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tee

nounverbnounverbverbnounattested in dialogue

  • //ˈtiː//

The name of the Latin script letter T/t.

noun

  1. 1

    The name of the Latin script letter T/t.

    The word length, which contains only four sounds l e ng th, is usually spell'd thus, el ee en gee tee aitch.

    They have writing samples and examine the back loops of pees and the crosses of tees.

    ETA [is spoken] as "ee-tee-ay" instead of "I SPELL Echo Tango Alfa".

  2. 2

    Something shaped like the letter T.

    angles and tees

  3. 3

    The process of redirecting output to multiple destinations.

  4. 4

    Variant of tee-shirtinformalEllipsis of tee-shirt.

    Brendan pulled a black tee over his head.

Etymology

* From Middle English, from Old English te, from Latin tē (the name of the letter T). * (computing): By analogy with a T-shaped pipe that sends fluids in two directions.

verb

  1. 1

    To redirect output to multiple destinations.

    […] teeing via multiple redirects (ls > file1 > file2) […]

noun

  1. 1

    A flat area of ground from which players hit their first shots on a golf hole.

  2. 2

    A usually wooden or plastic peg from which a ball is kicked or hit.

    Pollard, who went into the semifinals with an unsatisfactory 63% return from the kicking tee, turned it around splendidly against Wales and he continued that form despite missing his first attempt in the final.

  3. 3

    The target area of a curling rink.

  4. 4

    The mark at which players aim in quoits.

Etymology

First attested in the 17th century as teaz, back-formation from obsolete Scots teaz, later reanalyzed as a plural.

verb

  1. 1

    To place a ball on a tee

    If at any hole a competitor play his first stroke from outside the limits of the teeing-ground, he shall count that stroke, tee a ball, and play his second stroke from within these limits.

verb

  1. 1

    obsoleteTo teach, educate, train, bring up.

Etymology

From Middle English teen, from Old English tēon (which was contracted from earlier tēohan, from Proto-West Germanic *teuhan.

noun

  1. 1

    A finial resembling an umbrella, crowning a dagoba in Indochinese countries.

Etymology

From Burmese ထီး (hti:, “umbrella”).

Forms

plural
tees
past tense
teed
past participle
teed
present participle
teeing
third person singular
tees
The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).