Reem vs Teem - What's the difference?
reem | teem |
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)).
(nautical) To open (the seams of a vessel's planking) for the purpose of calking them.
To be stocked to overflowing.
* Sir Walter Scott
To be prolific; to abound.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=76, magazine=(The Economist)
, 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 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
Etymology 2
CompareVerb
(en verb)teem
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.