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Etymology
[edit]From Middle English tre, tree, treo, treou, trew, trow, from Old English trēo, trēow (“tree, wood, timber, beam, log, stake, stick, grove, cross, rood”), from Proto-West Germanic *treu, from Proto-Germanic *trewą (“tree, wood”), from pre-Germanic *dréwom, thematic e-grade derivative of Proto-Indo-European *dóru (“tree”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- enPR: trē, IPA(key): /tɹiː/, [tɹiː], [t͡ʃɹiː], [t̠͡ɹ̠̊˔ʷɪi̯]
Audio (UK): (file) Audio (US): (file) Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -iː
- Homophone: three (th-stopping)
Noun
[edit]tree (plural trees or (obsolete) treen)
- A perennial woody plant taller and larger than a bush with a wooden trunk and, at some distance from the ground, leaves and branches.
- Hyperion is the tallest living tree in the world.
- Birds have a nest in a tree in the garden.
- 1992 April 5, “The Full House”, in Jeeves and Wooster, Series 3, Episode 2:
- B. Wooster: Of all the places on this great planet of ours, West Neck, Long Island, has chosen to be the most unexciting. The last time anything remotely interesting happened here was in 1842, when a tree fell over. They still talk about it in the village.
- 2019 October, Ian Walmsley, “Cleaning up”, in Modern Railways, page 42:
- When we see a train trapped behind (or embedded in) a fallen tree our first thought should be 'what was it doing there anyway?' […] Trees are also responsible for numerous minor delays in autumn [due to leaves falling on the track], which rolling stock engineers are supposed to cope with as usual.
- Any other plant (such as a large shrub or herb) that is reminiscent of the above in form and size.
- The banana tree is a tall perennial herb: its trunk is not woody.
- An object made from a tree trunk and having multiple hooks or storage platforms.
- He had the choice of buying a scratching post or a cat tree.
- A device used to hold or stretch a shoe open.
- He put a shoe tree in each of his shoes.
- The structural frame of a saddle.
- (graph theory) A connected graph with no cycles or, if the graph is finite, equivalently a connected graph with n vertices and n−1 edges.
- (computing theory) A recursive data structure in which each node has zero or more nodes as children.
- (graphical user interface) A display or listing of entries or elements such that there are primary and secondary entries shown, usually linked by drawn lines or by indenting to the right.
- We’ll show it as a tree list.
- Any structure or construct having branches representing divergence or possible choices.
- The structure or wooden frame used in the construction of a saddle used in horse riding.
- (often in the plural, slang) Marijuana.
- 2005, “Shake That”, in Eminem, Nate Dogg (lyrics), Curtain Call: The Hits:
- I like good pussy and I like good trees / Smoke so much weed you wouldn't believe
- 2017 September 22, “Man's Not Hot”[1]performed by Big Shaq [Michael Dapaah]:
- Everyday man's on the block / Smoke trees (ah)
- (archaic outside Christianity) A cross or gallows.
- Tyburn tree
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 5:30:
- The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree.
- 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], page 12:
- Ste[phano]. Trinculo, keepe a good tongue in your head: If you proue a mutineere, the next Tree: […]
- 1707, Isaac Watts, “Godly Sorrow ariſing from the Sufferings of Chriſt”, in Hymns and Spiritual Songs, London: J. Humfreys, page 86:
- Was it for Crimes that I had done / He groan’d upon the Tree?
- 1997, Warren W. Wiersbe, The Names of Jesus:
- When Jesus died on that tree, he bore the awful curse of the law for us so that we might be saved.
- 2004, Jon Courson, Jon Courson's Application Commentary, page 1130:
- Oh, that's not to say Peter's life was easy. In fact, he, too, ended up on a tree—not hung up by guilt, but crucified upside down on a cross for the sake of the One who not only hung on a tree for him, but rose and lived within him, empowering him to live a life of incredible impact and ministry.
- 2015, Bruce Thomas, God's Purpose for His Creation:
- Jesus was crucified on a tree to give us life.
- 2022, Sharmila Panirselvam, Life in the Hands of Jesus:
- Outside of Jerusalem, at Golgotha, Jesus was crucified on a tree with two other thieves because He claimed to be the king of the Jews.
- (chemistry) A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution.
- (cartomancy) The fifth Lenormand card.
- (uncountable, mathematics) Alternative letter-case form of TREE.
Synonyms
[edit]Hypernyms
[edit]Hyponyms
[edit]- See also Category:en:Trees
Meronyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]- 2-3-4 tree
- 2-3 tree
- 2-4 tree
- 3-on-the-tree
- AA tree
- a bad tree does not yield good apples
- almond tree
- amber tree
- American tree sparrow
- American tulip tree
- Amur cork tree
- and a partridge in a pear tree
- angelica tree
- ants climbing a tree
- ant tree
- apple-tree
- apple tree
- apricot tree
- ash tree
- at the top of the tree
- Australian green tree frog
- autograph tree
- axletree
- B+ tree
- bark at the wrong tree
- bastard camphor tree
- bay tree
- bead-tree
- bead tree
- beam tree
- beard tree
- beech tree
- Beechtree
- bee tree
- bell tree
- big-eyed tree frog
- big tree
- binary indexed tree
- birch tree
- bird-catcher tree
- black birch tree
- blue ash tree
- blue marble tree
- bodhi tree
- boot tree
- boot-tree
- bored out of one's tree
- bo tree
- bottle tree
- bottletree
- box tree
- box-tree
- box tree moth
- brab tree
- Brazilian orchid tree
- Brazilian pepper tree
- bread tree
- bridal tree
- bridgetree
- B-tree
- bullet tree
- bully tree
- burflower tree
- buttercup tree
- butterspoon tree
- butter tree
- cajuput tree
- calabash tree
- calabur tree
- California pepper tree
- camphor tree
- cananga tree
- candelabra tree
- candle tree
- cannonball tree
- cassod tree
- Charlie Brown Christmas tree
- Charlie Brown's Christmas tree
- Charlie Brown tree
- chequer tree
- cherry-tree
- chestnut tree
- Chinese lacquer tree
- Chinese strawberry tree
- chocolate tree
- Christmas's tree
- Christmas tree
- Christmas tree bill
- Christmas tree effect
- Christmas tree formation
- Christmas tree packet
- Christmas tree worm
- clothestree
- clovetree
- coffee tree
- computation tree logic
- conker tree
- coral tree
- cotree
- cow tree
- cow-tree
- crabapple tree
- crab tree
- crab-tree
- cream of tartar tree
- crosstree
- cucumber tree
- curry tree
- daroo tree
- date tree
- dead-tree
- dead tree edition
- dead-tree edition
- deal tree
- derivation tree
- diesel tree
- dodo tree
- dool tree
- doubletree
- double tree
- double-tree
- dove tree
- downtree
- dragon tree
- dressed up like a Christmas tree
- drumstick tree
- dueling tree
- dule tree
- dynamite tree
- Dyson tree
- ebontree
- elephant-ear tree
- elephant tree
- elm tree
- emerald tree boa
- empress tree
- Eurasian tree sparrow
- event tree
- fall off the ugly tree
- fall out of the ugly tree and hit every branch
- false plane tree
- fault tree
- Fenwick tree
- fever tree
- fig tree
- finger tree
- firewheel tree
- firtree
- fish poison tree
- flame tree
- flea tree
- food tree
- forest green tree frog
- Franklin tree
- fringe tree
- fruit of the poisonous tree
- fruit-tree
- fruit tree
- full binary tree
- gallows tree
- gallow tree
- gatten tree
- gemstone tree
- gem tree
- generalized search tree
- ghost tree
- gingerbread tree
- glory tree
- gobstopper tree
- go climb a tree
- goldenchain tree
- golden-chain tree
- golden chain tree
- golden-rain tree
- goldenrain tree
- golden rain tree
- goldenrod tree
- golden shower tree
- gooseberry tree
- graft the forked tree
- granary tree
- grass tree
- green big-eyed tree frog
- green tree ant
- green tree frog
- groundsel-tree
- groundsel tree
- gum-tree
- gum tree
- hall tree
- handkerchief tree
- hand tree
- hanging tree
- happy as a possum up a gum tree
- hash tree
- have seen one's last gum tree
- hawthorn tree
- heaven tree
- hedge tree
- hemp tree
- henna-tree
- henna tree
- hextree
- Hilbert R-tree
- hog gum tree
- holiday tree
- hoptree
- horseradish tree
- huluppu tree
- hypertree
- imp tree
- incense tree
- Indian coral tree
- intertree
- in-tree
- ipê tree
- Italian tree cricket
- ivory tree
- Japanese lacquer tree
- Japanese maple tree
- Japanese tree lilac
- Japan tree lilac
- jellyfish tree
- Judas tree
- kananga tree
- kanya tree
- kapok tree
- kassod tree
- k-d tree
- Kruskal's tree theorem
- lacquer tree
- lac tree
- light up like a Christmas tree
- lime-tree
- link/cut tree
- linktree
- lit up like a Christmas tree
- living tree doctrine
- loblolly tree
- locust tree
- London plane tree
- magic money tree
- maidenhair tree
- make like a tree and leave
- Malacca-bean tree
- Malacca bean tree
- manchineel tree
- marking nut tree
- marking-nut tree
- mark tree
- marmalade tree
- Mexican hand tree
- milktree
- minimum spanning tree
- mirrortree
- money tree
- monkey-ear tree
- monkey puzzle tree
- monkey tail tree
- Moon tree
- Moorean viviparous tree snail
- multitree
- nail Jell-O to a tree
- narrow-winged tree cricket
- nettle tree
- nettle tree butterfly
- nicker tree
- nontree
- nut tree
- oak tree
- octree
- off one's tree
- olive tree
- ople tree
- orange-ball-tree
- orange tree
- orchid tree
- ordeal tree
- order statistic tree
- order tree
- oriental plane tree
- Otomí tree cricket
- out of one's tree
- out-of-tree
- pad-tree
- pagoda tree
- painted tree rat
- paleotree
- palm tree
- palm-tree
- palm tree justice
- Pará rubber tree
- parasol tree
- parse tree
- parsing tree
- passion tree
- Patricia tree
- peach tree
- peanut tree
- pecan tree
- pencil tree
- peppermint tree
- pepper tree
- phone tree
- pine tree
- pipe-tree
- planer tree
- plane tree
- planetree
- plantain tree
- plough-tree
- plum tree
- Polynesian tree snail
- polytree
- Porphyrian tree
- prefix tree
- Pride of India tree
- princess tree
- PR-tree
- Punic tree
- purslane tree
- quadtree
- quiver tree
- R* tree
- R+ tree
- radix tree
- rain tree
- rain-tree
- raisin tree
- ramoon-tree
- rantle-tree
- rape tree
- raspberry jam tree
- red cotton tree
- red cotton-tree
- red oak tree
- rocking tree
- rooftree
- roof tree
- rooted tree
- R-tree
- rubber tree
- saddle-tree
- sad tree
- salt tree
- sandbox tree
- Saturn's tree
- sausage tree
- scale tree
- scar tree
- sea poison tree
- sea-tree
- seed tree
- segment tree
- service tree
- shade tree mechanic
- shake the pagoda tree
- shake the plum tree
- shea butter tree
- shea tree
- shepherd's tree
- shepherd tree
- shii tree
- shoetree
- Siberian pea tree
- Siberian pea-tree
- silk-cotton tree
- silk tree
- silver tree
- single tree
- singletree
- single-tree
- skunk tree
- smoke tree
- snowball tree
- soaptree
- spindle-tree
- spindle tree
- splay tree
- squirrel tree frog
- staff tree
- Steiner tree
- Stern-Brocot tree
- strawberry tree
- strike me up a gum tree
- stubby tree
- styptic tree
- subtree
- suicide tree
- sulfur tree
- sulphur tree
- sumtree
- sundari tree
- sunder tree
- supertree
- swamp oak tree
- sweet gum tree
- sweetgum tree
- swingle tree
- swingle-tree
- swingletree
- swingtree
- sycamore maple tree
- sycamore tree
- tallow tree
- tape tree
- tea tree
- tea tree oil
- temple tree frog
- Texas umbrella tree
- the apple does not fall far from the tree
- the apple doesn't fall far from the tree
- the apple never falls far from the tree
- the nut does not fall far from the tree
- thorn-tree
- thorn tree
- three-on-the-tree
- ti-tree
- toothache tree
- toothbrush tree
- tourist tree
- traveller's tree
- treant
- treap
- treeable
- tree-and-branch
- treebank
- treebark
- tree-beard
- treebeard
- tree boa
- tree-branch
- tree brown
- tree burial
- tree cactus
- tree calf
- tree cancer
- treechange
- treeconomics
- tree cotton
- tree creeper
- treedom
- tree-dove
- tree duck
- tree ear
- tree failure
- treefall
- treefish
- tree fork
- tree fox
- treeful
- tree heath
- treehopper
- tree-hugger
- tree-hugging
- treehunter
- Tree Island
- tree isle
- tree jumper
- tree-kangaroo
- tree kernel
- treelet
- tree-line
- treelist
- tree lizard
- tree lobster
- treelogy
- tree lucerne moth
- tree lupin
- treemageddon
- tree mallow
- tree man disease
- tree man syndrome
- treemap
- tree model
- treemoss
- tree moss
- tree nigger
- tree nut
- tree nymph
- tree ocelot
- tree of heaven
- tree of knowledge
- tree of life
- tree of Porphyry
- tree of sorrow
- treeology
- tree onion
- tree oyster
- treepie
- tree pit
- tree poppy
- tree rabbit
- tree-ring
- tree runner
- treerunner
- tree seat
- tree shaking
- treeship
- tree-shrew
- tree sorrel
- treespace
- tree sparrow
- tree spinach
- tree stand
- tree stump
- treestump
- tree surgery
- treeswift
- tree tent
- tree thinking
- tree toad
- treetop
- tree topper
- tree-topper
- tree tunnel
- treeward
- treewards
- treeware
- tree well
- tree worm
- treewright
- trestletree
- trumpet tree
- truth tree
- tuliptree
- tulip tree
- tung oil tree
- tung tree
- turpentine tree
- Tyburn tree
- umbrella tree
- up a gum tree
- upside-down tree
- uptree
- urn tree
- van Emde Boas tree
- varnish-tree
- varnish tree
- vegetable ivory tree
- vine and fig-tree
- vine-tree
- vinetree
- violet tree
- wagon tree
- Wallace tree
- Washington cherry tree
- water tree
- wayfaring-tree
- wayfaring tree
- weed tree
- weeping tree
- wheel tree
- whipple tree
- whipple-tree
- white oak tree
- White's tree frog
- wig tree
- wig tree fern
- wild service tree
- willow tree
- winetree
- wine-tree
- witchen-tree
- wolf tree
- woman's tongue tree
- Xmas tree
- X-tree
- ymp tree
- Yule tree
- ℝ-order tree
Descendants
[edit]- Jamaican Creole: chrii
Translations
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[edit]Verb
[edit]tree (third-person singular simple present trees, present participle treeing, simple past and past participle treed)
- (transitive) To chase (an animal or person) up a tree.
- The dog treed the cat.
- 1897, Henry Howard et al., editors, Encyclopaedia of Sport[3], volume I, London: Lawrence & Bullen, page 599:
- When hunted it [the jaguar] takes refuge in trees, and this habit is well known to hunters, who pursue it with dogs and pot it when treed.
- 2008, Monte Dwyer, Red In The Centre: The Australian Bush Through Urban Eyes, Monyer Pty Ltd, page 146:
- "And our dogs used to tree the cats on our property here, and we'd dispatch them."
- (transitive) To place in a tree.
- Black bears can tree their cubs for protection, but grizzly bears cannot.
- (transitive) To place upon a tree; to fit with a tree; to stretch upon a tree.
- to tree a boot
- 1930, Dashiell Hammett, chapter 14, in The Maltese Falcon[4], New York: Alfred A. Knopf, page 165:
- Two suits and an overcoat hung in the closet over three pairs of carefully treed shoes.
- (intransitive) To take refuge in a tree.
Translations
[edit]References
[edit]Tree (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
[edit]Afrikaans
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Dutch tree, syncopic form of trede, from Middle Dutch trede. Equivalent to a deverbal from treden.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]tree (plural treë)
Dutch
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From syncope of trede, from Middle Dutch trede. Equivalent to a deverbal from treden.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]tree m (plural treden or treeën or trees, diminutive treetje n)
- step (of a staircase), stair
- (archaic) step (distance of one step when walking)
- (archaic, also tred) a unit of length of about 2 to 3 feet, roughly equivalent to a yard
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Afrikaans: tree
Anagrams
[edit]Manx
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish trí, from Proto-Celtic *trīs, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.
Pronunciation
[edit]Numeral
[edit]tree
References
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “trí”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Middle English
[edit]Noun
[edit]tree
- Alternative form of tre
North Frisian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Frisian thrē.
Numeral
[edit]tree
Old Irish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]tree
- third-person singular feminine accusative of tri: through her/it sg
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 2c4
- Cain ro·noíbad Abracham tri hiris? In tree ǽm didiu fa nacc?
- Hasn’t Abraham been sanctified through faith? Through it then indeed or not?
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 2c4
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