Tee vs Lee - What's the difference?
tee | lee |
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.}}
(sailing) A protected cove or harbor, out of the wind.
(sailing) The side of the ship away from the wind.
A sheltered place, especially a place protected from the wind by some object; the side sheltered from the wind; shelter; protection.
* Morte d'Arthure
* Tyndall
As nouns the difference between tee and lee
is that tee is something shaped like the letter {{term|T}}. Found in compounds such as tee-shirt, tee-beam, tee-frame, tee-iron, tee-headed.lee is a protected cove or harbor, out of the wind.As a verb tee
is to draw; lead.As a proper noun Lee is
{{surname|A=An|English topographic|from=Middle English}} for someone who lived near a meadow (the Anglo-Saxon for meadow being ley or leag).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 ----lee
English
Noun
(en noun)- the lee of a mountain, an island, or a ship
- We lurked under lee .
- Desiring me to take shelter in his lee .