bud
To form budsTo form buds.
» The trees are beginning to bud.
Die Bäume haben begonnen zu knospen.
Meaning
6 senses(intransitive)To form buds.
The trees are finally starting to bud.
knospen
дава́ть почкиdavátʹ počki
develop buds
(intransitive)To reproduce by splitting off buds.
Yeast reproduces by budding.
почковатьсяpočkovatʹsja, отпочкова́тьсяotpočkovátʹsja
(intransitive)To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn.
Seeds of dissent were budding among the recruits.
(intransitive)To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise.
(transitive)To put forth as a bud.
(transitive)To graft by inserting a bud under the bark of another tree.
Examples
93 sentencesThe trees are beginning to bud.
deDie Bäume haben begonnen zu knospen.
The trees are budding early this year.
We should nip this in the bud.
We need to nip this in the bud.
The cold weather may keep the plants from budding.
Translations
6 languagesBy meaning 2
By meaning 1
Origin
From Middle English budde, bodde (“bud, seed pod”), from Old English *budde, from Proto-WeFrom Middle English budde, bodde (“bud, seed pod”), from Old English *budde, from Proto-West Germanic *buʀdā, from Proto-Germanic *buzdǭ (compare archaic German Butte (“rosehip”), Swedish dialect bodd (“head”)), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew-, *bu- (“to swell”). Compare also German Low German Butte, Butt (“bud”), Dutch bot (“bud”), regional German Butz, Butzen (“seed pod; apple core”), German Low German Haagbutt ("rosehip"; Haagbudden (“rosehips”, plural)).
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Forms
buds, budding, budded, buddedPhrasal verbs
3 phrasal verbsWord family
6 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle