ti
part of speech
noun (ti, also spelled te — a music note); fragment
meaning for a pupil
1) Ti (also te) is the seventh note in the singing scale do, re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do. tree →
2) Ti is also the name of a plant (the cabbage tree) in New Zealand and the Pacific. tree →
3) As a fragment, «ti» often comes from a longer word cut in the middle, or from «Ti», the chemistry symbol for titanium. tree →
sense in the lessons
In music lessons, children sing the scale «do re mi fa so la ti do»; ti is just below the top do. In the song from «The Sound of Music» it is «tea, a drink with jam and bread». In chemistry, Ti stands for the metal titanium.
examples
- Do, re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do! tree →
- Ti is the note right before the high do. tree →
- In the song, «ti» sounds like «tea». tree →
- The symbol Ti on the periodic table means titanium. tree →
- We sang ti a bit too low and the teacher laughed. tree →
- A ti tree, or cabbage tree, grows in New Zealand. tree →
note
Sounds like «tee». Not a common English word on its own. In the UK it is often spelled «te». Do not confuse with «tea» or «tee» (a golf peg), which sound the same.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «ti» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.