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EE
1- a proportional shoe width size narrower than EEE and wider than E.
-ee
2- a suffix forming from transitive verbs nouns which denote a person who is the object or beneficiary of the act specified by the verb ( addressee; employee; grantee ); recent formations now also mark the performer of an act, with the base being an intransitive verb ( escapee; returnee; standee ) or, less frequently, a transitive verb ( attendee ) or another part of speech ( absentee; refugee ).
e.e.
3abbreviation for
- errors excepted.
E.E.
4abbreviation for
- Early English.
- electrical engineer.
- electrical engineering.
ee
1the internet domain name for
- Estonia
EE
2abbreviation for
- Early English
- electrical engineer(ing)
- (in New Zealand) ewe equivalent
e.e.
3abbreviation for
- errors excepted
ee
4/ iː /
noun
- a Scot word for eye 1
-ee
5suffix forming nouns
- indicating a person who is the recipient of an action (as opposed, esp in legal terminology, to the agent, indicated by -or or -er )
lessee
grantee
assignee
- indicating a person in a specified state or condition
absentee
employee
- indicating a diminutive form of something
bootee
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of EE1
via Old French -e, -ee, past participial endings, from Latin -ātus, -āta -ate 1
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Example Sentences
The term is inspired by this line from the poet E.E. Cummings: "Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question."
From The Daily Beast
From a look at the origins of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to the life of the American poet E.E. Cummings.
From The Daily Beast
In our own practice we always place a diffusing screen of very finely-ground glass in front of the condenser at E.E.
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