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
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