tea 
tea (tē)
noun
- a white-flowered, evergreen plant (Camellia sinensis) of the tea family, grown in China, India, Japan, etc.
- its dried and prepared leaves, used to make a beverage
- the beverage made by soaking such leaves in boiling water
- any of several plants resembling or used as tea
- a tealike beverage made from such a plant or from a meat extract mint tea, beef tea
- Brit.
- a light meal, esp. in the late afternoon, at which tea is the usual beverage
- a more substantial, early evening meal that is often the main meal of the day (in Britain usually called high tea)
- a reception or other social gathering in the afternoon, at which tea, coffee, etc. are served
- ☆ Slang marijuana
Etymology: Amoy Chin t'e (Mandarin ch'a)
adjective
designating a family (Theaceae, order Theales) of evergreen dicotyledonous trees, shrubs, or vines, often with showy flowers, found in warm regions and including the camellias and loblolly bay
tea
n.
An infusion made from tea leaves
beverage, brew, infusion, decoction, black tea, green tea, herb tea, herbal tea, cha*; see also drink 3.Varieties of tea include: black, Congou, Keemun Congou, Souchong, Lapsang Souchong, Oolong, Formosa, Pouchong, Bohea, Darjeeling, Ceylon, China, Yerba, Assam, orange pekoe, pekoe, green, Hyson, Young Hyson, Imperial Hyson, Gunpowder, Pearl, Earl Grey, English breakfast, Irish breakfast, blackberry, bergamot, lemon balm, Moyune Gunpowder, Twankay, panfired, basket-fired, Paraguay, mixed, jasmine, blended, spider-leaf, butterfly's eyebrow, orange flower, raspberry, spiced, sassafras, sage, mint, camomile, rose hip, tansy, ginger, Abyssinian, Labrador, horehound, cambric; tea of heaven.
A light afternoon or evening meal
snack, buffet, refreshment, refection, collation, tea party, five o'clock tea, tiffin, high tea, supper; see also lunch, meal 2.
Converse of object
- sip: The three Hussein brothers who had been sipping tea outside one of the buildings stood no chance.
- drink: Don't drink tea or coffee in the evening.
- serve: Whilest waiting, I was served a hot japanese tea ( no extra cost by the way!
- pour: They all sat in comfortable easy chairs drawn up in front of a roaring fire and Madge poured the tea.
Preposition: with
- scone: You can enjoy a tasty snack at lunchtime or afternoon tea with traditional scones and home made cakes.
Adjective modifier
- herbal: A herbal tea can consist of one herb or many.
- iced: Movie heroes in a bar will either order strong alcoholic drinks and swallow them down like iced tea or will ask for milk.
- complimentary: Hot and cold bar snacks can be purchased and complimentary tea and coffee are served at half-time.
- green: Has anyone noticed how green tea tastes a bit like fish scales?
Modifies a noun
- towel: The trolley has two stainless steel hangers on the front, perfect for hanging a pair of oven gloves or a tea towel on.
- plantation: The tea plantations in the area were owned by the Scots.
- bag: Dental First Aid Bleeding from tooth socket Apply biting pressure using a gauze pad or unused tea bag for 15 minutes.
- clipper: He later became an apprentice on a tea clipper.
- cup: Everyone's cup of tea these twisting, turning tea cups will really have you in a spin.
Noun used with modifier
- afternoon: Afternoon tea with fresh cakes will be waiting on your return.
- cream: Arrive on Saturday 24th December - Christmas Eve, in time for Devon cream tea.
- mint: Helps after all that mint tea that she needs the loo.
- peppermint: Peppermint tea or capsules can also reduce a wide variety of IBS symptoms, such as gas and spasms.
- leaf: I don't know if the Swallows ran to a tea strainer, but this is useful if you use leaf tea.
- camomile: Camomile tea didn't do much for a friend of mine who died of brain cancer.
The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce. 408
Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, Have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?
E M Forster never gets any further than warming the teapot. He's a rare fine hand at that. Feel this teapot. Is it not beautifully warm? Yes, but there ain't going to be no tea. And I can never be perfectly certain whether Helen was got with child by Leonard Bast or by his fatal forgotten umbrella. All things considered, I think it must have been the umbrella.
The assaying of tea is an art and not a science. It is the man, and not his instruments, which is the most important.There can be no substitute for myexperience and intuited knowledge.
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
Drinking the best tea in the world in an empty cricket groundöthat, I think, is the final pleasure left to man.
I feel displaced when I'm back in America, like a visitor. I feel like if I don't get a cup of tea I'm going to lose my mind.
All you're supposed to do is every once in a while give the boys a little tea and sympathy.
My tea is nearly ready and the sun has left the sky; It's time to take the window to see Leerie going by; Foreverynight attea-timeand before youtakeyourseat, With lantern and with ladder he comes posting up the street.
Retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom.
Miss J. Hunter Dunn, Miss J. Hunter Dunn, Furnish'd and burnish'd by Aldershot sun, What strenuous singles we played after tea, We in the tournamentöyou against me!
Here thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel takeöand sometimes tea.
And the sooner the tea's out of the way, the sooner we can get out the gin, eh?
'Take some more tea,'the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly. 'I've had nothing yet,'Alice replied in an offended tone, 'so I can't take more.' 'You mean you can't take less,'said the Hatter: 'It's very easy to take more than nothing.'
Tea, although an Oriental, 212 Is a gentleman at least; Cocoa is a cad and coward, Cocoa is a vulgar beast.
Tea for two, and two for tea. 183
When the tea is brought at five o'clock, And all the neat curtains are drawn with care, The little black cat with bright green eyes Is suddenly purring there.
Tea is like the East he grows in, A great yellow Mandarin With urbanity of manner And unconsciousness of sin.
Yo no digo por eso que el te¤ no sea saludablecuando duelen las tripaspero al cabo no pasa de ser agua caliente; so¤ lo pod|¤a habernos venido de Inglaterra, que como all |¤ son herejes, ni tendra¤ n vino, ni bueyes cebones. I'm not saying that tea is not healthywhen you have a stomach achebut, all in all, it is only hot water; it could only come from the English, who, being heretics as they are, probably have no wine or good beer.
The way you wear your hat, The way you sip your tea, The mem'ry of all thatö No, no! They can't take that away from me!
Thetrouble isthat we drink toomuchtea.I see inthisthe slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats.
Polly put the kettle on, we'll all have tea.
When I makes tea I makes tea, as old mother Grogan said. And when I makes water I makes waterBegob, ma'am, says Mrs.Cahill, God send you don't make them in the one pot.
A woman is like a tea bag; when she is in hot water she just gets stronger.
Ye Lilies male! think (as your tea you sip, While theTown small-talk flows from lip to lip; Intrigues half-gathered, conversation-scraps, Kitchen-cabals, and nursery-mishaps), If the vast world may not some scene produce, Some state where your small talents might have use.
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