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Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This
team       [teem] Pronunciation Key
–noun
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.
–verb (used with object)
7.to join together in a team.
8.Chiefly Northern U.S. Older Use. to convey or transport by means of a team; haul.
–verb (used without object)
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.).
–adjective
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]

10. combine, unite, ally, merge.
See collective noun.
American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
team       (tēm)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. Sports & Games A group on the same side, as in a game.
  2. A group organized to work together: a team of engineers.
    1. Two or more draft animals used to pull a vehicle or farm implement.
    2. A vehicle along with the animal or animals harnessed to it.
  3. A group of animals exhibited or performing together, as horses at an equestrian show.
  4. A brood or flock.
  5. Obsolete Offspring; lineage.

v.   teamed, team·ing, teams

v.   tr.
  1. To harness or join together so as to form a team.
  2. To transport or haul with a draft team.

v.   intr.
  1. To form a team or an association. Often used with up.
  2. To drive a team or truck.


[Middle English, team of draft animals, from Old English tēam; see deuk- in Indo-European roots.]

Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
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.

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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.

WordNet - Cite This Source - Share This
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" 

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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