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Tee — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • tea noun The dried leaves of the tea plant, or the hot drink made by steeping them in water.
  • tee noun The small peg used to hold a golf ball, or the marked spot where a golfer starts each hole.

Senses

Tee is used for these senses in English:

  • black tea (British) A cup of tea served without milk.
  • tea (uncountable) The dried leaves or buds of the tea plant; (countable) a variety of such leaves.
  • tea (uncountable) Any similar drink made by infusing parts of various other plants.
  • tea (countable, Commonwealth, northern, _, US) A cup or (East Asia, Southern, _, US) glass of any of these drinks, often with milk, sugar, lemon, and/or tapioca pearls.
  • tea plant The bush Camellia sinensis, the leaves of which are picked, dried and used to make the beverage tea.
  • tee (golf) A flat area of ground from which players hit their first shots on a golf hole.

tea — full definition

  1. noun The dried leaves of the tea plant, or the hot drink made by steeping them in water.
  2. noun A light meal eaten in the afternoon, or (chiefly British) the main evening meal.
  3. noun Informal: gossip or juicy information.
  4. verb To drink tea, or to take a light afternoon meal.

tee — full definition

  1. noun The small peg used to hold a golf ball, or the marked spot where a golfer starts each hole.
  2. verb To set a ball up on a tee, ready to be hit; often used figuratively for setting something up to happen.
  3. verb To split a signal, pipe, or output so it goes to more than one place.

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