Word Confusion: t vs T vs T-shirt vs tee

Plural for noun: ts, t’s

Plural for noun: Ts, T’s

Plural: T-shirts

Alternative spelling: tee shirt, t-shirt, tee-shirt, tee

Plural for the noun: tees
Gerund: teeing

Third person present verb: tees
Past tense or past participle: teed
Present participle: teeing

Teaspoon(s), teaspoonful(s)

[t.] In the time of
[Football; t.] Tackle
[t.] Taken from
[t.] Tare
[t.] Temperature
[t.] Tenor
[Grammar; t.] Tense
[t.] Territory
[t.] Time
[t.] Tome
[t.] Town
[t.] Township
[t.] Transit
[t.] Transitive
[t.] Troy

Long or metric ton(s)

Noun:
The twentieth letter of the alphabet, a consonant ^Unknown

• Denoting the next after S in a set of items, categories, etc.
• Any spoken sound represented by the letter T or t, as in tub, but, or butter
• A written or printed representation of the letter T or t

A device, as a printer’s type, for reproducing the letter T or t

[Also tee] A shape like that of a capital T

Suffix:
Equivalent to -ed:

• Forming the past tense and past participle of weak verbs
• Forming participial adjectives

Equivalent to -est, forming the second person singular of verbs

Symbol:
[Statistics; uses italics, t] A number characterizing the distribution of a sample taken from a population with a normal distribution

[Physics] Temperature as measured from absolute zero in kelvins

[Physics]

• [tesla(s)] The SI unit of magnetic flux density ²
• Tau lepton ¹
• Time reversal

[Biochemistry] ¹

• Threonine
• Thymine

[Pronoun] A shortened form of it, before or after a verb

[Cooking] Tablespoon(s), tablespoonful(s)

[US Military; in designations of aircraft] Trainer

[T.] Territory
[T.] Township

• In names of sports clubs

[T.] Tuesday

Noun:
The twentieth letter of the alphabet, a consonant ¹

• Denoting the next after S in a set of items, categories, etc.
• Any spoken sound represented by the letter T or t, as in tub, but, or butter
• A written or printed representation of the letter T or t

A large spoon for serving food

• [Abbreviation tbsp. or T) A measurement in cooking, equivalent to 1/2 fluid ounce, three teaspoons, or 15 ml

A device, as a printer’s type, for reproducing the letter T or t

[Also Tee] A shape like that of a capital T

[absolute temperature] A temperature measured from absolute zero in kelvins

Symbol:
[Chemistry] The hydrogen isotope, tritium ¹

• The same but with long sleeves

• Shaped like a T

Noun:
A shape like that of a capital T ¹

Spelling out the letter T or t

Something shaped like a T, as a three-way joint used in fitting pipes together

The mark aimed at in various games, as curling

A cleared space on a golf course, from which the ball is struck at the beginning of play for each hole

• [American football] A small stand on which the ball is placed for a kickoff
• [US] A waist-high or higher stand used in tee-ball to hold a baseball before it is hit with a bat ²
• [Golf] A small peg with a concave head that can be placed in the ground to support a golf ball before it is struck ²

A mark aimed at in lawn bowling, quoits, curling, and other similar games ³

Verb, intransitive:
[Often followed by up] To position (the ball) ready for striking, on or as if on a tee ¹

Verb, transitive:
[Golf] To place (the ball) on a tee ¹

But can’t you see, ’tis an unlawful act.

Do’t now.

Approximately AD 500 was equated with the end of the world, but this date had already passed t. Dionysius.

Suffix:
Thou shalt not pass.

Throughout her childhood, Sally crept out at night.

They were sent to perdition.

He slept all night and day.

She felt so good in my arms.

I dreamt of the day the house was paid for.

Symbol:
Student’s t-tests can be used in real life to compare means.

It’s taking off in T minus two.

“Consumer and safety devices containing [T] for use in the United States are subject to certain possession, resale, disposal, and use restrictions” (Tritium).

One T is equal to one weber per square metre.

Noun:
Make a T-shaped wound in the rootstock and insert the cut bud.

It’ll be easier with a T-square.

Grab a few Ts for the weekend.

Don’t cross my T.

When you get to the T-junction, turn left.

At about T-minus 30 seconds the crowd is just going crazy.

I baked it to a T, and of course it was delicious.

I like 3 T of chili powder in my chili con carne.

The AT-11 Kansan, a Beechcraft, was redesignated as T-11 in 1948.

The Mansfield T. football team is coming next week.

Symbol:
T is a radioactive isotope of hydrogen with a mass approximately three times that of the common protium isotope.

We got Kiss T-shirts at the concert last night.

Has anyone seen my Packer T-shirt?

It’s shaped like a tee.

Noun:
Grab a tee-shirt.

There should be two ts in butter.

We’ll need six tee-joints on this project.

Hook it up to the tee-bar.

The description fit her to a tee.

A team’s clock stops once a stone reaches the tee line.

Verb, intransitive:
Go ahead and tee up.

“Once Bull was kicked in the side of the head by a free-swinging captain from 234 who had gone berserk and was teeing off on anything that moved” (Conroy, 340).

It teed up what was to follow — a declaration of war.

Verb, transitive:
Go ahead and tee your ball.

The impertinent remarks teed the speaker off.

“A golden afternoon on the golf course, the fairways lush and green, and he was teeing it up on the first hole” (O’Brien).

1. Unknown.
2. 1960s, named after Nikola Tesla.

1. It was first recorded between 1665–75 and is of uncertain origin.
2. Late 17th century, originally Scots, as teaz is of unknown origin.
3. Late 18th century, originally Scots is perhaps the same word as 2, perhaps from T-shaped marks, which may have originally been used in curling.