tech

See also: Appendix:Variations of "tech"

English

Etymology

Clipping of technology, technician, and technique.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɛk/, [tʰɛk]

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛk
• Homophone: TEK

Noun

tech (countable and uncountable, plural techs)

2. (informal) Technology.

   I can't understand all this new tech.

   • 2012, Nancy Lyons, Meghan Wilker, Interactive Project Management: Pixels, People, and Process:

     Remember, something that seems straightforward to you can be very scary to people who don't have enough info or tech knowledge to provide a context or meaning on their own.

   • 2023 July 12, Paul Clifton, “Network News: Training starts on heavily delayed SWR Arterios”, in RAIL, number 987, page 22:

     "The tech on this is really good. But in essence, it's still a train any competent driver should be able to learn easily.

   1. Denotes technology businesses or the technology industry, especially in the field of computing and the Internet.

      Tech giants such as Google and Facebook have too much power.

      Tech stocks are down on Nasdaq.

      Tech workers can earn big money.

      • 2023 May 18, Reuters, “Chipmakers look to Japan as worries about China grow”, in CNN Business‎^[1]:

        In particular, Kumamoto prefecture in southwestern Japan is quickly becoming a hotbed for tech investment from companies including TSMC and Fujifilm Holdings Corp (FUJIF).

4. (informal) Technician; technologist.

   Hyponyms: lab tech, surg tech

   The service writers collaborate with the techs and communicate with the customers.

   • 2014, Jeff Jacobson, Growth, page 23:

     A man dressed as a lab tech, his blue scrubs startlingly pale against the vivid red and black chaos, moved into sight from behind the SUV. He carried an assault rifle.

6. (informal) Technique.
8. (informal, used in titles) Technical college; technical school.

   Greenville Technical College is informally known as Greenville Tech.

   In high school, he attended the tech program, studying construction trades.

10. (informal) Clipping of technical rehearsal.
    • 2017 November 30, Marc J. Franklin, “Inside Tech Rehearsal for Broadway’s SpongeBob SquarePants, The Broadway Musical”, in Playbill‎^[2]:

      Despite his early preparation, the three-week tech period is Nigrini’s only opportunity to make his vision come to fruition.

    • 2020 December 31, Alyssa Bereznak, “Anyone Can Cook: The Oral History of Ratatouille: The Musical”, in The Ringer‎^[3]:

      Typically when you’re developing a musical you have hours of rehearsal and hours of tech, […] and everyone’s tired of the show by the end.

11. (motor racing) Clipping of technical inspection

    Synonyms: technical inspection, scrutineering

Derived terms

• adtech
• aggrotech
• agrotech
• alt-tech
• antiquitech
• astrotech
• big tech
• biotech
• cleantech
• cytotech
• deep tech
• dry tech
• edtech
• fast tech
• femtech
• fintech
• foodtech
• GaTech
• ghettotech
• greentech
• grief tech
• grieftech
• hard tech
• high-tech
• histotech
• hi-tech
• infotech
• info tech
• insurtech
• lab tech
• legaltech
• low-tech
• magitech
• martech
• medtech
• nanotech
• neurotech
• nontech
• paytech
• pyrotechny
• sci-tech
• secondary tech
• slick-tech
• surg tech
• tech abuse
• tech baron
• tech-bro
• tech bro
• techbro
• tech debt
• tech diving
• techdom
• tech giant
• tech guru
• tech head
• tech-head
• tech house
• techie
• techland
• techlash
• tech neck
• tech noir
• tech-nomad
• technote
• techpreneur
• tech-savvy
• techspeak
• Techspressionism
• tech stack
• techstep
• tech support
• TechTok
• tech tree
• tech up
• tech vest
• tech week
• tech wreck
• techy
• vo-tech
• wealthtech
• wet tech
• xenotech

Related terms

• technology
• technological

Verb

tech (third-person singular simple present techs, present participle teching, simple past and past participle teched)

1. (video games) To perform a technical (a special move in fighting games that cancels out an opposing attack).

Anagrams

• Chet, chet, echt, etch, hect-

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English tech; superficially a clipping of technologie, which is also reflected in the pronunciation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɛx/, /tɛk/

Noun

tech m (uncountable, no diminutive)

1. tech (technology), particularly high-tech or digital technology

Derived terms

• techbedrijf
• techgigant
• techmiljardair
• techmiljonair
• techreus

Related terms

• hightech
• lowtech
• technologie

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• teg

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *tegos, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tégos (“cover, roof”), from *(s)teg- (“to cover”); cognate with Ancient Greek τέγος (tégos).

The -ch is analogical to other nouns and adjectives where final non-palatal -ch alternates with palatal -ig.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt̠ʲex/

Noun

tech n (genitive tige or taige, nominative plural tige or taige)

1. house

   Synonyms: atrab, dom, lann, tegdais, treb

Declension

Neuter s-stem

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	techN, teg	techN, teg	tigeL, taigeH
vocative	techN, teg	techN, teg	tigeL, taigeH
accusative	techN, teg	techN, teg	tigeL, taigeH
genitive	tigeL, taigeH	tige, taigeH	tigeN, taigeH
dative	tigL, taigL	tigib	tigib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

• ^H = triggers aspiration
• ^L = triggers lenition
• ^N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

• tech screptra
• tech sét
• teglach

Descendants

• Irish: teach
• Manx: çhagh, thie
• Scottish Gaelic: taigh
• ⇒ Middle Irish: tech midchuarta
• ⇒ Middle Irish: tech n-óil
• ⇒ Middle Irish: tech talman
• ⇒ Classical Gaelic: teach othuir

Mutation

Mutation of tech

radical	lenition	nasalization
tech	thech	tech pronounced with /d̪̠ʲ-/

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “tech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language