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Princeton's WordNet

  1. tee, teeing groundnoun

    the starting place for each hole on a golf course

    "they were waiting on the first tee"

  2. tee, football teenoun

    support holding a football on end and above the ground preparatory to the kickoff

  3. tee, golf teeverb

    a short peg put into the ground to hold a golf ball off the ground

  4. tee, tee upverb

    place on a tee

    "tee golf balls"

  5. teeverb

    connect with a tee

    "tee two pipes"

Wiktionary

  1. teenoun

    A flat area of ground from which players hit their first shots on a golf hole.

  2. teenoun

    A usually wooden or plastic peg from which a golf ball is hit on the first shot on a golf hole.

  3. tee

    The target area of a curling rink

  4. teeverb

    To place a ball on a tee

  5. Etymology: From teen, from teon, from teuhanan, from dewk-. Cognate with tja, teen, ziehen, duco and Albanian kthej.

ChatGPT

  1. tee

    A tee is a stand used in golf to support a stationary ball so that the player can strike it. It is also a type of pipe fitting in the shape of a 'T', used to join three pipes and direct flow between them. Furthermore, it refers to a T-shirt, often shortened to 'tee' in informal contexts. It is also used in sports to denote the starting point of a hole or race.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Teenoun

    the mark aimed at in curling and in quoits

  2. Teenoun

    the nodule of earth from which the ball is struck in golf

  3. Teenoun

    a short piece of pipe having a lateral outlet, used to connect a line of pipe with a pipe at a right angle with the line; -- so called because it resembles the letter T in shape

Wikidata

  1. Tee

    A tee is a stand used to support a stationary ball so that the player can strike it, particularly in golf, tee ball, American football, and rugby.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Tee

    tē, n. a mark for quoits, curling-stones, &c.: (golf) the raised sand from which the ball is played at the commencement of each hole.—v.t. to place the golf-ball on this before striking off.

  2. Tee

    tē, n. a finial in the form of a conventionalised umbrella, crowning a dagoba in Indo-Chinese countries.

The New Hacker's Dictionary

  1. tee

    [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’.

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. TEE

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Tee is ranked #17951 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Tee surname appeared 1,557 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 would have the surname Tee.

    50.7% or 790 total occurrences were Asian.
    30.2% or 471 total occurrences were White.
    11.1% or 173 total occurrences were Black.
    2.8% or 45 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    2.5% or 40 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
    2.4% or 38 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of tee in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of tee in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of tee in a Sentence

  1. James Clapper:

    There is a very chilling message here to people in the intelligence community. If you tee up intelligence that the President doesn't like, you may risk losing your clearance and thereby your job.

  2. Trey Mullinax:

    Obviously I don't think you ever walk onto a tee and think 62, but I thought I had some low rounds in me. I thought I was rolling the ball well and felt really good with my irons on the range this morning, so got some stuff to happen.

  3. Cayce Kerr:

    On the (par-three) sixth tee, everybody stuffed it in there (close to the hole), as the three pros were walking off the tee, Tiger said: 'Let's all walk off the greens with twos.'.

  4. California Rory McIlroy:

    It's a real treat when you come to a golf course like this where it's not overly long, you don't have to really bomb it off the tee, but it's real strategic, it's a real thinker's golf course and it's a real treat to play something like this because we don't get to play them that often anymore.

  5. Tiger Woods:

    She has been amazing with Sam and Charlie and my entire family. Unfortunately, we lead very hectic lives and are both competing in demanding sports. It's difficult to spend time together. once you're inside the ropes, it's time to tee it up and time to play.

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