tee

See also Tee, and teé

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iː
• Homophones: T, te, tea, ti

Etymology 1

From Middle English, from Old English te, from Latin te (the name of the letter T).

Noun

tee (plural tees)

1. The name of the Latin script letter T/t.
2. Something shaped like the letter T. Found in compounds such as tee-shirt, tee-beam, tee-frame, tee-iron, tee-headed.

   angles and tees

3. T-shirt

See also

• (Latin script letter names) letter; a, bee, cee, dee, e, ef, gee, aitch, i, jay, kay, el, em, en, o, pee, cue, ar, ess, tee, u, vee, double-u, ex, wye, zee/zed ^{(Category: en:Latin letter names)}

Derived terms

• teevee

Translations

name of the letter T, t

• Arabic: تي (ar) (tii) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (English letter names are called as in English, no other standard Mandarin name exists)

• Czech: té (cs) n
• Esperanto: to (eo)
• Finnish: tee (fi)
• Hindi: टी (hi) (ṭī)
• Japanese: ティー (ja) (tī)

• Korean: 티 (ko) (ti)
• Latin: tē (la)
• Malay: ti (ms)
• Marathi: टी (mr) (ṭī)
• Portuguese: tê (pt) m
• Russian: ти (ru) (ti) n  (English), тэ (ru) (te) n 
• Spanish: te (es) f
• Turkish: te (tr)
• Vietnamese: tê (vi), tờ (vi)

Etymology 2

From Middle English teen, from Old English tēon (“to pull, tug, draw, drag, entice, allure, induce, lead, bring, rear, educate, attract, arrogate, bring forth, produce, restrain, betake oneself to, go, roam”), from Proto-Germanic *teuhaną (“to draw, lead, bring, pull, help”), from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to pull, lead”). Cognate with Eastern Frisian tja (“to pull, draw”), Low German teen (“to draw, pull”), German ziehen (“to draw, pull, drag”), Latin dūcō (“draw, pull, lead”) and Albanian nduk (“to draw (out), pull up, pluck”).

Verb

tee (third-person singular simple present tees, present participle teeing, simple past teed or tow, past participle teed or town)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To draw; lead.
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To draw away; go; proceed.

Derived terms

• betee
• fortee

Related terms

• tow
• tug
• wanton

Etymology 3

First attested in the 17th century with the form teaz.

Noun

tee (plural tees)

1. (golf) A flat area of ground from which players hit their first shots on a golf hole.
2. (golf) A usually wooden or plastic peg from which a golf ball is hit on the first shot on a golf hole.
3. (curling) The target area of a curling rink
4. The mark at which players aim in quoits.

Derived terms

• tee off
• tee on
• tee up

Translations

golf: ground for hitting first shots

• Finnish: tiiauspaikka (fi)

• Icelandic: teigur (is) m

golf: peg

• Finnish: tii (fi)

• Icelandic: tí (is) n

curling: target area

• Finnish: tee (fi)

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• German: Tee (de), Abschlag (de)
• Japanese: ティー (ja)

• Welsh: ti (cy) m

Verb

tee (third-person singular simple present tees, present participle teeing, simple past and past participle teed)

1. (golf) To place a ball on a tee
   • 1909, Walter J. Travis, Practical Golf^[1]:

     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.

Synonyms

• tee up

Anagrams

• eet , EET

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Estonian

Etymology 1

Cognate with Finnish tie.

Noun

tee (genitive tee, partitive teed)

1. road, way

Declension

Declension of tee (type luu)

	singular	plural
nominative	tee	teed
genitive	tee	teede
partitive	teed	teid teesid
illative	teesse	teedesse teisse
inessive	tees	teedes teis
elative	teest	teedest teist
allative	teele	teedele teile
adessive	teel	teedel teil
ablative	teelt	teedelt teilt
translative	teeks	teedeks teiks
terminative	teeni	teedeni
essive	teena	teedena
abessive	teeta	teedeta
comitative	teega	teedega

Derived terms

• raudtee

Etymology 2

Noun

tee (genitive tee, partitive teed)

1. tea

Declension

Declension of tee (type luu)

	singular	plural
nominative	tee	teed
genitive	tee	teede
partitive	teed	teid teesid
illative	teesse	teedesse teisse
inessive	tees	teedes teis
elative	teest	teedest teist
allative	teele	teedele teile
adessive	teel	teedel teil
ablative	teelt	teedelt teilt
translative	teeks	teedeks teiks
terminative	teeni	teedeni
essive	teena	teedena
abessive	teeta	teedeta
comitative	teega	teedega

Derived terms

• liivatee

Etymology 3

Verb

tee

1. Second-person singular imperative form of tegema.
2. Present connegative form of tegema.

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Finnish

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eː
• IPA: [ˈteː]
• Hyphenation: tee

Noun

tee

1. (uncountable) tea
2. (countable) one cup of tea
3. Any hot drink made by soaking dried (usually) or fresh leaves of plants in hot water
   • yrttitee = herb tea

Declension

Declension of tee (type maa) singular plural nominative tee teet genitive teen teiden teitten partitive teetä teitä accusative tee teen teet inessive teessä teissä elative teestä teistä illative teehen teihin adessive teellä teillä ablative teeltä teiltä allative teelle teille essive teenä teinä translative teeksi teiksi instructive – tein abessive teettä teittä comitative – teineen

Synonyms

• saikka, tsaju, tsaiju (dialectal)

Derived terms

• aamutee
• iltatee
• irtotee
• jäätee
• kuplatee
• pussitee
• teelehdet
• teepannu
• teepussi
• yrttitee

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA: [ˈteː]
• Hyphenation: tee

Noun

tee

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

Declension

Declension of tee (type maa) singular plural nominative tee teet genitive teen teiden teitten partitive teetä teitä accusative tee teen teet inessive teessä teissä elative teestä teistä illative teehen teihin adessive teellä teillä ablative teeltä teiltä allative teelle teille essive teenä teinä translative teeksi teiksi instructive – tein abessive teettä teittä comitative – teineen

Etymology 3

inflected form of tehdä

Pronunciation

• IPA: [ˈteː(ʔ)]
• Hyphenation: tee

Verb

tee

1. Present indicative connegative form of tehdä.
2. Second-person singular imperative form of tehdä.
3. Second-person singular imperative connegative form of tehdä.

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Tetum

Verb

tee

1. to defecate