tee

plural tees

1. The name of the Latin script letter T/t.

   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

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   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

2. Something shaped like the letter T.

   angles and tees

3. abbreviationellipsisinformalbusinessEllipsis of tee-shirt.

   Brendan pulled a black tee over his head.

4. computingThe process of redirecting output to multiple destinations.

present singular third person tees · participle present teeing · participle past teed · past teed

1. computingTo redirect output to multiple destinations.

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

   1997, Robin Burk, David B. Horvath, UNIX Unleashed, page 615

plural tees

1. golfA flat area of ground from which players hit their first shots on a golf hole.
2. hobbiesA 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

3. ball gamesThe target area of a curling rink.
4. The mark at which players aim in quoits.

present singular third person tees · participle present teeing · participle past teed · past teed

1. golfTo 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

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

plural tees

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

1. An Ogoni language spoken in Nigeria.

1. A Chinese surname from Hokkien.

plural Tees

1. Alternative letter-case form of tee.

plural TEEs

1. CanadaUSabbreviationinitialismmedicineInitialism of transesophageal echocardiogram.

   Synonyms: TOE

2. abbreviationinitialismmedicineInitialism of thromboembolic event.
3. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of term end examination.

1. abbreviationhistoricalinitialismrail transportInitialism of Trans Europ Express.

   Rendezvous on Champs-Elysees / Leave Paris in the morning with T-E-E

   1977, “Trans-Europe Express”, in Trans-Europe Express, performed by Kraftwerk