tee

The name of the Latin script letter T/t.

Noun

  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. - 1773 October, The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged:
    • They have writing samples and examine the back loops of pees and the crosses of tees. - 1985, Stephen King, Paranoid: A Chant:
    • ETA [is spoken] as "ee-tee-ay" instead of "I SPELL Echo Tango Alfa". - 2016 CCEB, Communications Instructions Radiotelephone Procedures: ACP125 (G), p. 3-5
  2. Something shaped like the letter T.
    • angles and tees
  3. Ellipsis of tee-shirt.
    • Brendan pulled a black tee over his head.

    Related: T

  4. The process of redirecting output to multiple destinations.

Origin

* 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.

Forms

tees

Derived

baby tee band tee bee tee dubs branch tee bulb tee graphic tee guinea tee pocket tee run tee seetee technical tee tee bend tee joint tee junction tee line teepee tees and blues tee-section tee-shaped teeshirt teetotal teevee to a tee union tee

Noun golf, hobbies

  1. A flat area of ground from which players hit their first shots on a golf hole.
  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. - 2019...
  3. The target area of a curling rink.
  4. The mark at which players aim in quoits.

Origin

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

Forms

tees

Derived

retee tee ball teebox tee off tee on tee time tee up

Noun Entry 3

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

Origin

From Burmese ထီး (hti:, “umbrella”).

Forms

tees

Related

tee hee tee hee hee tee-tee

Verb computing, engineering

  1. To redirect output to multiple destinations.
    • […] teeing via multiple redirects (ls > file1 > file2) […] - 1997, Robin Burk, David B. Horvath, UNIX Unleashed, page 615:

Forms

tees teeing teed

Verb golf, hobbies

  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. - 1909, Walter J. Travis,...

Forms

tees teeing teed

Synonyms

tee up

Verb obsolete

  1. To teach, educate, train, bring up.

Origin

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