tee
part of speech
noun (a tee, tees); verb (tee, tees, teed, teeing — usually «tee up», «tee off»)
meaning for a pupil
1) A tee is a small peg, often wooden or plastic, that holds a golf ball up before it is hit. tree →
2) The tee is also the flat area where each hole in golf begins. tree →
3) (informal) A tee is short for a T-shirt. tree →
4) To tee up is to put the ball on a tee, or to get something ready; to tee off is to make the first hit in golf. tree →
5) A tee is also the letter T or a T-shaped thing. tree →
sense in the lessons
In PE, golf and mini-golf lessons use tees; in tee-ball (T-ball) young children hit a baseball from a stand called a tee. In everyday speech, «tee» means T-shirt. «Teed off» (US slang) means annoyed. «To a T» (sometimes «to a tee») means exactly or perfectly. Phrases: «tee off», «tee up», «tee-ball», «fits to a T».
examples
- Put the golf ball on the tee. tree →
- We met at the first tee. tree →
- Dad teed off and the ball flew into the bushes. tree →
- He wore a white tee and shorts. tree →
- In tee-ball, you hit the ball off a stand. tree →
- The coach teed up the next game. tree →
- That costume suits you to a tee. tree →
note
Countable. Sounds the same as «tea» (the drink) and «T» (the letter). «Teed off» is slang for «annoyed», not polite in formal writing.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «tee» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.