tree

名词 n. 动词 v. 数词 num.
/t͡ʃɹɪj/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A perennial woody plant taller and larger than a shrub with a wooden trunk and, at some distance from the ground, having leaves and branches.
    — Hyperion is the tallest living tree in the world.
  2. Any other plant (such as a large shrub or herb) that is reminiscent of the above in form and size.
    — The banana tree is a tall perennial herb: its trunk is not woody.
  3. An object made from a tree trunk and having multiple hooks or storage platforms.
    — He had the choice of buying a scratching post or a cat tree.
  4. A device used to hold or stretch a shoe open.
    — He put a shoe tree in each of his shoes.
  5. The structural frame of a saddle.
  6. A connected graph with no cycles or, if the graph is finite, equivalently a connected graph with n vertices and n−1 edges.
  7. A recursive data structure in which each node has zero or more nodes as children, but does not share children with other nodes.
  8. A display or listing of entries or elements such that there are primary and secondary entries shown, usually linked by drawn lines or by indenting to the right.
    — We’ll show it as a tree list.
  9. Any structure or construct having branches representing divergence or possible choices.
    — family tree; skill tree
  10. The structure or wooden frame used in the construction of a saddle used in horse riding.
  11. Marijuana. in-plural,often,slang
    — I like good pussy and I like good trees / Smoke so much weed you wouldn't believe
  12. A cross or gallows.
    — Tyburn tree
  13. A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution.
  14. The fifth Lenormand card.
  15. Alternative letter-case form of TREE. alt-of,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To chase (an animal or person) up a tree. transitive
    — The dog treed the cat.
  2. To place in a tree. transitive
    — Black bears can tree their cubs for protection, but grizzly bears cannot.
  3. To place upon a shoe tree; to fit with a shoe tree; to stretch upon a shoe tree. transitive
    — to tree a boot
  4. To take refuge in a tree. intransitive
数词 num.
  1. Pronunciation spelling of three alt-of,colloquial,pronunciation-spelling

词形变化

trees plural treen obsolete,plural tre alternative,obsolete trees present,singular,third-person treeing participle,present treed participle,past treed past tre alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

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词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *drew-
Proto-Indo-European *-om
Proto-Germanic *trewą
Proto-West Germanic *treu
Old English trēow
Middle English tre
English tree
PIE word
*dóru
From Middle English trau, tre, tree, treo, treou, trew, trewe, troe, trouȝh, trouȝgh, trow, trowe, from Old English trēo, trēow, trēu, trīo, trīow, trȳw (“tree; wood; forest; beam, cudgel, log; cross”), from Proto-West Germanic *treu, from Proto-Germanic *trewą (“tree”), from pre-Germanic *dréwom, thematic e-grade derivative of Proto-Indo-European *dóru (“tree”). Related to tar, true.
Cognates
Cognate with Dutch teer (“tree”), Danish, Faroese, and Scanian træ (“tree; timber, wood”), Elfdalian trai (“tree; timber, wood”), Icelandic tré (“tree; wood”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk tre (“tree; wood”), Swedish trä (“wood; tree”), träd (“tree”), Gothic 𐍄𐍂𐌹𐌿 (triu, “piece of wood”); also Breton derv (“oak”), Cornish dar (“oak”), Irish dair (“oak”), Manx darragh (“oak; oaken”), Scottish Gaelic darach (“oak”), Welsh dâr (“oak”), Ancient Greek δόρυ (dóru, “tree; wood; spear”) (whence Greek δόρυ (dóry, “pike, spear”)), Albanian dru (“tree; wood”), Latvian darva (“tar”), Lithuanian derva (“tar; resin”), Belarusian дзе́рава (dzjérava, “tree”), дрэ́ва (dréva, “tree; wood”), Czech drvo, dřevo (“wood”), Polish drzewo (“tree; wood”), Russian де́рево (dérevo), дре́во (drévo, “tree; wood”), Serbo-Croatian др̏во, drȇvo, drijȇvo, drȋvo, dȑvo (“tree; wood”), Slovak and Slovene drevo (“tree; wood”), Ukrainian де́рево (dérevo, “tree; wood”), Armenian տարր (tarr, “element; component”), Avestan 𐬛𐬁𐬎𐬭𐬎 (dāᵘru, “wood”), Central Kurdish and Persian دار (dâr, “tree; wood”), Northern Kurdish dar (“tree”), Zazaki dare (“tree”), Hittite 𒋫𒊒 (taru), 𒋫𒀀𒊒 (táru, “tree; wood”), Luwian 𒋫𒀀𒊒 (tāru, “wood”), Tocharian A and Tocharian B or (“wood”), Sanskrit दारु (dāru, “timber, wood”).
Replaced alternative Middle English beem, from Old English bēam (see beam) and eclipsed non-native Middle English arbre, borrowed from Old French arbre.
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