ee

plural een

1. Northern EnglandScotlandarchaicAn eye.

   […] and he never took his ee aff them, or said another word […]

   1815, Sir Walter Scott, Guy Mannering

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   Each turn'd his face with a ghastly pang / And curs'd me with his ee.

   1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere"

1. Northern Englandeh

   Father advanced with outstretched hand and announced in a loud, very hearty voice: "Ee, I'm pleased to meet ye, lad. […]

   1975, R. Chetwynd-Hayes, The Werewolf and the Vampire

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   'Ee by gum lass we've seen nought of thee this many a long year, thou's a sight for sore eyes,' he said planting a kiss firmly on Mum's cheek...

   2008, Mavis Crawley, The Rolling Stone: Based on the True Story of My Life

plural ees

1. chemistryEnantiomeric excess.

plural ees

1. alternativeAlternative form of e: the name of the Latin script letter E/e.

   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

   I have drunk en-ee-cee-tee-ay-ar from the ef-ell-oh-doubleyou-ee-ar-ess in his gee-ay-ar-dee-ee-en many a time.

   2004, Will Rogers, The Stonking Steps, page 170

1. SingaporeEw, yuck; expression of disgust.

   Eee, so commercial some might say.

   2000 December 29, Samuel Lee, The Straits Times, Singapore: Singapore Press Holdings Limited, page L8

1. alternativeinformalentertainmentAlternative form of e (“The second semiquaver (sixteenth note) of a beat”).

1. abbreviationinitialismhuman sciencesInitialism of Estuary English.

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   A new study from the University of Essex, which analysed the speech patterns of 200 participants. About 26% spoke EE, half spoke SSBE and the rest spoke MLE. […] Both EE and SSBE feature glottal stops – unvoiced Ts – but in EE it can happen in the middle of words – eg “wa’er for “water” – whereas in SSBE it happens only at the end of words.

   2023 October 31, “Language barrier: why even Harry has stopped speaking the king’s English”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 13 Mar 2024

2. abbreviationinitialismChristianityInitialism of Evangelism Explosion.
3. abbreviationinitialismliteraryhuman sciencesInitialism of Eudemian Ethics.
4. UKabbreviationhistoricalinitialismInitialism of English Electric.

plural EEs

1. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of electrical engineering.
2. abbreviationcountableinitialismInitialism of electrical engineer.
3. abbreviationinitialismuncountablehuman sciencesInitialism of expressed emotion.

   People with other mental disorders, even common mental disorders like depression, may still experience severe high EE conditions. The interactions between people with different mental disorders and their caregivers, and the precise mechanisms of high EE could be further explored.

   2022 July 21, Siu-Man Ng, Siyu Gao, Amenda Man Wang, Christine Cheuk, Melody Hiu-ying Fung, “Survey of High Expressed Emotions Experienced By Community Mental Health Service Users in Hong Kong During the COVID-19 Pandemic”, in Schizophrenia Bulletin Open, volume 3, number 1, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 5, column 2

4. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of Easter egg.

   POV: It's 2015 and you discover the creepiest EE.

5. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablecomputingInitialism of execution environment

plural Ees

1. countableuncountableA surname.