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See Tee

English

Pronunciation

Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-iː|-iː

Homophones

Noun

A flat area of ground from which players hit their first shots on a golf hole
Golf: a wooden or plastic peg from which a golf ball is hit on the first shot on a golf hole
sports Curling: The target area of a curling rink
Something shaped like the letter T

Translations

Welsh: ti

Related terms

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Estonian

Etymology 1

Noun

tee (genitive singular tee)

road, way

Etymology 2

Noun

tee (genitive singular tee)

Etymology 3

Verb

tee

Second-person singular imperative present form of tegema.

Category:Estonian nouns Category:Estonian verb forms

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Finnish

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

IPA: lang=fi
Hyphenation: tee

Noun

tea
one cup of tea
Any hot drink made by soaking dried (usually) or fresh leaves of plants in hot water.
* yrttitee = herb tea

Declension

Synonyms

tsaiju (dialectal)

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

IPA: lang=fi
Hyphenation: tee

Noun

The letter T, t.

Declension

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

IPA: lang=fi
Hyphenation: tee

Verb

tee

{{fi-form of|tehdä|type=verb|mood=indicative|tense=present connegative}}
:* (minä|Minä) en#Finnish|en/ (sinä#Finnish|Sinä) et#Finnish|et/ hän#Finnish|Hän ei#Finnish|ei/ (me#Finnish|Me) emme#Finnish|emme/ (te#Finnish|Te) ette#Finnish|ette/ he#Finnish|He eivät#Finnish|eivät tee.
:** I/You/We/You/They don't / She/He doesn't do.
{{fi-form of|tehdä|type=verb|pr=second-person|pl=singular|mood=imperative|tense=present}}
:* Tee!
:** Do!
{{fi-form of|tehdä|type=verb|pr=second-person|pl=singular|mood=imperative|tense=present connegative}}
:* älä#Finnish|Älä tee!
:** Don't do!

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Tee \Tee\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Teed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Teeing.] (Golf)
To place (the ball) on a tee; also called to tee up.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Tee \Tee\, n. [Cf. Icel. tj[=a] to show, mark.]
(a) The mark aimed at in curling and in quoits.
(b) The nodule of earth, or a short peg stuck into the
ground, from which the ball is struck at the beginning of
play for each hole in golf.
[1913 Webster +PJC]

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Tee \Tee\, n.
1. A short piece of pipe having a lateral outlet, used to
connect a line of pipe with a pipe at a right angle with
the line; -- so called because it resembles the letter T
in shape.
[1913 Webster]

2. The letter T, t; also, something shaped like, or
resembling in form, the letter T.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]

WordNet tee
n 1: the starting place for each hole on a golf course; "they
were waiting on the first tee" [syn: teeing ground]
2: support holding a football on end and above the ground
preparatory to the kickoff [syn: football tee]
3: a short peg put into the ground to hold a golf ball off the
ground [syn: golf tee]
v 1: place on a tee; "tee golf balls" [syn: tee up]
2: connect with a tee; "tee two pipes"

Jargon tee n.,vt. [Purdue] A carbon copy of an electronic transmission. "Oh,
you're sending him the bits to that? Slap on a tee for me." From the
Unix command `tee(1)', itself named after a pipe fitting (see
plumbing). Can also mean `save one for me', as in "Tee a slice for
me!" Also spelled `T'.

FOLDOC tee

A Unix command which copies its
standard input to its standard output (like cat) but
also to a file given as its argument. tee is thus useful in
pipelines of Unix commands (see plumbing) where it
allows you to create a duplicate copy of the data stream.
E.g.

egrep Unix Dictionary | tee /dev/tty | wc -l

searches for lines containing the string "Unix" in the file
"Dictionary", prints them to the terminal (/dev/tty) and
counts them.

Unix manual page: tee(1).

[Jargon File]

(1996-01-22)