Teens vs Teems - What's the difference?
teens | teems |
(plural only) The numbers between thirteen and nineteen.
(plural only) The time of life between thirteen and nineteen years old.
(plural only) The second decade of a century: the 1910s, 2010s, etc. The oneties, the tens.
* {{quote-book, title=Gilded Songs (Berlin to Bacharach): The Gig Instrumentalist's Guide to the Golden Era of American Popular Song (1920 to 1979)
, chapter=The 20th Century's aughts and teens : OPERETTA
, author=Michael G Cunningham
, year=2010}}
(teem)
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 a noun teens
is .As a verb teems is
(teem).teens
English
Noun
(head)- The number of people at the meeting was in the teens.
- She is in her teens.
Anagrams
* ----teems
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*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.