tree — Dizionario inglese

Sostantivo

1. A perennial woody plant taller and larger than a shrub with a wooden trunk and, at some distance from the ground, having leaves and branches.

   TraduzionePianta legnosa perenne più alta e grande di un arbusto, con tronco di legno e foglie e rami a una certa distanza dal suolo.

   Termini più generali

   plantorganism

   Esempi

   There is a tree in the yard.

   Hyperion is the tallest living tree in the world.

   Birds have a nest in a tree in the garden.

   Altri esempi (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.

   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.

2. Any other plant (such as a large shrub or herb) that is reminiscent of the above in form and size.

   Esempi

   The banana tree is a tall perennial herb: its trunk is not woody.

3. An object made from a tree trunk and having multiple hooks or storage platforms.

   Esempi

   He had the choice of buying a scratching post or a cat tree.

4. A device used to hold or stretch a shoe open.

   Esempi

   He put a shoe tree in each of his shoes.

5. The structural frame of a saddle.

6. A connected graph with no cycles or, if the graph is finite, equivalently a connected graph with n vertices and n−1 edges.

7. A recursive data structure in which each node has zero or more nodes as children, but does not share children with other nodes.

8. 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.

   Esempi

   We’ll show it as a tree list.

9. Any structure or construct having branches representing divergence or possible choices.

   Esempi

   family tree; skill tree

10. The structure or wooden frame used in the construction of a saddle used in horse riding.

11. Marijuana.

    Uso

    • in-plural
    • often
    • gergo

    Esempi

    I like good pussy and I like good trees / Smoke so much weed you wouldn't believe

    Everyday man's on the block / Smoke trees (ah)

    Altri esempi (1)

    Whiskey with the team, got it bubblin' / I got trees in my luggage, I got tings out in London / Hope UK, what you say? Fuck is you sayin'?

12. A cross or gallows.

    Esempi

    Tyburn tree

    The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree.

    Altri esempi (6)

    Ste[phano]. Trinculo, keepe a good tongue in your head: If you proue a mutineere, the next Tree:[…]

    Was it for Crimes that I had done / He groan’d upon the Tree?

    When Jesus died on that tree, he bore the awful curse of the law for us so that we might be saved.

    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.

    Jesus was crucified on a tree to give us life.

    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.

13. A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution.

14. The fifth Lenormand card.

Verbo

1. To chase (an animal or person) up a tree.

   Uso

   • transitivo

   Esempi

   The dog treed the cat.

   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.

   Altri esempi (1)

   "And our dogs used to tree the cats on our property here, and we'd dispatch them."

2. To place in a tree.

   Uso

   • transitivo

   Esempi

   Black bears can tree their cubs for protection, but grizzly bears cannot.

3. To place upon a shoe tree; to fit with a shoe tree; to stretch upon a shoe tree.

   Uso

   • transitivo

   Esempi

   to tree a boot

   Two suits and an overcoat hung in the closet over three pairs of carefully treed shoes.

4. To take refuge in a tree.

   Uso

   • intransitivo

Sostantivo

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

   Termini più generali

   woody plantligneous plant

2. a figure that branches from a single root

   Sinonimi

   tree diagram

   Termini più generali

   plane figuretwo-dimensional figure

   Esempi

   genealogical tree

Verbo

1. force a person or an animal into a position from which they cannot escape

   Sinonimi

   corner

   Termini più generali

   steermaneuvermanoeuvermanoeuvredirectpointheadguidechannelizechannelise

2. plant with trees

   Termini più generali

   plantset

   Esempi

   this lot should be treed so that the house will be shaded in summer

3. chase an animal up a tree

   Termini più generali

   chasechase aftertrailtailtaggive chasedoggo aftertrack

   Esempi

   the hunters treed the bear with dogs and killed it

   her dog likes to tree squirrels

4. stretch (a shoe) on a shoetree

   Sinonimi

   shoetree

   Termini più generali

   elongatestretch