• IPA^(key):/ˈtiː/

• Audio(Southern England):

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• Rhymes:-iː
• Homophones:T,te,tea,ti

• FromMiddle English[Term?], fromOld Englishte, fromLatinte(the name of the letter T).
• (computing): By analogy with a T-shaped pipe that sends fluids in two directions.

tee (pluraltees)

1. The name of theLatin-script letterT/t.
   • 1773 October,The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged:

     The word length, which contains only four sounds l e ng th, is usually spell'd thus, el ee en geetee aitch.

   • 1985, Stephen King,Paranoid: A Chant:

     They have writing samples and examine the back loops of pees and the crosses oftees.

   • 2016 CCEB,Communications Instructions Radiotelephone Procedures: ACP125 (G), p. 3-5

     ETA [is spoken] as "ee-tee-ay" instead of "I SPELL Echo Tango Alfa".

2. Something shaped like the letterT.

   Hyponyms:tee-shirt,tee-beam,tee-frame,tee-iron,tee-headed

   angles andtees

4. (clothing)T-shirt.

   Alternative form:T

   Brendan pulled a black pockettee over his head.

5. (computing) The process ofredirectingoutput to multipledestinations.

tee (third-person singular simple presenttees,present participleteeing,simple past and past participleteed)

1. (computing) Toredirectoutput to multipledestinations.
   • 1997, Robin Burk, David B. Horvath,UNIX Unleashed, page615:

     […]teeing via multiple redirects (ls > file1 > file2)[…]

• (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

First attested in the 17th century asteaz, back-formation from obsoleteScotsteaz, later reanalyzed as a plural.^[1]Thisetymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

tee (pluraltees)

1. (golf) A flat area of ground from which players hit their first shots on agolf hole.
2. (sports) A usually wooden or plasticpeg from which a ball is kicked or hit.
   • 2019 November 3, Liam de Carme, “Boks, you beauties”, inSunday Times‎^[1]:

     Pollard, who went into the semifinals with an unsatisfactory 63% return from thekicking tee, turned it around splendidly against Wales and he continued that form despite missing his first attempt in the final.

3. (curling) The target area of acurling rink.
4. The mark at which players aim inquoits.

• tee ball
• teebox
• tee off
• tee on
• tee time
• tee up

tee (third-person singular simple presenttees,present participleteeing,simple past and past participleteed)

1. (golf) To place a ball on a tee
   • 1909, Walter J. Travis,Practical Golf‎^[2]:

     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.

• tee up

FromBurmeseထီး(hti:,“umbrella”).

tee (pluraltees)

1. Afinial resembling anumbrella, crowning adagoba inIndochinese countries.

• Henry Yule,A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903) “tee”, inWilliam Crooke, editor,Hobson-Jobson[…], London:John Murray, […].

• EET

FromDutchthee (in the past commonly spelledtee).

• IPA^(key):/tɪə̯/

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tee (uncountable)

1. tea

   Kom ons gaan drinktee.

   Let's go drink sometea.

• rooibostee
• teekoppie

tee m (pluralteeën,diminutiveteetje n)

1. Obsolete spelling ofthee.

FromProto-Finnic*tee. Cognate withFinnishtie.

tee (genitivetee,partitiveteed)

1. road,way

• kiirtee
• maantee
• raudtee
• umbtee
• kruusatee

FromGermanTee, ultimately fromHokkien茶(tê).

tee (genitivetee,partitiveteed)

1. tea

• liivatee

tee (genitive[please provide],partitive[please provide])

1. The name of theLatin-script letterT/t.

tee

1. Second-person singular imperative form oftegema.
2. Present connegative form oftegema.

Borrowed fromSwedishte, itself fromDutchthee, fromHokkien茶(tê) (Amoy dialect), fromOld Chinese, ultimately fromProto-Sino-Tibetan*s-la(“leaf, tea”).

• IPA^(key):/ˈteː/,[ˈt̪e̞ː]
• Rhymes:-eː
• Hyphenation^(key):tee

tee

1. (uncountable)tea(dried leaves or buds of the tea plant,Camellia sinensis)

   Mene kauppaan ja ostateetä.

   Go to the supermarket and buy sometea.

2. (uncountable)tea(drink made by infusing these dried leaves or buds in hot water)

   Synonyms:(dialectal)saikka,tsaikka,tsaikku,tsaiju,tsaju,tsaikka,tsaikku,tsaju,tsaiju(dialectal)

   Haluaisitkoteetä?’’

   Would you like sometea?

3. (countable)tea(variety of the tea plant)

   Synonym:teelaatu

   Darjeeling on intialainentee.

   Darjeeling is atea from India.

4. (uncountable, by extension)tea(any drink made by infusing parts of various other plants)

   Synonym:juoma

   yrttitee ―herbal tea

   kamomillatee ―camomile tea

   minttutee ―mint tea

5. (countable)tea,cup oftea(cup of any one of these drinks)

   Synonyms:teekupillinen,kuppiteetä

As the plural forms are quite rarely used and as they, with the exception of nominative, look the same as the plural forms oftie(“road”), it may be advisable to substitute a more precise synonym for the wordtee in those cases.

• “tee”, inKielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[3] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki:Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland),2004–, retrieved2023-07-01
•  tee on the Finnish Wikipedia.Wikipedia^fi

FromLatintē.

• IPA^(key):/ˈteː/,[ˈt̪e̞ː]
• Rhymes:-eː
• Hyphenation^(key):tee

tee

1. The name of theLatin-script letterT/t.

• IPA^(key):/ˈteːˣ/,[ˈt̪e̞ː(ʔ)]
• Rhymes:-eː
• Hyphenation^(key):tee

tee

1. inflection oftehdä:
   1. presentindicativeconnegative
   2. second-personsingularpresentimperative
   3. second-personsingularpresentimperativeconnegative

• eet

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tee m (pluraltees)

1. (sports)tee

• “tee”, inTrésor de la langue française informatisé[Digitized Treasury of the French Language],2012.

tee

1. Wiesemann spelling ofdär

FromProto-Finnic*tee, fromProto-Finno-Permic*teje. Cognates includeFinnishtie andEstoniantee.

• (Ala-Laukaa)IPA^(key):/ˈteː/,[ˈteː]
• (Soikkola)IPA^(key):/ˈteː/,[ˈte̝ː]
• Rhymes:-eː
• Hyphenation:tee

tee

1. street
   • 1936, D. I. Efimov,Lukukirja: Inkeroisia alkușkouluja vart (ensimäine osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 6:

     Harkkaisinteen päälle, jää puuttui jalan alle.

     I stepped ontothe street, ice got under my feet.

2. way,path
   • 1936, L. G. Terehova, V. G. Erdeli, translated by Mihailov and P. I. Maksimov,Geografia: oppikirja iƶoroin alkușkoulun kolmatta klaassaa vart (ensimäine osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-Pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 5:

     Tiijussimmateen ja läksimmä.

     We recognisedthe way and we went.

• (street):uulitsa,katu

See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

• (Ala-Laukaa)IPA^(key):/ˈteː/,[ˈteː]
• (Soikkola)IPA^(key):/ˈteː/,[ˈte̝ː]
• Rhymes:-eː
• Hyphenation:tee

tee

1. inflection oftehä:
   1. presentindicativeconnegative
   2. second-personsingularimperative
   3. second-personsingularimperativeconnegative

• V. I. Junus (1936)Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎^[4], Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page66
• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971)Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page583

FromOld Dutch*tēa, fromProto-West Germanic*taihā.

têe f

1. toe

This noun needs aninflection-table template.

• Dutch:teen (plural reanalysed as singular)
• Limburgish:tieën (plural reanalysed as singular)

• “tee”, inVroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek,2000
• Verwijs, E.,Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “tee”, inMiddelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff,→ISBN

tee

1. termite mound

FromEnglishtee.

• IPA^(key):/tiː/
• Rhymes:-iː
• Homophone:ti

tee m (definite singulartee-en,indefinite pluraltee-er,definite pluraltee-ene)

1. (golf)tee
2. (golf)peg

• “tee” inThe Bokmål Dictionary.

FromEnglishtee.

• IPA^(key):/tiː/
• Rhymes:-iː
• Homophone:ti

tee m (definite singulartee-en,indefinite pluraltee-ar,definite pluraltee-ane)

1. (golf)tee
2. (golf)peg

• “tee” inThe Nynorsk Dictionary.

• ete

teë

1. Alternative spelling ofté

Borrowed fromEnglishtee.

tee c orn

1. (golf)tee,teeingground (area from which the first shot on a hole is hit)

   Synonym:utslagsplats

2. (curling)tee (center of a curling target)

Uninflected.

• peg
• slå ut(“tee off”)
• utslag(“tee shot”)

• tee inSvensk ordbok (SO)
• tee inSvenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• tee inSvenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Akin to Tetumto'o.

tee

1. tocome, toarrive

Likely fromMalayteh, fromHokkien茶(tê) (Amoy dialect)

• IPA^(key):[teː]

tee

1. tea

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001)A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

See the Tetum nounteen.

tee

1. todefecate, toexcrete

tee

1. tea

• Midori Osumi,Tinrin Grammar

tee (genitive[please provide],partitive[please provide])

1. The name of theLatin-script letterT/t.

This noun needs aninflection-table template.

FromProto-Finnic*tee.

• (Luutsa,Liivtšülä)IPA^(key):/ˈteː/,[ˈteː]
• Rhymes:-eː
• Hyphenation:tee

tee

1. way,road

• Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012)Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn

Borrowing fromDutchthee, fromMalayteh, fromHokkien茶(tê).

• IPA^(key):/teː/

tee c (no plural)

1. tea

• “tee”, inWurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch),2011