tree-maker

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One who makes or constructs a tree, i.e., a branching diagram or a family tree.
    — Alfred S. Romer, a paleontologist at Harvard, was one of the great tree makers of the midcentury, and his reached a broad audience of young scientists-in-training through his influential textbooks, most notably Vertebrate Paleontology.
  2. One who makes or constructs saddle trees.
    — In making saddles to run and try in, the trees oƒf them are occasionally leaded by the tree-maker or saddler, agreeably to the directions either may receive from his employer; and a four-pound saddle in this way is made to weigh seven pounds.
  3. One who combines the waxes (wax molds) for multiple rings onto a wax rod in order to cast a plaster mold for making multiple rings.
    — Next a tree maker takes a handful of the waxes and attaches them to a wax rod; the waxes branch up off the rod like the limbs of a Christmas tree, connected to the rod by the twig of wax created when the wax was forced down the channel of the mold (this twig is called a "sprue").
  4. A software program that constructs family trees.
    — Titles found in this category include Compton's Encyclopedia, Microsoft Encarta, Mavis Beacon Typing, home designing software, family tree makers, as well as a wide range of college test preparation software and programs to help you learn a new language.
  5. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see tree, maker.

词形变化

tree-makers plural

词源

From tree + maker.
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