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Team vs Teen - What's the difference?

team | teen |

As nouns the difference between team and teen

is that team is team while teen is a teenager, a person between 13 and 19 years old or teen can be (label) grief, sorrow; suffering.

As a verb teen is

(obsolete) to excite; to provoke; to vex; to afflict; to injure or teen can be (transitive|obsolete|provincial) to hedge or fence in; to enclose.

team

English

(wikipedia team)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) teme, from (etyl) . More at (l), (l).

Noun

(en noun)
  • A set of draught animals, such as two horses in front of a carriage.
  • * Macaulay
  • It happened almost every day that coaches stuck fast, until a team of cattle could be procured from some neighbouring farm to tug them out of the slough.
  • * 1931 , William Faulkner, Sanctuary , Vintage 1993, p. 111:
  • The adjacent alleys were choked with tethered wagons, the teams reversed and nuzzling gnawed corn-ears over the tail-boards.
  • Any group of people involved in the same activity, especially sports or work.
  • We need more volunteers for the netball team .
    The IT manager leads a team of three software developers.
  • (obsolete) A group of animals moving together, especially young ducks.
  • * Holland
  • a team of ducklings about her
  • * Dryden
  • a long team of snowy swans on high
  • (UK, legal, obsolete) A royalty or privilege granted by royal charter to a lord of a manor, of having, keeping, and judging in his court, his bondmen, neifes, and villains, and their offspring, or suit, that is, goods and chattels, and appurtenances thereto.
  • * ALEXANDER M. BURRILL, LAW DICTIONARY & GLOSSARY, vol II, 1871 URL: http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924022836450
  • TEAM, Theam, Tem, Them. Sax. [from tyman, to propagate, to teem.] In old English law. Literally, an offspring, race or generation. A royalty or privilege granted by royal charter to a lord of a manor, of having, keeping and judging in his court, his bondmen, neifes and villeins, and their offspring or suit. They who had a jurisdiction of this kind, were said to have a court of Theme... constantly used in the old books in connection with toll, in the expression Toll & Team.
    Usage notes
    * When referring to the actions of a sports team, British English typically uses the third-person plural form rather than the third-person singular. However, this is not done in other contexts such as in business or politics. ** **: Manchester were unable to bring the strong team they originally intended, ** **: Leeds were champions again.
    Descendants
    * German: (l)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To form a group, as for sports or work.
  • They teamed to complete the project.
  • To convey or haul with a team.
  • to team lumber
    (Thoreau)
    Derived terms
    * double-team

    Etymology 2

    Verb

    (head)
  • teen

    English

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A teenager, a person between 13 and 19 years old.
  • Etymology 2

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

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (label) Grief, sorrow; suffering.
  • *, III.5:
  • *:In which the birds song many a lovely lay / Of Gods high praise, and of their loves sweet teene , / As it an earthly Paradize had beene.
  • *1600 , (Edward Fairfax), The (Jerusalem Delivered) of (w), X, xxv:
  • *:The Soldan changed hue for grief and teen , / On that sad book his shame and loss he lear'd.''
  • *
  • *:MIRANDA: O! my heart bleeds / To think o' th' teen that I have turn'd you to, / Which is from my remembrance.
  • *1866 , (Algernon Swinburne), :
  • *:Your soul forgot her joys, forgot/Her times of teen ;/Yea, this life likewise will you not/Forget
  • *1867 , (Matthew Arnold), A Southern Night :
  • *:With public toil and private teen Thou sank'st alone.
  • *1874 , , (The City of Dreadful Night), XXI:
  • *:That City's sombre Patroness and Queen, / In bronze sublimity she gazes forth / Over her Capital of teen and threne
  • Etymology 3

    From (etyl) . See Etymology 2 above.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To excite; to provoke; to vex; to afflict; to injure.
  • (Piers Plowman)

    Etymology 4

    See tine to shut

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (transitive, obsolete, provincial) To hedge or fence in; to enclose.
  • (Halliwell)

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