different between tree vs weed

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wi?d/
• Rhymes: -i?d
• Homophone: we'd

Etymology 1

From Middle English weed, weod, from Old English w?od (“weed”), from Proto-West Germanic *weud, from Proto-Germanic *weud? (“weed”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Jood (“weed”), West Frisian wjûd (“weed”), Dutch wied (“unwanted plant, weed”), German Low German Weed (“weed”), Old High German wiota (“fern”).

Noun

weed (countable and uncountable, plural weeds)

1. (countable) Any plant regarded as unwanted at the place where, and at the time when it is growing.
2. Short for duckweed.
3. (uncountable, archaic or obsolete) Underbrush; low shrubs.
4. A drug or the like made from the leaves of a plant.
   1. (uncountable, slang) Cannabis.

      Synonyms: see Thesaurus:marijuana
   2. (with "the", uncountable, slang) Tobacco.
   3. (obsolete, countable) A cigar.
5. (countable) A weak horse, which is therefore unfit to breed from.
6. (countable, Britain, informal) A puny person; one who has little physical strength.
7. (countable, figuratively) Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• grow like a weed
• weeds

Etymology 2

From Middle English weeden, weden, from Old English w?odian (“to weed”), from Proto-Germanic *weud?n? (“to uproot, weed”). Cognate with West Frisian wjûde, wjudde (“to weed”),Dutch wieden (“to weed”), German Low German weden (“to weed”).

Verb

weed (third-person singular simple present weeds, present participle weeding, simple past and past participle weeded)

1. To remove unwanted vegetation from a cultivated area.

   I weeded my flower bed.

2. (library science) To systematically remove materials from a library collection based on a set of criteria.

   We usually weed romance novels that haven't circulated in over a year.

Translations

See also

• weed out

Etymology 3

From Middle English wede, from Old English w?d (“dress, attire, clothing, garment”), from Proto-Germanic *w?diz, from which also wad, wadmal. Cognate with Dutch lijnwaad, Dutch gewaad, German Wat.

Noun

weed (plural weeds)

1. (archaic) A garment or piece of clothing.
   • 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion song 5 p. 75[2]:

     Shee, in a watchet weed, with manie a curious wave

     Which as a princelie gift great Amphitrite gave

2. (archaic) Clothing collectively; clothes, dress.
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act 5 Scene 3

     DON PEDRO. Come, let us hence, and put on other weeds;

     And then to Leonato's we will go.

     CLAUDIO. And Hymen now with luckier issue speed's,

     Than this for whom we rend'red up this woe!
3. (archaic) An article of dress worn in token of grief; a mourning garment or badge.

4. (archaic, especially in the plural as "widow's weeds") (Female) mourning apparel.
   • 1641, John Milton, Of Reformation in England, Second Book:

     In a mourning weed, with ashes upon her head, and tears abundantly flowing.

Translations

Etymology 4

From Scots weid, weed. The longer form weidinonfa, wytenonfa (Old Scots wedonynpha) is attested since the 1500s. Jamieson's Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language analyses the longer form as a compound meaning "onfa(ll) of a weed", whereas the Scottish National Dictionary/DSL considers the short form a derivative of the longer form, and derives its first element from Old English w?dan (“to be mad or delirious”), from w?d (“mad, enraged”).

Noun

weed (plural weeds)

1. (Scotland) A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which befalls those who are about to give birth, are giving birth, or have recently given birth or miscarried or aborted.
   • 1822, William Campbell, Observations on the Disease usually termed Puerperal Fever, with Cases, in The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal, volume 18:

     The patient […] aborted between the second and third month; […] felt herself so well on the second day after, that she went to the washing-green; and, on her return home in the evening, was seized with a violent rigor, which, by herself and those around her, was considered as the forerunner of a weed.

2. (Scotland) Lymphangitis in a horse.

Etymology 5

From the verb wee.

Verb

weed

1. simple past tense and past participle of wee

References

• weed in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• Webster, Noah (1828) , “weed”, in An American Dictionary of the English Language
• (tobacco; a cigar): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary