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Meaning tea meaning

What does tea mean?
Definitions in simple English

tea

Tea is a light brown or green drink that is very popular around the world. Would you like coffee or tea?

tea

a beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water iced tea is a cooling drink (= afternoon tea) a light midafternoon meal of tea and sandwiches or cakes an Englishman would interrupt a war to have his afternoon tea dried leaves of the tea shrub; used to make tea the store shelves held many different kinds of tea they threw the tea into Boston harbor a reception or party at which tea is served we met at the Dean's tea for newcomers a tropical evergreen shrub or small tree extensively cultivated in e.g. China and Japan and India; source of tea leaves tea has fragrant white flowers

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Examples tea examples

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Simple sentences

You drink tea.
Let the tea draw for ten minutes.
We've run out of tea.
A cup of tea, please.
I like tea.
He added a little sugar and milk to his tea.
She brought a cup of tea to me.
The women like tea.
He put some sugar and milk in his tea.
This tea is very good.
I want a chamomile tea.
I'm glad you enjoy skiing, but I guess it's just not my cup of tea.
Desk work is just not my cup of tea.
We'll resume the meeting after tea.
We bought a pound of tea.
I prefer coffee to tea.
We import tea from India.
A tea with lemon, please.
Won't you stay for tea?
Can I have some more tea?
Give me another cup of tea.
They drink a good deal of tea in England.
Your tea will get cold if you don't drink it now.
Will you have another cup of tea?
We could have our tea in the garden, were it a little warmer.
My older sister often drinks tea with milk.
Where is the milk tea?

Movie subtitles

It's a tea made with the flowers from the goat's back.
Actually, these days, I'm working on a tea which taste will show the person's mind.
Well, thanks for your time, Brenda, and most excellent tea.
Do you need a cup of tea? Uh, sorry.
We just assumed that she'd run off, that the game wasn't her cup of tea after all.
I'm tea-total.
You must ask him to join us for tea.
Thank you, Mr Antoine, but tea will suffice.
If you want tea, you can have tea. with a sherry on the side, just so you can catch a sniff of it!
Take a seat, Nurse Crane, I'll see if we can get you a cup of tea.
They only ever have tea here, and on the bad days I need all the help I can get.
I wasn't sure if the summons for Guy Fawkes tea with the nuns meant I was forgiven or in worse trouble than before.
Tea and a Marie biscuit, just like everyone else.
You, pour us some tea!
Can I pour you some tea?
Now, why not have some tea?
Now you sit down, make yourself easy, and I'll brew you a cup of tea.
Madame la contesse asks his majesty, the Czar, to come to tea, at 5 o'clock this afternoon.
No, I'm not having tea.
Will you have a slug of tea?
Let me make you a cup of tea.
Tea would spoil my dinner.
Our little playmates, just in time for a cup of tea.
And I'd just left the bridge to go down to get a pot of tea and before you knew it, that orangatang at the wheel runs the nose right in the mud bank.
They better do something or what happened before will be a tea party.
I took the liberty of presuming that youd join me for tea.
Come over to have a cup of tea.
They asked me a bunch more questions and suddenly it was all, you know, tea and toast.
Is it all right if I bring my tea, chief?
I also can't have tea breaks with you.
In the tea salon of the ocean liner.
I've been so unsuccessful in disposing these other lots, that I'm gonna give away a half a pound of tea with every lot I sell from now on.
I'll see you at tea tomorrow, dear. - Yes.

News and current affairs

The anger of Tea Party Republicans (like the anger of Occupy Wall Street protesters) reflects a sense that nothing but dramatic, even revolutionary, measures can change the system.
What can American Tea Party enthusiasts, Russian chauvinists, fearful Dutch and Danes, and Singaporean leftists possibly have in common that is driving this anti-immigrant sentiment?
But the livelihoods of most of the middle-aged rural white Americans who support the Tea Party are hardly threatened by poor Mexican migrants.
For those reading the tea leaves of global recovery, the third-quarter GDP numbers offered no solace.
But it is a tribute to the American two-party system's capacity for political integration that extremist forces remain marginalized, despite the rhetoric of the Tea Party.
And India sweetened the generals' tea by providing military assistance and intelligence support to their own never-ending counter-insurgencies.
Each session is like an afternoon tea party where representatives offer random reflections, praise the correctness of the leadership's reports and attempt to show how conscientiously they have studied them and how deeply they comprehend them.
The suggestions raised by representatives at tea parties are never made a subject for debate by the Congress as a whole.
No American would be happy about branding the Boston Tea Party an act of terrorist aggression against British property.
That is why they voted five years ago for Tea Party politicians, who preferred a government shutdown to a negotiated deal with Democrats.
Jordan seems to have read the political tea leaves and concluded that it makes more sense to improve relations with Egypt's rising leaders than it does to fight them.
The idea of a Tea Party candidate becoming US president is alarming, to be sure, but European populists could only be part of coalition governments.
This will not be everyone's cup of tea.
The British East India Company deliberately imposed a triangular trade arrangement whereby Britain sold manufactured goods to India in order to buy opium, which it subsequently sold in China to finance the purchase of tea and other products.
The core of feminism is individual choice and freedom, and it is these strains that are being sounded now more by the Tea Party movement than by the left.
But such approaches are anathema to the US Republican Party, and to its Tea Party faction in particular, and they might unnerve the many Asians who are nervous at China's growing military might.
And yet what ultimately unites Europe's far-right parties is similar to what underlies the Tea Party's rise within America's Republican Party: covert racism and xenophobia.
Nowhere is this tension more visible today than in the struggle for the political soul of the Tea Party.
The psychology behind the Tea Party in the United States and the anti-immigrant parties in Europe is similar, even if their policies vary.
The Tea Party emerged from a laudably grassroots base: libertarians, fervent Constitutionalists, and ordinary people alarmed at the suppression of liberties, whether by George W. Bush or Barack Obama.
At early Tea Party events, secular issues dominated: the Federal Reserve, monetary policy, taxation, the size of the government, and, above all, the Constitution.
Likewise, the Tea Party, which showed no interest in racist language or iconography at its outset, increasingly injects such demagoguery into its messages.
Americans - and the Tea Party - should look at France a century ago, when religious bigotry hijacked constitutionalism, and then take a good hard look at themselves.