tee

tee
    n 1: the starting place for each hole on a golf course; "they
         were waiting on the first tee" [syn: {tee}, {teeing
         ground}]
    2: support holding a football on end and above the ground
       preparatory to the kickoff [syn: {tee}, {football tee}]
    3: a short peg put into the ground to hold a golf ball off the
       ground [syn: {tee}, {golf tee}]
    v 1: place on a tee; "tee golf balls" [syn: {tee}, {tee up}]
    2: connect with a tee; "tee two pipes"
    

Tee \Tee\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Teed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Teeing}.] (Golf)
   To place (the ball) on a tee; also called to {tee up}.
   [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
    

Tee \Tee\, n. [Cf. Icel. tj[=a] to show, mark.]
   (a) The mark aimed at in curling and in quoits.
   (b) The nodule of earth, or a short peg stuck into the
       ground, from which the ball is struck at the beginning of
       play for each hole in golf.
       [1913 Webster +PJC]
    

Tee \Tee\, n.
   1. A short piece of pipe having a lateral outlet, used to
      connect a line of pipe with a pipe at a right angle with
      the line; -- so called because it resembles the letter {T}
      in shape.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. The letter T, t; also, something shaped like, or
      resembling in form, the letter T.
      [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
    

tee
 n.,vt.

   [Purdue] A carbon copy of an electronic transmission. "Oh, you're
   sending him the {bits} to that? Slap on a tee for me." From the Unix
   command tee(1), itself named after a pipe fitting (see {plumbing}).
   Can also mean `save one for me', as in "Tee a slice for me!" Also
   spelled `T'.
    

tee

   <tool, operating system> A {Unix} command which copies its
   {standard input} to its {standard output} (like {cat}) but
   also to a file given as its argument.  tee is thus useful in
   {pipelines} of {Unix} commands (see {plumbing}) where it
   allows you to create a duplicate copy of the data stream.
   E.g.

   	egrep Unix Dictionary | tee /dev/tty | wc -l

   searches for lines containing the string "Unix" in the file
   "Dictionary", prints them to the terminal (/dev/tty) and
   counts them.

   {Unix manual page}: tee(1).

   [{Jargon File}]

   (1996-01-22)