Tree (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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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. 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. 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), treed, tree·ing.
  1. to drive into or up a tree, as a pursued animal or person.
  2. to put into a difficult position.
  3. to stretch or shape on a tree, as a boot.
  4. to furnish (a structure) with a tree.
Idioms
  1. in a difficult or embarrassing situation; at a loss; stumped.
noun
  1. English actor and theater manager; brother of Max Beerbohm.
noun
  1. any large woody perennial plant with a distinct trunk giving rise to branches or leaves at some distance from the ground
  2. any plant that resembles this but has a trunk not made of wood, such as a palm tree
  3. a wooden post, bar, etc
  4. See family tree, shoetree, saddletree
  5. a treelike crystal growth; dendrite
    • a branching diagrammatic representation of something, such as the grammatical structure of a sentence
    • (as modifier)
  7. an archaic word for gallows
  8. the cross on which Christ was crucified
  9. in the highest position of a profession, etc
  10. in a difficult situation; trapped or stumped
verb trees, treeing or treed (tr)
  1. to drive or force up a tree
  2. to shape or stretch (a shoe) on a shoetree
noun
  1. Sir Herbert Beerbohm . 1853–1917, English actor and theatre manager; half-brother of Sir Max Beerbohm. He was noted for his lavish productions of Shakespeare
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