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What (who) is tee - definition

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Tees; TEE

tee

STAND USED IN GOLF TO SUPPORT A STATIONARY BALL SO THAT THE GOLFER CAN STRIKE IT

Golf tees; Golf tee; Kicking tee

(tees, teeing, teed)

1.

In golf, a tee is a small piece of wood or plastic which is used to support the ball before it is hit at the start of each hole.

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2.

On a golf course, a tee is one of the small flat areas of ground from which people hit the ball at the start of each hole.

N-COUNT

3.

to a tee: see T

tee

STAND USED IN GOLF TO SUPPORT A STATIONARY BALL SO THAT THE GOLFER CAN STRIKE IT

Golf tees; Golf tee; Kicking tee

tee¹

¦ noun

1. a cleared space on a golf course, from which the ball is struck at the beginning of play for each hole.

2. a small peg with a concave head which is placed in the ground to support a golf ball before it is struck from a tee.

3. a mark aimed at in bowls, quoits, curling, and other similar games.

¦ verb (tees, teeing, teed) Golf

1. (usu. tee up) place the ball on a tee ready to make the first stroke of the round or hole.

2. (tee off) begin a round or hole of golf by playing the ball from a tee.

Origin

C17 (orig. Scots, as teaz): of unknown origin.

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tee²

¦ noun informal a T-shirt.

tee

STAND USED IN GOLF TO SUPPORT A STATIONARY BALL SO THAT THE GOLFER CAN STRIKE IT

Golf tees; Golf tee; Kicking 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). [Jargon File] (1996-01-22)

Wikipedia

Tee (disambiguation)

Tee, tees, or TEE may refer to:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tee (disambiguation)

Examples of use of tee

1. That would be a fine legacy, wouldn‘t it, tee hee.

2. There‘s Papa President Bush on hand at first tee.

3. TEE–OFF TIMES FOR TOMORROW FRIDAY (US unless stated.

4. Clean" image suiting the movement‘s goals to a tee.

5. Tee–Hillman insists that mushrooms actually benefit from picking.