Tea is a beverage made from steeping the processed leaves, buds, or twigs of the tea bush in water.

Tea or TEA may also refer to:

Beverages and food

  • Camellia sinensis, the plant the drink derives from
  • Tea (meal), any of several meals, involving different times and food
  • Herbal tea, or tisane, a catch-all term for any non-caffeinated beverage made from the infusion or decoction of herbs, spices, or other plant material
  • Traditional English Ale, the flagship ale produced by Hogs Back Brewery in England

People and legendary figures

  • Tea (given name), a feminine given name
  • Téa, a feminine given name
  • Tea Banh (born 1945), Cambodian politician
  • Thierry Tea, French-Cambodian businessman
  • Tea, in Irish legend, one of the two wives of Érimón and mother of Íriel Fáid
  • Tea Tephi, daughter of Zedekiah in British Israelite literature, proposed to be the same as Tea, wife of Érimón

Science and technology

Chemistry

  • Tetraethylammonium, a potassium channel blocker used in neurophysiology
  • Triethanolamine, an organic chemical used in cosmetics and to bind aluminium ions
  • Triethylaluminium, a volatile organic chemical used in jet engines and as co-catalyst in olefin polymerization
  • Triethylamine, a colorless, "fishy"-smelling organic chemical used in chemical synthesis
  • 5-epiaristolochene synthase, an enzyme
  • Thermal Energy Analyzer, an analytical detector for tobacco-specific nitrosamines

Medicine

  • Test of Essential Academic Skills, a standardized test for nursing school admission
  • Transient epileptic amnesia, a temporal lobe epilepsy

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Computing

  • Tea (programming language), a high-level scripting language for the Java environment
  • Tiny Encryption Algorithm, a block cipher notable for its simplicity of description and implementation
  • TETRA Encryption Algorithm, an encryption algorithm used in Terrestrial Trunked Radio
  • TEA (text editor) (Text Editor of the Atomic Era)
  • Tea (app), a mobile phone app officially known as Tea Dating Advice

Other

  • TEA laser (Transversely Excited Atmospheric)
  • 453 Tea, an asteroid
  • Tea (wasp), a genus of spider hunting wasps

Places

  • Tea, South Dakota, United States, a suburb of Sioux Falls
  • Tea Lake, in Oscoda County, Michigan, United States
  • Tea River, in Brazil

Arts and entertainment

  • Tea, a 2000 novel by Stacey D'Erasmo
  • Tea: A Mirror of Soul, a 2002 opera by composer Tan Dun
  • "Tea", another name for the Chinese Dance in The Nutcracker
  • TEA (band), a Swiss progressive heavy rock band

Organizations and companies

  • Tamil Eelam Army, a defunct Tamil separatist group in Sri Lanka
  • Texas Economics Association, a student organization at the University of Texas at Austin
  • Texas Education Agency, a branch of the government of the US state of Texas which oversees public primary and secondary education
  • Themed Entertainment Association, a group representing people involved in theme parks and similar attractions
  • Thorium Energy Alliance
  • Tirupur Exporters' Association, an association of cotton knitwear exporters from Tirupur, India
  • Trans European Airways, Belgium-based airline, now defunct
  • Trenes Especiales Argentinos (Spanish: "Special Argentine Trains"), a private railway company in Argentina
  • Trustees Executors and Agency Company, collapsed Australian trustee company (1879–1983)
  • Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, cultural space and building in Tenerife, Canary Islands

Other uses

  • Targeted Employment Area, a designation investment region of the United States
  • Test of English for Aviation, a language proficiency test
  • Transgender Erotica Awards, movie awards for transgender pornography
  • Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century, a US federal planning law 1998–2003
  • Tea (cannabis), a slang term for marijuana made popular in the 1950s by Jack Kerouac in novels such as On the Road
  • Cannabis tea, a cannabis-infused drink prepared by steeping various parts of the cannabis plant in hot or cold water
  • Tea (gossip), a slang term for gossip

See also

  • Tee, an item of sports equipment
  • T, the letter of the alphabet
  • T (disambiguation)