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Definition of 'Tree'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) tree
a plant having a permanently woody main stem or trunk, ordinarily growing to a considerable height, and usu. developing branches at some distance from the ground.

2.  tree
any of various shrubs, bushes, and plants, as the banana, resembling a tree in form and size.

3.  tree
something resembling a tree in shape, as a clothes tree.

4.  tree
Also called tree diagram. a diagram, as in linguistics or mathematics, in which lines branch out from a central point or stem without forming any closed loops.

5.  tree
a pole, post, beam, bar, handle, or the like, as one forming part of some structure.

6.  tree
a treelike group of crystals, as one forming in an electrolytic cell.

7.  tree
a computer data structure organized like a tree whose nodes store data elements and whose branches represent pointers to other nodes in the tree.

8.  tree
a gallows or gibbet.

9.  tree
the cross on which Christ was crucified.

10. (v.t.) tree
to drive into or up a tree, as one pursued.

11.  tree
to put into a difficult position; corner.

12.  tree
to stretch or shape on a tree, as a boot.

13.  tree
up a tree, in a difficult or embarrassing situation.

14. (n.) Tree
Sir Herbert Beerbohm, (Herbert Beerbohm), 1853–1917, English actor and theater manager.

Definition of 'Tree'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) tree
a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms

2. (noun) tree, tree diagram
a figure that branches from a single root
"genealogical tree"

3. (verb) Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree
English actor and theatrical producer noted for his lavish productions of Shakespeare (1853-1917)

4. (verb) corner, tree
force a person or an animal into a position from which he cannot escape

5. (verb) tree
plant with trees
"this lot should be treed so that the house will be shaded in summer"

6. (verb) tree
chase an animal up a tree
"the hunters treed the bear with dogs and killed it"; "her dog likes to tree squirrels"

7. (verb) tree, shoetree
stretch (a shoe) on a shoetree

Definition of 'Tree'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) tree
a large plant with a trunk, branches and leaves
an oak/beech/fir tree

Definition of 'Tree'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) Tree
any perennial woody plant of considerable size (usually over twenty feet high) and growing with a single trunk

2. (noun) Tree
something constructed in the form of, or considered as resembling, a tree, consisting of a stem, or stock, and branches; as, a genealogical tree

3. (noun) Tree
a piece of timber, or something commonly made of timber; -- used in composition, as in axletree, boottree, chesstree, crosstree, whiffletree, and the like

4. (noun) Tree
a cross or gallows; as Tyburn tree

5. (noun) Tree
wood; timber

6. (noun) Tree
a mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution. See Lead tree, under Lead

7. (verb) Tree
to drive to a tree; to cause to ascend a tree; as, a dog trees a squirrel

8. (verb) Tree
to place upon a tree; to fit with a tree; to stretch upon a tree; as, to tree a boot. See Tree, n., 3

Translation of 'Tree'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: the largest kind of plant, with a thick, firm, wooden stem and branches We have three apple trees growing in our garden.
Afrikaans: boom	Arabic: شَجَرَه	Bulgarian: дърво
Brazilian: árvore	Czech: strom	German: der Baum
Danish: træ	Greek: δέντρο	Spanish: árbol
Estonian: puu	Farsi: درخت	Finnish: puu
French: arbre	Hebrew: עֵץ	Hindi: पेड़
Croatian: stablo	Hungarian: fa	Indonesian: pohon
Icelandic: tré	Italian: albero	Japanese: 木
Korean: 나무	Lithuanian: medis	Latvian: koks
Malay: pokok	Dutch: boom	Norwegian: tre
Polish: drzewo	Persian: درخت	Pashto: ونه
Portuguese: árvore	Romanian: pom, copac	Russian: дерево
Slovak: strom	Slovenian: drevo	Serbian: drvo
Swedish: träd	Thai: ต้นไม้	Turkish: ağaç
Taiwanese: 樹	Ukrainian: дерево	Urdu: درخت
Vietnamese: cây	Chinese: 树
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