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# tee

«tee» in Mova's school dictionary: **a small peg, often wooden or plastic, that holds a golf…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tee/#m1)

2) The tee is also the flat area where each hole in golf begins. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tee/#m2)

3) (informal) A tee is short for a T-shirt. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tee/#m3)

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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tee/#m4)

5) A tee is also the letter T or a T-shaped thing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tee/#m5)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tee/#x1)
- We met at the first tee. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tee/#x2)
- Dad teed off and the ball flew into the bushes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tee/#x3)
- He wore a white tee and shorts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tee/#x4)
- In tee-ball, you hit the ball off a stand. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tee/#x5)
- The coach teed up the next game. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tee/#x6)
- That costume suits you to a tee. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tee/#x7)

### 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tee/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.