teen.1
/tiː/, U.S. /ti/ I. The letter or its shape.
1.
a. The name of the letter T; also applied to objects having the form of this (T or ⊦). See also T n. 2.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > shape > angularity > specific angular shape > [noun] > object or shape resembling specific letter
Y1513
tee1610
Ha1616
Z1680
W1798
V1832
Z-bar1877
zed1891
vee1933
T-junction1954
society > communication > writing > written character > name of written character > [noun] > others
Bc1000
Dc1000
ellc1000
Fc1000
Sc1000
yogha1300
Pa1398
ess1540
tee1610
alif1727
cue1755
em1793
en1793
dee1795
double U1841
edh1846
wye1857
vee1883
gee1926
nut1940
kay1959
at sign1977
society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > charge: device on shield > [noun] > less honourable charge > T-shaped device
tee1610
1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie iv. v. 199 He beareth Argent, a Cheueron betweene three Text Tees, Sable.
1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Tee, a T-shaped pipe-coupling.
1882 Worcs. Exhib. Catal. iii. 5 Connections, elbows, tees, syphons.
1891 Times 28 Sept. 3/6 The demand for angles and tees is quiet, but bridge and roofing makers are taking fair lots.
b. to a tee: see T n. 1c.
II. Technical uses.
2. Scottish. (See quot. 1882.)
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > general equipment > [noun] > harness of draught animal > collar > part of
hame13..
tee1494
bearing gear1616
pole piece1619
pole chain1725
afterwale1833
oxbow key1882
barge1908
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > rigging > [noun] > running rigging > rope or chain by which yard is suspended
uptie1295
tie1465
tie-ropec1525
slinga1625
top-chain1698
tee1882
1494–5 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 228 To mak knoppis and fassis to the harnysing of briddillis and teis, xxxij pirnis of gold.
1505 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1901) III. 160 For ane courpale and tee..xs.
1675 W. Cunningham Diary 27 July (1887) 56 Sent to Glasgow for a new Curpell and Tee.
1776 D. Herd Anc. & Mod. Sc. Songs (ed. 2) II. 170 With..hatt and a feather, And housing at courpon and tee.
1882 Jamieson's Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. (new ed.) Tee. Pl. tees, teis, iron holdfasts, in shape like the letter T, suspended from a horse's collar for attachment to the shafts of a vehicle, or for connecting the bit and bridle; also, the ropes by which a sailyard is suspended.
3. Mining. (See quot. 1851.)
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the world > the earth > minerals > mineral deposits > [noun] > vein > join or intersection
pee?1644
tee1653
tie1747
1653 E. Manlove Liberties & Customes Lead-mines Derby 266 Fell, Bous, and Knock~barke, Forstid-oar, and Tees.
1747 W. Hooson Miners Dict. sig. Sij After crossing of Pees, Tees, Braks, Jumbles, or what other disorder may happen that the Vein cannot be easily made out.
1851 T. Tapping Gloss. in Chron. Customs Lead Mines Tee, or Tye, is where a cross vein approaches another vein at nearly right angles, whose side it joins without intersecting or breaking through it.
Compounds
attributive. Shaped like a T, having a cross-piece at the top or end, as tee-beam, tee-frame, tee-iron, tee-joint, tee-piece, tee section, tee slot, tee-square; also in other combinations, as tee-headed, tee-shaped adjs. See also T n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > shape > angularity > specific angular shape > [adjective] > resembling specific letter
tee1819
V-shaped1835
V-d1881
ypsiliform1886
veed1934
society > occupation and work > equipment > machine tool > [noun] > other parts
ram1864
tee slot1888
society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > [noun] > welding > joint made by > types of
rust joint1839
butt weld1850
jump-weld1864
jump-joint1874
tee-joint1888
spot weld1908
tack weld1919
seam weld1920
fillet weld1929
fusion weld1930
braze1934
projection weld1938
flash weld1959
society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or providing with specific parts > specific parts built or constructed > [noun] > beams or supports
sillc897
sole-tree1527
spur1529
brace1530
rance1574
strut1587
ground pin1632
ground-plate1663
strut-beam1668
wale-piece1739
strutting-beam1753
wale1754
stretcher1774
tie1793
tie-beam1823
strutting1833
lattice frame1838
tie-bolt1838
tie rod1839
brace-rod1844
web1845
box girder1849
plate girder1849
lattice beam1850
lattice girder1852
girder1853
twister1875
under-girder1875
truss-beam1877
raker1880
wind-bracing1890
portal strut1894
stirrup1909
knee-brace1912
tee-beam1930
tee section1963
binder-
1819 T. S. Peckston Theory & Pract. Gas-lighting 300 Wrought-iron tee-pieces for branching off from the principal service-pipe in two directions.
1822 T. Webster Imison's Elem. Sci. & Art (new ed.) II. 344 Tee-squares are rulers made in the form of the letter T.
1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Tee-iron, a rod with a cross-bar at the end, for withdrawing the lower valve-box of a pump.
1884 Internat. Health Exhib. Official Catal. p. liii/2 Fire and Thief-resisting Safes..solid tee frame, and solid flange lock case.
1887 D. A. Low Introd. Machine Drawing (1892) 18 At (c) is shown a tee-headed bolt.
1888 Lockwood's Dict. Mech. Engin. 368 Tee joint, a welded joint employed for uniting pieces of bar iron standing at right angles with each other.
1888 Lockwood's Dict. Mech. Engin. 368 Tee shots, slots or grooves cast in the tables of planing, shaping, slotting, and drilling machines for carrying the heads of tee-headed bolts.
1904 Daily Chron. 4 May 3/2 Tee-shaped and substantially built, the new pier..has a frontage of 650 ft.
1930 Engineering 9 May 591/1 (title) Simplified formulae for the design of reinforced concrete tee beams.
1963 F. D. Jones & P. B. Schubert Engin. Encycl. (ed. 3) 1278 Tee section, the standard structural section known as a tee has a T shape.
1964 S. Crawford Basic Engin. Processes iii. 93 The down-hand fillet or tee joint is shown in Fig. 14 (a).
1964 S. Crawford Basic Engin. Processes v. 116 A circular tee-slot machined in the top face of the centre-slide provides movement for the heads of the clamping bolts.
1965 R. Hammond Dict. Civil Engin. 228 Tee-beam, a rolled steel section..in the shape of the letter T, the flat top being the table.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
teen.2
/tiː/, U.S. /ti/, Scottish English /ti/ Golf. Originally Scottish.attributive.1862 R. Chambers Few Rambling Remarks Golf 14 The tee-shots are usually the furthest, long drivers being able to send a ball upwards of two hundred yards.1901 Daily Chron. 7 June 8/3 Vardon was beaten in the tee shots.
The starting-place (formerly a little heap of earth or sand) from which the ball is driven in commencing to play each hole: now usually a wooden or plastic peg with a concave top; also called tee-peg or peg-tee.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > golf course > [noun] > (ground for) tee
teea1646
teeing-ground1890
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > equipment > [noun] > tee
teea1646
a1646 D. Wedderburn Vocabula (1685) 38 Statumen, the Teaz.
1721 A. Ramsay Ode to Ph—— ii Driving their baws frae whins or tee.
1875 W. A. Smith Lewsiana 147 Each [shell] is seated on a sandy ‘tee’, formed by the wind sweeping away the sand around it.
1879 Encycl. Brit. X. 765/1 In starting from the hole, the ball may be teed (i.e. placed where the player chooses, with a little pinch of sand under it called a tee).
1905 Daily News 7 Jan. 12 At two o'clock,..the golfing party were at the first tee.
1921 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 9 Oct. 11/6 Golf clubs..bags, balls, tees, [etc.].
1926 Amer. Speech 1 631/2 There are also tees of rubber, and recently wooden pegs on which balls may be teed have come into vogue.
1952 L. T. Stanley Woman Golfer 53 Many players prefer to play iron shots to a short hole off a peg-tee.
1959 D. Thomas Instr. to Young Golfers xix. 106 He takes a ball.., places it on a tee-peg..and..smites it a good fifty yards.
1962 Times 3 Jan. 3/6 The only indication of a satisfactory hit is the speed with which the striker bends down to recover his tee.
1975 Oxf. Compan. Sports & Games 422/2 It is usual for the first shot at each hole to be played off a wooden or plastic tee-peg... The tee-peg was invented in 1920 by Lowel of New Jersey.
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teen.3
/tiː/, U.S. /ti/, Scottish English /ti/ Curling, etc. Originally Scottish.
The mark, a cross made on the ice and surrounded by circles, at which the stones are aimed; applied also to the ‘jack’ at bowls, and the ‘hob’ at quoits.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > quoits > [noun] > peg
hob1589
block1598
pin1763
tee1789
pinhead1897
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > bowls or bowling > [noun] > jack
master-bowl1530
master1579
mistressa1586
block1598
mistress bowl1598
Jacka1616
mark1630
jack bowl1653
tee1789
kitty1898
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > curling > [noun] > area of ice > mark
cock1787
cockee1789
tee1789
witter1789
1789 D. Davidson Thoughts Seasons 167 Clim o' the Cleugh..A slow shot drew, wi' muckle care, Which settled on the tee.
1812 Sporting Mag. 40 51 A mark is made at each end [of the rink] called a tee, toesee, or witter.
1820 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 6 572 Each player endeavouring to possess himself of a birth near the Tee.
1885 New Bk. Sports 100 (Curling) The players who open the game begin by playing short of the tee.
1888 W. Black In Far Lochaber I. ii. 66 A trimly kept bowling-green, in which the club-members practise the gentle art of reaching the tee.
Compounds
attributive and in other combinations, as tee-shot; tee-drawn adj.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > [noun] > types of shot or stroke
putta1754
like1790
drive1829
tee-shot1850
gobble1857
push shot1865
iron shot1870
push stroke1873
drive-off1884
slice1886
raker1888
foozle1890
hook1890
iron1890
top1890
sclaff1893
brassy shot1894
run1894
chip shot1899
chip1903
pull1903
skimmer1903
draw shot1904
brassy1906
pitch-and-run1908
windcheater1909
air shot1920
chip-in1921
explosion1924
downhiller1925
blast1927
driver1927
shank1927
socket1927
recovery1937
whiff1952
pinsplitter1961
comebacker1965
bump-and-run1981
1850 J. Struthers Winter Day ii. ix Tee-drawn shots the smooth-lead fill, Or ports are wick'd with hair-breadth skill.
1853 W. Watson Poems 64 (E.D.D.) [He] Sen's up a tee-shot to a hair.
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teen.4
/tiː/, U.S. /ti/ A metallic decoration, in the shape of an umbrella, usually gilded and hung with bells, surmounting the topes and pagodas of Burma (Myanmar) and adjacent countries.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > artistic work in metal > [noun] > other decorative metalwork > specific article
tee1800
overthrow1911
1800 M. Symes Acct. Embassy to Ava v. 188 The whole [building] is crowned by a Tee, or umbrella, of open iron-work, from which rises a rod with a gilded pennant. The tee or umbrella is to be seen on every sacred building that is of a spiral form.
1858 H. Yule Narr. Mission to Court of Ava ii. 42 [The Gauda-palen Temple at Pagan] is cruciform in plan..crowned by a spire and htee.
1882 Edinb. Rev. Oct. 360 On the summit of the tope was a square construction known among archæologists as the ‘tee’.
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teen.5
/tiː/, U.S. /ti/ Originally North American.
A T-shirt.
ΘΚΠ
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > t-shirt
T-shirt1944
baby T-shirt1948
tee1948
gansey1968
1948 Mansfield (Ohio) News Jrnl. 23 June 10 (advt.) Wear these absorbent, washable tees for active sports!
1976 New Yorker 24 May 79/2 (advt.) French cotton Tee.
1990 Egg Aug. 42/2 Stacy has put together a cunning outfit..matching olive sweats with an oversize T.
2002 Bliss June 43/2 In the evening, she loses the little tee and dresses up denims with a slinky, sparkly top.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
† teev.1
Obsolete.
1.
a. transitive. To draw, pull, drag, tug.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > impelling or driving > pushing and pulling > push and pull [verb (transitive)] > pull
teea900
drawOE
tighta1000
towc1000
tirea1300
pullc1300
tugc1320
halea1393
tilla1400
tolla1400
pluckc1400
retract?a1475
hook1577
tew1600
hike1867
a900 tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (1890) v. xiii. [xii.] 428 Tugon heo ða wergan gastas.
c1122 Anglo-Saxon Chron. ann. 1052 Godwine eorl..teah þa up his segl.
a1225 Juliana 8 Ant tuhen him ȝont te tun, from strete to strete.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 240 Hwa durste slepen hwil t his deadliche foa heolde an itoȝe sweord up on his heaued.
13.. K. Alis. 7070 To shipp he may hem beren & teen.
c1300 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Otho) (1963) l. 2492 Þane hem ȝeo vp teh [c1275 Calig. i-tæh] to hire cneon wel neh.
1446 J. Lydgate Two Nightingale Poems ii. 166 The Iewes my flessh asonder dide tee.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xv. 282 He gert men..Salys to the toppis te.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 10382 To tegh as a traytor, and traile vpon þe erthe.
b. To draw to oneself, to take to or upon oneself.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > taking > taking possession > take possession of [verb (transitive)] > take upon oneself
teec897
assume1447
to take on (also upon) one(self)c1515
assumpt1572
undertake1596
satchel1839
c897 K. Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care xvi. 99 Ðæt he tio [v.r. teo] on hine selfne oðerra monna scylda.
925–35 Laws Athelstan ii. c. 9 Þæt he hit on folc ryht him to teo.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 822 He..tæh hit to his aȝre hond.
c1315 Shoreham iii. 285 For al hys þefte þat man teȝt.
c1400 St. Alexius (Trin.) 449 Þat writ he drouȝ & ȝerne teiȝ.
c1503 Beuys of Southhamptowne (Pynson) (S.) 2319 His ryng he gan to him tee.
c. To lead, bring (an army, etc.). Only Old English.
ΚΠ
a900 tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (1890) iii. xiv. [xviii.] 208 Penda Mercna cyning teah here and fyrd wið Eastengle.
2. figurative. To draw, lead, entice, allure; to bring into some condition. Const. to.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > motivation > attraction, allurement, or enticement > attract, allure, or entice [verb (transitive)]
teec888
tightc1000
drawc1175
tollc1220
till?c1225
ticec1275
bringc1300
entice1303
win1303
wina1340
tempt1340
misdrawa1382
wooa1387
lure1393
trainc1425
allurea1450
attract?a1475
lock1481
enlure1486
attice1490
allect1518
illect?1529
wind1538
disarm1553
call1564
troll1565
embait1567
alliciate1568
slock1594
enamour1600
court1602
inescate1602
fool1620
illure1638
magnetize1658
trepana1661
solicit1665
whistle1665
drill1669
inveigh1670
siren1690
allicit1724
wisea1810
come-hither1954
c888 Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. xxvi. §1 Sio gecynd eow tihð to ðæm andgite.
971 Blickl. Hom. 37 Seo oferfyll þæs lichoman getyhþ þone mon to synnum.]
c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 139 And teh folc to him to heren his wise word.
a1250 [see ]. 3. To bring up, train, discipline, educate, teach.
ΘΚΠ
society > education > [verb (transitive)]
tighta1000
teec1000
thewc1175
forma1340
informc1350
nurturec1475
train1531
breeda1568
train1600
to lick (a person or thing) into (shape , etc.)1612
scholar1807
educate1826
c1000 Ælfric Gram. (Z.) 166 Imbuo, ic ty [v.r. ic teo] oððe ic lære; imbui, ic teah.
c1230 [see ]. a1250 Owl & Nightingale 1725 Heo wes itowen [v.r. itoȝen] among mankunne.
c1275 [see ]. a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 1913 He wulde ðat he sulde hem ten Ðat he wel-ðewed sulde ben.
4. To bring forth, produce. Only Old English. (Cf. team n., teem v.1)
ΚΠ
c1000 Ælfric Genesis i. 20 Teon nu þa wæteru forð swimmende cynn.
c1000 Ælfric Genesis i. 21 Eall libbende fisccinn..þe þa wæteru tugon forð on heora hiwum.
5. To draw out, protract, prolong.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > duration > have duration [verb (transitive)] > cause to endure, sustain, or prolong
lengOE
drawOE
teec1200
forlengtha1300
lengtha1300
drivec1300
tarryc1320
proloynec1350
continuec1380
to draw alonga1382
longa1382
dretch1393
conservea1398
to draw (out) in, into, at, or on lengtha1400
prorogue1419
prolongc1425
aroomc1440
prorogate?a1475
protend?a1475
dilate1489
forlong1496
relong1523
to draw out1542
sustentate1542
linger1543
defer1546
pertract1548
propagate1548
protract1548
linger1550
lengthen1555
train1556
detract?a1562
to make forth (long, longer)1565
stretch1568
extend1574
extenuate1583
dree1584
wire-draw1598
to spin out1603
trail1604
disabridge1605
produce1605
continuate1611
out-length1617
spin1629
to eke out1641
producta1670
prolongate1671
drawl1694
drag1697
perennate1698
string1867
perennialize1898
c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 149 Wumme..þat min biwist is teȝed here swo longe.
6.
a. reflexive. To betake oneself; to withdraw. (Cf. draw v. 46.)
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (reflexive)]
fersec1000
teec1275
voida1387
withdraw1390
takea1393
avoida1400
devoida1400
shifta1400
avyec1440
trussa1450
deferc1480
remove1530
convey1535
subtractc1540
subduce1542
retire?1548
substract1549
room1566
to take off1620
to make oneself scarce1809
society > travel > aspects of travel > departure, leaving, or going away > depart, leave, or go away [verb (reflexive)]
teec1275
remuea1375
avoida1400
avyec1440
trussa1450
remove1530
shank1816
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 322 He tæh hine aȝein ane þrowe.
c1300 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Otho) (1978) l. 10023 Þis iseh Arthur..and teh hine [c1275 Calig. thehte hine] a bacward.
b. intransitive. To proceed, go: = draw v. 48. (Cf. German ziehen. The most usual sense in Middle English.)
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > [verb (intransitive)]
nimeOE
becomec885
teec888
goeOE
i-goc900
lithec900
wendeOE
i-farec950
yongc950
to wend one's streetOE
fare971
i-wende971
shakeOE
winda1000
meteOE
wendOE
strikec1175
seekc1200
wevec1200
drawa1225
stira1225
glidea1275
kenc1275
movec1275
teemc1275
tightc1275
till1297
chevec1300
strake13..
travelc1300
choosec1320
to choose one's gatea1325
journeyc1330
reachc1330
repairc1330
wisec1330
cairc1340
covera1375
dressa1375
passa1375
tenda1375
puta1382
proceedc1392
doa1400
fanda1400
haunta1400
snya1400
take?a1400
thrilla1400
trace?a1400
trinea1400
fangc1400
to make (also have) resortc1425
to make one's repair (to)c1425
resort1429
ayrec1440
havea1450
speer?c1450
rokec1475
wina1500
hent1508
persevere?1521
pursuec1540
rechec1540
yede1563
bing1567
march1568
to go one's ways1581
groyl1582
yode1587
sally1590
track1590
way1596
frame1609
trickle1629
recur1654
wag1684
fadge1694
haul1802
hike1809
to get around1849
riddle1856
bat1867
biff1923
truck1925
c888 Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. xxxv. §7 He..teah to wuda.
c1122 Anglo-Saxon Chron. ann. 1096 Fela..ham tugon.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 9119 Þat folc ut of wude teh.
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 4370 So gret folc of romeins..þat sone wolleþ out te [v.r. teo].
c1300 Harrow. Hell 8 Þat alle mosten to helle te.
a1400 Sir Beues (A.) 501 Forþ þe kniȝtes gonne te, Til þat hii come to þe se.
c1400 (?c1380) Patience l. 87 I schal tee in-to Tarce, & tary þere a whyle.
a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Hist. Holy Grail lii. l. 568 Aȝens that knyht ȝe scholen not Te.
c1450 Cov. Myst. (1841) iii. 33 As to my fadyr, lete us now tee.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
† teev.2
Obsolete. rare.
transitive. To accuse. (In quot. a1300, ? to show, make known; or ? to tell, relate.)
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > testing > accusation, charge > accuse [verb (transitive)] > accuse of or charge with
tee871
upbraidc1000
acoupc1300
retc1300
becalla1325
charge138.
impeachc1380
putc1380
blamea1400
appeach1430
gredea1450
articlea1460
filea1500
slander1504
to lay to one's charge1535
aggravate1541
to charge (a person) with1559
reproach1570
attaint1586
impute1596
censure1634
arraign1672
saddle1794
inculpate1799
871–901 Laws of Ælfred c. 33 Gif hwa oðerne..tion [v.r. teon] wille, þæt he hwelcne ne gelæste þara ða he him gesealde [etc.].
871–901 Laws of Ælfred c. 36 §1 Gif hine mon tio [v.r. teo] gewealdes on ðære dæde, getriowe hine be þam wite.
c1000 Ælfric Genesis xxxi. 31 Nu þu me stale tyhst.
c1000 Ælfric Genesis xliv. 7 Hwi tihþ ure hlaford us swa micles falses?
a1300 Beket 1180 Holi churche he aboute dure [v.r. a-bouȝte deore] that me tiȝth on wide [v.r. tellez of wel wide].
c1440 York Myst. xxxii. 287 Kaiph... Fye on the, traytoure attaynte, at þis tyde; Of treasoune þou tyxste hym, þat triste þe for trewe.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
teev.3
/tiː/, U.S. /ti/ Golf.
1.
a. transitive. To place (a ball) on the tee. Also with up. Hence intransitive with up: to place a ball on a tee; (transferred) to prepare to play.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > play golf [verb (transitive)] > place ball on tee
teea1646
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > play golf [verb (intransitive)] > prepare to play
tee1906
shape1930
society > leisure > sport > [verb (intransitive)] > prepare to play
to stand up1884
tee1960
a1646 D. Wedderburn Vocabula (1685) 38 Statumina pilam arena, Teaz your ball on the sand.
1737 [see teed adj. at Derivatives]. 1828 W. Scott Jrnl. 14 May (1941) 244 I can only tee the ball; he must strike the blow with the golf club himself.
1862 Chambers's Encycl. IV. 823/2 An attendant, called a caddy, who carries his clubs and ‘tees’ his balls.
1889 W. T. Linskill Golf 11 To tee a ball for driving, it is usual to place it on some small eminence on the surface of the turf... A ball is sometimes teed on a few short blades of stiff grass.
1906 J. Braid Golf Guide v. 34 It is not a good thing to tee up very near to the teeing-box.
1906 Macmillan's Mag. Aug. 773 The golfer proceeds to the tee-ing off spot, tees up his ball, mentally imagines that he is standing on a species of gridiron, and places his feet in the position [etc.].
1960 Times 3 Feb. 15/7 [Rugby] As Pennington tee-ed up, the Thomas's touch judge..was leaning against one of the uprights.
1975 Daily Tel. 12 Sept. (Colour Suppl.) 9/4 The players are allowed to tee up every shot, since the ball may land in a tree or a pile of rocks.
b. intransitive with off: To play a ball from the tee. Also transferred, to begin a game or performance.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > play golf [verb (intransitive)] > play from tee
tee1895
the world > existence and causation > causation > initiating or causing to begin > initiate [verb (intransitive)]
initiate1725
to set (or start) the ball rolling1770
to take the initiative1856
to throw off1866
tee1961
1895 Westm. Gaz. 19 June 7/2 Will any golfer send a shilling to open the subscription? Or, preferably, will the Royal and Ancient tee off?
1961 A. Berkman Singers' Gloss. Show Business Jargon 86 Tee off, to open the show.
1974 Spartanburg (S. Carolina) Herald 18 Apr. c2/2 Coluccio teed off on a 3–1 offering from the reliever.
2. figurative.
a. Chiefly transitive with up: to make ready, to arrange. colloquial.
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the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > prepare [verb (transitive)]
yarec888
yarkc1000
graithc1175
readya1225
biredienc1275
to make yarec1290
forgraitha1300
adightc1330
buskc1330
purveyc1330
agraith1340
disposec1375
before-graithea1382
to forge and filec1381
to make readya1382
devisec1385
bounc1390
buss?a1400
address?a1425
parel?a1425
to get upc1425
providec1425
prepare1449
bakec1450
aready1470
arm?a1505
prevenea1522
get?1530
to get ready1530
to get ready1530
to set in readiness1575
apply1577
compose1612
predy1627
make1637
to dispose of1655
do1660
fallowa1764
to line up1934
prep1936
tee1938
1938 E. Partridge World of Words ix. 269 Modern sports have provided us with..few words but a very fair ‘bag’ of phrases..tee up..from golf.
1941 Argus (Melbourne) Week-end Mag. 15 Nov. 1/4 In Army parlance to arrange something is always to ‘tee up’; just as to borrow something is to ‘promote’ it.
1943 C. H. Ward-Jackson It's a Piece of Cake 60 Teed up, all set to start.
1957 ‘N. Culotta’ They're Weird Mob (1958) iii. 34 I gotta go an' see about all that metal an' stuff, an' tee up the mixer.
1961 ‘J. le Carré’ Call for Dead vii. 78 I left the car out in the yard, full of petrol and teed up.
1973 Times 22 Jan. 19/1 Initially he will go to the capitals of the member states for talks with central governments and to tee up trips to problem areas.
b. [Probably euphemistic alteration of peed off (= pissed off at pissed adj. 3).] transitive with off: to anger, annoy, irritate. Hence teed off adj. angry, annoyed, disgruntled, indignant. North American slang.
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the mind > emotion > anger > [adjective]
irrec825
gramec893
wemodc897
wrothc950
bolghenc1000
gramelyc1000
hotOE
on fireOE
brathc1175
moodyc1175
to-bollenc1175
wrethfulc1175
wraw?c1225
agrameda1300
wrathfula1300
agremedc1300
hastivec1300
irousa1340
wretheda1340
aniredc1350
felonc1374
angryc1380
upreareda1382
jealous1382
crousea1400
grieveda1400
irefula1400
mada1400
teena1400
wraweda1400
wretthy14..
angryc1405
errevousa1420
wrothy1422
angereda1425
passionatec1425
fumous1430
tangylc1440
heavy1452
fire angry1490
wrothsomea1529
angerful?1533
wrothful?1534
wrath1535
provoked1538
warm1547
vibrant1575
chauffe1582
fuming1582
enfeloned1596
incensed1597
choleric1598
inflameda1600
raiseda1600
exasperate1601
angried1609
exasperated1611
dispassionate1635
bristlinga1639
peltish1648
sultry1671
on (also upon) the high ropes (also rope)1672
nangry1681
ugly1687
sorea1694
glimflashy1699
enraged1732
spunky1809
cholerous1822
kwaai1827
wrathy1828
angersome1834
outraged1836
irate1838
vex1843
raring1845
waxy1853
stiff1856
scotty1867
bristly1872
hot under the collar1879
black angry1894
spitfire1894
passionful1901
ignorant1913
hairy1914
snaky1919
steamed1923
uptight1934
broigus1937
lemony1941
ripped1941
pissed1943
crooked1945
teed off1955
ticked off1959
ripe1966
torqued1967
bummed1970
the mind > emotion > anger > irritation > irritate [verb (transitive)]
gremec893
grillc897
teenOE
mispay?c1225
agrillec1275
oftenec1275
tarya1300
tarc1300
atenec1320
enchafec1374
to-tarc1384
stingc1386
chafe?a1400
pokec1400
irec1420
ertc1440
rehete1447
nettlec1450
bog1546
tickle1548
touch1581
urge1593
aggravate1598
irritate1598
dishumour1600
to wind up1602
to pick at ——1603
outhumour1607
vex1625
bloody1633
efferate1653
rankle1659
spleen1689
splenetize1700
rile1724
roil1742
to put out1796
to touch (also get, catch, etc.) (a person) on the raw1823
roughen1837
acerbate1845
to stroke against the hair, the wrong way (of the hair)1846
nag1849
to rub (a person, etc.) up the wrong way1859
frump1862
rattle1865
to set up any one's bristles1873
urticate1873
needle1874
draw1876
to rough up1877
to stick pins into1879
to get on ——1880
to make (someone) tiredc1883
razoo1890
to get under a person's skin1896
to get a person's goat1905
to be on at1907
to get a person's nanny1909
cag1919
to get a person's nanny-goat1928
cagmag1932
peeve1934
tick-off1934
to get on a person's tits1945
to piss off1946
bug1947
to get up a person's nose1951
tee1955
bum1970
tick1975
1955 Amer. Speech 30 120 Teed off.., angry, indignant.
1961 Lebende Sprachen 6 100/1 Don't tee him off,..raise his dander, get his Irish up.
1963 D. B. Hughes Expendable Man i. 22 You're teed off at me, aren't you?
1969 C. F. Burke God is Beautiful, Man (1970) 34 Well this makes old Pharaoh really teed off. So he gets his army and he says, ‘Get 'em.’
1977 New Yorker 27 June 68/2 Frankly, it just tees me off. I consider them to be a god-damned curse.
1981 G. V. Higgins Rat on Fire xvii. 119 He is kind of teed off... I mean, this man is angry.
c. intransitive with off (const. on): to hit out at, attack, reprimand, criticize severely. U.S. slang.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > make an attack upon [verb (transitive)] > attack with hostile words or measures
fangc1320
hurtlec1374
impugnc1384
weighc1386
to fall upon ——a1398
to start on ——a1398
oppugn?1435
to lay to, untoa1500
onseta1522
wipe1523
to set against ——1542
to fall aboard——1593
aggress1596
to fall foul1602
attack1613
appugn1615
to set upon ——1639
to fall on ——1641
to lay home, hard, hardly to1650
tack1720
bombard1766
savage1796
to pitch into ——1823
to begin upon a personc1825
bulldog1842
to down on (also upon)a1848
to set at ——1849
to start on ——a1851
to start in on1859
set on at or to1862
to let into1872
to go for ——1890
swash1890
slog1891
to get at ——1893
tee1955
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > rebuke or reprove [verb (transitive)] > severely
dressc1405
wipe1523
to take up1530
whip1530
to shake upa1556
trounce1607
castigatea1616
lasha1616
objurgate1616
thunderstrike1638
snub1672
drape1683
cut1737
rowa1798
score1812
to dress down1823
to pitch into ——1823
wig1829
to row (a person) up1838
to catch or get Jesse1839
slate1840
drop1853
to drop (down) to or on (to)1859
to give (a person) rats1862
to jump upon1868
to give (a person) fits1871
to give it to someone (pretty) stiff1880
lambaste1886
ruck1899
bollock1901
bawl1903
scrub1911
burn1914
to hang, draw, and quarter1930
to tear a strip off1940
to tear (someone) off a strip1940
brass1943
rocket1948
bitch1952
tee1955
fan-
1955 H. Kurnitz Invasion of Privacy (1956) i. 10 I thought you were about to tee off on Ben... Let's both stop making cracks.
1976 Billings (Montana) Gaz. 4 July 2- e/1 Our country is not at war. Despite all the sabre rattling.., the nation is not about to tee off on another nation, large or small.
Derivatives
teed adj. /tiːd/ placed on or played from a tee.
/tiːd/ placed on or played from a tee.ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > [adjective] > lie of ball
teed1737
stymied1862
cuppy1882
hole-high1897
plugged1927
1737 A. Ramsay Coll. Scots Prov. (1750) xxxiii. 89 That's a tee'd ba'.
1824 W. Scott Redgauntlet I. xiii. 302 All that is managed for ye like a tee'd ball.
1893 R. L. Stevenson Catriona xviii. 208 They had taken a word from the golfing green, and called me the Tee'd Ball.
teeing n. /ˈtiːɪŋ/ also attributive as teeing-ground, a small patch of ground from which the ball is teed off.
/ˈtiːɪŋ/ also attributive as teeing-ground, a small patch of ground from which the ball is teed off.ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > golf course > [noun] > (ground for) tee
teea1646
teeing-ground1890
1890 John Bull 5 Apr. 226/2 Two hundred yards..distance from the teeing-ground.
1903 Westm. Gaz. 11 Sept. 4/2 Far better to recognise that placing is virtually teeing, and have done with it.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
teev.4
transitive. To connect or branch off by a tee-piece. (In quot. 1908 absol.)
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society > occupation and work > industry > conducting of water, etc., by channels or pipes > plumbing and pipework > [verb (transitive)] > join or secure pipes
stave1850
welt1888
tack1895
tee1908
1908 Installation News 2 83/1 Bring a ½-in. tube..to the light in the hall, teeing off to the switch on the wall and from thence to the living room lights.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
> as lemmas
TEE
TEE n. Trans Europ (also Europe, European) Express (train).
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society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > train > passenger train > express or non-stop > specific
Flying Dutchman1813
Scotsman1871
Flying Scotchman1872
Orient Express1883
Twentieth Century1902
Royal Scot1927
Rheingold1928
Red Arrow1934
trans-Siberian1939
TEE1963
1963 Times 23 May 13/7 TEE trains now link 90 European cities.
1967 R. Sawkins Snow in Paradise iii. 29 The TEE is just about as quick as the plane.
1977 J. Paxton Dict. European Econ. Community 246 Trans-Europ-Express (T.E.E.). Trans-Europ-Expresses connect major cities in nine European countries by a network of very fast and comfortable trains for which frontier formalities have been reduced to a minimum.
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