin, cream, currency, dinars, dosh, dough, ends, folding stuff, funds, geld, gelt, greenbacks, jack, legal tender, lolly, moolah, lucre, paper, pennies, readies, sheets, shrapnel, spends, spondulicks, sterling, wonga * (generally accepted means of exchange and measure of value) * (currency maintained by a state or other entity which can guarantee its value) * (hard cash in the form of banknotes and coins) * See alsoDerived terms
* bad money * bank money * bar money * black money * blood money * bullet money * call money * cash money * caution money * checkbook money * coat money * conduct money * conscience money * cost of money * credit money * current money * deposit money * dirty money * dispatch money * door money * earnest money * easy money * even money * fiat money * folding money * foreign money * front money * full-bodied money * fun money * funny money * get one's money's worth * gun money * hard money * head money * hot money * house money * hush money * if money * in the money * key money * lawful money * mad money * maundy money * money belt * money broker * money changer * money changing * money chest * money clip * money cowrie * money crop * money doesn't grow on trees * money economy * money illusion * money laundering * moneymaker * money makes the world go round * money market * money of account * money order * money pit * money plant * money rate * money scrivener * money supply * money spider * money spinner * money's worth * Monopoly money * near-money * necessity money * neutral money * new money * old money * paper money * pin money * plastic money * plate money * play money * pocket money * power of money * price of money * prize money * protection money * push money * ready money * rent money * representative money * run for one's money * seed money * ship money * side money * silly money * sin money * sit down money * smart money * spending money * sound money * standard money * till money * time money * time is money * token money * tribute money * trophy money * up-front money * value for moneyStatistics
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English
(wikipedia tea)Noun
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- So they were evidence. Evidence of what? That a man occasionally smoked a stick of tea , a man who looked as if any touch of the exotic would appeal to him. On the other hand lots of tough guys smoked marijuana .
- Tea puts a musician in a real masterly sphere, and that's why so many jazzmen have used it.
- Here in Texas possession of tea is a felony calling for 2 years.
Usage notes
In many places tea is assumed to mean hot tea, while in the southern United States, it is assumed to mean iced tea.Synonyms
* (dried leaves of tea plant) tea leaves * (drink made by infusing parts of various other plants) herb tea, herbal tea, infusion, tisaneDerived terms
* afternoon tea * all the tea in China * bed tea * black tea * builder's tea * camomile tea * cream tea * cup of tea * Devonshire tea * fruit tea * green tea * herb tea, herbal tea * herbal tea * high tea * iced tea * Long Island iced tea * morning tea * mint tea * red tea * rooibos tea * sugar honey ice tea * tea and toaster * teabag * teaberry * teaboy * tea break * tea caddy * teacake * tea cart * tea ceremony * tea cloth * tea cosy * teacup * teahouse, tea house * teakettle * tea leaf (Cockney rhyming slang) * tea leaves * tea pad * tea party * tea plant * teapot * tea room * tea service * teaspoon * tea strainer * teatime * tea towel * tea tray * tea trolley * tea urn * tea wagon * white teaVerb
(en verb)- 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
