Noun: tee
Sample Sentences
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The word length, which contains only four sounds l e ng th, is usually spell'd thus, el ee en gee tee aitch. [1773 October, The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged:]
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They have writing samples and examine the back loops of pees and the crosses of tees. [1985, Stephen King, Paranoid: A Chant:]
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ETA [is spoken] as "ee-tee-ay" instead of "I SPELL Echo Tango Alfa". [2016 CCEB, Communications Instructions Radiotelephone Procedures: ACP125 (G), p. 3-5]
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angles and tees
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Brendan pulled a black tee over his head.
Nouns inflected like tee
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. * From Middle English, from Old English te, from Latin tē (the name of the letter T).
2. * (computing): By analogy with a T-shaped pipe that sends fluids in two directions. See: Old English Nouns '
te', Latin Nouns '
tē'.
Verbs referencing "tee"
Dutch Nouns
tee, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
tee, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
tee, Finnish Nouns
tii, Icelandic Nouns
tí.