Definition

1. Verb:

   • To carry on one's head: To support and transport an object by balancing it on the top of the head.
   • To wear (headgear): To have something like a hat, helmet, or cap on one's head.
   • To lift with the head: To raise or push something upward using the top of the head.

2. Noun:

   • Team: A group of people organized to work together or compete as a unit.
   • Squad / Detachment: A small military or organizational unit.
   • (Historical) Sergeant: A low-ranking officer in the colonial French military forces in Vietnam.

Usage Examples

• Verb:

  • Các cô gái thường đội thúng gạo ra chợ. (The girls often carry baskets of rice on their heads to the market.)
  • Trời nắng, con nhớ đội mũ vào. (It's sunny, remember to wear your hat.)
  • Chú mèo con dùng đầu đội cánh cửa tủ mở ra. (The kitten used its head to push the cabinet door open.)

• Noun:

  • Đội bóng đá của chúng tôi đã thắng. (Our football team won.)
  • Một đội công tác đã được cử đến hiện trường. (A work squad was dispatched to the scene.)

Advanced Usage

• "Đội ơn": To be indebted, to feel a debt of gratitude (literally: to carry a favor on one's head).
  • Tôi đội ơn sự giúp đỡ của anh ấy. (I am deeply indebted for his help.)
• "Đội sổ": To be at the bottom of a list or ranking (literally: to lift/prop up the list).
  • Công ty đó đang đội sổ về doanh thu. (That company is at the bottom in terms of revenue.)

Variants and Related Words

• Đội trưởng (n): Team leader, captain.
  • Cô ấy là đội trưởng đội bóng chuyền. (She is the captain of the volleyball team.)
• Đội hình (n): Formation (e.g., of a team).
  • Huấn luyện viên thay đổi đội hình. (The coach changed the formation.)
• Đội mũ (v): To wear a hat (a specific, very common compound).
  • Bạn nên đội mũ khi đi ngoài nắng. (You should wear a hat when going out in the sun.)

Synonyms

• Verb: To carry (on head), to wear, to lift.
• Noun: Team, group, squad, unit.

Related Idioms

• "Thù không đội trời chung": A sworn, irreconcilable enemy (literally: an enmity that cannot share the same sky [carried on the head]).
  • Họ coi nhau là kẻ thù không đội trời chung. (They consider each other sworn, irreconcilable enemies.)
• "Đội trời đạp đất": To be independent and free-spirited (literally: to carry/prop up the sky and tread the earth).
  • Tinh thần đội trời đạp đất của người tiên phong. (The pioneer's independent and free-spirited attitude.)

verb

1. To carry on one's head
2. To jack; to wear
   • đội mũ
     To wear a hat

noun

1. Team