ted

name

1. A nickname for the male given names Edward, Theodore, Thaddeus, and Edmund.

   “Second, Kaczynski attended Harvard University and the University of Michigan, not MIT. An MIT spokesperson said in a Wednesday email: “We have no enrollment record or information that Ted Kaczynski ever attended MIT.””

2. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of)Acronym of Technology, Entertainment, Design, a series of global conferences.

   “Returning TED talker Sherry Turkle, an author and academic, says that giving lectures about how lonely the Internet is making people has made her and her audiences even lonelier.”

noun

1. (informal)A Teddy boy.
2. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, uncountable, usually)Acronym of transmission electron diffraction.
3. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, uncountable, usually)Acronym of turtle excluder device.
4. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, uncountable, usually)Acronym of thyroid eye disease.
5. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, uncountable, usually)Acronym of transferred electron device.
6. A Teddy boy.

   “The teds made the most of rising blue-collar wages to peacock each weekend in pseudo-aristocratic suits and immaculate pompadours, while their straitlaced peers trudged through the grind of school and work in drab clothing.”

verb

1. To spread hay for drying.

   “Turning and fluffing the cut hay, or tedding, speeds and evens out drying.”