tree

English Online Dictionary. What means tree‎? What does tree mean?

English

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• enPR: trē, IPA^(key): /tɹiː/, [t̠ʰɹʷiː], [t͡ʃʰɹʷiː], [t̠͡ɹ̠̊˔ʷiː]
• Rhymes: -iː
• Homophone: three (th-stopping)

Noun

tree (plural trees or (obsolete) treen)

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

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

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

5. The structural frame of a saddle.
6. (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.
7. (computing theory) A recursive data structure in which each node has zero or more nodes as children.
8. (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.

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

11. The structure or wooden frame used in the construction of a saddle used in horse riding.
12. (often in the plural, slang) Marijuana.
13. (archaic outside Christianity) A cross or gallows.
14. (chemistry) A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution.
15. (cartomancy) The fifth Lenormand card.
16. (uncountable, mathematics) Alternative letter-case form of TREE.

Synonyms

Hypernyms

• plant
• (in graph theory): graph

Hyponyms

• See also Category:en:Trees

Meronyms

Derived terms

Descendants

• Jamaican Creole: chrii

Translations

See also

• Thesaurus:tree
• Category:Trees
• arboreal

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To chase (an animal or person) up a tree.
2. (transitive) To place in a tree.

3. (transitive) To place upon a shoe tree; to fit with a shoe tree; to stretch upon a shoe tree.
4. (intransitive) To take refuge in a tree.

Translations

References

• Tree (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• reet, rete, teer

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch tree, syncopic form of trede, from Middle Dutch trede. Equivalent to a deverbal from treden.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /trɪə̯/

Noun

tree (plural treë)

1. step (single act of placing the foot when walking)
2. yard (unit of length)

Dutch

Alternative forms

• trede

Etymology

From syncope of trede, from Middle Dutch trede. Equivalent to a deverbal from treden.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /treː/, [treː], [treɪ̯]
• Hyphenation: tree
• Rhymes: -eː

Noun

tree m (plural treden or treeën or trees, diminutive treetje n)

1. step (of a staircase), stair
2. (archaic) step (distance of one step when walking)
3. (archaic, also tred) a unit of length of about 2 to 3 feet, roughly equivalent to a yard

Derived terms

• traptree

Descendants

• Afrikaans: tree

Anagrams

• eert, eter, reet, teer, tere

Manx

Alternative forms

• three

Etymology

From Old Irish trí, from Proto-Celtic *trīs, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t̪riː/

Numeral

tree

1. three

References

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “trí”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Middle English

Noun

tree

1. Alternative form of tre

North Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian thrē.

Numeral

tree

1. (Heligoland) three

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtʲrʲe.e]

Pronoun

tree

1. third-person singular feminine accusative of tri: through her/it sg
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 2^c4