FromPortugueseteca, fromMalayalamതേക്ക്(tēkkŭ) orTamilதேக்கு(tēkku).
teek (countable anduncountable,pluralteeks)
- Obsolete form ofteak.
1794–95,Proceedings Relative to Ships Tendered for the Service of the United East-India Company, from the Twenty-sixth of March, 1794, to the Sixth of January, 1795:[1], Extract from Major Rennel's Memoir, page885:TheTeek forests, from whence the marine yard at Bombay are furnished with that excellent species of ship timber, lie along the western side of the Gaut Mountains, and other contiguous ridges of hills, on the north and north-east of Basseen; the numerous rivulets that descend from thence affording water-carriage for the timber. I cannot close this account, without remarking the unpardonable negligence we are guilty of, in delaying to buildTeek ships of war for the use of the Indians seas.
Clipping oftelekinetic
teek (pluralteeks)
- (science fiction) Atelekinetic person; a person who has telekinetic abilities.
2011,Nate Kenyon,StarCraft Ghost: Spectres,→ISBN, page140:She stood there dumbfounded as the door swung open and banged against the inside wall, narrowly missing her.¶I did that, she thought.I'm a...teek?
teek (third-person singular simple presentteeks,present participleteeking,simple past and past participleteeked)
- (science fiction, transitive) To usetelekinesis on; to move (something) with the power of one's mind.
1957 April,Robert Silverberg, “Hidden Talent”, inWorlds of If[2], page27:Tears of pain came to his eyes—and he didn’t know which hurt more, the pain of the soup on his arm or the real shock he had received when he had forced himself to keep fromteeking the falling soup halfway across the room.
2011,Nate Kenyon,StarCraft Ghost: Spectres,→ISBN, page44:With a brief psionic push, Novateeked them aside and into the rock, firing her rifle at the soft areas just above the creature's rib cage.
teek
- ergativeplural ofte
FromMiddle Dutchteke, fromOld Dutch*tika, fromProto-West Germanic*tīkō(“tick”).
teek m (pluralteken,diminutiveteekje n)
- tick(insect)
