different between tree vs moss

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)

1. 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.
2. Any plant that is reminiscent of the above but not classified as a tree (in any botanical sense).

3. An object made from a tree trunk and having multiple hooks or storage platforms.

4. A device used to hold or stretch a shoe open.

5. The structural frame of a saddle.
6. (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.
7. (computing theory) A recursive data structure in which each node has zero or more nodes as children.
8. (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.

9. Any structure or construct having branches representing divergence or possible choices.

11. The structure or wooden frame used in the construction of a saddle used in horse riding.
12. (in the plural, slang) Marijuana.
13. (obsolete) A cross or gallows.
14. (obsolete) Wood; timber.

    • In a great house ben not only vessels of gold and of silver but also of tree and of earth.

15. (chemistry) A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution.
16. (cartomancy) The fifth Lenormand card.
17. (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)

1. (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.

2. (transitive) To place in a tree.

   Black bears can tree their cubs for protection, but grizzly bears cannot.

3. (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.

4. (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)

1. step (single act of placing the foot when walking)
2. 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)

1. step (of a staircase), stair
2. step (distance of one step when walking)
3. (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

1. 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

1. Alternative form of tre

North Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian thr?.

Numeral

tree

1. (Heligoland) three

English

Etymology

From Middle English mos, from Old English mos (“bog, marsh, moss”), from Proto-West Germanic *mos (“marsh, moss”), from Proto-Germanic *mus? (“marsh, moss”), from Proto-Indo-European *mews- (“moss”).

Cognate with Saterland Frisian Moas (“moss”), West Frisian moas (“moss”), Dutch mos (“moss”), German Low German Moss (“moss”), German Moos (“moss”), Danish mos (“moss”), Swedish mossa (“moss”), Icelandic mosi (“moss”), Latin muscus (“moss”), Russian ??? (mox, “moss”), Polish mech. Doublet of mousse.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /m?s/
• (US) enPR: môs, IPA^(key): /m?s/
• (cot–caught merger, Canada) enPR: mäs, IPA^(key): /m?s/
• Rhymes: -?s
• Rhymes: -??s

Noun

moss (countable and uncountable, plural mosses)

1. Any of various small, green, seedless plants growing on the ground or on the surfaces of trees, stones, etc.; now specifically, a plant of the phylum Bryophyta (formerly division Musci).

   Hypernym: bryophyte

2. (countable) A kind or species of such plants.
3. (informal) Any alga, lichen, bryophyte, or other plant of seemingly simple structure.

   Hyponyms: alga, cryptogam, lichen

4. (now chiefly Britain regional) A bog; a fen.

Usage notes

• The plural form mosses is used when more than one kind of moss is meant. The singular moss is used referring to a collection of moss plants of the same kind.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

moss (third-person singular simple present mosses, present participle mossing, simple past and past participle mossed)

1. (intransitive) To become covered with moss.

2. (transitive) To cover (something) with moss.

Translations

See also

• muscoid

Further reading

• moss on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• A New English dictionary on historical principles, Volume 6, Sir James Augustus Henry Murray, Sir William Alexander Craigie, Charles Talbut Onions, editors, Clarendon Press, 1908, pages 684-6

Anagrams

• SMOS, SMOs, soms

Hungarian

Alternative forms

• mossál

Etymology

mos +? -j

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?mo??]
• Hyphenation: moss
• Rhymes: -o??

Verb

moss

1. second-person singular subjunctive present indefinite of mos

Usage notes

Not to be confused with mos (“to wash”).