tree

Hyperion is the tallest living tree in the world.

Birds have a nest in a tree in the garden.

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.

1992 April 5, “The Full House”, in Jeeves and Wooster, Series 3, Episode 2:

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.

2019 October, Ian Walmsley, “Cleaning up”, in Modern Railways, page 42:

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

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

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

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

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

He put a shoe tree in each of his shoes.

A device used to hold or stretch a shoe open.

(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.

We’ll show it as a tree list.

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(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.

family tree; skill tree

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.

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

2005, “Shake That”, in Eminem, Nate Dogg (lyrics), Curtain Call: The Hits:

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

2017 September 22, “Man's Not Hot”performed by Big Shaq [Michael Dapaah]:

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'?

2018, “Ace”, in Room 25, performed by Noname ft. Smino & Saba:

Tyburn tree

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

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 5:30:

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

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

1707, Isaac Watts, “Godly Sorrow ariſing from the Sufferings of Chriſt”, in Hymns and Spiritual Songs, London: J. Humfreys, page 86:

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

1997, Warren W. Wiersbe, The Names of Jesus:

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.

2004, Jon Courson, Jon Courson's Application Commentary, page 1130:

Jesus was crucified on a tree to give us life.

2015, Bruce Thomas, God's Purpose for His Creation:

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.

2022, Sharmila Panirselvam, Life in the Hands of Jesus:

(archaic outside Christianity) A cross or gallows.

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

(uncountable, mathematics) Alternative letter-case form of TREE.

fall out of the ugly tree and hit every branch

the apple does not fall far from the tree

the apple doesn't fall far from the tree

Jamaican Creole: chrii

ika (in all dialects, including Bareji, Mado and Tafota)

ika (in all dialects, including Mokorua and Rabade)

arçon

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

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(graph theory) graph tree with no cycles

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(computing theory) recursive data structure

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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”). Eclipsed alternative terms for tree in Middle English: Middle English beem, from Old English bēam (see beam) and Middle English arbre, from Old French arbre.
Cognates
From the same Proto-Indo-European: Scots tree (“wood, rod, stick”), North Frisian tre, trä (“tree”), Middle Dutch tree > Dutch teer (“tree”), Danish træ (“tree”), Swedish trä (“wood”), träd (“tree”), Norwegian tre (“tree”), Icelandic tré (“tree”), Gothic 𐍄𐍂𐌹𐌿 (triu, “tree, wood, piece of wood”), Sanskrit दारु (dāru, “tree, wood”), Albanian dru (“tree, wood”), Welsh dâr (“oaks”), Ancient Greek δόρυ (dóru, “wood, spear”), Russian де́рево (dérevo) or дре́во (drévo), Tocharian A or. Related to tar, true.


tree

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.

1897, Henry Howard et al., editors, Encyclopaedia of Sport, volume I, London: Lawrence & Bullen, page 599:

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

2008, Monte Dwyer, Red In The Centre: The Australian Bush Through Urban Eyes, Monyer Pty Ltd, page 146:

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

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

to tree a boot

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

1930, Dashiell Hammett, chapter 14, in The Maltese Falcon, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, page 165:

(transitive) To place upon a shoe tree; to fit with a shoe tree; to stretch upon a shoe tree.

(intransitive) To take refuge in a tree.

en-verb

tree (third-person singular simple present trees, present participle treeing, simple past and past participle treed)

trees (present singular third-person)
treeing (participle present)
treed (participle past)
treed (past)

sámfáz

to place upon a tree; to fit with a tree; to stretch upon a tree

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