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English Dictionary: tee by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tee
n
  1. the starting place for each hole on a golf course; "they were waiting on the first tee"
    Synonym(s): tee, teeing ground
  2. support holding a football on end and above the ground preparatory to the kickoff
    Synonym(s): tee, football tee
  3. a short peg put into the ground to hold a golf ball off the ground
    Synonym(s): tee, golf tee
v
  1. place on a tee; "tee golf balls"
    Synonym(s): tee, tee up
  2. connect with a tee; "tee two pipes"
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
  
      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
      {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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