Nine vs Pine - What's the difference?
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(cardinal) A numerical value equal to ; the number occurring after eight and before ten.
Describing a set or group with nine components.
The digit or figure .
(card games) A playing card with nine pips.
(weaponry) A nine-millimeter semi-automatic pistol.
(computing, engineering, usually in plural) A statistical unit of proportion (of reliability, purity, etc.).
(label) A baseball club, a baseball team (composed of nine players).
* 1877, Chicago Times, July 8, 1877:Peter Morris,
A Game of Inches: The Stories Behind the Innovations That Shaped Baseball, 15.1.3 Rain Checks, *:The St. Louis club is the only nine in the league which gives its patrons the right to see a full game or no pay.
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(countable, uncountable) Any coniferous tree of the genus Pinus .
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, title=(The China Governess), chapter=3 (countable) Any tree (usually coniferous) which resembles a member of this genus in some respect.
(uncountable) The wood of this tree.
(archaic) A pineapple.
To languish; to lose flesh or wear away through distress; to droop.
* Tickell
To long, to yearn so much that it causes suffering.
* 1855 , John Sullivan Dwight (translator), “Oh Holy Night”, as printed in 1871, Adolphe-Charles Adam (music), “Cantique de Noël”, G. Schirmer (New York), originally by Placide Cappeau de Roquemaure, 1847
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To grieve or mourn for.
To inflict pain upon; to torment; to torture; to afflict.
* Bishop Hall
As verbs the difference between nine and pine
is that nine is they are while pine is .nine
English
(wikipedia nine)Numeral
(head)- A cat has nine lives.
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*Noun
(en noun)- They guaranteed that our Web site would have 99.99% uptime, or four nines .
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Synonyms
* (Roman numerals): (l)Coordinate terms
* Previous : eight () * Next : ten ()Derived terms
* cloud nine * dressed to the nines * on cloud nine * the whole nine yardsSee also
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pine
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.}}
citation, passage=Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine , while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind.}}
Synonyms
* (tree of genus Pinus) pine tree * (wood) pinewoodDerived terms
* bunya pine * hoop pine * Huon pine * jack pine * Norfolk Island pine * pineal * pineapple * * * pinecone, pine cone * * pine needle * pine nut * * * pine tar * pine tree * * stone pine * white pine * Wollemi pine * yellow pineEtymology 2
(etyl) . Cognate to (m). Entered Germanic with Christianity; cognate to (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m).Verb
(pin)- The roses wither and the lilies pine .
- Laura was pining for Bill all the time he was gone.
- Long lay the world in sin and error pining / Till He appear’d and the soul felt its worth
citation, isbn=978054505575 , page=29 , passage=The way the story went was that the man's foot healed up all right but that he just pined away.}}
- (Milton)
- One is pined in prison, another tortured on the rack.