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Definition of tree in English:

tree

nounPlural trees triːtri
  • 1A woody perennial plant, typically having a single stem or trunk growing to a considerable height and bearing lateral branches at some distance from the ground.

    树,乔木。比较SHRUB 1

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The house was on a hill and there weren't many trees or hedges to shelter it from the wind.
    • He does not believe that only trees which have crossed their natural lifespans are falling down.
    • Brass snaps impart a utilitarian elegance, and its hook hangs as easily from a bathroom door as from the branches of a baobab tree.
    • As a small child, she once hid for four hours in the branches of a garden tree watching her mother's frantic efforts to find her as the evening turned to dusk.
    • At the same time, branch-cutting was encouraged to get the tree to grow a single, main trunk.
    • On either side of the wooden house were the mere structures of two large trees with no leaves visible.
    • He then drew an axe from the sack on his back and walked down to the trees to make a wooden stretcher on which to tie the deer's carcass.
    • He wrapped his wings around himself and then leaned back against the trunk of the tree, watching the ground beneath him.
    • In the summer it would be nearly sylvan, and the trees would grow new wood and leaves with branches dropping with fruit.
    • The plum tree in our garden is covered in blossom, as are the trees outside my office window.
    • This was especially so in the prairies and plains, where a scarcity of trees made wooden fencing impractical.
    • An advantage of planting deciduous trees is that other plants or small trees can be grown underneath them quite successfully.
    • There is one painting of a dead cedar tree, with a blackish, twisted upside-down tornado on a warm desert hillside.
    • Branches hang into the village from trees growing outside - trees we used for fresh fruit and safety.
    • Some species look like a typical tree, with a single trunk growing from earthbound roots.
    • A branch from the tallest tree, the one at the top tier of the backyard, swung out almost over us.
    • The avenue was a natural vault, with the denuded branches of old trees arching and lacing overhead.
    • Unlike many plants that grow in trees, epiphytic orchids are not parasites and don't harm the plants on which they grow.
    • Each house has a short wall built of bricks with branches of green trees stretching outside the walls.
    • His applications included computing the maximum height a tree can grow.
    Synonyms
    sapling
    conifer, evergreen
    bush, shrub
    1. 1.1 (in general use) any bush, shrub, or herbaceous plant with a tall erect stem, e.g. a banana plant.
      (泛指)树(包括灌木和有直立茎的草本植物,如香蕉树)
  • 2A wooden structure or part of a structure.

    木制用具,木制构件

    1. 2.1archaic, literary The cross on which Christ was crucified.
      〈古或文〉十字架
    2. 2.2archaic A gibbet.
      〈古〉绞刑架
  • 3A thing that has a branching structure resembling that of a tree.

    (有分杈的)树状物

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Each level in the tree is represented in a buffer, and you can manipulate Customize buffers as usual.
    • We then add our own RPMs to the tree, modify the various control structures in the tree and cut a CD.
    • Both structure-based trees are moderately resolved with very short internal branches.
    • Thus, each device in the tree has pointers to structures for the type of chip and the individual instance of the chip.
    • A computer can only wander blindly along the branches of the search tree, until it stumbles across a sequence of moves that may prove beneficial.
    • As you build up the GUI, the design tree reflects the widget hierarchy.
    • XML documents are trees, which should ring a bell for those of you who studied computer science in college.
    • Conversation is done using a hyperlink tree, and navigation through the topics is relatively easy.
    • Several methods are used here to help understand the similarity of trees from different data sets.
    • It would be interesting to get data on how widespread the practice of parallel source code trees is outside the Linux project.
    • All other trees based on different algorithms gave similar results.
    • However, this code will change the structure of the document tree.
    • Thick vertical lines along the species tree indicate taxa whose P elements are not monophyletic.
    • Then we write the contents of welcome, which contains a DOM tree, to the HTTP response object.
    • To this point, we have discussed the learning of qualitative models represented as qualitative trees.
    • A tree is an organizational structure that has some useful properties for that purpose.
    1. 3.1 A diagram with a structure of branching connecting lines, representing different processes and relationships.
      (表示不同过程和关系的)树形图
      Example sentencesExamples
      • It gets a bit clumsy showing the generational relationships with brackets - a tree diagram gives a clearer picture as the generations continue.
      • Another representation of population relationships is a tree diagram based on genetic distances.
      • I adapted the tree diagram into something approximating a bowl of chicken noodle soup.
      • These measures are based on the structure of the product trees for different brands.
      • It is famously understood that Darwin used a tree diagram to represent evolutionary relationships.
      • Figure 4 displays the outcome in a classification tree diagram.
      • In the diagram below, the dashed lines in the tree are the problem: do they branch exactly as shown?
      • The phylogenetic tree shows the genealogical relationships among nine eukaryotes.
      • Some of you may remember Acts One, Two and Three of this drama which began with the Townhouse Owners Association meeting and ended with me sitting in front of the computer doing a tree diagram of the property in Photoshop.
      • This growth pattern tends to make the tableau look like a tree diagram or organizational chart.
      • The birth-death process tends to generate trees with long internal branches.
      • It differs from glottochronology in the methods used to construct the tree and compute the dates.
verbtrees, treed, treeing triːtri
[with object]
  • 1North American Force (a hunted animal) to take refuge in a tree.

    〈北美〉迫使(猎物)爬上树,追赶上树

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He was treed by bloodhounds in the swamp on the outskirts of my holdings.
    • The Pritchard boys tell Billy to just give up, as no dog has ever treed the coon, but Billy refuses: ‘I told them I wasn't giving up until my dogs did.’
    • Hunting dogs have an easier time treeing a raccoon than forcing it out of a burrow.
    • Last week residents of midtown Palo Alto, California, were warned of a cougar on the prowl in their neighborhood, where another big cat was treed and shot last May.
    • He treed the bruin with the aid of a greenhorn companion.
    • Billy knows this is not true, because his dogs have only treed three coons in one night.
    • In this arresting poem, she describes treeing a raccoon at night and capturing it on film.
    • Old Dan and Little Ann were chasing a coon when they finally treed it.
    • Ain't never been caught, he ain't ever been treed.
    • But when you finally drag yourself up to where the lion is treed, it's a spectacular sight.
    • They have a coon treed and it is a good thing, because Billy needs one more coon to win the hunt.
    • Not only had it gone a long time without treeing, but its prints were unusually large and oddly shaped.
    1. 1.1US informal Force (someone) into a difficult situation.
      〈非正式,主美〉使陷于困境
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Then the original cat treed him up the kitchen chair.
      • I want that filthy vamp found, treed, and worried to bits!
  • 2as adjective treed(of an area) planted with trees.

    (地区)有树的

    sparsely treed grasslands

    树木稀少的草原。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It was a very small island, but well treed.
    • He explains that finding suitable locations for disc golf is a challenge because they prefer heavily treed, undulating areas, most of which are in the river valley.
    • Instead the parking garage, which was originally going to be a flat, treed space for 120 cars, will now cater for 300 cars.
    • No part of the treed yard got more than three hours of sun.
    • They expect to find the whole area intensely wooded, unaware that the word originally meant an area of land, wild, uncultivated and largely treed.
    • Well over half of the terrain is steep and lightly treed - perfect for off-piste riding in the pow.
    • We hunted and hunted and finally found him playing in the dirt in the treed field.
    • The view seems idyllic - a broad expanse of glistening lake under a big blue sky, surrounded by treed shoreline.
    • I backtracked a mile to a treed flat along the river that looked like a good campsite.
    • All areas that were naturally treed have lost about 30 percent of their canopy cover in the last 25 years.
    • I can't take much more altitude lost as I'm down to 2,600 ' not far above the treed hillside.
    • The property itself is very well treed providing a lovely haven for our feathered friends.
    • On a wide coastal plain, a broad river with sparsely treed grasslands on either side meandered towards the foothills.
    • The neglected backyard is below, and to its left are the neighbouring gardens and the posh houses and treed and bushed gardens beyond.
    • In time the word shed its literal association with thick vegetation and was applied generally to any country, open or treed, beyond the settled coast.
    • A forest fire in a thickly treed area of Cypress Bowl in West Vancouver broke out on July 1.
    • The irregular mosaic of small fields below looked almost universally dry, with the heavily treed hedgerows picked out in a dark green reminiscent of much later in the summer.
    • I headed up the granite and pine treed north shore of Lake Rosseau.
    • Elizabeth stood on the deck and looked out, beyond the nursery, across the flats, to the sloping hills, all treed and dotted with houses.
    • It takes 40 minutes to drive to the beach or 35 minutes to get to Kyogle's green, shady, treed public pool that caters for toddlers.

Phrases

  • be unable to see the wood for the trees

    • Fail to grasp the main issue because of over-attention to details.

      it is often difficult for people in organizations to see the wood for the trees
  • out of one's tree

    • informal Completely stupid; mad.

      〈非正式,主北美〉极傻的;发疯的

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Now, if you are thinking I'm really out of my tree, just hang on, there is a qualifier at the end of the article.
      • He would never do anything else except weekends when we'd go party and he would get gooned out of his tree!
      • At least, I don't imagine he's been sitting at home, bored out of his tree this whole time.
      • Be prepared to be bored out of your tree for three whole hours.
      • The host's girlfriend is spectacularly out of her tree and makes no sense whatsoever, but is easily the most entertaining person present.
      • I get in the backseat, between a trooper and the president, and there's two more in the front seat and I'm stoned out of my tree and we're going to identify Mary Martin's body.
      • You can tell a mile off, from the above description, that the chances are that this man will be entirely out of his tree.
      • He served us very well as a player but anyone who would even contemplate his appointment has to be out of his tree.
      • They get bored out of their tree and they have nowhere to go.
      • There he was, completely out of his tree, looking like he'd been dragged through a sewer.
  • up a tree

    • informal In a difficult situation without escape; cornered.

      〈非正式,主北美〉陷于困境的;被逼至困境的

      Example sentencesExamples
      • My favorite explanation of the three-act structure is this: In the first act, you get your hero up a tree.

Derivatives

  • treelessness

  • nounˈtriːləsnəsˈtriləsnəs
    • He marveled at arid treelessness.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The treelessness of the region has been produced gradually, by the increasing dryness of the climate.
      • The number of other theories that have been advanced at different times to account for the treelessness of the prairies is very great.
  • tree-like

  • adjective
    • All animals, living or dead, can be placed into groups based upon shared derived characteristics and those groups form tree-like hierarchies.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • This is a sonic work where 12 life-sized figures are positioned as lookouts on cardboard tubing that resembles a large tree-like form.
      • These tree-like creatures, agonizingly slow and covered with mossy bark, nursed themselves on tales of past glory while their numbers dwindled in their isolation.
      • Its 45-inch pallav had beautiful tree-like motifs.
      • The firm also said that with tree-like masts, the actual antennae for sending signals had to be placed five metres below the top of the mast, and that would have made it pointless installing a mast at that location.

Origin

Old English trēow, trēo: from a Germanic variant of an Indo-European root shared by Greek doru 'wood, spear', drus 'oak'.

  • tray from Old English:

    Late Old English trīg is from the Germanic base of tree (Old English). The primary sense may have been ‘wooden container’. Trough (Old English) had a primary meaning of ‘wooden vessel’ and is related. The notion of a downturn on a graph or similar representation dates from the late 19th century in meteorology, the early 20th century in economics, and generally (peaks and troughs) from the 1930s.

Rhymes

absentee, açai, addressee, adoptee, agree, allottee, amputee, appellee, appointee, appraisee, après-ski, assignee, asylee, attendee, bailee, bain-marie, Bangui, bargee, bawbee, be, Bea, bee, bootee, bouquet garni, bourgeoisie, Brie, BSc, buckshee, Capri, cc, chimpanzee, cohabitee, conferee, consignee, consultee, Cree, debauchee, decree, dedicatee, Dee, degree, deportee, dernier cri, detainee, devisee, devotee, divorcee, draftee, dree, Dundee, dungaree, eau-de-vie, emcee, employee, endorsee, en famille, ennui, enrollee, escapee, esprit, evacuee, examinee, expellee, fee, fiddle-de-dee, flea, flee, fleur-de-lis, foresee, franchisee, free, fusee (US fuzee), Gardaí, garnishee, gee, ghee, glee, goatee, grandee, Grand Prix, grantee, Guarani, guarantee, he, HMRC, indictee, inductee, internee, interviewee, invitee, jamboree, Jaycee, jeu d'esprit, key, knee, Lea, lee, legatee, Leigh, lessee, Ley, licensee, loanee, lychee, manatee, Manichee, maquis, Marie, marquee, me, Midi, mortgagee, MSc, nominee, obligee, Otomi, parolee, Parsee, parti pris, patentee, Pawnee, payee, pea, pee, permittee, plc, plea, pledgee, pollee, presentee, promisee, quay, ratatouille, referee, refugee, releasee, repartee, retiree, returnee, rupee, scot-free, scree, sea, secondee, see, settee, Shanxi, Shawnee, shchi, she, shea, si, sirree, ski, spree, standee, suttee, tant pis, tea, tee, tee-hee, Tennessee, testee, the, thee, three, thuggee, Tiree, Torquay, trainee, Tralee, transferee, Trincomalee, trustee, tutee, twee, Twi, undersea, vestee, vis-à-vis, wagon-lit, Waikiki, warrantee, we, wee, whee, whoopee, ye, yippee, Zuider Zee

Definition of tree in US English:

tree

nountrētri
  • 1A woody perennial plant, typically having a single stem or trunk growing to a considerable height and bearing lateral branches at some distance from the ground.

    树,乔木。比较SHRUB 1

    Example sentencesExamples
    • In the summer it would be nearly sylvan, and the trees would grow new wood and leaves with branches dropping with fruit.
    • This was especially so in the prairies and plains, where a scarcity of trees made wooden fencing impractical.
    • The house was on a hill and there weren't many trees or hedges to shelter it from the wind.
    • An advantage of planting deciduous trees is that other plants or small trees can be grown underneath them quite successfully.
    • His applications included computing the maximum height a tree can grow.
    • At the same time, branch-cutting was encouraged to get the tree to grow a single, main trunk.
    • Unlike many plants that grow in trees, epiphytic orchids are not parasites and don't harm the plants on which they grow.
    • As a small child, she once hid for four hours in the branches of a garden tree watching her mother's frantic efforts to find her as the evening turned to dusk.
    • He then drew an axe from the sack on his back and walked down to the trees to make a wooden stretcher on which to tie the deer's carcass.
    • There is one painting of a dead cedar tree, with a blackish, twisted upside-down tornado on a warm desert hillside.
    • He wrapped his wings around himself and then leaned back against the trunk of the tree, watching the ground beneath him.
    • On either side of the wooden house were the mere structures of two large trees with no leaves visible.
    • The plum tree in our garden is covered in blossom, as are the trees outside my office window.
    • Each house has a short wall built of bricks with branches of green trees stretching outside the walls.
    • Some species look like a typical tree, with a single trunk growing from earthbound roots.
    • Branches hang into the village from trees growing outside - trees we used for fresh fruit and safety.
    • A branch from the tallest tree, the one at the top tier of the backyard, swung out almost over us.
    • The avenue was a natural vault, with the denuded branches of old trees arching and lacing overhead.
    • Brass snaps impart a utilitarian elegance, and its hook hangs as easily from a bathroom door as from the branches of a baobab tree.
    • He does not believe that only trees which have crossed their natural lifespans are falling down.
    Synonyms
    sapling
    1. 1.1 (in general use) any bush, shrub, or herbaceous plant with a tall erect stem, e.g. a banana plant.
      (泛指)树(包括灌木和有直立茎的草本植物,如香蕉树)
  • 2A wooden structure or part of a structure.

    木制用具,木制构件

    1. 2.1literary, archaic The cross on which Jesus Christ was crucified.
      〈古或文〉十字架
    2. 2.2archaic A gallows or gibbet.
  • 3A thing that has a branching structure resembling that of a tree.

    (有分杈的)树状物

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Thick vertical lines along the species tree indicate taxa whose P elements are not monophyletic.
    • Both structure-based trees are moderately resolved with very short internal branches.
    • Thus, each device in the tree has pointers to structures for the type of chip and the individual instance of the chip.
    • Conversation is done using a hyperlink tree, and navigation through the topics is relatively easy.
    • Each level in the tree is represented in a buffer, and you can manipulate Customize buffers as usual.
    • However, this code will change the structure of the document tree.
    • XML documents are trees, which should ring a bell for those of you who studied computer science in college.
    • Several methods are used here to help understand the similarity of trees from different data sets.
    • It would be interesting to get data on how widespread the practice of parallel source code trees is outside the Linux project.
    • To this point, we have discussed the learning of qualitative models represented as qualitative trees.
    • A tree is an organizational structure that has some useful properties for that purpose.
    • A computer can only wander blindly along the branches of the search tree, until it stumbles across a sequence of moves that may prove beneficial.
    • We then add our own RPMs to the tree, modify the various control structures in the tree and cut a CD.
    • Then we write the contents of welcome, which contains a DOM tree, to the HTTP response object.
    • All other trees based on different algorithms gave similar results.
    • As you build up the GUI, the design tree reflects the widget hierarchy.
    1. 3.1 A diagram with a structure of branching connecting lines, representing different processes and relationships.
      (表示不同过程和关系的)树形图
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The birth-death process tends to generate trees with long internal branches.
      • The phylogenetic tree shows the genealogical relationships among nine eukaryotes.
      • Figure 4 displays the outcome in a classification tree diagram.
      • It gets a bit clumsy showing the generational relationships with brackets - a tree diagram gives a clearer picture as the generations continue.
      • In the diagram below, the dashed lines in the tree are the problem: do they branch exactly as shown?
      • Another representation of population relationships is a tree diagram based on genetic distances.
      • It is famously understood that Darwin used a tree diagram to represent evolutionary relationships.
      • This growth pattern tends to make the tableau look like a tree diagram or organizational chart.
      • I adapted the tree diagram into something approximating a bowl of chicken noodle soup.
      • These measures are based on the structure of the product trees for different brands.
      • It differs from glottochronology in the methods used to construct the tree and compute the dates.
      • Some of you may remember Acts One, Two and Three of this drama which began with the Townhouse Owners Association meeting and ended with me sitting in front of the computer doing a tree diagram of the property in Photoshop.
verbtrētri
[with object]
  • 1North American Force (a hunted animal) to take refuge in a tree.

    〈北美〉迫使(猎物)爬上树,追赶上树

    Example sentencesExamples
    • But when you finally drag yourself up to where the lion is treed, it's a spectacular sight.
    • The Pritchard boys tell Billy to just give up, as no dog has ever treed the coon, but Billy refuses: ‘I told them I wasn't giving up until my dogs did.’
    • He treed the bruin with the aid of a greenhorn companion.
    • Not only had it gone a long time without treeing, but its prints were unusually large and oddly shaped.
    • Ain't never been caught, he ain't ever been treed.
    • In this arresting poem, she describes treeing a raccoon at night and capturing it on film.
    • They have a coon treed and it is a good thing, because Billy needs one more coon to win the hunt.
    • Billy knows this is not true, because his dogs have only treed three coons in one night.
    • He was treed by bloodhounds in the swamp on the outskirts of my holdings.
    • Old Dan and Little Ann were chasing a coon when they finally treed it.
    • Last week residents of midtown Palo Alto, California, were warned of a cougar on the prowl in their neighborhood, where another big cat was treed and shot last May.
    • Hunting dogs have an easier time treeing a raccoon than forcing it out of a burrow.
    1. 1.1US informal Force (someone) into a difficult situation.
      〈非正式,主美〉使陷于困境
      Example sentencesExamples
      • I want that filthy vamp found, treed, and worried to bits!
      • Then the original cat treed him up the kitchen chair.
  • 2as adjective treed(of an area) planted with trees.

    (地区)有树的

    sparsely treed grasslands

    树木稀少的草原。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • A forest fire in a thickly treed area of Cypress Bowl in West Vancouver broke out on July 1.
    • I headed up the granite and pine treed north shore of Lake Rosseau.
    • Instead the parking garage, which was originally going to be a flat, treed space for 120 cars, will now cater for 300 cars.
    • The property itself is very well treed providing a lovely haven for our feathered friends.
    • Elizabeth stood on the deck and looked out, beyond the nursery, across the flats, to the sloping hills, all treed and dotted with houses.
    • I can't take much more altitude lost as I'm down to 2,600 ' not far above the treed hillside.
    • The view seems idyllic - a broad expanse of glistening lake under a big blue sky, surrounded by treed shoreline.
    • On a wide coastal plain, a broad river with sparsely treed grasslands on either side meandered towards the foothills.
    • I backtracked a mile to a treed flat along the river that looked like a good campsite.
    • They expect to find the whole area intensely wooded, unaware that the word originally meant an area of land, wild, uncultivated and largely treed.
    • We hunted and hunted and finally found him playing in the dirt in the treed field.
    • Well over half of the terrain is steep and lightly treed - perfect for off-piste riding in the pow.
    • The neglected backyard is below, and to its left are the neighbouring gardens and the posh houses and treed and bushed gardens beyond.
    • In time the word shed its literal association with thick vegetation and was applied generally to any country, open or treed, beyond the settled coast.
    • It was a very small island, but well treed.
    • No part of the treed yard got more than three hours of sun.
    • He explains that finding suitable locations for disc golf is a challenge because they prefer heavily treed, undulating areas, most of which are in the river valley.
    • It takes 40 minutes to drive to the beach or 35 minutes to get to Kyogle's green, shady, treed public pool that caters for toddlers.
    • The irregular mosaic of small fields below looked almost universally dry, with the heavily treed hedgerows picked out in a dark green reminiscent of much later in the summer.
    • All areas that were naturally treed have lost about 30 percent of their canopy cover in the last 25 years.

Phrases

  • be unable to see the forest for the trees

    • Fail to grasp the main issue because of excessive attention to details.

  • out of one's tree

    • informal Completely stupid; insane.

      〈非正式,主北美〉极傻的;发疯的

      Example sentencesExamples
      • I get in the backseat, between a trooper and the president, and there's two more in the front seat and I'm stoned out of my tree and we're going to identify Mary Martin's body.
      • Now, if you are thinking I'm really out of my tree, just hang on, there is a qualifier at the end of the article.
      • He served us very well as a player but anyone who would even contemplate his appointment has to be out of his tree.
      • They get bored out of their tree and they have nowhere to go.
      • At least, I don't imagine he's been sitting at home, bored out of his tree this whole time.
      • The host's girlfriend is spectacularly out of her tree and makes no sense whatsoever, but is easily the most entertaining person present.
      • He would never do anything else except weekends when we'd go party and he would get gooned out of his tree!
      • You can tell a mile off, from the above description, that the chances are that this man will be entirely out of his tree.
      • Be prepared to be bored out of your tree for three whole hours.
      • There he was, completely out of his tree, looking like he'd been dragged through a sewer.
  • up a tree

    • informal In a difficult situation without escape; cornered.

      〈非正式,主北美〉陷于困境的;被逼至困境的

      Example sentencesExamples
      • My favorite explanation of the three-act structure is this: In the first act, you get your hero up a tree.

Origin

Old English trēow, trēo: from a Germanic variant of an Indo-European root shared by Greek doru ‘wood, spear’, drus ‘oak’.

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