Definition of Tree

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Definition of Tree

Tree

Any perennial woody plant of considerable size (usually over twenty feet high) and growing with a single trunk.

Something constructed in the form of, or considered as resembling, a tree, consisting of a stem, or stock, and branches; as, a genealogical tree.

A piece of timber, or something commonly made of timber; -- used in composition, as in axletree, boottree, chesstree, crosstree, whiffletree, and the like.

A cross or gallows; as Tyburn tree.

Wood; timber.

A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution. See Lead tree, under Lead.

To drive to a tree; to cause to ascend a tree; as, a dog trees a squirrel.

To place upon a tree; to fit with a tree; to stretch upon a tree; as, to tree a boot. See Tree, n., 3.

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Tree Quotations

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
Albert Einstein

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thomas Jefferson

A tree's a tree. How many more do you need to look at?
Ronald Reagan

Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.
Mark Twain

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
Abraham Lincoln

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
Abraham Lincoln

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my ax.
Abraham Lincoln

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
Warren Buffett

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
Kahlil Gibran

It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.
Henry David Thoreau

Tree Translations

tree in Afrikaans is boom
tree in Dutch is boom
tree in Finnish is puu
tree in French is arbre
Tree in German is Baum
tree in Latin is arbor
tree in Norwegian is tre

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