Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
Definition: Tee |
TeeNoun1. The starting place for each hole on a golf course; "they were waiting on the first tee". 2. Support holding a football on end and above the ground preparatory to the kickoff. 3. A short peg put into the ground to hold a golf ball off the ground. Verb1. Place on a tee; "tee golf balls". 2. Connect with a tee, as of pipes. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tee" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1871. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Tee n.,vt. [Purdue] A carbon copy of an electronic transmission. "Oh, you're sending him the bits to that? Slap on a tee for me." From the Unix command `tee(1)', itself named after a pipe fitting (see plumbing). Can also mean `save one for me', as in "Tee a slice for me!" Also spelled `T'. Source: Jargon File. |
Building & Civil Engineering | A fitting in the form of Tee installed in the pipeline system to guide flow of water in more than one direction in main line or sprinkler line ; a three port fitting in the form of a T ; a short length of tubing(pipe fitting)with an additional opening serving to connect three adjacent lenghts of conduit, two being in line with one another and the third at an angle of 90 degrees to the other two. Source: European Union. (references) |
Electrical Engineering | A junction of waveguides in which the longitudinal waveguide axes form a T. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mechanical Engineering | Structure or pipe fitting in the shape of the letter T. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. Eng. A crossvein meeting a main vein without intersecting it. b. A sleeve with a third opening in the side, usually at right angles, to allow a branch line to be connected to the main pipeline c. A fitting, either cast or wrought, that has one side outlet at rightangles to the run. A single outlet branch pipe. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
TEE | English | Telecom Eireann | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: TeeSynonyms: football tee (n), golf tee (n), teeing ground (n), tee up (v). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: t-junction (electrical engineering). |
Crosswords: Tee |
| English words defined with "tee": drive, driver, driving ♦ fairway ♦ golf hole ♦ Hogscore, hole ♦ number one wood ♦ Reducing pipe fitting ♦ tee off, tee up. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "tee": E-H tee ♦ golf-course patroller, GOLF-COURSE RANGER, GREENSKEEPER II ♦ laborer, golf course, Lock and load ♦ magic tee ♦ Packet InterNet Groper. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Tee" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Afrikaan (tea), Estonian (way), Finnish (tea), French (tee), Frisian (tea), German (brew, char, tea, teas), Italian (tee), Manx (te, tee, tee golf), Sepedi (one), Spanish (tee), Swedish (tee). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | This is my exact inner structure, done in a tee shirt (This Is Spinal Tap; writing credit: Christopher Guest; Michael McKean) Damn, damn, hell, damn, tee tee, doo doo (Rustlers' Rhapsody; writing credit: Hugh Wilson) Been there, done that, bought the tee shirt (Andromeda; writing credit: John Cranna) Alright, Louie, give me a tee. (Life with Louie; writing credit: Martin Miehe-Renard; Mette Andersen Ottesen) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Tee Bird (1959) From Tee to Green (1950) Tee for Two (1945) A Foozle at the Tee Party (1915) Tee Time (1998) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title | ||
Books |
| ||
Theater & Movies | |||
High Tech |
| ||
Consumer Goods | |||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Golfer preparing to tee off. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Kitty's first tee. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Gee Tee Maxwell. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | "Tee hee" boys - Born with a vote and a partial sense of the ridiculous / J.S. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Black tee. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | No. 1 tee, golf course, Hampton Terrace, Augusta, Ga. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The Homestead, Hot Springs, Virginia. Fourth tee. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Hole in the Wall Golf Club, Naples, Florida. Clubhouse from first tee. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | "Beautiful view." The Bar (-T) Tee Ranch located on Hat Creek, about 13 miles from Hot Springs, Dak. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Golf course. Hole 14 tee. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
 |  |
| "Time for tee" by vares Commentary: "I like red or green tee, do you?." | "Eat more" by Mark Stanton Commentary: "This is my girlfriends tee shirt and her in it." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | The British design places obstacles in the fairway leading out of the tee, while the American places them along the side and allows the golfer to plan his or her approach. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Tee" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 91.46% of the time. "Tee" is used about 491 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 91.46% | 450 | 12,930 |
| Noun (proper) | 6.3% | 31 | 62,296 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.22% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.61% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.41% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 491 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "tee" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Tee | Last name | 1,000 | 18,418 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "tee": air tee ♦ Field tee ♦ football tee ♦ golf tee ♦ pipe tee ♦ tee across ♦ tee cloth ♦ tee fitting ♦ tee hinge ♦ Tee iron ♦ Tee junction ♦ tee off ♦ tee off substation ♦ Tee piece union ♦ tee shirt ♦ tee up ♦ wind tee. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "tee": tee-box, tee-ed, tee-fittings, tee-hee, tee-hee!, tee-hinge, tee-markers, tee-off, tee-oo, tee-oo-ee, tee-pieces, tee-ser, tee-shirt, tee-shirted, tee-shirts, tee-shot, tee-shots, tee-tew, tee-time, tee-times, tee-to-green, tee-total, tee-totaller, tee-totalling, Tee-to-tum, tee-up. | |
Ending with "tee": Kool-tee. | |
Containing "tee": becket-tee-ee, mar-tee-ee, Mi-fah-soh-lah-tee-doh, strat-tee-o-tays, wend-tee-ee. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
tee | 446 | tee shirt printing | 66 |
golden tee | 356 | tee marker | 64 |
teen tee | 204 | christian tee shirt | 60 |
tee times | 199 | tee pee | 60 |
golden tee golf | 179 | golf tee | 57 |
wet tee shirt contest | 157 | novelty tee shirt | 47 |
tee sign | 156 | last minute tee times | 44 |
wholesale tee shirt | 144 | car tee | 44 |
first tee | 133 | cool tee shirt | 43 |
tee signage | 130 | tee and green sign | 43 |
golf tee times | 116 | nick tee | 43 |
custom tee shirt | 97 | by sign sponsored tee | 43 |
wet tee | 94 | open tee times us | 41 |
tee time | 93 | tee zone | 36 |
tee ball | 93 | on.com tee | 36 |
vintage tee shirt | 92 | patriotic tee shirt | 36 |
trin i tee 5 7 | 74 | tee nut | 34 |
funny tee shirt | 72 | wet tee shirt photo | 33 |
2004 golden tee | 71 | wrestling tee | 33 |
tee shirt design | 66 | tee time king | 33 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "tee"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shkronja t, në formë të t-së. (various references) | |
Arabic | نقطة الإنطلاق, وضع على كوم, ركام من الرمل, بدأ (begin, begin on smth., commence, fall to, incept, initialize, initiate, institute, launch, lead, lead off, proceed, set, set about, set in, start, start off, tackle, take, take in). (various references) | |
Asturian | camiseta (tee shirt). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | слагам топката за удар, нещо във форма на 'т', мишена (blank, butt, target), площадка от която започва тур. (various references) | |
Cebuano | kamiseta (tee shirt). (various references) | |
Chamorro | franela (tee shirt). (various references) | |
Chinese | 发球区域. (various references) | |
Czech | vyrazit kouli, podstavek. (various references) | |
Danish | T-stykke (cross, field Tee, pipe tee, tee fitting, Tee piece union, Union T), T-rør (cross, field Tee, pipe tee, tee fitting, Tee piece union, Union T), T-forskruning (cross, field Tee, pipe tee, tee fitting, Tee piece union, Union T). (various references) | |
Dutch | T-verbindingsstuk (cross, field Tee, pipe tee, tee fitting, Tee piece union, Union T), T-stuk (cross, field Tee, pipe tee, tee fitting, Tee junction, Tee piece union, Union T), T-koppeling (cross, field Tee, pipe tee, tee fitting, Tee piece union, Union T), T stuk (cross, field Tee, pipe tee, tee fitting, Tee piece union, Union T), kruisstuk (built-up obtuse crossing, cross, diamond crossing, double frog, field Tee, four-way tee, pipe tee, spider, tee fitting, Tee piece union, Union T). (various references) | |
Ecuadorian Quechua | camiza (tee shirt). (various references) | |
Farsi | هرچیزی بشکلT , حرفT , توپ راروی گوه قراردادن . (various references) | |
Finnish | T-liitin (cross, field Tee, pipe tee, T piece, tee fitting, Tee piece union, T-fitting, T-piece, T-union, Union T), T-kappale (cross, field Tee, pipe tee, T piece, tee fitting, Tee piece union, T-fitting, T-piece, T-union, Union T), kolmihaara (cross, field Tee, pipe tee, T piece, tee fitting, Tee piece union, T-fitting, T-piece, T-union, Union T). (various references) | |
French | tertre, tee, té (field Tee, pipe tee, tee fitting, Tee piece union), raccord en té (field Tee, pipe tee, tee fitting, Tee piece union), raccord en T (field Tee, pipe tee, tee fitting, Tee piece union), placer sur le tee. (various references) | |
German | T-Verschraubung (cross, field Tee, pipe tee, T piece, tee fitting, Tee piece union, T-fitting, T-piece, T-union, Union T), T-Stück (cross, field Tee, pipe tee, T piece, tee fitting, Tee piece union, T-fitting, T-part, T-piece, T-union, Union T), T-foermiges Rohrstueck (cross, field Tee, pipe tee, T piece, tee fitting, Tee piece union, T-fitting, T-piece, T-union, Union T), Tee (brew, char, tea, teas), Te (cross, Engineering Design Activities, field Tee, pipe tee, T piece, tee fitting, Tee piece union, T-fitting, T-piece, T-union, Union T), T Stueck (cross, field Tee, pipe tee, T piece, tee fitting, Tee piece union, T-fitting, T-piece, T-union, Union T), Markierung (blip, hole, indentation, Mark, marker, marking, sentinel, token), auf das tee legen (tee up), Abzweigstueck (cross, field Tee, pipe tee, T piece, tee fitting, Tee piece union, T-fitting, T-piece, T-union, Union T), Abzweig (junction), abschlagstelle. (various references) | |
Greek | σύνδεσμος ταυ (cross, field Tee, pipe tee, T piece, tee fitting, Tee piece union, T-fitting, T-piece, T-union, Union T), στόχοσ (butt, target), μικρός πάσσαλος στο γκολφ, αφετήρια στο γκολφ, ταυ (cross, field Tee, pipe tee, T piece, tee fitting, Tee piece union, T-fitting, T-piece, T-union, Union T). (various references) | |
Hungarian | T-betű, T-alakú idom, T-alakú dolog, T-alakú cső, golflabda elütési helye. (various references) | |
Italian | tubo a T (cross, field Tee, pipe tee, T piece, tee fitting, Tee piece union, T-fitting, T-piece, T-union, Union T), tee, raccordo a T (cross, field Tee, pipe tee, T piece, tee fitting, Tee piece union, T-fitting, T-piece, T-union, Union T), collocare sul tee. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | したい気がする (feeling like doing, gently, God bless me!, Good heavens!, insistent, nicely, obstinate, softly, to a tee). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しっくりと (nicely, to a tee). (various references) | |
Korean | 티. (various references) | |
Macedonian | maica na kratki rakavi (tee shirt). (various references) | |
Manx | teeal (tee golf), tee (te, tee golf). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eetay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | tubo ou ferramenta em t, tê (cross, field Tee, pipe tee, T piece, T square, tee fitting, Tee piece union, T-fitting, T-piece, T-union, Union T), T de campo (cross, field Tee, pipe tee, T piece, tee fitting, Tee piece union, T-fitting, T-piece, T-union, Union T), racord em T (cross, field Tee, pipe tee, T piece, tee fitting, Tee piece union, T-fitting, T-piece, T-union, Union T), peça em T (cross, field Tee, pipe tee, T piece, tee fitting, Tee piece union, T-fitting, T-part, T-piece, T-union, Union T), meta (bourne, consummation, gaol, goal, jail, mark, terminus, winning-post), conector em T (cross, field Tee, pipe tee, T piece, tee fitting, Tee piece union, T-fitting, T-piece, T-union, Union T), colocar a bola no tee, alvo (aim, blank, butt, clean, clout, cockshot, dart board, drift, goal, mark, niveous, object, purpose, shot, target). (various references) | |
Provencal | camison (tee shirt). (various references) | |
Romanian | reper (bench, landmark, Mark, part), aşeza mingea pe reper. (various references) | |
Ruanda | umupira (soccer, tee shirt). (various references) | |
Russian | тройник, тавровый, колышек (peg, tees). (various references) | |
Samoan | mitiafu (tee shirt). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | ti (thee, thou, ye, you), u obliku slova 't', meta (aim, bull's eye, goal, target), kupica na koju se stavlja loptica. (various references) | |
Spanish | tee, soporte (backing, backstay, bearer, bearing, bracket, calipers, callipers, holder, mounting, pillar, rest, shell, support, supporter, wearer), Racor en T (cross, field Tee, pipe tee, T piece, tee fitting, Tee piece union, T-fitting, T-piece, T-union, Union T), pieza en T (cross, field Tee, pipe tee, T piece, tee fitting, Tee piece union, T-fitting, T-piece, T-union, Union T), pieza de derivación en T (cross, field Tee, pipe tee, T piece, tee fitting, Tee piece union, T-fitting, T-piece, T-union, Union T), empalme de tubos en T (cross, field Tee, pipe tee, T piece, tee fitting, Tee piece union, T-fitting, T-piece, T-union, Union T), conexión en T (cross, field Tee, pipe tee, T piece, tee fitting, Tee piece union, T-fitting, T-piece, T-union, Union T). (various references) | |
Swedish | T-rör (cross, field Tee, pipe tee, T piece, tee fitting, Tee piece union, T-fitting, T-piece, T-union, Union T), tee, utslagsplats, peg. (various references) | |
Thai | อักษร T หรือ t. (various references) | |
Turkish | t biçimindeki şey, t şeklinde, golf topunun koyulduğu yer. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | трійник, тавровий. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | áo lót dệt kim ngắn tay (tee-shirt, t-shirt). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "tee": teed, teeing, teel, teels, teem, teemed, teemer, teemers, teeming, teemingly, teemingness, teemingnesses, teems, teen, teenage, teenaged, teenager, teenagers, teener, teeners, teenful, teenier, teeniest, teens, teensier, teensiest, teensy, teentsier, teentsiest, teentsy, teeny, teenybop, teenybopper, teenyboppers, teepee, teepees, tees, teeter, teeterboard, teeterboards, teetered, teetering, teeters, teeth, teethe, teethed, teether, teethers, teethes, teething, teethings. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "tee": abductee, absentee, acceptee, adoptee, allottee, amputee, appointee, arrestee, bootee, coatee, committee, communicatee, contactee, cotrustee, covenantee, dedicatee, delegatee, departee, deportee, devotee, distributee, draftee, electee, enlistee, evictee, goatee, grantee, guarantee, indictee, inductee, interrogatee, invitee, legatee, listee, manatee, mestee, mustee, patentee, pattee, permittee, persecutee, picotee, presentee, puttee, rejectee, relocatee, repartee, selectee, settee, subcommittee, suttee. (additional references) | |
Words containing "tee": abductees, absenteeism, absenteeisms, absentees, acceptees, adoptees, allottees, amputees, anteed, antiprofiteering, antiracketeering, appointees, arrestees, bootees, buckteeth, budgeteer, budgeteers, canteen, canteens, charioteer, charioteers, coatees, committeeman, committeemen, committees, committeewoman, committeewomen, communicatees, contactees, cotrustees, covenantees, dedicatees, delegatees, departees, deportees, devotees, disesteem, disesteemed, disesteeming, disesteems, distributees, dogteeth, draftees, eighteen, eighteens, eighteenth, eighteenths, electees, enlistees, esteem, esteemed. (additional references) | |
| |
"Tee" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: atee, Etbe, etce, ete, etec, etel, Eteq, eti, etie, eto, etu, Itae, Ltee, lty, qte, taeb, taeo, taya, taye, tce, Tdex, te, teb, tebe, ted, tede, teec, teef, teeh, teej, teep, teeq, teer, teet, teev, teez, tef, tege, Tegea, teig, Teio, teip, teiu, teiz, tej, tele, telee, telep, teo, tep, teq, tere, tes, tese, teu, teue, tev, teve, tewe, tex, texel, tey, teye, tez, teze, tezet, Tfe, thebe, tieb, tiee, tiefe, tiege, tiej, tieu, tiex, Tjele, tle, toev, tse, tsee, tseef, tte, tuey, tuoe, tuqe, tuve, Tve, twe, tweeb, tweef, tweeg, tweel, tweep, ty, tyb, tyee, tyf, tyg, tyl, tyx, tze, Tzedec, tzee, uee, utee, uty. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "tee" (pronounced tē") |
| 2 | t ē" | absentee, abductee, adoptee, amputee, appointee, deportee, devotee, draftee, enlistee, goatee, guarantee, Guaranty, inductee, pattee, repartee, tea, Ti, trustee. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-t" | |
-1 letter: et. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-t" | |
+1 letter: beet, cete, deet, feet, fete, jete, keet, leet, meet, mete, rete, teed, teel, teem, teen, tees, tele, thee, tree, twee, tyee, weet. | |
+2 letters: arete, beets, beget, beret, beset, betel, cetes, deets, deter, eaten, eater, ebbet, egest, egret, eject, elate, elect, elite, elute, emmet, emote, enate, enter, erect, ester, etape, ether, etude, etwee, event, evert, evite, exert, feted, fetes, fleet, geest, genet, geste, gleet, greet, jetes, keets, leets, lethe, meets, meted, meter, metes, metre, peter, reest, relet, remet, rente, reset, retem, retie, revet, rewet, sente, setae, sheet, skeet, sleet, steed, steek, steel, steep, steer, stele, stere, sweet, tease, teels, teems, teens, teeny, teeth, telae, teles, telex, tenet, tenge, tense, tepee, terce, terne, terse, tewed, thebe, theme, there, these, three, topee, treed, treen, trees, tutee, tweed, tween, tweet, tyees, weest, weets, yente. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Quotations: Non-fiction 10. Usage Frequency 11. Names: Frequency 12. Expressions | 13. Expressions: Internet 14. Translations: Modern 15. Abbreviations 16. Acronyms | 17. Derivations 18. Rhymes 19. Anagrams 20. Bibliography |
Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
