Synonym: annoy, badger, banter, bother, jest, joke, pester, vex. Similar words: at ease, ease, cease, teaspoon, please, release, disease, increase. Meaning: [tɪːz] 
n. 1. someone given to teasing (as by mocking or stirring curiosity) 2. a seductive woman who uses her sex appeal to exploit men 3. the act of harassing someone playfully or maliciously (especially by ridicule); provoking someone with persistent annoyances. v. 1. annoy persistently 2. harass with persistent criticism or carping 3. to arouse hope, desire, or curiosity without satisfying them 4. tear into pieces 5. raise the nap of (fabrics) 6. disentangle and raise the fibers of 7. separate the fibers of 8. mock or make fun of playfully 9. ruffle (one's hair) by combing towards the ends towards the scalp, for a full effect.
n. 1. someone given to teasing (as by mocking or stirring curiosity) 2. a seductive woman who uses her sex appeal to exploit men 3. the act of harassing someone playfully or maliciously (especially by ridicule); provoking someone with persistent annoyances. v. 1. annoy persistently 2. harass with persistent criticism or carping 3. to arouse hope, desire, or curiosity without satisfying them 4. tear into pieces 5. raise the nap of (fabrics) 6. disentangle and raise the fibers of 7. separate the fibers of 8. mock or make fun of playfully 9. ruffle (one's hair) by combing towards the ends towards the scalp, for a full effect. 
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121. The NCI team plans to verify their results in larger groups of patients, possibly tease apart more varieties of lymphoma, and eventually make such chips available for clinical diagnoses.
122. A girl only has to be in a miniskirt to be treated a tease.
123. The Pew researchers speculate that this is because more women than men are unemployed by choice, although the study didn't attempt to tease apart that difference.
124. Playing hard to get a metal thong, like that can really protect her. a tease!
125. It's hard to tease apart factors and outcomes, Pettis says.
126. I believe individuals can and do change the course of history, but it's often hard to tease out one person's vision and influence from the hurly-burly of events.
127. We can't tease and trifle with sin without being contaminated.
128. Kids would tease me, asking if I was joining the circus and calling me "Whitey".
129. To tease apart the effect of genes and upbringing, the researchers tracked 2,490 Swedish twins as they aged from 8 to 20 years old, asking them to answer questions sent by mail.
130. The investigation has already helped researchers tease apart the complex biology of coronary heart disease, the most common killer in Britain and elsewhere in the developed world.
131. You would need a tweezer to tease out the hairs on one side.
131. Sentencedict.com is a online sentence dictionary, on which you can find excellent sentences for a large number of words.
132. Barbara Briers and her colleagues did a series of three experiments designed to tease apart the connections between nourishment and personal finances.
133. All of Hank's friends tease him about being a tree hugger because of his great love of nature.
134. Whittle has also managed to tease out the fundamental (a physics term that describes a component of lowest frequency of a periodic wave) and harmonics of the big bang.
135. Using delegation: This section demonstrates two patterns that help you tease apart the two failure types previously mentioned.