Christmas tree
Christmas tree
noun
1.
an evergreen tree decorated at Christmas with ornaments and lights.
2.
a control board or panel containing a variety of colored lights for indicating the status of various functions, elements, components, etc.
3.
an elaborate arrangement of pipes, valves, etc., as for controlling the flow of oil or gas.
Origin:
1780–90, Americanism
1780–90, Americanism
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| Christmas tree | |
| —n | |
| 1. | an evergreen tree or an imitation of one, decorated as part of Christmas celebrations |
| 2. | (Austral) Also called: Christmas bush any of various trees or shrubs flowering at Christmas and used for decoration |
| 3. | another name for pohutukawa |
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Christmas tree
is always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
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Christmas tree definition
hardware, jargonA kind of EIA-232 line tester or breakout box featuring rows of blinking red and green LEDs suggestive of Christmas lights.
[Jargon File]
(2006-09-20)
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