English Dictionary: tee | by the DICT Development Group |
7 results for tee | |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Tee \Tee\, n. The letter T, t; also, something shaped like, or resembling in form, the letter T. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Tee \Tee\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Teed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Teeing}.] (Golf) To place (the ball) on a tee. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Tee \Tee\, n. [Cf. Icel. tj[be] to show, mark.] (a) The mark aimed at in curling and in quoits. (b) The nodule of earth | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Tee \Tee\, n. 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. | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [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 (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
tee {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) |