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tree

  [tree] noun, verb, treed, tree⋅ing.
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–noun
1. a plant having a permanently woody main stem or trunk, ordinarily growing to a considerable height, and usually developing branches at some distance from the ground.
2. any of various shrubs, bushes, and plants, as the banana, resembling a tree in form and size.
3. something resembling a tree in shape, as a clothes tree or a crosstree.
4. Mathematics, Linguistics. tree diagram.
5. family tree.
6. a pole, post, beam, bar, handle, or the like, as one forming part of some structure.
7. a shoetree or boot tree.
8. a saddletree.
9. a treelike group of crystals, as one forming in an electrolytic cell.
10. a gallows or gibbet.
11. the cross on which Christ was crucified.
12. Computers. a data structure organized like a tree whose nodes store data elements and whose branches represent pointers to other nodes in the tree.
13. Christmas tree.
–verb (used with object)
14. to drive into or up a tree, as a pursued animal or person.
15. Informal. to put into a difficult position.
16. to stretch or shape on a tree, as a boot.
17. to furnish (a structure) with a tree.
—Idiom
18. up a tree, Informal. in a difficult or embarrassing situation; at a loss; stumped.
Origin:
bef. 900; ME; OE trēo(w); c. OFris, ON trē, OS treo, Goth triu; akin to Gk drŷs oak, Skt, Avestan dru wood

Related forms:
treelike, adjective
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Tree

  [tree]
–noun
Sir Herbert Beer⋅bohm  [beer-bohm] , (Herbert Beerbohm), 1853–1917, English actor and theater manager; brother of Max Beerbohm.

tree diagram

 
–noun
Mathematics, Linguistics. a diagram in which lines branch out from a central point or stem without forming any closed loops.
Also called tree.

Origin:
1960–65
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tree   (trē)   
n.  

    1. A perennial woody plant having a main trunk and usually a distinct crown.

    2. A plant or shrub resembling a tree in form or size.

    3. A gallows.

    4. The cross on which Jesus was crucified.

  2. Something, such as a clothes tree, that resembles a tree in form.

  3. A wooden beam, post, stake, or bar used as part of a framework or structure.

  4. A saddletree.

  5. A diagram that has branches in descending lines showing relationships as of hierarchy or lineage: a family tree; a telephone tree.

  6. Computer Science A structure for organizing or classifying data in which every item can be traced to a single origin through a unique path.

  7. Archaic

    1. A gallows.

    2. The cross on which Jesus was crucified.

tr.v.   treed, tree·ing, trees

  1. To force up a tree: Dogs treed the raccoon.

  2. Informal To force into a difficult position; corner.

  3. To supply with trees: treed the field with oaks.

  4. To stretch (a shoe or boot) onto a shoetree.


[Middle English, from Old English trēow; see deru- in Indo-European roots.]
tree'less adj.
Tree   (trē)   
British actor and producer who founded the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (1904).
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
tree

  1. n.
    marijuana. : Grass, tree, bush. It's all pot!
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

tree 
O.E. treo, treow "tree" (also "wood"), from P.Gmc. *trewan (cf. O.Fris. tre, O.S. trio, O.N. tre, Goth. triu), from PIE *deru-/*doru- "oak" (cf. Skt. dru "tree, wood," daru "wood, log;" Gk. drys "oak," doru "spear;" O.C.S. drievo "tree, wood;" Serb. drvo "tree," drva "wood;" Rus. drevo "tree, wood;" Czech drva; Pol. drwa "wood;" Lith. derva "pine wood;" O.Ir. daur, Welsh derwen "oak," Albanian drusk "oak"). Importance of the oak in mythology is reflected in the recurring use of words for "oak" to mean "tree." In O.E. and M.E., also "thing made of wood," especially the cross of the Crucifixion and a gallows (cf. Tyburn tree, gallows mentioned 12c. at Tyburn, at junction of Oxford Street and Edgware Road, place of public execution for Middlesex until 1783). Sense in family tree first attested 1706; verb meaning "to chase up a tree" is from 1700. Tree-hugger, contemptuous for "environmentalist" is attested by 1989.
"Minc'd Pyes do not grow upon every tree,
But search the Ovens for them, and there they be."
["Poor Robin," Almanack, 1669]
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: tree
Pronunciation: 'trE
Function: noun
: an anatomical system or structure having many branches tree> —see BILIARY TREE, BRONCHIAL TREE, TRACHEOBRONCHIAL TREE
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Computing Dictionary

tree mathematics, data
A directed acyclic graph; i.e. a graph wherein there is only one route between any pair of nodes, and there is a notion of "toward top of the tree" (i.e. the root node), and its opposite direction, toward the leaves. A tree with n nodes has n-1 edges.
Although maybe not part of the widest definition of a tree, a common constraint is that no node can have more than one parent. Moreover, for some applications, it is necessary to consider a node's daughter nodes to be an ordered list, instead of merely a set.
As a data structure in computer programs, trees are used in everything from B-trees in databases and file systems, to game trees in game theory, to syntax trees in a human or computer languages.
(1998-11-12)

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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Idioms & Phrases

tree

see bark up the wrong tree; can't see the forest for the trees; talk someone's arm off (the bark off a tree); up a tree.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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