team

Noun

team (plural teams)

1. A set of draught animals, such as two horses in front of a carriage.
   • 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter III, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:

     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.

   • 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage, published 1993, page 111:

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

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. (obsolete) A group of animals moving together, especially young ducks.
   • 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “(please specify |book=I to XXXVII)”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:

     she will wonder to have a teeme of ducklings about her

   • 1697, Virgil, “Aeneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

     a long team of snowy swans on high

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.
   • 1871, Alexander M. Burrill, Law Dictionary & Glossary‎, volume II:

     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.

5. A group of people who favor one side of a binary debate that is divided and lacks a well-established clear consensus.
   • 2019 December 27, Bill Chappell, “People Can't Even Agree On When The Decade Ends”, in NPR‎:

     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.

Verb

team (third-person singular simple present teams, present participle teaming, simple past and past participle teamed)

1. (intransitive) To form a group, as for sports or work.

   Synonym: team up

   They teamed to complete the project.

2. (intransitive, by extension) To go together well; to harmonize.
   • 2005, Jill Dupleix, Good Cooking: The New Basics, page 32:

     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. (transitive) To convey or haul with a team.

   to team lumber

   • 1857, Henry David Thoreau journal entry for Feb. 4 1857

     the farmer has been all winter teaming wood along the river

4. (transitive) To form together into a team.

   to team oxen

5. (transitive) To give work to a gang under a subcontractor.

Interjection

team

1. (video games, colloquial) Used to propose that another player team up with the speaker.

Verb

team

1. Misspelling of teem.

Derived terms

Synonyms

• lag

Derived terms

• teamarbeid

Synonyms

• lag

Derived terms

• teamarbeid

Declension

Strong a-stem:

Related terms

• tīeman

Descendants

• Middle English: tem, teem, teeme, teme, teome, them, theam, tæm, team (Early Middle English)
  • English: team (see there for further descendants)
  • Scots: team

Declension

Declension

Declension

Synonyms

• lag

See also

• arbetslag

Noun

team c (plural teammen, diminutive teamke)

1. bridle

Noun

team n (plural teams, diminutive teamke)

1. team

   Synonym: ploech

   Sirkulaasjefollybal is in fariant op it gewoane follybal, mei 4 spilers yn elts team.

   Mini-volleyball is a variation of normal volleyball, with 4 players on each team.