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amp
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: ?mp, IPA(key): /æmp/
- Rhymes: -æmp
Noun
amp (countable and uncountable, plural amps)
- (colloquial, countable) Short for ampere.
- (colloquial, countable) Short for amplifier.
- (colloquial, countable) Short for ampoule.
- 1963, Washington (State). Legislature. Joint Committee on Governmental Cooperation, Report and Recommendations (page 45)
- The physician had included a note which said: "Dear Miss ........, I could not get the name of your friend over the phone so I am sending two prescriptions for Methedrine amps and one prescription for Drinalfa ten cc vials.
- 1963, Washington (State). Legislature. Joint Committee on Governmental Cooperation, Report and Recommendations (page 45)
- (colloquial, countable) Short for amputee.
- (colloquial, uncountable) Short for ampicillin.
Verb
amp (third-person singular simple present amps, present participle amping, simple past and past participle amped)
- (colloquial, usually with up) To amplify.
- He asked the disk jockey to amp it up.
- (colloquial, usually with up) To excite.
- 2012, Natalie Anderson, First Time Lucky? (page 78)
- In the distance, the music thumped, amping the crowd higher.
- 2013, Hansi Lo Wang, Morning Edition, National Public Radio
- And it's raining, a little bit of drizzle, but the crowd is amped up and ready for a big event today.
- 2012, Natalie Anderson, First Time Lucky? (page 78)
- (colloquial, usually with up) To intensify or increase.
- 2003 CMJ New Music Monthly (number 115, page 42)
- Amping the Justin Timberlake cameos and revving up Jiggytron 5000, these Peas want to be on Middle America's fickle plate — losing little dread-whippin' imaginativeness in the wizzash.
- 2014, Andy Paul, Amp Up Your Sales, AMACOM Books
- 2003 CMJ New Music Monthly (number 115, page 42)
Derived terms
- amp up
Translations
References
Anagrams
- APM, MAP, MPA, PAM, Pam, map, p.m.a., pam, pma
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch ambt, from Middle Dutch ampt, from Middle High German ambet, ambt (whence modern German Amt), from Old High German ambahti, from Proto-Germanic *ambahtaz, from Gaulish ambaxtos, from Proto-Celtic *ambaxtos.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /amp/
Noun
amp (plural ampte)
- An official position, a function, an office, a post.
Derived terms
- amptelik
Related terms
- ambag
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tree
English
Etymology
From Middle English tre, tree, treo, treou, trew, trow, from Old English tr?o, tr?ow (“tree, wood, timber, beam, log, stake, stick, grove, cross, rood”), from Proto-West Germanic *treu, from Proto-Germanic *trew? (“tree, wood”), from pre-Germanic *dréwom, thematic e-grade derivative of Proto-Indo-European *dóru (“tree”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /t?i?/, [t???????i?]
- (General American) enPR: tr?, IPA(key): /t?i/, [t??????i]
- Rhymes: -i?
- Homophone: three (with th-stopping)
Noun
tree (plural trees or (obsolete) treen)
- A perennial woody plant, not exactly defined, but differentiated from a shrub by its larger size (typically over a few meters in height) or growth habit, usually having a single (or few) main axis or trunk unbranched for some distance above the ground and a head of branches and foliage.
- 1992 April 5, "The Full House", Jeeves and Wooster, Series 3, Episode 2:
- B. Wooster: Of all the places on this great planet of ours, West Neck, Long Island, has chosen to be the most unexciting. The last time anything remotely interesting happened here was in 1842, when a tree fell over. They still talk about it in the village.
- 1992 April 5, "The Full House", Jeeves and Wooster, Series 3, Episode 2:
- Any plant that is reminiscent of the above but not classified as a tree (in any botanical sense).
- An object made from a tree trunk and having multiple hooks or storage platforms.
- A device used to hold or stretch a shoe open.
- The structural frame of a saddle.
- (graph theory) A connected graph with no cycles or, if the graph is finite, equivalently a connected graph with n vertices and n?1 edges.
- (computing theory) A recursive data structure in which each node has zero or more nodes as children.
- (graphical user interface) 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.
- Any structure or construct having branches representing divergence or possible choices.
- The structure or wooden frame used in the construction of a saddle used in horse riding.
- (in the plural, slang) Marijuana.
- (obsolete) A cross or gallows.
- (obsolete) Wood; timber.
- In a great house ben not only vessels of gold and of silver but also of tree and of earth.
- (chemistry) A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution.
- (cartomancy) The fifth Lenormand card.
- (uncountable, mathematics) Alternative letter-case form of TREE.
Synonyms
Hypernyms
- plant
- (in graph theory): graph
Hyponyms
- See also Category:en:Trees
Meronyms
Derived terms
Proverbs
- money doesn't grow on trees
- see the forest for the trees
Descendants
- Jamaican Creole: chrii
Translations
See also
- Thesaurus:tree
- Category:Trees
- arboreal
References
- Tree (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Verb
tree (third-person singular simple present trees, present participle treeing, simple past and past participle treed)
- (transitive) To chase (an animal or person) up a tree.
- 1897, Henry Howard et al. (eds.), Encyclopaedia of Sport, London: Lawrence & Bullen, Volume I, p. 599,[2]
- When hunted it [the jaguar] takes refuge in trees, and this habit is well known to hunters, who pursue it with dogs and pot it when treed.
- 1897, Henry Howard et al. (eds.), Encyclopaedia of Sport, London: Lawrence & Bullen, Volume I, p. 599,[2]
- (transitive) To place in a tree.
- Black bears can tree their cubs for protection, but grizzly bears cannot.
- (transitive) To place upon a tree; to fit with a tree; to stretch upon a tree.
- 1930, Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Chapter 14, p. 165,[3]
- Two suits and an overcoat hung in the closet over three pairs of carefully treed shoes.
- 1930, Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Chapter 14, p. 165,[3]
- (intransitive) To take refuge in a tree.
Translations
Anagrams
- reet, rete, teer
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch tree, syncopic form of trede, from Middle Dutch trede. Equivalent to a deverbal from treden.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tr???/
Noun
tree (plural treë)
- step (single act of placing the foot when walking)
- yard (unit of length)
Dutch
Alternative forms
- trede
Etymology
From syncope of trede, from Middle Dutch trede. Equivalent to a deverbal from treden.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tre?/, [tre?], [tre??]
- Hyphenation: tree
- Rhymes: -e?
Noun
tree m (plural treden or treeën or trees, diminutive treetje n)
- step (of a staircase), stair
- step (distance of one step when walking)
- (archaic, also tred) a unit of length of about 2 to 3 feet, roughly equivalent to a yard
Derived terms
- traptree
Descendants
- Afrikaans: tree
Anagrams
- eert, eter, reet, teer, tere
Manx
Alternative forms
- three
Etymology
From Old Irish trí, from Proto-Celtic *tr?s, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t?ri?/
Numeral
tree
- three
References
- Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “trí”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Middle English
Noun
tree
- Alternative form of tre
North Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian thr?.
Numeral
tree
- (Heligoland) three
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