English
Etymology
From Middle English tree < Old English trēo (w) (tree, wood, any wooden object) < Proto-Germanic *trewan < Proto-Indo-European *deru- /*doru- (oak).
Noun
tree
- A large plant with hard, thick stem and branches made of wood and foliage such as leaves or needles.
- Anything resembling the above, for example a banana or bonsai plant.
- 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.
- A device used to hold or stretch a shoe open.
- He put a shoe tree in each of his shoes.
- A connected graph with no cycles.
- A recursive data structure in which each node has zero or more nodes as children.
- 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.
- Any structure or construct having branches akin to (1).
Related terms
- b-tree
- search tree
- suffix tree
Translations
large woody plant (noun)
- Albanian: pemë f
- Arabic: شَجَرٌ (šádžar) m (collective), شَجَرَةٌ (šádžara) f (singulative ), شَجَرْتَيْنِ (šadžartéːn) (dual), شَجَرَاتٌ (šadžaráːt) (paucal), أشْجَارٌ (‘ašdžáːr) (pl.)
- Aymara: khoka
- Basque: zuhaitz
- Breton: gwez collective noun gwezenn f singular
- Brithenig: arfur m
- Bulgarian: дърво (dərvo) n
- Catalan: arbre m
- Chichewa: mtengo
- Chinese Characters: 木 (mù, shù); 樹 (shù, zǔn), 树 (shù); 栻 (chì)
- Chinese (Mandarin): 树 / 樹 (shù), 乔木 (qiáomù)
- Croatian: stablo n
- Czech: strom m
- Danish: træ
- Dyirbal: yugu (noun class IV), yuguɖaran dual, yugu-yugu pl
- Dutch: boom m
- Esperanto: arbo
- puu
- French: arbre m
- Frisian: beam
- Galician: árbore f
- German: Baum m, Bäume pl
- Greek: δένδρον (dhéndron) n
- Guaraní: yvyra
- Hebrew: עץ (‛ēts) m
- Hungarian: fa
- Ido: arboro
- Indonesian: pohon
- Interlingua: arbore
- Italian: albero m
- Japanese: 木 (き, ki), 樹木 (じゅもく , jumoku)
- Javanese: wit
- Korean: 나무 (namu)
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- Lakota: chan
- Latin: arbor f
- Lithuanian: medis m
- Luxembourgish: Baam
- Manchu: (moo)
- Nahuatl: cuahuitl
- Norwegian: tre n
- Ojibwe: mitig , mitigoog pl
- Persian: دِرَخت (deræxt)
- Polish: drzewo n
- Portuguese: árvore f
- Quechua: sacha , sachakuna pl
- Quenya: alda, aldar pl, aldaron genative pl
- Romanian: arbore m, copac m, pom m
- Russian: дерево (dérevo) n, деревья (derév'ja) pl
- Samoan: lā’au
- Sanskrit: taru , taruu , daaru , druma
- Serbian: дрво (drvo) n
- Sichuanese : 树 (sō)
- Sindhi: ون (vanu)
- Slovak: strom m
- Slovene: drevo n
- Slovio: derevo
- Somali: geed
- Sorbian: štom
- Sotho: sefate
- Spanish: árbol m
- Swahili: mti sg, miti pl (noun 3/4)
- Swedish: träd n
- Tagalog: puno
- Tajik: дарахт (darakht)
- Tamil: மரம் (maram)
- Tatar: агач (agač)
- Teochew: 树 (ciudiangdang)
- Thai: ต้นไม้ (tònmai)
- Tok Pisin: diwai
- Tupinambá: ybyrá
- Turkish: ağaç
- Ukrainian: дерево (derevo) n
- Vietnamese: cây
- Welsh: pren , coeden , colfen (colloquial)
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Translations
pole with storage hooks (noun)
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shoe tree (noun)
Translations
(graph theory) graph tree with no cycles. (noun)
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- Lithuanian: medis m
- Swedish: träd n
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(computing theory) recursive data structure (noun)
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- Lithuanian: medis m
- Swedish: träd n
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(graphical user interfaces) tree list (noun)
Transitive verb
to tree
- To chase (an animal or person) up a tree.
- The dog treed the cat.
Dutch
Noun
tree (contraction of trede )
- step (of a staircase), stair
