Neem vs Teem - What's the difference?
neem | teem |
a large, mostly evergreen tree from India, , whose seeds yield the insecticide azadirachtin
* 2008 , Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger , Atlantic 2009, p. 108:
To be stocked to overflowing.
* Sir Walter Scott
To be prolific; to abound.
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, title= To bring forth young, as an animal; to produce fruit, as a plant; to bear; to be pregnant; to conceive; to multiply.
* Shakespeare
(archaic) To empty.
* 1913 ,
*:“Are you sure they’re good lodgings?” she asked.
*:“Yes—yes. Only—it’s a winder when you have to pour your own tea out—an’ nobody to grouse if you team it in your saucer and sup it up. It somehow takes a’ the taste out of it.”
To pour (especially with rain)
To pour, as steel, from a melting pot; to fill, as a mould, with molten metal.
As a noun neem
is a large, mostly evergreen tree from India, species: Azadirachta indica, whose seeds yield the insecticide azadirachtin.As a verb teem is
to be stocked to overflowing.neem
English
(wikipedia neem)Noun
(en noun)- He was standing at the gate, rubbing his teeth with a twig broken from a neem tree – which is what many poor people in my country do, Mr Premier, when they want to clean their teeth.
Synonyms
* margosa *Derived terms
* neem caketeem
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) , whence also team.Verb
(en verb)- his mind teeming with schemes of future deceit to cover former villainy
Snakes and ladders, passage=Risk is everywhere. From tabloid headlines insisting that coffee causes cancer (yesterday, of course, it cured it) to stern government warnings about alcohol and driving, the world is teeming with goblins.}}
- If she must teem , / Create her child of spleen.