What (who) is Tree - definition

MATHEMATICAL SENTENCE

Kruskal's Tree Theorem; Kruskal's theorem; Kruskal tree theorem; TREE(3); Kruskal theorem; TREE; TREE function; Tree function

Tree

PERENNIAL WOODY PLANT

Trees; Sapling; Arboreus; Parts of a tree; The Parts of a Tree; Macrophanerophyte; 🌳; Wood layers; Treee; The trees; Evolutionary history of trees; Tree apparency

To flirt or hit on someone.
Look at him, he's trying to tree every girl in here.

tree

PERENNIAL WOODY PLANT

Trees; Sapling; Arboreus; Parts of a tree; The Parts of a Tree; Macrophanerophyte; 🌳; Wood layers; Treee; The trees; Evolutionary history of trees; Tree apparency

(trees)

Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.

A tree is a tall plant that has a hard trunk, branches, and leaves.

I planted those apple trees.

...a variety of shrubs and trees.

N-COUNT: oft n N

see also Christmas tree
, family tree

If you say that someone is barking up the wrong tree, you mean that they are following the wrong course of action because their beliefs or ideas about something are incorrect. (INFORMAL)

Scientists in Switzerland realised that most other researchers had been barking up the wrong tree.

PHRASE: V inflects, usu cont

If someone can't see the wood for the trees in British English, or can't see the forest for the trees in American English, they are very involved in the details of something and so they do not notice what is important about the thing as a whole.

PHRASE: V inflects

the top of the tree: see top

Tree

PERENNIAL WOODY PLANT

Trees; Sapling; Arboreus; Parts of a tree; The Parts of a Tree; Macrophanerophyte; 🌳; Wood layers; Treee; The trees; Evolutionary history of trees; Tree apparency

·noun Wood; timber.

II. Tree ·noun A cross or gallows; as Tyburn tree.

III. Tree ·vt To drive to a tree; to cause to ascend a tree; as, a dog trees a squirrel.

IV. Tree ·vt To place upon a tree; to fit with a tree; to stretch upon a tree; as, to tree a boot. ·see Tree, ·noun, 3.

V. Tree ·noun Any perennial woody plant of considerable size (usually over twenty feet high) and growing with a single trunk.

VI. Tree ·noun Something constructed in the form of, or considered as resembling, a tree, consisting of a stem, or stock, and branches; as, a genealogical tree.

VII. Tree ·noun A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution. ·see Lead tree, under Lead.

VIII. Tree ·noun A piece of timber, or something commonly made of timber;

- used in composition, as in axletree, boottree, chesstree, crosstree, whiffletree, and the like.

Wikipedia

Kruskal's tree theorem

In mathematics, Kruskal's tree theorem states that the set of finite trees over a well-quasi-ordered set of labels is itself well-quasi-ordered under homeomorphic embedding.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kruskal's tree theorem

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