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発音

• IPA: /tɛk/, [tʰɛk]
• 韻: -ɛk
• Homophone: TEK

名詞

tech (countable and uncountable, plural techs)

1. (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:

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

2. (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.

3. (informal) Technique.
4. (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.

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

     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:

     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.

6. (motor racing) Clipping of technical inspection

   Synonyms: technical inspection, scrutineering

派生語

関連する語

• technology
• technological

動詞

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).

アナグラム

• Chet, chet, echt, etch, hect-