team
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team 
[teem] Pronunciation Key
[teem] Pronunciation Key –noun
–verb (used with object)
–verb (used without object)
–adjective
| 1. | a number of persons forming one of the sides in a game or contest: a football team. |
| 2. | a number of persons associated in some joint action: a team of advisers. |
| 3. | two or more horses, oxen, or other animals harnessed together to draw a vehicle, plow, or the like. |
| 4. | one or more draft animals together with the harness and vehicle drawn. |
| 5. | a family of young animals, esp. ducks or pigs. |
| 6. | Obsolete. offspring or progeny; race or lineage. |
| 7. | to join together in a team. |
| 8. | Chiefly Northern U.S. Older Use. to convey or transport by means of a team; haul. |
| 9. | to drive a team. |
| 10. | to gather or join in a team, a band, or a cooperative effort (usually fol. by up, together, etc.). |
| 11. | of, pertaining to, or performed by a team: a team sport; team effort. |
[Origin: bef. 900; ME teme (n.), OE téam child-bearing, brood, offspring, set of draft beasts; c. D toom bridle, reins, G Zaum, ON taumr]
] —Synonyms 10. combine, unite, ally, merge.
—Usage note See collective noun.
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American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
| team
(tēm) Pronunciation Key
n.
v. teamed, team·ing, teams v. tr.
v. intr.
[Middle English, team of draft animals, from Old English tēam; see deuk- in Indo-European roots.] |
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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
team (n.)
team (n.)
O.E. team "set of draft animals yoked together," from P.Gmc. *taumaz (cf. O.N. taumr, O.Fris. tam, Du. toom, O.H.G. zoum, Ger. Zaum "bridle"), probably lit. "that which draws," from *taugmaz "action of drawing," from series *taukh-, *tukh-, *tug-, represented by O.E. togian "to pull, drag" (see tow), from PIE *deuk- "pull" (related to L. ducere "to lead;" see duke). Applied to people in O.E., especially "group of people acting together to bring suit." Team spirit is recorded from 1928. Teamwork is recorded from 1828 in the lit. sense, 1909 in the extended sense.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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team (v.)
team (v.)
1552, "to harness beasts in a team," from team (n.). The meaning "to come together as a team" (usually with up) is attested from 1932.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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| team | |
noun | |
| 1. | a cooperative unit (especially in sports) |
| 2. | two or more draft animals that work together to pull something |
verb | |
| 1. | form a team; "We teamed up for this new project" |
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
Team
Team\, n. [OE. tem, team, AS. te['a]m, offspring, progeny, race of descendants, family; akin to D. toom a bridle, LG. toom progeny, team, bridle, G. zaum a bridle, zeugen to beget, Icel. taumr to rein, bridle, Dan. t["o]mme, Sw. t["o]m, and also to E. tow to drag, tug to draw. [root]64. See Tug, and cf. Teem to bear.]1. A group of young animals, especially of young ducks; a brood; a litter. A team of ducklings about her. --Holland. 2. Hence, a number of animals moving together. A long team of snowy swans on high. --Dryden. 3. Two or more horses, oxen, or other beasts harnessed to the same vehicle for drawing, as to a coach, wagon, sled, or the like. "A team of dolphins." --Spenser. To take his team and till the earth. --Piers Plowman. It happened almost every day that coaches stuck fast, until a team of cattle could be procured from some neighboring farm to tug them out of the slough. --Macaulay. 4. A number of persons associated together in any work; a gang; especially, a number of persons selected to contend on one side in a match, or a series of matches, in a cricket, football, rowing, etc. 5. (Zo["o]l.) A flock of wild ducks. 6. (O. Eng. Law) 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. --Burrill.
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Team
Team\, v. i. To engage in the occupation of driving a team of horses, cattle, or the like, as in conveying or hauling lumber, goods, etc.; to be a teamster.
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Team
Team\, v. t. To convey or haul with a team; as, to team lumber. [R.] --Thoreau.
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