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, especially 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.
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verb (used without object)
9.
to drive a team.
10.
to gather or join in a team, a band, or a cooperative effort (usually followed by up, together, etc.).
adjective
11.
of, pertaining to, or performed by a team: a team sport; team effort.
Origin:
before 900; Middle English teme (noun), Old English tēam child-bearing, brood, offspring, set of draft beasts; cognate with Dutch toom bridle, reins, German Zaum, Old Norse taumr
before 900; Middle English teme (noun), Old English tēam child-bearing, brood, offspring, set of draft beasts; cognate with Dutch toom bridle, reins, German Zaum, Old Norse taumr
Related forms
in·ter·team, adjective
un·der·teamed, adjective
un·teamed, adjective
Synonyms
10. combine, unite, ally, merge.
10. combine, unite, ally, merge.
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| —n | |
| 1. | a group of people organized to work together |
| 2. | a group of players forming one of the sides in a sporting contest |
| 3. | two or more animals working together to pull a vehicle or agricultural implement |
| 4. | such animals and the vehicle: the coachman riding his team |
| 5. | dialect a flock, herd, or brood |
| 6. | obsolete ancestry |
| —vb (when intr, | |
| 7. | to make or cause to make a team: he teamed George with Robert |
| 8. | (US), (Canadian) (tr) to drag or transport in or by a team |
| 9. | (US), (Canadian) (intr) to drive a team |
| [Old English team offspring; related to Old Frisian tām bridle, Old Norse taumr chain yoking animals together, Old High German zoum bridle] | |
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Word Origin & History
team
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.
team
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.
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Example sentences
For the next two weeks, the crew and the science team worked around the clock, collecting hundreds of samples.
Essentially, one team from each pot will be put in each group.
When properly conceived and used, a checklist ensures communication and confirmation among members of a team and catches errors.
Next the team studied how the bees back at the hive interpreted the performances given by the returning foragers.
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