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tee¹

(tē)

1. The letter t.

2. Something shaped like a T.

3. Informal A T-shirt.

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

Idiom:

to a tee

Perfectly; exactly: a plan that suits me to a tee.

tee²

(tē)

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:

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.)]

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tee

(tiː)

1. (Building) a pipe fitting in the form of a letter T, used to join three pipes

2. (Building) a metal section with a cross section in the form of a letter T, such as a rolled-steel joist

3. any part or component shaped like a T

tee

(tiː) golf

1. (Golf) Also called: teeing ground an area, often slightly elevated, from which the first stroke of a hole is made

2. (Golf) a support for a golf ball, usually a small wooden or plastic peg, used when teeing off or in long grass, etc

vb, tees, teeing or teed

(Golf) (when: intr, often foll by up) to position (the ball) ready for striking, on or as if on a tee

[C17 teaz, of unknown origin]

tee

(tiː)

(Curling) a mark used as a target in certain games such as curling and quoits

[C18: perhaps from T-shaped marks, which may have originally been used in curling]

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

tee¹

(ti)

n.

1. the letter T or
t.

2. something shaped like a T, as a three-way pipe joint.

3. T-bar (def. 1).

4. T-shirt.

5. the mark aimed at in various games, as curling.

adj.

6. shaped like a T, esp. with a crosspiece at the top.

[1605–15; sp. form of the letter name]

tee²

(ti)

n., v. teed, tee•ing. n.

a. the area from which the first stroke on each hole of a golf course is played.

b. a small peg or a mound of earth from which a golf ball is driven at the tee.

2. a stand on which a football is rested to position it for kicking prior to a kickoff.

v.t.

3. to place (a ball) on a tee.

4. tee off,

a. to strike a golf ball from a tee.

b. to begin.

c. Slang. to make angry or irritated.

[1715–25; orig. Scots; appar. back formation from earlier teaz]

tee

Past participle: teed
Gerund: teeing

Imperative
tee
tee

Present
I tee
you tee
he/she/it tees
we tee
you tee
they tee

Preterite
I teed
you teed
he/she/it teed
we teed
you teed
they teed

Present Continuous
I am teeing
you are teeing
he/she/it is teeing
we are teeing
you are teeing
they are teeing

Present Perfect
I have teed
you have teed
he/she/it has teed
we have teed
you have teed
they have teed

Past Continuous
I was teeing
you were teeing
he/she/it was teeing
we were teeing
you were teeing
they were teeing

Past Perfect
I had teed
you had teed
he/she/it had teed
we had teed
you had teed
they had teed

Future
I will tee
you will tee
he/she/it will tee
we will tee
you will tee
they will tee

Future Perfect
I will have teed
you will have teed
he/she/it will have teed
we will have teed
you will have teed
they will have teed

Future Continuous
I will be teeing
you will be teeing
he/she/it will be teeing
we will be teeing
you will be teeing
they will be teeing

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been teeing
you have been teeing
he/she/it has been teeing
we have been teeing
you have been teeing
they have been teeing

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been teeing
you will have been teeing
he/she/it will have been teeing
we will have been teeing
you will have been teeing
they will have been teeing

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been teeing
you had been teeing
he/she/it had been teeing
we had been teeing
you had been teeing
they had been teeing

Conditional
I would tee
you would tee
he/she/it would tee
we would tee
you would tee
they would tee

Past Conditional
I would have teed
you would have teed
he/she/it would have teed
we would have teed
you would have teed
they would have teed

Collins English Verb Tables © HarperCollins Publishers 2011

tee

Slightly elevated area from which a player drives the ball; also the peg on which the ball is placed.

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Noun	1.	tee - the starting place for each hole on a golf course; "they were waiting on the first tee" teeing ground golf course, links course - course consisting of a large landscaped area for playing golf land site, site - the piece of land on which something is located (or is to be located); "a good site for the school"
	2.	tee - support holding a football on end and above the ground preparatory to the kickoff football tee support - any device that bears the weight of another thing; "there was no place to attach supports for a shelf"
	3.	tee - a short peg put into the ground to hold a golf ball off the ground golf tee golf equipment - sports equipment used in playing golf nog, peg - a wooden pin pushed or driven into a surface
Verb	1.	tee - place on a tee; "tee golf balls" tee up golf, golf game - a game played on a large open course with 9 or 18 holes; the object is use as few strokes as possible in playing all the holes lay, place, put, set, position, pose - put into a certain place or abstract location; "Put your things here"; "Set the tray down"; "Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children"; "Place emphasis on a certain point"
	2.	tee - connect with a tee; "tee two pipes" connect, link, link up, tie - connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces; "Can you connect the two loudspeakers?"; "Tie the ropes together"; "Link arms"

Translations

podstavec

tee

tii

trojnik

tee coprire la pallina sul tee'

ティー

티

tee

rzutnia

suporte para a bolatê

тройник

utslagsplats

เป้ารองรับลูกกอล์ฟในการตี

golf sopası

vật đỡ bóng gôn

球座

tee

[tiː] N

1. (Golf) (= object) → tee m; (= area) → punto m de salida
the third tee → el punto de salida del tercer hoyo

2.
see T

tee off VI + ADV → dar el primer golpe

tee up

A. VT + ADV (Golf) [+ ball] → colocar en el tee (Ftbl) → preparar

B. VI + ADV → colocar la pelota en el tee

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

tee

[ˈtiː] n (GOLF) → tee m

tee

¹ (Golf)

n → Tee nt

vt ball → auf das Tee legen

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

tee

[tiː] n (Golf) → tee m inv

tee off vi + adv (Golf) → cominciare la partita

tee

→ نُقْطَةُ الاِنْطِلَاقِ في لُعْبِةِ الـجُولْف podstavec tee Tee κοντομάνικο ρούχο punto de salida, tee tii té trojnik tee ティー 티 tee tee rzutnia suporte para a bola тройник utslagsplats เป้ารองรับลูกกอล์ฟในการตี golf sopası vật đỡ bóng gôn 球座

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Archibald was now preparing to drive off from the first tee. He did this with great care.

He only missed twice before he struck his ball on the tee. Gossett had four strokes ere he achieved the feat.

And as he walked to the fifteenth tee, after winning the fourteenth, he felt that this was Life, that till now he had been a mere mollusc.

As Gossett was about to drive off from the seventh tee, a telegraph boy approached the little group.

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We are thus narrowed into tee, and, going through the alphabet, if necessary, as before, we arrive at the word 'tree,' as the sole possible reading.

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"I must have some good, quiet soul that will let me just do what I like and go where I like, keep at home or stay away, without a word of reproach or complaint; for I can't do with being bothered." "Well," said I, "I know somebody that will suit you to a tee, if you don't care for money, and that's Hargrave's sister, Milicent." He desired to be introduced to her forthwith, for he said he had plenty of the needful himself, or should have when his old governor chose to quit the stage.

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“Ter teer is not so plenty as in tee old war, Pumppo,” said the Major, who had been an attentive listener, amid clouds of smoke; “put ter lant is not mate as for ter teer to live on, put for Christians.”

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Yes, there was a fellow driving off from a tee, and that other group upon the green were surely putting for the hole.

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It was my idea to a tee. But I wouldn't have done it without asking you first, and seeing how you feel about it, I won't even ask you.

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Thus, we learn the value of the coal we buy; we know to a tee the last penny of cost of every item of production, and we learn which firemen are the most wasteful, which firemen, out of stupidity or carelessness, get the least out of the coal they fire." The superintendent beamed again.

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TEE KITES of olden times, as well as the Swans, had the privilege of song.

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``if you disdain not to grace by your acceptance a bugle which an English yeoman has once worn, this I will pray you to keep as a memorial of your gallant bearing and if ye have aught to do, and, as happeneth oft to a gallant knight, ye chance to be hard bested in any forest between Trent and Tees, wind three mots* upon the horn thus, Wa-sa-hoa!

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