6 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Tee \Tee\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Teed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Teeing}.] (Golf) To place (the ball) on a tee; also called to {tee up}. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Tee \Tee\, n. [Cf. Icel. tj[=a] to show, mark.] (a) The mark aimed at in curling and in quoits. (b) The nodule of earth, or a short peg stuck into the ground, from which the ball is struck at the beginning of play for each hole in golf. [1913 Webster +PJC] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Tee \Tee\, n. 1. 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. [1913 Webster] 2. The letter T, t; also, something shaped like, or resembling in form, the letter T. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: tee n 1: the starting place for each hole on a golf course; "they were waiting on the first tee" [syn: {teeing ground}] 2: support holding a football on end and above the ground preparatory to the kickoff [syn: {football tee}] 3: a short peg put into the ground to hold a golf ball off the ground [syn: {golf tee}] v 1: place on a tee; "tee golf balls" [syn: {tee up}] 2: connect with a tee; "tee two pipes" From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]: 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'. From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]: teeA {Unix} command which copies its {standard input} to its {standard output} (like {cat}) but also to a file given as its argument. tee is thus useful in {pipeline}s of {Unix} commands (see {plumbing}) where it allows you to create a duplicate copy of the data stream. E.g. egrep Unix Dictionary | tee /dev/tty | wc -l searches for lines containing the string "Unix" in the file "Dictionary", prints them to the terminal (/dev/tty) and counts them. {Unix manual page}: tee(1). [{Jargon File}] (1996-01-22)
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