Tee vs Zee - What's the difference?
tee | zee |
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.}}
Something Z-shaped. Found in compounds such as zee-bar.
(colloquial) (usually plural ) Sleep (as in "get some zees").
(informal) To sleep or nap. (Compare zzz, catch some z's.)
(rare) To zigzag; to move with sharp alternating turns.
As nouns the difference between tee and zee
is that tee is while zee is .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
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