Tee vs Baseball - What's the difference?
tee | baseball |
Something shaped like the letter (T). Found in compounds such as tee-shirt, tee-beam, tee-frame, tee-iron, tee-headed.
T-shirt
(obsolete) To draw; lead.
(obsolete) To draw away; go; proceed.
(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.
(golf) To place a ball on a tee
* {{quote-book, 1909, Walter J. Travis, Practical Golf
, 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.}}
A sport common in North America, the Caribbean, and Japan, in which the object is to strike a ball so that one of a nine-person team can run counter-clockwise among four bases, resulting in the scoring of a run. The team with the most runs after termination of play, usually nine innings, wins.
* 1797-1798 , (Jane Austen), (Northanger Abbey)
The ball used to play the sport of baseball.
A variant of poker in which cards with baseball-related values have special significance.
As nouns the difference between tee and baseball
is that tee is while baseball is baseball (ballgame).tee
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- angles and tees
See also
*Derived terms
* teeveeEtymology 2
From (etyl) teen, from (etyl) .Verb
Derived terms
* betee * forteeEtymology 3
First attested in the 17th century with the form teaz.Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* tee ball * tee off * tee on * tee upVerb
(d)citation
Synonyms
* tee upAnagrams
* English three-letter words ----baseball
English
(wikipedia baseball)Noun
(en noun)- It was not very wonderful that Catherine, who had nothing heroic about her, should prefer cricket, base-ball , riding on horseback, and running about the country at the age of fourteen, to books.
