Meaning

14 senses
  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.

    Birds have a nest in a tree in the garden.

    Baum, böim, baum

    де́ревоdérevo, дре́воdrévo

    де́ревоdérevo

    a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms

  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.

    Baum

  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.

    Baum

    де́ревоdérevo

  7. A recursive data structure in which each node has zero or more nodes as children, but does not share children with other nodes.

    Baum

    де́ревоdérevo

  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.

    Baum

    де́ревоdérevo

  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. (in the plural, often, slang)Marijuana.

    Gras

    траваtrava

  12. A cross or gallows.

    Tyburn tree

Examples

4346 sentences
  1. A bear can climb a tree.

    Ведмеді можуть лазити по деревах. — JeNNeR

    ruМедведь может залезть на дерево. — Lenin_1917

    deEin Bär kann auf einen Baum klettern. — Sprachprofi

  2. The apple fell from the tree.

    Яблуко впало з дерева. — brambury

    ruЯблоко упало с дерева. — Selena777

    deDer Apfel ist vom Baum gefallen. — MUIRIEL

  3. An apple fell off the tree.

    З яблуні впало яблуко. — ascolto

    ruС дерева упало яблоко. — marafon

    deEin Apfel fiel vom Baum. — Manfredo

  4. The tree fell down by itself.

    Дерево впало саме. — deniko

    ruДерево само упало. — marafon

    deDer Baum ist von alleine umgefallen. — xtofu80

  5. The tree was struck by lightning.

    В дерево вдарила блискавка. — rmdas

    ruВ дерево ударила молния. — Hellerick

    deDer Baum ist vom Blitz getroffen worden. — Sudajaengi

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
large woody plant:
Русский
By meaning 3
shoe tree:
large woody plant:
slang: marijuana:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
shoe tree:
large woody plant:
slang: marijuana:

Forms

plural: trees
Singulartree

uncountable

Synonyms

5 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

65 related words

Collocations

12 patterns
  • planted these trees
  • christmas tree
  • under a tree
  • under the tree
  • the christmas tree
  • apple trees
  • tree in his
  • climbing trees
  • from the tree
  • under that tree
  • oak tree
  • cherry trees

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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