different between tow vs tee

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English towen, from Old English togian, from Proto-Germanic *tug?n? (Middle High German zogen, German ziehen, Dutch tijgen, Old Norse toga), from Proto-Indo-European *dewk-.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: t?, IPA^(key): /t??/
• (US) enPR: t?, IPA^(key): /to?/
• Rhymes: -??
• Homophone: toe

Verb

tow (third-person singular simple present tows, present participle towing, simple past and past participle towed)

1. (transitive) To pull something behind one using a line or chain; to haul.
2. (running, cycling, motor racing, etc.) To aid someone behind by shielding them from wind resistance.

Translations

Noun

tow (plural tows)

1. The act of towing and the condition of being towed.

   It isn't the car's battery; I think I need a tow.

2. Something, such as a tugboat, that tows.
3. Something, such as a barge, that is towed.
4. A rope or cable used in towing.
5. (motor racing) A speed increase given by driving in front of another car on a straight, which causes a slipstream for the car behind.

Translations

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Middle English touw, from Old English tow- (“spinning”) (in compounds, e.g. towcræft, towh?s, towlic), from Proto-Germanic *taww?; compare Old Norse tó (“uncleansed wool”), Dutch touw (“rope”). Perhaps cognate with Old English tawian (“prepare for use”), Gothic ???????????????????????? (taujan, “do, make”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: t?, IPA^(key): /t??/, (rare) enPR: tou, IPA^(key): /ta?/
• (US) enPR: t?, IPA^(key): /to?/

Noun

tow (countable and uncountable, plural tows)

1. An untwisted bundle of fibers such as cellulose acetate, flax, hemp or jute.

   • And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them.

   1. (specifically) The short, coarse, less desirable fibers separated by hackling from the finer longer fibers (line).

Derived terms

• tow haired
• towhead

Related terms

• taw

Synonyms

• hards, oakum

Translations

References

Anagrams

• OTW, WTO, owt, two, wot

Middle English

Alternative forms

• towe, tow?, tow?e, tough, towhe, togh, tawe, toow

Etymology

From Old English tow-; for more see English tow.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?u?/
• Rhymes: -?u?

Noun

tow

1. Unprepared flax, especially used as a firestarter.
2. The fibrous matter of flax or a similar plant; (tow).
3. Oakum, hards; the rough portion of flax separated during hackling.

Descendants

• English: tow
• Scots: towe

References

• “tou, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-27.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ti?/
• Rhymes: -i?
• Homophones: T, te, tea, ti

Etymology 1

From Middle English [Term?], from Old English te, from Latin te (the name of the letter T).

Noun

tee (plural tees)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter T.
   • 1985, Stephen King, Paranoid: A Chant

     They have writing samples and examine the back loops of pees and the crosses of tees.

2. Something shaped like the letter T.

   Hyponyms: tee-shirt, tee-beam, tee-frame, tee-iron, tee-headed

3. (clothing) T-shirt.

Derived terms

• teevee

Translations

See also

• (Latin-script letter names) letter; a, bee, cee, dee, e, ef, gee, aitch, i, jay, kay, el, em, en, o, pee, cue, ar, ess, tee, u, vee, double-u, ex, wye, zee / zed

Etymology 2

From Middle English teen, from Old English t?on (“to pull, tug, draw, drag, entice, allure, induce, lead, bring, rear, educate, attract, arrogate, bring forth, produce, restrain, betake oneself to, go, roam”), from Proto-West Germanic *teuhan (“to pull, lead”), from Proto-Germanic *teuhan? (“to draw, lead, bring, pull, help”), from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to pull, lead”).

Verb

tee (third-person singular simple present tees, present participle teeing, simple past teed or tow, past participle teed or town)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To draw; lead.
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To draw away; go; proceed.

Related terms

• betee
• fortee
• tow
• tug
• wanton

Etymology 3

First attested in the 17th century as teaz, later reanalyzed as a plural.

Noun

tee (plural tees)

1. (golf) A flat area of ground from which players hit their first shots on a golf hole.
2. (sports) A usually wooden or plastic peg from which a ball is kicked or hit.
3. (curling) The target area of a curling rink
4. The mark at which players aim in quoits.

Derived terms

• tee ball
• tee off
• tee on
• tee up

Translations

Verb

tee (third-person singular simple present tees, present participle teeing, simple past and past participle teed)

1. (golf) To place a ball on a tee

Synonyms

• tee up

References

Etymology 4

Noun

tee (plural tees)

1. A finial resembling an umbrella, crowning a dagoba in Indochinese countries.

Anagrams

• EET

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch thee.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t???/

Noun

tee (uncountable)

1. tea

Derived terms

• rooibostee
• teekoppie

Estonian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Finnic *tee. Cognate with Finnish tie.

Noun

tee (genitive tee, partitive teed)

1. road, way

Declension

Derived terms

• kiirtee
• maantee
• raudtee
• umbtee

Etymology 2

From German Tee, ultimately from Min Nan ? (tê).

Noun

tee (genitive tee, partitive teed)

1. tea

Declension

Derived terms

• liivatee

Etymology 3

Noun

tee (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

1. The name of the Latin-script letter T.

Etymology 4

Verb

tee

1. Second-person singular imperative form of tegema.
2. Present connegative form of tegema.

Finnish

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Swedish te, from Dutch thee, from Min Nan ? (tê) (Amoy dialect), from Old Chinese, ultimately from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-la (“leaf, tea”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?te?/, [?t?e??]
• Rhymes: -e?
• Syllabification: tee

Noun

tee

1. (uncountable) tea (dried leaves or buds of the tea plant, Camellia sinensis)

   Mene kauppaan ja osta teetä.

   Go to the supermarket and buy some tea.

2. (uncountable) tea (drink made by infusing these dried leaves or buds in hot water)

   Haluaisitko teetä?

   Would you like some tea?

3. (countable) tea (variety of the tea plant)

   Darjeeling on intialainen tee.

   Darjeeling is a tea from India.

4. (uncountable, by extension) tea (any drink made by infusing parts of various other plants)

   yrttitee, kamomillatee, minttutee

   herb tea, camomile tea, mint tea

5. (countable) tea, cup of tea (cup of any one of these drinks)

Usage notes

As the plural forms are quite rarely used and as they, with the exception of nominative, look the same as the plural forms of tie (“road”), it may be advisable to substitute a synonym for the word tee in those cases.

Declension

Synonyms

• (drink made of Camella sinensis): saikka, tsaju, tsaiju (dialectal)
• (variety of the tea plant): teelaatu
• (cup of tea): teekupillinen, kuppi teetä

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Latin t?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?te?/, [?t?e??]
• Rhymes: -e?
• Syllabification: tee

Noun

tee

1. The name of the Latin-script letter T.

Declension

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?te??/, [?t?e??(?)]
• Rhymes: -e?
• Syllabification: tee

Verb

tee

1. Present indicative connegative form of tehdä.
2. Second-person singular imperative form of tehdä.
3. Second-person singular imperative connegative form of tehdä.

Anagrams

• eet

Ingrian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *tee, from Proto-Finno-Permic *teje. Cognates include Finnish tie and Estonian tee.

Pronunciation

• (Ala-Laukaa, Hevaha, Soikkola) IPA^(key): /?te?/
  • (Saarve) IPA^(key): /?ti?/ (phonemic spelling: tii)
• (Ylä-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /?ti?/ (phonemic spelling: tii)
• Hyphenation: tee

Noun

tee (genitive teen, partitive teetä)

1. way
2. path

Declension

References

• V. I. Junus (1936) I?oran Keelen Grammatikka?^[3], Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 66
• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 583
• Vitalij Chernyavskij (2005) Ižoran keel (Ittseopastaja)?^[4], page 171

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *t?a, from Proto-Germanic *taihw?.

Noun

têe f

1. toe

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: teen (plural reanalysed as singular)
• Limburgish: tieën (plural reanalysed as singular)

Further reading

• “tee”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “tee”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i?/
• Rhymes: -i?
• Homophone: ti

Etymology

From English tee.

Noun

tee m (definite singular tee-en, indefinite plural tee-er, definite plural tee-ene)

1. (golf) tee
2. (golf) peg

References

• “tee” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i?/
• Rhymes: -i?
• Homophone: ti

Etymology

From English tee.

Noun

tee m (definite singular tee-en, indefinite plural tee-ar, definite plural tee-ane)

1. (golf) tee
2. (golf) peg

References

• “tee” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• ete

Old Irish

Adjective

teë

1. Alternative spelling of té

Mutation

Tetum

Verb

tee

1. to defecate

Tiri

Noun

tee

1. tea

References

• Midori Osumi, Tinrin Grammar

Votic

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *tee.

Noun

tee (genitive tee, partitive [please provide])

1. way, road

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

References

• "tee" in Vadja keele sõnaraamat

Võro

Noun

tee (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

1. The name of the Latin-script letter T.

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

West Frisian

Etymology

Borrowing from Dutch thee, from Malay teh, from Min Nan ? (tê).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /te?/

Noun

tee c (no plural)

1. tea

Further reading

• “tee”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011