Tree vs. Chair

Treenoun

(botany) A large plant, not exactly defined, but typically over four meters in height, with a single trunk that grows in girth with age and branches (that also grow in circumference with age).

Treenoun

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

Treenoun

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

Treenoun

A device used to hold or stretch a shoe open.

Treenoun

The structural frame of a saddle.

Treenoun

(graph theory) A connected graph with no cycles or, equivalently, a connected graph with n vertices and n-1 edges.

Treenoun

(computing theory) A recursive data structure in which each node has zero or more nodes as children.

Treenoun

(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.

Treenoun

Any structure or construct having branches akin to (1).

Treenoun

The structure or wooden frame used in the construction of a saddle used in horse riding.

Treenoun

(slang) Marijuana.

Treenoun

(obsolete) A cross or gallows.

Treenoun

(obsolete) wood; timber

Treenoun

(chemistry) A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution.

Treenoun

(cartomancy) The fifth Lenormand card.

Treeverb

(transitive) To chase (an animal or person) up a tree.

Treeverb

(transitive) To place in a tree.

Treeverb

(transitive) To place upon a tree; to fit with a tree; to stretch upon a tree.

Treenoun

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

Treenoun

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

Treenoun

A piece of timber, or something commonly made of timber; - used in composition, as in axletree, boottree, chesstree, crosstree, whiffletree, and the like.

Treenoun

A cross or gallows; as Tyburn tree.

Treenoun

Wood; timber.

Treenoun

A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution. See Lead tree, under Lead.

Treeverb

To drive to a tree; to cause to ascend a tree; as, a dog trees a squirrel.

Treeverb

To place upon a tree; to fit with a tree; to stretch upon a tree; as, to tree a boot. See Tree, n., 3.

Treenoun

a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms

Treenoun

a figure that branches from a single root;

Treenoun

English actor and theatrical producer noted for his lavish productions of Shakespeare (1853-1917)

Treeverb

chase a bear up a tree with dogs and kill it

Treenoun

a woody perennial plant, typically having a single stem or trunk growing to a considerable height and bearing lateral branches at some distance from the ground.

Treenoun

(in general use) any bush, shrub, or herbaceous plant with a tall erect stem, e.g. a banana plant.

Treenoun

a wooden structure or part of a structure.

Treenoun

the cross on which Christ was crucified.

Treenoun

a gibbet.

Treenoun

a thing that has a branching structure resembling that of a tree.

Treenoun

a diagram with a structure of branching connecting lines, representing different processes and relationships.

Treeverb

force (a hunted animal) to take refuge in a tree.

Treeverb

force (someone) into a difficult situation.

Treeverb

(of an area) planted with trees

Tree

In botany, a tree is a perennial plant with an elongated stem, or trunk, supporting branches and leaves in most species. In some usages, the definition of a tree may be narrower, including only wood plants with secondary growth, plants that are usable as lumber or plants above a specified height.

Chairnoun

An item of furniture used to sit on or in comprising a seat, legs, back, and sometimes arm rests, for use by one person. Compare stool, couch, sofa, settee, loveseat and bench.

Chairnoun

(music) The seating position of a particular musician in an orchestra.

Chairnoun

(rail transport) An iron block used on railways to support the rails and secure them to the sleepers, and similar devices.

Chairnoun

(chemistry) One of two possible conformers of cyclohexane rings (the other being boat), shaped roughly like a chair.

Chairnoun

A distinguished professorship at a university.

Chairnoun

A vehicle for one person; either a sedan borne upon poles, or a two-wheeled carriage drawn by one horse; a gig.

Chairverb

(transitive) to act as chairperson at; to preside over

Chairverb

(transitive) to carry in a seated position upon one's shoulders, especially in celebration or victory

Chairverb

to award a chair to (a winning poet) at a Welsh eisteddfod

Chairnoun

A movable single seat with a back.

Chairnoun

An official seat, as of a chief magistrate or a judge, but esp. that of a professor; hence, the office itself.

Chairnoun

The presiding officer of an assembly; a chairman; as, to address the chair.

Chairnoun

A vehicle for one person; either a sedan borne upon poles, or two-wheeled carriage, drawn by one horse; a gig.

Chairnoun

An iron block used on railways to support the rails and secure them to the sleepers.

Chairverb

To place in a chair.

Chairverb

To carry publicly in a chair in triumph.

Chairverb

To function as chairperson of (a meeting, committee, etc.); as, he chaired the meeting.

Chairnoun

a seat for one person, with a support for the back;

Chairnoun

the position of professor;

Chairnoun

the officer who presides at the meetings of an organization;

Chairnoun

an instrument of execution by electrocution; resembles a chair;

Chairverb

act or preside as chair, as of an academic department in a university;

Chairverb

preside over;

Chair

One of the basic pieces of furniture, a chair is a type of seat. Its primary features are two pieces of a durable material, attached as back and seat to one another at a 90° or slightly greater angle, with usually the four corners of the horizontal seat attached in turn to four legs—or other parts of the seat's underside attached to three legs or to a shaft about which a four-arm turnstile on rollers can turn—strong enough to support the weight of a person who sits on the seat (usually wide and broad enough to hold the lower body from the buttocks almost to the knees) and leans against the vertical back (usually high and wide enough to support the back to the shoulder blades).