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Dee vs Tee - What's the difference?

dee | tee |

As verbs the difference between dee and tee

is that dee is to do while tee is to draw; lead.

As nouns the difference between dee and tee

is that dee is something shaped like the letter D, such as a dee lock.tee is something shaped like the letter {{term|T}}. Found in compounds such as tee-shirt, tee-beam, tee-frame, tee-iron, tee-headed.

As a proper noun Dee

is a river in Scotland that flows about 145 km (90 mi) from the Cairngorm Mountains to the North Sea at Aberdeen.

dee

English

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • A river in Scotland that flows about 145 km (90 mi) from the Cairngorm Mountains to the North Sea at Aberdeen.
  • A river in Wales and England that flows about 113 km (70 mi) from Snowdonia to the Irish Sea near Liverpool.
  • A female given name, short for names beginning with a "D".

    • Quotations

    * : IV: xi: 39: *: And following Dee , which Britons long ygone *: Did call divine, that doth by Chester tend;

    Derived terms

    * Deeside * Miller of Dee

    See also

    * English diminutives of female given names ----

    tee

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl), from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something shaped like the letter (T). Found in compounds such as tee-shirt, tee-beam, tee-frame, tee-iron, tee-headed.
    • angles and tees
  • T-shirt
    • See also
    *
    Derived terms
    * teevee

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) teen, from (etyl) .

    Verb

  • (obsolete) To draw; lead.
  • (obsolete) To draw away; go; proceed.
    • Derived terms
    * betee * fortee
    Related terms
    * tow * tug * wanton

    Etymology 3

    First attested in the 17th century with the form teaz.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (golf) A flat area of ground from which players hit their first shots on a golf hole.
  • (golf, baseball) A usually wooden or plastic peg from which a ball is hit.
  • (curling) The target area of a curling rink
  • The mark at which players aim in quoits.
    • Derived terms
    * tee ball * tee off * tee on * tee up

    Verb

    (d)
  • (golf) To place a ball on a tee
  • * {{quote-book, 1909, Walter J. Travis, Practical Golf citation
    • , passage=If at any hole a competitor play his first stroke from outside the limits of the teeing-ground, he shall count that stroke, tee a ball, and play his second stroke from within these limits.}}
    Synonyms
    * tee up

    Anagrams

    * English three-letter words ----