tea

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
/tiː/|[tʰɪj ~ tʰiː]    /ti/|[tʰi]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The tea plant (Camellia sinensis); (countable) a variety of this plant. uncountable
    — Darjeeling tea is grown in India.
  2. A moment, a historical unit of time from China, about the amount of time needed to quickly drink a traditional cup of tea.
  3. The dried leaves or buds of the tea plant; (countable) a variety of such leaves. uncountable
    — Go to the supermarket and buy some Darjeeling tea.
  4. The drink made by infusing these dried leaves or buds in hot water. uncountable
    — Would you like some tea?
  5. Specifically sweet tea, an iced tea supersaturated with sugar. Southern-US,countable,uncountable
  6. Any drink which is similar to Camellia sinensis tea in some way countable,uncountable
    — Mushroom Tea / 8 cups water / 1 cup dried reishi mushroom pieces [...] 1. Start by making Reishi Mushroom Tea: Bring water to a boil in a medium saucepan. 2. Add the reishi mushroom pieces[…]
  7. Any drink which is similar to Camellia sinensis tea in some way:; Any similar drink made by infusing parts of various other plants. uncountable
    — camomile tea; mint tea
  8. Any drink which is similar to Camellia sinensis tea in some way:; Meat stock served as a hot drink. in-compounds,uncountable
    — beef tea
  9. A cup of any of these drinks, often with milk, sugar, lemon, or tapioca pearls. Commonwealth,Northern-US,countable
    — We'd like one tea and one coffee, please.
  10. A glass of these drinks. Southern-US,countable,uncountable
  11. A light midafternoon meal, typically but not necessarily including tea. UK,uncountable
    — I won't make it to the breakfast event, but I'll see you at the tea.
  12. Synonym of supper, the main evening meal, whether or not it includes tea. Commonwealth,Ireland,uncountable
    — The family were sitting round the table, eating their tea.
  13. The break in play between the second and third sessions. countable,uncountable
    — Australia were 490 for 7 at tea on the second day.
  14. Synonym of marijuana. countable,dated,slang,uncountable
    — So they were evidence. Evidence of what? That a man occasionally smoked a stick of tea, a man who looked as if any touch of the exotic would appeal to him. On the other hand lots of tough guys smoked marijuana […].
  15. Information, especially gossip. countable,slang,uncountable
    — Spill the tea on that drama, hon.
动词 v.
  1. To drink tea. intransitive
    — We tea’d with May, and had to wait over an hour for a taxi!
  2. To take afternoon tea (a light meal). intransitive
    — The wind was high and the hills ditto, and both being against us we were late in reaching Hitchin (30 from Cambridge), so giving up the idea of reaching Oxford we toiled on through Luton, on to Dunstable (47), where we teaed moderately […]
  3. To give tea to. transitive
    — And they’ve got Professor Hummums with ’em, the great Everlasting Star of the Nineteenth Century, which he has breakfasted and dined and tea’d and supped here ever since yesterday.
形容词 adj.
  1. Good-looking, sexy. slang

词形变化

teas plural tay alternative,dialectal,obsolete teas present,singular,third-person teaing participle,present teaed participle,past teaed past tea'd participle,past tea'd past tead participle,past tead past tay alternative,dialectal,obsolete more tea comparative most tea superlative tay alternative,dialectal,obsolete teas plural

词汇关系

上位词
衍生词
Abyssinian tea afternoon tea Algerian tea all the tea in China antitea Appalachian tea Arabian tea arrowroot tea balm tea bed-tea bed tea beef tea black tea bloom tea boba tea body tea bone apple tea Brazilian tea breakfast tea brick-tea Brigham tea bubble tea builders' tea builder's tea Bushman's tea bush tea butter tea cambric tea camomile tea Ceylon tea chai tea chamomile tea cheese tea China tea chocolate tea cinder tea clock the tea cocoa tea cowboy tea cowslip tea cream tea cup of tea dandelion tea desert tea Devonshire tea English as afternoon tea English breakfast tea evening tea fever tea fish tea flowering tea fruit tea green tea green-tea cake green tea cake gumboot tea gunpowder tea hay tea herbal tea herb tea high tea honeybush tea husband's tea hybrid tea hybrid tea rose iced tea ice tea Irish breakfast tea jasmine tea Jesuits' tea kitchen tea kudzu tea Labrador tea lemon tea Long Island iced tea low tea Malcolm X tea malt tea marsh Labrador tea meat tea Mexican tea milk tea mint tea Mixue Ice Cream & Tea Mormon tea morning tea mountain tea New Jersey tea New Zealand tea tree oolong tea Oswego tea Paraguay tea Paris tea pearl tea picky tea pink tea popcorn tea price of tea in China red tea rich tea biscuit rooibos tea root tea Russian tea sage tea severe tea shower tea silk-stocking milk tea solar tea someone's cup of tea spill the tea squaw tea storm in a tea-kettle sugar honey ice tea sun tea sweet tea tadpole tea tea and medals tea-and-toaster tea and toaster tea and toast syndrome teabacco tea bag tea-bag teabag teabagger tea ball teabell teaberry tea biscuit teaboard tea board tea-board tea boat teaboo teabowl tea bowl teabox teaboy tea bread tea break tea buffet tea caddy tea-caddy tea-cake teacake tea candle tea card tea cart teacart tea ceremony tea chest tea chest bass tea chest bassist tea clam tea clipper tea cloth teacloth tea cosey tea cosy tea-cosy tea cozy tea-cup tea cup teacup tea dance tea-dress tea dress tea egg teaette tea fight tea garden teaghrelin tea-gown tea gown tea-gowned Tea Green teahadist teahead tea house teahouse teaish tea jenny tea kettle teakettle tea-kettle tea kitchen tea lady tea lead tea leaf tea-leaf tea-leafing tea leaf paradox tea-leaved tea-leaved willow tea leaves tea-length tealess tealight tea light tea-light tealike tealite tea loaf teamaker tea maker teamaking tea mangrove tea money teamster tea tea oil tea oil camellia tea oil plant tea olive tea pad tea party tea pet tea plant tea-pot teapot tea pot tea-poy tearoom tea room tea rose tea sandwich tea service tea-service tea-set tea set tea shades tea shop tea shrub teaspoon tea stick tea strainer tea table tea-table teatard tea-things teatime tea-time tea towel tea-towel teatox tea-tray tea tray tea tree oil tea trolley tea-urn tea urn tea wagon teaware tea-water tea-whisk tea whisk tea-wine tea-wrap tea yellows tempest in a tea-kettle Texas tea theezan tea thick tea thunder tea rice vampire tea bag weak tea West India tea what does that have to do with the price of tea in China white tea without tea and biscuits worm tea yellow tea

词源

词源 1
First appears c. 1655, in the writings of Álvaro Semedo. From Dutch thee, from Hokkien 茶 (tê) (Amoy dialect), from Old Chinese, ultimately from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-la (“leaf, tea”). Introduced to English and other Western European languages by the Dutch East India Company, who sourced their tea in Amoy; compare Malay teh along the same trade route. Doublet of chai and cha (and, distantly, the first element of lahpet), from same Proto-Sino-Tibetan root; see discussion of cognates.
Cognates
The word for “tea” in many languages is of Sinitic origin (due to China being the origin of the plant), and thus there are many cognates; see translations. These are from one of two proximate sources, reflected in the phonological shape: forms with a stop (e.g. /t/) are derived from Min Nan tê, while forms with an affricate (e.g. /tʃ/) are derived from other Sinitic languages, like Mandarin chá or Cantonese caa4 (all written as 茶). Different languages borrowed one or the other form (specific language and point in time varied), reflecting trade ties, generally Min Nan tê if by ocean trade from Fujian, Cantonese caa4 if by ocean trade from Guangdong, or northern Chinese chá if by overland trade or by ocean trade from India.
Thus Western and Northern European languages borrowed tê (with the exception of Portuguese, which uses chá; despite being by ocean trade, their source was in Macao, not Amoy), while chá borrowings are used over a very large geographical area of Eurasia and Africa: Southern and Eastern Europe, and on through Turkish, Arabic, North and East Africa, Persian, Central Asian, and Indic languages. In Europe the tê/chá line is Italian/Slovene, Hungarian/Romanian, German/Czech, Polish/Ukrainian, Baltics/Russian, Finnish/Karelian, Northern Sami/Inari Sami. tê was also borrowed in European trade stops in Southern India and coastal Africa, though chá borrowings are otherwise more prevalent in these regions, via Arabic or Indic, due to earlier trade. The situation in Southeast Asia is complex due to multiple influences, and some languages borrowed both forms, such as Malay teh and ca.
Etymology 1, noun sense 12 (“information, especially gossip”) may be originally from T standing for truth, which evolved into tea. An alternative explanation dates back to gay African-American culture in the 1970s and alludes to women gossiping over afternoon tea.
词源 2
Semantic loan from Chinese 茶 (chá, “tea”).
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