tee meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

tee

noun

/ˈtiː/

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.

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:

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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

Something shaped like the letter T.

angles and tees

Business, Clothing, Fashion, Lifestyle, Manufacturing, Textiles Abbreviation, Ellipsis, Informal Ellipsis of tee-shirt.

Brendan pulled a black tee over his head.

Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences The process of redirecting output to multiple destinations.

Derived terms: 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

tee

verb

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.

Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences To redirect output to multiple destinations.

[…] teeing via multiple redirects (ls > file1 > file2) […]1997, Robin Burk, David B. Horvath, UNIX Unleashed, page 615:

tee

noun

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

Golf, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports A flat area of ground from which players hit their first shots on a golf hole.

Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports 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 November 3, Liam de Carme, “Boks, you beauties”, in Sunday Times:

Ball games, Curling, Games, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports The target area of a curling rink.

The mark at which players aim in quoits.

Derived terms: retee, tee ball, teebox, tee off, tee on, tee time, tee up

tee

verb

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

Golf, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports 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, Practical Golf:

Synonyms: tee up

tee

verb

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

Obsolete To teach, educate, train, bring up.

tee

noun

Etymology From Burmese ထီး (hti:, “umbrella”).

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

Related terms: tee hee, tee hee hee, tee-tee

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