different between tree vs wort

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

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /w??t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /w?t/
• Rhymes: -??(?)t

Etymology 1

From Middle English wort, wurt, wyrte (“plant”), from Old English wyrt (“herb, vegetable, plant, crop, root”), from Proto-Germanic *wurtiz, from Proto-Indo-European *wréh?ds. Doublet of root.

Noun

wort (plural worts)

1. (archaic) A plant; herb; vegetable.

   • he drinks water, and lives on wort leaves, pulse, like a hogg, or scraps like a dog […].

   • 1673, Jeremy Taylor, Heniaytos: A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year […]

     It is an excellent pleasure to be able to take pleasure in worts and water, in bread and onions, for then a man can never want pleasure when it is so ready for him, that nature hath spread it over all its provisions.

2. Any of various plants or herbs, used in combination to refer to specific plants such as St. John's wort, or on its own as a generic term.

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• List of wort plants on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

From Middle English wort, worte (“brewing wort”), from Old English wyrt, wyrte (“brewing wort, new beer, spice”), from Proto-Germanic *wurtij? (“spice”), from Proto-Indo-European *wr?h?d- (“sprout, root”).

Cognate with Dutch wort (“wort”), German Würze (“wort, seasoning, spice”), Danish urt (“beer wort”), Swedish vört (“beer wort”).

Noun

wort (uncountable)

1. (brewing) Liquid extract from the ground malt and grain soaked in hot water, the mash, as one of the steps in making beer.

Translations

Further reading

• wort on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• ROTW, rowt, trow

Alemannic German

Alternative forms

• wòrt, wört, wourd, wuart

Etymology

From Middle High German wort. Cognate with German Wort, Dutch woord, English word, Icelandic orð.

Noun

wort n

1. (Formazza) word

References

• “wort” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch worte, from Old Dutch *wurta, from Proto-Germanic *wurtij?.

Pronunciation

Noun

wort n (uncountable)

1. wort (unfermented beer)

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch wort

Noun

wort n or f

1. word
2. diction, what someone says or writes
3. prescription, order

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Alternative forms

• w?ort

Descendants

• Dutch: woord
• Limburgish: waord, waordj

Further reading

• “wort”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “wort (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page I

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English wyrt (“plant, herb”), from Proto-Germanic *wr?ts (oblique stem *wurt-), from Proto-Indo-European *wréh?ds. Doublet of rote (“root”).

Alternative forms

• worte, wurte, woort, wrt, wyrte, wert, wuyrte

Pronunciation

• (mainly Early ME) IPA^(key): /?wirt/
• IPA^(key): /?wurt/

Noun

wort (plural wortes or worten)

2. A plant (not including trees, shrubs, etc.):
   1. A plant that is wild or not cultivated or harvested.
   2. A plant that harvested or grown; often as a herb or vegetable.
   3. A plant employed for supposed curative or medical properties.
   4. A leaf as part of a salad or other vegetable dish.

Usage notes

This term is often used in compounds.

Related terms

Descendants

• English: wort

References

• “w?rt, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-02-22.

Etymology 2

From Old English wyrt, wyrte (“wort”), from Proto-Germanic *wurtij?.

Alternative forms

• wurte, worte, woort, wrt, wurt

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?wurt/

Noun

wort (uncountable)

2. Wort (as in brewing) or an analogous mixture (e.g. used for mead)

Descendants

• English: wort
• Scots: wort, wirt

References

• “w?rt, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-02-22.

Middle High German

Etymology

From Old High German wort.
The sense verb is a literal translation of Latin verbum.

Noun

wort n

1. word
2. (grammar) verb
   • 14th century, Heinrich von Mügeln. Normalised spellings: 1867, Karl Julis Schröer, Die Dichtungen Heinrichs von Mügeln (Mogelîn) nach den Handschriften besprochen, Wien, p. 476:

     Nam, vornam, wort, darnâch

     zûwort, teilfanc, zûfûg ich sach,

     vorsatz, înworf under irem dach

     gemunzet und geformet stân.

Descendants

• Alemannic German:

  Alsatian: Wort

  Italian Walser: wort, wourd, wuart, wòrt, wört

  Swabian: Wort

• Bavarian: Wort

  Cimbrian: bóart, bort

  Mòcheno: bourt

  Udinese: boart, bort, bört

• Central Franconian: Woot, Wort

  Hunsrik: Wort

• German: Wort
• Luxembourgish: Wuert
• Vilamovian: wiüt
• Yiddish: ??????? (vort)

Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *word

Noun

wort n

1. word

Inflection

Descendants

• Middle Dutch: wort
  • Dutch: woord
  • Limburgish: waord, waordj

Further reading

• “wort”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *word, whence also Old Dutch wort, Old Saxon and Old English word, Old Norse orð, Gothic ???????????????????? (waurd).
The sense verb is a literal translation of Latin verbum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?wort/

Noun

wort n

1. word
2. (grammar) verb

Declension

Descendants

• Middle High German: wort
  • Alemannic German:

    Alsatian: Wort

    Italian Walser: wort, wourd, wuart, wòrt, wört

    Swabian: Wort

  • Bavarian: Wort

    Cimbrian: bóart, bort

    Mòcheno: bourt

    Udinese: boart, bort, bört

  • Central Franconian: Woot, Wort

    Hunsrik: Wort

  • German: Wort
  • Luxembourgish: Wuert
  • Vilamovian: wiüt
  • Yiddish: ??????? (vort)

Scots

Alternative forms

• wirt

Etymology

From Middle English wort

Noun

wort (uncountable)

1. (Middle Scots) wort

References

• “wort” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.