team
Forms
- Plural
- teams
- present (v1)
- team
- past (v2)
- teamed
- past participle (v3)
- teamed
- present participle
- teaming
- 3rd person singular
- teams
Definitions
1.A set of draught animals, such as two horses in front of a carriage.
- The adjacent alleys were choked with tethered wagons, the teams reversed and nuzzling gnawed corn-ears over the tail-boards.
- 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.
2.Any group of people involved in the same activity, especially sports or work.
- We need more volunteers for the netball team.
- The IT manager leads a team of three software developers.
3.A group of people who favor one side of a binary debate that is divided and lacks a well-established clear consensus.
- They don't want you on the team.
- Our baseball team is very strong.
- He left his team as he could not get along with the manager.
1.To form a group, as for sports or work.
- They teamed to complete the project.
2.To go together well; to harmonize.
- Rich, creamy avocado is cut back by the citrus sharpness of grapefruit in this Israeli-inspired salad. It's brilliant for a brunchy breakfast, and teams well with grilled salmon, tuna, or mackerel for dinner.
3.To convey or haul with a team.
4.To form together into a team.
1.Used to propose that another player team up with the speaker.(colloquial)
Frequency
Overall
Very common· #282
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Uncommon
- General reading & writing
- Very common
- Academic
- Uncommon
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Etymology
From Middle English tem, teem, teme, from Old English tēam (“child-bearing, offspring, brood, set of draught animals”), from Proto-West Germanic *taum, from Proto-Germanic *taumaz (“that which draws or pulls”), from Proto-Germanic *taugijaną, *tugōną, *teuhōną, *teuhaną (“to lead, bring, pull, draw”), from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to pull, lead”).