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pine

1  [pahyn]
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–noun
1. any evergreen, coniferous tree of the genus Pinus, having long, needle-shaped leaves, certain species of which yield timber, turpentine, tar, pitch, etc. Compare pine family.
2. any of various similar coniferous trees.
3. the wood of the pine tree.
4. Informal. the pineapple.
Origin:
bef. 1000; ME; OE pīn < L pīnus

Related forms:
pinelike, adjective
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pine

2  [pahyn] verb, pined, pin⋅ing, noun
–verb (used without object)
1. to yearn deeply; suffer with longing; long painfully (often fol. by for): to pine for one's home and family.
2. to fail gradually in health or vitality from grief, regret, or longing (often fol. by away): Separated by their families, the lovers pined away.
3. Archaic. to be discontented; fret.
–verb (used with object)
4. Archaic. to suffer grief or regret over.
–noun
5. Archaic. painful longing.
Origin:
bef. 900; ME pinen to torture, torment, inflict pain, be in pain; OE pīnian to torture, deriv. of pīn torture (ME pine) < LL pēna, L poena punishment. See pain

Synonyms:
1. See yearn. 2. dwindle, decline, languish, droop, waste.
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pine 1   (pīn)   
n.  

  1. Any of various evergreen trees of the genus Pinus, having fascicles of needle-shaped leaves and producing woody, seed-bearing cones. These trees are widely cultivated for ornament and shade and for their timber and resinous sap, which yields turpentine and pine tar.

  2. Any of various other coniferous trees, such as the Norfolk Island pine.

  3. The wood of any of these trees.


[Middle English, from Old English pīn- (as in pīntrēow, pine tree), from Latin pīnus; see peiə- in Indo-European roots.]
pine 2   (pīn)   
v.   pined, pin·ing, pines

v.   intr.

  1. To feel a lingering, often nostalgic desire.

  2. To wither or waste away from longing or grief: pined away and died.

v.   tr. Archaic
To grieve or mourn for.
n.   Archaic
Intense longing or grief.

[Middle English pinen, from Old English pīnian, to cause to suffer, from *pīne, pain, from Vulgar Latin *pēna, penalty, variant of Latin poena, from Greek poinē; see kwei-1 in Indo-European roots.]
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Word Origin & History

pine  (n.)
"coniferous tree," O.E. pintreow, the first element from L. pinus, from PIE *pei- "fat, sap, pitch" (cf. Skt. pituh "juice, sap, resin," pitudaruh "pine tree," Gk. pitys "pine tree," L. pinguis "fat"). Pine-top "cheap illicit whiskey," first recorded 1858, Southern U.S. slang.

pine  (v.)
O.E. pinian "torture, torment, afflict, cause to suffer," from *pine "pain, torture, punishment," possibly ult. from L. poena "punishment, penalty," from Gk. poine (see penal). A Latin word that rode into Germanic (cf. M.Du. pinen, O.H.G. pinon, O.N. pina) with Christianity. Intransitive sense of "to languish, waste away" is first recorded c.1440.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: 1pine
Pronunciation: 'pIn
Function: noun
: any tree of the genus Pinus

Main Entry: 2pine
Function: noun
: a dietary deficiency disease of sheep or cattle marked by anemia, malnutrition, and general debility; specifically : such a disease due to cobalt deficiency —compare MORTON MAINS DISEASE
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Computing Dictionary

Pine
Program for Internet News & Email. A tool for reading, sending, and managing electronic messages. It was designed specifically with novice computer users in mind, but can be tailored to accommodate the needs of "power users" as well. Pine uses Internet message protocols (e.g. RFC 822, SMTP, MIME, IMAP, NNTP) and runs under Unix and MS-DOS.
The guiding principles for Pine's user-interface were: careful limitation of features, one-character mnemonic commands, always-present command menus, immediate user feedback, and high tolerance for user mistakes. It is intended that Pine can be learned by exploration rather than reading manuals. Feedback from the University of Washington community and a growing number of Internet sites has been encouraging.
Pine's message composition editor, Pico, is also available as a separate stand-alone program. Pico is a very simple and easy-to-use text editor offering paragraph justification, cut/paste, and a spelling checker.
Pine features on-line help; a message index showing a message summary which includes the status, sender, size, date and subject of messages; commands to view and process messages; a message composer with easy-to-use editor and spelling checker; an address book for saving long complex addresses and personal distribution lists under a nickname; message attachments via Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions; folder management commands for creating, deleting, listing, or renaming message folders; access to remote message folders and archives via the Interactive Mail Access Protocol as defined in RFC 1176; access to Usenet news via NNTP or IMAP.
Pine, Pico and UW's IMAP server are copyrighted but freely available.
Unix Pine runs on Ultrix, AIX, SunOS, SVR4 and PTX. PC-Pine is available for Packet Driver, Novell LWP, FTP PC/TCP and Sun PC/NFS. A Microsoft Windows/WinSock version is planned, as are extensions for off-line use.
Pine was originally based on Elm but has evolved much since ("Pine Is No-longer Elm"). Pine is the work of Mike Seibel, Mark Crispin, Steve Hubert, Sheryl Erez, David Miller and Laurence Lundblade (now at Virginia Tech) at the University of Washington Office of Computing and Communications.
(ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/mail/pine.tar.Z). (telnet://demo.cac.washington.edu/) (login as "pinedemo").
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