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
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 Techno-economic assessment, a method of analyzing the economic performance of an industrial process, product, or service.
See also Tee, an item of sports equipment T, the letter of the alphabet T (disambiguation)