Pronunciations
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/paɪn/
Pronunciation notes
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Noun
Any coniferous tree of the genus Pinus.
Usage- Countable
- Uncountable
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The northern slopes were covered mainly in pine.
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I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.
Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind.
Among the pines grew rowans hung with scarlet berries, and bilberry bushes whose leaves would be fair game for white moth caterpillars in spring. […] The increased vegetation also provides food for the pine martens, red squirrels and mountain hares that MacDonell is seeing in rising numbers, while the population of endangered birds such as crossbills and crested tits has also risen.
Any tree (usually coniferous) which resembles a member of this genus in some respect.
Usage- Countable
The wood of this tree.
Usage- Uncountable
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Give disease, so the swine will marry and propagate lies / Tough luck for elected officials, the beast you see got 50 eyes / Bring it on home, spread the wealth / Play it cool, the hand's been dealt / Now all the odds are in our favor / Save the victory speeches for later / Streets on fire / The mob goes wild, wild, wild / Streets on fire / The mob goes wild / 21 guns, box made of pine / Letter from the government, sealed and signed / Delivered Federal Express / On your mother's doorsteps
A pineapple.
Usage- Australia
- Guyana
- South-Africa
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"[…] I bought a pine-apple at the same time, which I gave to Sambo. Let's have it for tiffin; very cool and nice this hot weather." Rebecca said she had never tasted a pine, and longed beyond everything to taste one.
Linda carried the oysters in one hand and the pineapple in the other. […] [S]he put the bottle of oysters and the pine on a little carved chair.
The bench, where players sit when not playing.
Usage- Colloquial
- Uncountable
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[…] rather than languish on the pine in Miami.
Take off your gear and hit the pine. And don't take your time. You understand me, boy?
A counter or bartop.
Usage- Colloquial
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I'll be behind the pine slinging your favorite cold ones, so come and see me!
Noun
A painful longing.
Usage- Archaic
Verb
To languish; to lose flesh or wear away through distress.
Usage- Intransitive
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Why pine not I, and die in this distress?
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[T]hou mayſt know / What miſerie th' inabſtinence of Eve / Shall bring on men. Immediately a place / Before his eyes appeard, ſad, noyſom, dark, / A Lazar-houſe it ſeemd, wherein were laid / Numbers all diſeas'd, […] / […] / Dæmoniac Phrenzie, moaping Melancholie / And Moon-ſtruck madneſs, pining Atrophie, / Maraſmus and wide-waſting Peſtilence.
This night shall see the gaudy wreath decline, The roses wither and the lilies pine.
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Long lay the world in sin and error pining / Till He appear’d and the soul felt its worth
The way the story went was that the man's foot healed up all right but that he just pined away.
Before I pine away (Pine away)
To long, to yearn so much that it causes suffering.
Usage- Intransitive
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Laura was pining for Bill all the time he was gone.
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Praline: "That parrot is definitely deceased. And when I bought it not half an hour ago you assured me that its lack of movement was due to it being tired and shagged out after a long squawk." Shopkeeper: "It's probably pining for the fiords." Praline: "Pining for the fiords, what kind of talk is that?"
Ten years ago, liberals pined for a post-religious right, a different culture war. Be careful what you wish for.
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Of the group, Max (Room’s Jacob Tremblay) is the most nominally mature, at least biologically speaking; unlike his childhood companions, he’s entered the early throes of puberty, and spends a lot of his waking hours pining, rather chastely, for a classmate (Millie Davis).
To grieve or mourn for.
Usage- Transitive
To inflict pain upon; to torment.
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Which way, O Lord, which way can I look, and not see some sad examples of misery? […] [O]ne is pined in prison; another, tortured on the rack; a third, languisheth under the loss of a dear son, or wife, or husband.
Noun
a coniferous tree
- Broader terms
straight-grained durable and often resinous white to yellowish timber of any of numerous trees of the genus Pinus
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Verb
have a desire for something or someone who is not present
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She ached for a cigarette
I am pining for my lover