tech
Pluraltechs (some meanings)
Pluraltechs (some meanings)
- 1Technology, whether the equipment and systems people build or the knowledge behind them.
The new trains are packed with tech, but drivers say the controls are simple to learn.
She has the tech skills to set up the whole office network herself.
UsageUsually with no a: new tech, the tech in a car (a tech is a person). Formal writing prefers technology.
Similartechnology
Note
One short word stands in for three long ones (technology, technician and technique) and the sentence around it does the sorting. Here it means technology, informal in tone, and it often sits before another noun, as in tech skills or tech knowledge. When the word names a person, it is a technician instead.
- 2Technology businesses, or the technology industry as a whole, especially in computing and the Internet.
Tech shares fell sharply after the chipmaker warned of weaker sales.
After a decade in tech, he left his job at a search company to open a bakery.
UsageMostly before other nouns (tech stocks, tech giants), or alone as a field of work: a job in tech.
- 3A technician or technologist, such as someone who runs tests in a lab or repairs equipment.
The service advisers pass customer complaints to the techs, who diagnose the car and order parts.
An X-ray tech positioned her arm on the plate and stepped behind the screen.
UsageOften after the kind of work: a lab tech, an X-ray tech.
Similartechnician, technologist
- 4A technical college or technical school, especially as part of the school's name.
After high school she enrolled at Midland Tech to train as an electrician.
Riverside Tech offers evening courses in heating repair and welding for working adults.
UsageMostly in school names, with a capital: Midlands Tech for Midlands Technical College.
Less common meanings
- 5Technique: a particular method of doing something, or the skill with which it is done.
That wall-jump trick is old tech, but most new players still haven't learned it.
The coach spent the class drilling new leg-lock tech with the advanced grapplers.
UsageCommon among gamers and grapplers, often with no article: old tech, new tech for a trick or move.
Similartechnique
- 6Short for technical rehearsal.
We go into tech next week, so the set has to be finished by Monday.
Ten-hour days of tech left the cast exhausted, but every lighting cue was finally in place.
UsageUsually no article: be in tech, go into tech, hours of tech.
- 7In fighting games, to escape an opponent's throw, or to recover at once after being knocked down, by pressing the right input at the right moment.
- 8Short for technical inspection.
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Origin
A clipping of technology, technician, and technique.
Checked 6 Nov 2026 · 3 facts
- Tech is a clipping of technology. en.wiktionary.org
- Tech is a clipping of technician. en.wiktionary.org
- Tech is a clipping of technique. en.wiktionary.org