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horse | tree |

As nouns the difference between horse and tree

is that horse is a poker variant consisting of five different poker variants, with the rules changing from one variant to the next after every hand or horse can be (variant of basketball) while tree is a large plant, not exactly defined, but typically over four meters in height, a single trunk which grows in girth with age and branches (which also grow in circumference with age).

As a verb tree is

to chase (an animal or person) up a tree.

horse

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) horse, hors, from (etyl) . (cognates) Cognate with (etyl) . Related to hurry.

Noun

(en noun)
  • (lb) Of, like, or closely associated with the animal Equus ferus caballus.
  • #A hoofed mammal, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.
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  • #*:Athelstan Arundel walked homeHe walked the whole way, walking through crowds, and under the noses of dray-horses', carriage-'''horses''', and cart-' horses , without taking the least notice of them.
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  • #(lb) Any current or extinct animal of the family Equidae , including the zebra or the ass.
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  • # Cavalry soldiers (sometimes capitalized when referring to an official category).
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  • # The chess piece representing a knight, depicted as a man in a suit of armor and often on a horse, hence the nickname.
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  • #(lb) A large person.
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  • #(lb) A timber frame shaped like a horse, which soldiers were made to ride for punishment.
  • (lb) Equipment with legs.
  • #In gymnastics, a piece of equipment with a body on two or four legs, approximately four feet high with two handles on top.
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  • #A frame with legs, used to support something.
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  • Equipment.
  • #A rope stretching along a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling the sails; footrope.
  • #A breastband for a leadsman.
  • #An iron bar for a sheet traveller to slide upon.
  • #A jackstay.
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  • (lb) A mass of earthy matter, or rock of the same character as the wall rock, occurring in the course of a vein, as of coal or ore; hence, to take horse (said of a vein) is to divide into branches for a distance.
  • (lb) The sedative, antidepressant, and anxiolytic drug morphine, chiefly when used illicitly.
  • *1962 , , 00:15:20
  • *:Check that shirt. I got a couple of jolts of horse stashed under the collar
  • (lb) An informal variant of basketball in which players match shots made by their opponent(s), each miss adding a letter to the word "horse", with 5 misses spelling the whole word and eliminating a player, until only the winner is left. Also HORSE, H-O-R-S-E or (see ).
    • Usage notes
    * The noun can be used attributively in compounds and phrases to add the sense of large and / or coarse
    Synonyms
    * (animal) horsie, nag, steed * (gymnastic equipment) pommel horse, vaulting horse * (chesspiece) knight
    Hyponyms
    * (animal) colt, foal, filly, gelding, palomino, pony, stallion
    Derived terms
    * change horses in midstream * cutting horse * dark horse * don't look a gift horse in the mouth * * flog a dead horse / beat a dead horse * from the horse's mouth * get off one's high horse * hold one's horses * horse and carriage * horseback * horse-breaker * horse-chestnut * horse-drawn * horse face * horsefeathers * horseflesh * horsefly * horsely * horse latitudes * horselaugh * horseman * horsemanship * horse of a different color * horse opera * horse pill * horseplay * horsepower * horse race * horse racing * horseradish * horse sense * horses for courses * horseshit * horseshoe * horse-stinger * horse trading * horsewhip * horsey, horsy, horsie * hung like a horse * I could eat a horse * one-horse race * one-horse town * pack horse, packhorse * plowhorse, ploughhorse * pommel horse * rocking horse * saddle horse * sawhorse * sea horse, seahorse * straight from the horse's mouth * sumpter horse * swap horses in midstream * vaulting horse * warhorse * willing horse * workhorse * work like a horse
    See also
    (kinds of horse by physical attributes) * stallion, sire, ridgeling, gelding * mare, dame * colt, yearling * filly, foal * pony (kinds of horse by employment) * sumpter, rowney * palfrey * charger, destrier * brumby, mustang (related terms) * knight, cavalier, cavalry, chivalry * equid, equine * gee, haw, giddy-up, whoa * hoof, mane, tail, withers * gallop, canter, walk, trot * neigh, whinny * tandem, team, chariot, cart, wagon * ungulate * *

    Verb

    (hors)
  • To frolic, to act mischievously. (Usually followed by "around".)
  • * (rfdate) Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (script)
    • "Genghis Khan! Abe Lincoln! That’s funny until someone gets hurt."
    But Genghis Khan and Lincoln keep horsing around.
  • * (rfdate) Ted Lawson, Thirty Seconds over Tokyo :
    • I told him that if I passed out before we got to a hospital I wanted him to see to it that no quack horsed around with my leg.
  • To provide with a horse.
  • * Shakespeare
    • being better horsed , outrode me
  • (obsolete) To get on horseback.
  • * 1888 , :
    • He horsed himself well.
  • To sit astride of; to bestride.
  • * 1608 , , II. i. 203:
    • Stalls, bulks, windows / Are smothered up, leads filled, and ridges horsed / With variable complexions, all agreeing / In earnestness to see him.
  • (of a male horse) To copulate with (a mare).
  • To take or carry on the back.
  • * S. Butler
    • the keeper, horsing a deer
  • To place on the back of another person, or on a wooden horse, etc., to be flogged; to subject to such punishment.
  • * 1963 , Charles Harold Nichols, Many Thousand Gone
    • So they brought him out and horsed him upon the back of Planter George, and whipped him until he fell quivering in the dust.
    Derived terms
    * horse around * unhorse

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (-)
  • (uncountable, slang, dated) Heroin.
    • Alright, mate, got any horse ?
    Synonyms
    * (heroin) H, smack
    External links
    * (wikipedia "horse")

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    tree

    English

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    Noun

    (en-noun) (plural "treen" is obsolete)
  • A large plant, not exactly defined, but typically over four meters in height, a single trunk which grows in girth with age and branches (which also grow in circumference with age).
    • is the tallest living tree in the world.
    Birds have a nest in a tree in the garden.
  • Any plant that is reminiscent of the above but not classified as a tree in the strict botanical sense: for example the banana "tree".
  • An object made from a tree trunk and having multiple hooks]] or storage [[platform, platforms.
    • He had the choice of buying a scratching post or a cat tree .
  • A device used to hold or stretch a shoe open.
    • He put a shoe tree in each of his shoes.
  • The structural frame of a saddle.
  • (graph theory) A connected graph with no cycles or, equivalently, a connected graph with n'' vertices and ''n -1 edges.
  • (computing theory) A recursive data structure in which each node has zero or more nodes as children.
  • (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.
    • We’ll show it as a tree list.
  • Any structure or construct having branches akin to (1).
  • The structure or wooden frame used in the construction of a saddle used in horse riding.
  • (informal) Marijuana.
  • (obsolete) A cross or gallows.
    • Tyburn tree
  • * Bible, Acts x. 39
    • [Jesus] whom they slew and hanged on a tree .
  • (obsolete) wood; timber
  • * Wyclif Bible (2 Tim. ii. 20)
    • In a great house ben not only vessels of gold and of silver but also of tree and of earth.
  • (chemistry) A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution.

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    Hypernyms

    * plant * (in graph theory) graph

    Hyponyms

    * oak, fir, pine * see also:

    Synonyms

    * sapling, seedling

    See also

    * * arboreal

    Verb

    (d)
  • To chase (an animal or person) up a tree.
    • The dog treed the cat.
  • To place upon a tree; to fit with a tree; to stretch upon a tree.
    • to tree a boot

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