Tee vs Woman - What's the difference?
tee | woman |
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.}}
An adult female human.
* Bible, (w) 2:22:
* (John Ledyard) (1751-1789)
* 1887 , Helen Campbell, Prisoners of poverty: their trades and their lives , p.120:
(lb) All females collectively; womankind.
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*:“[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”
* 1997 , Bob Grant, Let's Be Heard , p.42:
* 2011 , Eileen Gray and the Design of Sapphic Modernity: Staying In , p.109:
A wife (or sometimes a or girlfriend).
* 1914 , , Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays , chapter 7: "Of Being and Not-Being":
A female who is extremely fond of or devoted to a specified type of thing.
* 2004 , Hyveth Williams, Secrets of a Happy Heart: A Fresh Look at the Sermon on the Mount , p.70:
A female attendant or servant.
* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
To staff with female labor.
* 1956 , Rex Stout, Three Witnesses , The Viking Press, page 54
* 1990 , Stephen King, The stand: the complete & uncut edition
* 2010 , Julia Glass, The Widower's Tale , page 77
To make effeminate or womanish.
* 1598 , , III. ii. 50:
To furnish with, or unite to, a woman.
* 1603 , , III. iv. 191:
As nouns the difference between tee and woman
is that tee is while woman is an adult female human.As a verb woman is
to staff with female labor.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 ----woman
English
(wikipedia woman)Alternative forms
* womon, womyn, wymyn * wimmen, wimmenNoun
(women)- And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman .
- I have observed among all nations that the women ornament themselves more than the men
- But this woman' is a nice German ' woman that fell on the ice and sprained her ankle last winter, and we saw to her well as we could till she got better.
- For if modern woman is so intent on keeping her surname alive, why not demand it be passed along to her children?
- Unsurprisingly, if modern man is a sort of camera, modern woman is a picture.
- And then, when he lies with his woman , the man may concurrently be with God, and so get increase of his soul.
- Perhaps my problem is that I am a cat woman . I can't imagine any finicky feline (and they all are that at one time or another) slobbering over anyone, even a beloved owner, the way a dog does.
- By her woman I sent your message.
Synonyms
* see * female * ladyAntonyms
* (age ): girl * (gender ): manDerived terms
* cleaning woman * firewoman * gentlewoman * kept woman * little woman * medicine woman * old woman * other woman * policewoman * womanish * womanly * womanhood * woman suffrage * woman's work * womenfolk * womenhood * women’s libVerb
(en verb)- Apparently the Sixty-ninth Street office of Bagby Answers, Inc., was being womaned for the day from other offices.
- Gus Dinsmore, the public beach parking lot attendent, said he guessed that so many cars must be just stopped dead along the road that even those manned (or womaned ) by able drivers would be unable to move.
- The information desk is now manned (womaned ) by someone whose main job is to help you reserve time slots for the computers or guide you through the arduous process of “logging on.”
- I have felt so many quirks of joy and grief / That the first face of neither on the start / Can woman me unto't.
- And think it no addition, nor my wish, / To have him see me woman'd .