Definitions for Tree

Tree tree

Spelling: [tree]
IPA: /tri/

Tree is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 4 points.

You can make 23 anagrams from letters in Tree (eert).

Definitions for Tree

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. Mathematics, Linguistics. 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. Computers. 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.
  14. Sir Herbert Beerbohm [beer-bohm] /ˈbɪər boʊm/ (Show IPA), (Herbert Beerbohm) 1853–1917, English actor and theater manager; brother of Max Beerbohm.

Idioms

  1. up a tree, Informal. in a difficult or embarrassing situation; at a loss; stumped.

verb (used with object)

  1. to drive into or up a tree, as a pursued animal or person.
  2. Informal. 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.

Origin of Tree

before 900; Middle English; Old English trēo(w); cognate with Old Frisian, Old Norse trē, Old Saxon treo, Gothic triu; akin to Greek drŷs oak, Sanskrit, Avestan dru wood

Examples for Tree

Civilians left flowers as well as a tiny frosted Christmas tree that had two red ornaments.

Bohac vowed to that when he came back next year there would be no confusion about any Christmas tree or Santa aprons.

These guys are full parasites, taking sugar, water, and minerals from the tree.

Left a pack-saddle frame and two pack-bags hanging on a tree.

Her lover played upon his flute, while she leaned against a tree and listened.

From the camp only plains were in sight, not a tree visible.

Marked a tree sixty yards south of camp F 74, being 74th camp from Geraldton.

His most recommended plant was tree ivy—its juices sprayed up the nostrils.

Often, during a thunderstorm a tree had been hit by lightning.

Plenty of Jewish kids today grow up with a Christmas tree next to their menorah.

Word Value for Tree
Scrable

4

Words with friends

4

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