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Meaning of 'tree'
Meaning of 'tree' (Webster Dictionary)
1. Tree 
[ n.]
- Any perennial woody plant of considerable size (usually over
twenty feet high) and growing with a single trunk. [ n.]- Something constructed in the form of, or considered as resembling, a tree, consisting of a stem, or stock, and branches; as, a genealogical tree.
- A piece of timber, or something commonly made of timber; -- used in composition, as in axletree, boottree, chesstree, crosstree, whiffletree, and the like.
- A cross or gallows; as Tyburn tree.
- Wood; timber.
- A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution. See Lead tree, under Lead.
2. Tree [ v. t.]
- To drive to a tree; to cause to ascend a tree; as, a dog
trees a squirrel. [ v. t.]- To place upon a tree; to fit with a tree; to stretch upon a tree; as, to tree a boot. See Tree, n., 3.
Meaning of 'tree' (Princeton's WordNet)
1. tree [ n]
[ n]Meaning (1):
- a figure that branches from a single root
- a figure that branches from a single root
Example in sentence:
- genealogical tree
2. tree [ v]
[ v]Meaning (2):
- chase an animal up a tree
- chase an animal up a tree
Example in sentence:
- her dog likes to tree squirrels;
- the hunters treed the bear with dogs and killed it
Meaning (3):
- plant with trees
- plant with trees
Example in sentence:
- this lot should be treed so that the house will be shaded in summer
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