What does TED mean?

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Ted, Teddy boynoun

    a tough youth of 1950's and 1960's wearing Edwardian style clothes

Wiktionary

  1. Tednoun

    A Teddy boy.

  2. TEDnoun

    transmission electron diffraction

  3. TEDnoun

    turtle excluder device

  4. TEDnoun

    Technology Entertainment Design, a series of global conferences.

  5. tednoun

    teddy boy

  6. tedverb

    To spread hay for drying

  7. Etymology: Shortened form of Edward or Theodore.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. To Tedverb

    To lay grass newly mown in rows.

    Etymology: teadan , Saxon, to prepare.

    The smell of grain, or tedded grass or kine,
    Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound. John Milton.

    Hay-makers following the mowers, and casting it abroad, they call tedding. John Mortimer, Husb.

    Prudent his fall’n heaps
    Collecting, cherish’d with the tepid wreaths
    Of tedded grass, and the suns’ mellowing beams,
    Rivall’d with artful heats. Philips.

ChatGPT

  1. ted

    TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is a nonprofit organization devoted to spreading ideas, usually through short and powerful talks of 18 minutes or less. It covers a wide range of topics such as science, art, design, politics, culture, business, global issues, technology, and development. The TED conferences and events are held throughout the year around the world.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Tedverb

    to spread, or turn from the swath, and scatter for drying, as new-mowed grass; -- chiefly used in the past participle

Wikidata

  1. TED

    TED is a global set of conferences owned by the private non-profit Sapling Foundation, under the slogan "ideas worth spreading". TED was founded in 1984 as a one-off event. The annual conference began in 1990, in Monterey, California. TED's early emphasis was technology and design, consistent with its origins in the Silicon Valley. The TED main conference is held annually in Long Beach, and its companion TEDActive is held in Palm Springs. Both conferences will move from Long Beach and Palm Springs to Vancouver and Whistler, respectively, in 2014. TED events are also held throughout the U.S. and in Europe and Asia, offering live streaming of the talks. They address a wide range of topics within the research and practice of science and culture, often through storytelling. The speakers are given a maximum of 18 minutes to present their ideas in the most innovative and engaging ways they can. Past presenters include Bill Clinton, Jane Goodall, Malcolm Gladwell, Al Gore, Gordon Brown, Richard Dawkins, Bill Gates, Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, and many Nobel Prize winners. TED's current curator is the British former computer journalist and magazine publisher Chris Anderson.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Ted

    ted, v.t. to spread or turn, as new-mown grass, for drying:—pr.p. ted′ding; pa.t. and pa.p. ted′ded.n. Ted′der, an implement for spreading hay. [Scand.; Ice. tedhja, spread manure.]

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  1. DET

  2. EDT

  3. ETD

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of TED in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of TED in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of TED in a Sentence

  1. Lynn Proudfoot:

    Right now I'd put Ted Cruz in the top spot, but it's close because I like Bobby Jindal, too, i haven't made a final decision and I'm open.

  2. Donald Trump:

    Lyin' Ted Cruz denied that he had anything to do with the G.Q. model photo post of Melania. That's why we call him Lyin' Ted!

  3. Jeff Sadosky:

    That air cover has been incredibly important as Marco has found himself attacked by Jeb Bush, Ted Cruz and Hillary Clinton.

  4. Donald Trump:

    I like him. He likes me. He's backed me 100%, ted Cruz was out there and he really backed me very strongly and I always respected that. He asked me to come along and I guess he figured we'd get a big crowd and we certainly have.

  5. Sean Hannity:

    The reason both Ted Cruz and Donald Trump are doing well is because the base of the Republican Party rightly feels betrayed by DC Republicans, ted Cruz was willing to use that power to defund Obamacare and he is hated by the DC establishment for fighting the fight that the base wanted. Trump is the outsider iconoclast that gives hope of a top-to-bottom shake up of how DC works.

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