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tee

1  [tee]
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–noun
1. the letter T or t.
2. something shaped like a T, as a three-way joint used in fitting pipes together.
3. T-bar.
4. T-shirt.
5. the mark aimed at in various games, as curling.
–adjective
6. having a crosspiece at the top; shaped like a T.
—Idiom
7. to a tee. T, t (def. 6).
Origin:
sp. form of the letter name
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tee

2  [tee] noun, verb, teed, tee⋅ing.
–noun
1. Golf.
a. Also called teeing ground. the starting place, usually a hard mound of earth, at the beginning of play for each hole.
b. a small wooden, plastic, metal, or rubber peg from which the ball is driven, as in teeing off.
2. Football. a device on which the ball may be placed to raise it off the ground preparatory to kicking.
–verb (used with object)
3. Golf. to place (the ball) on a tee.
—Verb phrase
4. tee off,
a. Golf. to strike the ball from a tee.
b. Slang. to reprimand severely; scold: He teed off on his son for wrecking the car.
c. Informal. to begin: They teed off the program with a medley of songs.
d. Baseball, Softball. to make many runs and hits, esp. extra-base hits: teeing off for six runs on eight hits, including three doubles and a home run.
e. Baseball, Softball. to hit (a pitched ball) hard and far: He teed off on a fastball and drove it into the bleachers.
f. Boxing. to strike with a powerful blow, esp. to the head: He teed off on his opponent with an overhand right.
g. Slang. to make angry, irritated, or disgusted: She was teed off because her dinner guests were late.
Origin:
1665–75; orig. uncert.

TEE

 
Trans-Europe Express.
Also, T-E-E

T, t

  [tee]
–noun, plural T's or Ts, t's or ts.
1. the 20th letter of the English alphabet, a consonant.
2. any spoken sound represented by the letter T or t, as in tub, but, or butter.
3. something having the shape of a T.
4. a written or printed representation of the letter T or t.
5. a device, as a printer's type, for reproducing the letter T or t.
—Idiom
6. to a T, exactly; perfectly: That job would suit you to a T.
Also, to a tee.

T-bar

  [tee-bahr]
–noun Building Trades.
a rolled metal bar or beam with a cross section resembling a T.
Also called tee.

T-shirt

  [tee-shurt]
–noun
a lightweight, usually knitted, pullover shirt, close-fitting and with a round neckline and short sleeves, worn as an undershirt or outer garment.
Also, tee-shirt.
Also called T, tee.

Origin:
1940–45; named from its shape
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Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2009.
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tee 1   (tē)   
n.  

  1. The letter t.

  2. Something shaped like a T.

  3. Sports & Games A mark aimed at in certain games, such as curling or quoits.

tee 2   (tē)   
n.  

  1. A small peg with a concave top for holding a golf ball for an initial drive.

  2. The designated area of each golf hole from which a player makes his or her first stroke.

  3. A device used to stand a football on end for a kickoff.

  4. A shaft with a concave top attached to a flat base, used to hold the ball in T-ball.

tr.v.   teed, tee·ing, tees
To place (a ball) on a tee. Often used with up.
Phrasal Verb(s):
tee off

  1. To drive a golf ball from the tee.

  2. Slang To start or begin: They teed off the fundraising campaign with a dinner.

  3. Slang To make angry or disgusted: The impertinent remarks teed the speaker off.


[Back-formation from obsolete Scots teaz (taken as a pl.)]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Word Origin & History

tee 
in golf, 1721, back-formation from teaz (1673), taken as a plural; a Scottish word of uncertain origin. The original form was a little heap of sand. The verb meaning "place a ball on a golf tee" is recorded from 1673; fig. sense of "to make ready" (usually with up) is recorded from 1938. Teed off in the fig. sense of "angry, annoyed" is first recorded 1953, probably as a euphemism for p(iss)ed off.

T-shirt 
1920, in allusion to the shape it makes when laid out flat.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Computing Dictionary

tee tool, operating system
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).
[The Jargon File]
(1996-01-22)

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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Abbreviations & Acronyms
tee
T-shirt
TEE
transesophageal echocardiography
The American Heritage® Abbreviations Dictionary, Third Edition
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