spruce
1any evergreen, coniferous tree of the genus Picea, of the pine family, having short, angular, needle-shaped leaves attached singly around twigs and bearing hanging cones with persistent scales.
any of various allied trees, as the Douglas fir and the hemlock spruce.
the wood of any such tree.
made from the wood of a spruce tree or trees.
containing or abounding in spruce trees.
Origin of spruce
1Words Nearby spruce
Other definitions for spruce (2 of 2)
trim in dress or appearance; neat; smart; dapper.
to make spruce or smart (often followed by up): Spruce up the children before the company comes.
to make oneself spruce (usually followed by up).
Origin of spruce
2Other words from spruce
- spruce·ly, adverb
- spruce·ness, noun
- un·spruced, adjective
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How to use spruce in a sentence
For example, Lowes tapped 18 influencers for its “Letters to Home” campaign, which rolled out earlier this month, to encourage people to give thanks for their homes as well as pick out gifts to spruce them up.
‘Everyone is grasping for nostalgia and happiness’: Why marketers are ringing in the holiday season with more influencers | Kristina Monllos | December 2, 2020 | DigidayHe added fresh limewash to the cave’s walls and ceiling, and installed shelves of untreated Alpine spruce, before welcoming 37 two-kilo wheels of tomme.
When specialty cheesemaking becomes a quarantine pastime | By Kat Craddock/Saveur | December 1, 2020 | Popular-ScienceAdding a stipend to be used on sprucing up a home office set up or getting better WiFi is a way for agencies to “show we’re listening,” said Kirk Guthrie, svp and executive director of HR at Innocean.
‘Show we’re listening’: Why agencies are lending office furniture, offering WiFi stipends to employees as new pandemic-era perks | Kristina Monllos | October 26, 2020 | DigidayIf sprucing up your home network has not stopped your connection from snailing, or solved the dead zones plaguing your workday, it’s time to break out the big guns.
Ethernet and a mesh network will permanently solve your WiFi issues | Whitson Gordon | October 16, 2020 | Popular-ScienceOur tent was tucked into a spruce forest above a pebble beach, and beyond the beach stretched miles of clear water, framed by the serrated, snow-dappled peaks of the Teton Range.
I was sitting so low, even the permafrost-stunted spruce trees towered over me.
Visiting the Arctic Circle…Before It’s Irreversibly Changed | Terry Greene Sterling | April 1, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTA decade ago, they decided for a holiday botox spruce-up mit smooth-out.
In Long Beach, the good old Queen Mary and spruce Goose could finally sail again.
California Sinkin’: What Rising Sea Levels Will Mean for the Golden State | Alex Klein | June 30, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTUnfortunately, the FDNY is too busy to tell you how to avoid turning your 10-foot spruce into a 10-foot match.
Christmas Trees on Fire: The Best PSA (VIDEO) | Brittany Jones-Cooper | December 21, 2011 | THE DAILY BEASTScattergood fairly licked his lips as he thought of the millions upon millions of feet of spruce to be sawed into lumber.
Scattergood Baines | Clarence Budington KellandAlso, ownership of vast limits of growing spruce was necessary to the control of the valley.
Scattergood Baines | Clarence Budington KellandThere are sixty thousand acres of mighty good spruce in that triangle between us, and it's as good as ours.
Scattergood Baines | Clarence Budington KellandAnd so Antler took courage and grasping a strong branch of a friendly spruce struggled through the deep snow.
The Later Cave-Men | Katharine Elizabeth DoppNow we're looking about for somebody to supply us spruce cut to the proper length for pulpwood.
Scattergood Baines | Clarence Budington Kelland
British Dictionary definitions for spruce (1 of 2)
/ (spruːs) /
any coniferous tree of the N temperate genus Picea, cultivated for timber and for ornament: family Pinaceae. They grow in a pyramidal shape and have needle-like leaves and light-coloured wood: See also Norway spruce, blue spruce, white spruce, black spruce
the wood of any of these trees
Origin of spruce
1British Dictionary definitions for spruce (2 of 2)
/ (spruːs) /
neat, smart, and trim
Origin of spruce
2Derived forms of spruce
- sprucely, adverb
- spruceness, noun
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