| n. | 1. | The mark aimed at in curling and in quoits. |
| 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. | |
| 2. | The letter T, t; also, something shaped like, or resembling in form, the letter | |
| v. t. | 1. | (Golf) To place (the ball) on a tee; also called to |
| Noun | 1. | tee - the starting place for each hole on a golf course; "they were waiting on the first tee" Synonyms: teeing ground |
| 2. | tee - support holding a football on end and above the ground preparatory to the kickoff Synonyms: football tee | |
| 3. | tee - a short peg put into the ground to hold a golf ball off the ground Synonyms: golf tee | |
| Verb | 1. | tee - place on a tee; "tee golf balls" Synonyms: tee up |
| 2. | tee - connect with a tee; "tee two pipes" |
| (tool, operating system) | tee - A 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
pipelines 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). |