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Reem vs Teem - What's the difference?

reem | teem |

As verbs the difference between reem and teem

is that reem is to open (the seams of a vessel's planking) for the purpose of calking them while teem is to be stocked to overflowing.

As a noun reem

is a large horned animal in ancient Hebrew literature, variously identified with the wild ox or aurochs (Bos primigenius), the Arabian oryx, or a mythical creature (compare {{term|unicorn}}).

reem

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Noun

  • A large horned animal in ancient Hebrew literature, variously identified with the wild ox or aurochs (Bos primigenius ), the Arabian oryx, or a mythical creature (compare (unicorn)).
  • Etymology 2

    Compare

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (nautical) To open (the seams of a vessel's planking) for the purpose of calking them.
  • teem

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) , whence also team.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To be stocked to overflowing.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
  • his mind teeming with schemes of future deceit to cover former villainy
  • To be prolific; to abound.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=76, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= 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.}}
  • To bring forth young, as an animal; to produce fruit, as a plant; to bear; to be pregnant; to conceive; to multiply.
  • * Shakespeare
  • If she must teem , / Create her child of spleen.

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (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.
  • Etymology 3

    See tame (adjective) and compare beteem.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete, rare) To think fit.
  • Anagrams

    * meet * mete ----