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Tee vs Cloth - What's the difference?

tee | cloth |

As nouns the difference between tee and cloth

is that tee is while cloth is (uncountable) a woven fabric such as used in dressing, decorating, cleaning or other practical use.

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

    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

    cloth

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (obsolete) * (l), (l), (l) (Scotland)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (uncountable) A woven fabric such as used in dressing, decorating, cleaning or other practical use.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1905, author=
  • , title= , chapter=2 citation , passage=“H'm !” he said, “so, so—it is a tragedy in a prologue and three acts. I am going down this afternoon to see the curtain fall for the third time on what [...] will prove a good burlesque ; but it all began dramatically enough. It was last Saturday […] that two boys, playing in the little spinney just outside Wembley Park Station, came across three large parcels done up in American cloth . […]”}}
  • A piece of cloth used for a particular purpose.
  • A form of attire that represents a particular profession.
  • (in idioms) Priesthood, clergy.
  • Synonyms

    * (woven fabric) material, stuff * See also

    Derived terms

    (terms derived from "cloth") * cheesecloth * cut from the same cloth * dishcloth * facecloth * horsecloth * loincloth * man of the cloth * sackcloth * tablecloth * take the cloth * washcloth * whole cloth, from whole cloth, out of whole cloth * wire cloth