te — 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.
- thee pron Archaic form of "you," used as the object of a verb or preposition (the object form of "thou").
- you pronoun The person or people being spoken or written to.
- yourself pronoun Refers back to the person being spoken to, when they are both the doer and the receiver of an action.
Senses
te is used for these senses in English:
- 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 The name of the Latin-script letter T/t.
- thee (now, chiefly, archaic, literary) Objective and reflexive case of thou. [from 8th c.]
- you (object pronoun) The person spoken to or written to, as an object. (Replacing thee; originally as a mark of respect.) [from 13th c.]
- yourself (reflexive pronoun) Your own self (singular).
tea — full definition
- noun The dried leaves of the tea plant, or the hot drink made by steeping them in water.
- noun A light meal eaten in the afternoon, or (chiefly British) the main evening meal.
- noun Informal: gossip or juicy information.
- verb To drink tea, or to take a light afternoon meal.
tee — full definition
- noun The small peg used to hold a golf ball, or the marked spot where a golfer starts each hole.
- verb To set a ball up on a tee, ready to be hit; often used figuratively for setting something up to happen.
- verb To split a signal, pipe, or output so it goes to more than one place.