Team

/tiːm/ · noun

Meaning

A set of draught animals, such as two horses in front of a carriage..

Definitions by Sense

1. A set of draught animals, such as two horses in front of a carriage.
2. Any group of people involved in the same activity, especially sports or work.
3. (obsolete) A group of animals moving together, especially young ducks.
4. (UK, law, obsolete) 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.
5. A group of people who favor one side of a binary debate that is divided and lacks a well-established clear consensus.
6. (intransitive) To form a group, as for sports or work.
7. (intransitive, by extension) To go together well; to harmonize.
8. (transitive) To convey or haul with a team.

Example Sentences

It happened almost every day that coaches stuck fast, until a team of cattle could be procured from some neighbouring farm to tug them out of the slough.

The adjacent alleys were choked with tethered wagons, the teams reversed and nuzzling gnawed corn-ears over the tail-boards.

We need more volunteers for the netball team.

The IT manager leads a team of three software developers.

she will wonder to have a teeme of ducklings about her

a long team of snowy swans on high

TEAM, Theam, Tem, Them. Sax. [from tyman, to propagate, to teem.] In old English law. Literally, an offspring, race or generation. 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 villeins, and their offspring or suit. They who had a jurisdiction of this kind, were said to have a court of Theme... constantly used in the old books in connection with toll, in the expression Toll & Team.

As Jan. 1, 2020, approaches, it turns out there is a Team Zero and a Team 1 – those who believe the new decade will begin after midnight on the upcoming New Year's Eve and those who believe the burgeoning celebrations of a new decade (and all the "last decade" retrospectives) are in fact a year early.

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• teams
• teaming
• teamed

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