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tree
1[ tree ]
noun
- a plant having a permanently woody main stem or trunk, ordinarily growing to a considerable height, and usually developing branches at some distance from the ground.
- any of various shrubs, bushes, and plants, as the banana, resembling a tree in form and size.
- something resembling a tree in shape, as a clothes tree or a crosstree.
- Mathematics, Linguistics. tree diagram.
- a pole, post, beam, bar, handle, or the like, as one forming part of some structure.
- a saddletree.
- a treelike group of crystals, as one forming in an electrolytic cell.
- a gallows or gibbet.
- the cross on which Christ was crucified.
- Computers. a data structure organized like a tree whose nodes store data elements and whose branches represent pointers to other nodes in the tree.
verb (used with object)
- to drive into or up a tree, as a pursued animal or person.
- Informal. to put into a difficult position.
- to stretch or shape on a tree, as a boot.
- to furnish (a structure) with a tree.
Tree
2[ tree ]
noun
- Sir Herbert Beer·bohm [beer, -bohm], Herbert Beerbohm, 1853–1917, English actor and theater manager; brother of Max Beerbohm.
Tree
1/ ٰː /
noun
- TreeSir Herbert Beerbohm18531917MEnglishTHEATRE: actorTHEATRE: theatre manager Sir Herbert Beerbohm . 1853–1917, English actor and theatre manager; half-brother of Sir Max Beerbohm. He was noted for his lavish productions of Shakespeare
tree
2/ ٰː /
noun
- any large woody perennial plant with a distinct trunk giving rise to branches or leaves at some distance from the ground arboreal
- any plant that resembles this but has a trunk not made of wood, such as a palm tree
- a wooden post, bar, etc
- chem a treelike crystal growth; dendrite
- a branching diagrammatic representation of something, such as the grammatical structure of a sentence
- ( as modifier )
a tree diagram
- an archaic word for gallows
- archaic.the cross on which Christ was crucified
- at the top of the treein the highest position of a profession, etc
- up a tree informal.in a difficult situation; trapped or stumped
verb
- to drive or force up a tree
- to shape or stretch (a shoe) on a shoetree
tree
- Any of a wide variety of perennial plants typically having a single woody stem, and usually branches and leaves. Many species of both gymnosperms (notably the conifers) and angiosperms grow in the form of trees. The ancient forests of the Devonian, Mississippian, and Pennsylvanian periods of the Paleozoic Era were dominated by trees belonging to groups of seedless plants such as the lycophytes. The strength and height of trees are made possible by the supportive conductive tissue known as vascular tissue .
Derived Forms
- ˈٰˌ, adjective
- ˈٰ, adjective
- ˈٰness, noun
Other Word Forms
- ٰl adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of tree1
Word History and Origins
Origin of tree1
Idioms and Phrases
- up a tree, Informal. in a difficult or embarrassing situation; at a loss; stumped.
More idioms and phrases containing tree
see bark up the wrong tree ; can't see the forest for the trees ; talk someone's arm off (the bark off a tree) ; up a tree .Example Sentences
Two men accused of chopping down the famous Sycamore Gap tree kept a wedge as a trophy in a felling that prosecutors described as a "moronic mission".
"I was seeing nativity and Christmas scenes everywhere in this town. And all the trees had turned into plastic. The hallucinations were phenomenal, crazy," she said.
The Biomass satellite, from the European Space Agency, will "weigh" the Earth's forests, revealing how much planet-warming carbon is being stored within trees and therefore kept out of the atmosphere.
The car struck a fire hydrant and a tree on Corbin Avenue in Reseda and caught fire with Arenas inside.
Jurors in the case of two men accused of felling the famous Sycamore Gap tree have been told by a judge to set all emotion aside.
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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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