Word Study
tee
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun tee has 3 senses
- tee(n = noun.location) teeing ground - the starting place for each hole on a golf course; "they were waiting on the first tee" is a part of golf course, links course
- tee(n = noun.artifact) football tee - support holding a football on end and above the ground preparatory to the kickoff; Array is a kind of support
- tee(n = noun.artifact) golf tee - a short peg put into the ground to hold a golf ball off the ground; Array is a kind of golf equipment, nog, peg
is a kind of land site, site
Derived form verb tee1
Derived form verb tee1
Verb tee has 2 senses
- tee(v = verb.contact) tee up - place on a tee; "tee golf balls" is one way to lay, place, pose, position, put, set
- tee(v = verb.contact) Array - connect with a tee; "tee two pipes" is one way to connect, link, link up, tie
Derived forms noun tee3, noun tee1
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
CIDE DICTIONARY
tee, n. [Cf. Icel. tjā to show, mark.].
The mark aimed at in curling and in quoits. [1913 Webster]
tee, n.
- 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]
- The letter T, t; also, something shaped like, or resembling in form, the letter
T . [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
tee, v. t.
To place (the ball) on a tee; also called to tee up . [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
tee, n. = T(1).
tee, n. & v.
--n.
1 Golf a a cleared space from which a golf ball is struck at the beginning of play for each hole. b a small support of wood or plastic from which a ball is struck at a tee.
2 a mark aimed at in bowls, quoits, curling, etc.
--v.tr. (tees, teed) (often foll. by up) Golf place (a ball) on a tee ready to strike it.
--n.
1 Golf a a cleared space from which a golf ball is struck at the beginning of play for each hole. b a small support of wood or plastic from which a ball is struck at a tee.
2 a mark aimed at in bowls, quoits, curling, etc.
--v.tr. (tees, teed) (often foll. by up) Golf place (a ball) on a tee ready to strike it.
Idiom
tee off
1 Golf play a ball from a tee.
2 colloq. start, begin.
1 Golf play a ball from a tee.
2 colloq. start, begin.
Etymology
earlier (17th-c.) teaz, of unkn. orig.: in sense 2 perh. = TEE(1)
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