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The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English | 2009 | Copyright

team / tēm/ • n. [treated as sing. or pl.] a group of players forming one side in a competitive game or sport. ∎ two or more people working together: a team of researchers | [as adj.] a team effort. ∎ two or more animals, esp. horses, harnessed together to pull a vehicle. • v. 1. [intr.] (team up) come together as a team to achieve a common goal: he teamed up with the band to produce the album. 2. [tr.] (usu. team something with) match or coordinate a garment with (another): a pinstripe suit teamed with a crisp white shirt. 3. [tr.] harness (animals, esp. horses) together to pull a vehicle: the horses are teamed in pairs.

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Team

Dictionary of Collective Nouns and Group Terms | 1985 | Copyright

Team

family or brood of young animals; a group of animals moving together; people joined in some sporting or other competitive event.

Examples : team of athletes; of baseball; of cattle, 1840; of chicken (a brood), c. 1400; of cows, 1876; of debaters; of dogs, 1835; of dolphins; of ducks (in the air, or a brood of young ducks), 1688; of footballers, 1902; of geese, 1720; of carriage horses; of polo horses; of oxen; of pigs (a litter), 1511; of sins, 1225; of swans (swans with cygnets), 1697; of villains, 1622; of wild ducks (flying in a line or string); cricket team, 1885.

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team

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | | Copyright

team
A. †child-bearing. †offspring. (dial.) family, brood OE.;

B. set of draught animals OE.; number of persons in concerted action XVI;

C. † (leg.) vouching to warranty OE.;

D. (dial., after ON. taumr) chain for yoking draught animals XIV. OE. tēam = OS. tōm, OHG. zoum (G. zaum), ON. taumr bridle, rein :- Gmc. *taumaz, prob. for *tauzmaz, f. *taux- draw, rel. to L. dūcere.
Hence teamster XVIII (orig. U.S.).

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Team

A Dictionary of British Place-Names | 2003 | | Copyright

Team (river) Durham, gives name to Tanfield, see Thames.

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Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes | 2007 | Copyright

team •abeam, agleam, beam, blaspheme, bream, cream, deem, deme, downstream, dream, esteem, extreme, gleam, hakim, kilim, meme, midstream, Nîmes, ream, régime, scheme, scream, seam, seem, steam, stream, supreme, team, teem, theme, upstream •cross-beam • hornbeam • moonbeam •sunbeam • academe • morpheme •phoneme • jet stream • airstream •daydream • mainstream • Brylcreem •millstream • slipstream •bloodstream • monotreme •buttercream • raceme • septime •centime

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