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Cedar vs Pine - What's the difference?

cedar | pine |

In countable terms the difference between cedar and pine

is that cedar is a flowering tree of the family Meliaceae, especially of the genera genus: Cedrela or genus: Toona while pine is any tree (usually coniferous) which resembles a member of this genus in some respect.

In uncountable terms the difference between cedar and pine

is that cedar is the aromatic wood from a Cedrus tree, or from any of several unrelated trees while pine is the wood of this tree.

As a proper noun Cedar

is a programming language.

As a verb pine is

to languish; to lose flesh or wear away through distress; to droop.

cedar

English

(wikipedia cedar) (Cedrus)

Noun

  • (countable) A coniferous tree of the genus Cedrus in the family Pinaceae.
  • (countable) A coniferous tree of the family Cupressaceae, especially of the genera Juniperus'', ''Cupressus'', , or ''Thuja .
  • *
  • There had been dry seasons, accumulations of dust, wind-blown seeds, and cedars rose wonderfully out of solid rock.
  • (countable) A flowering tree of the family Meliaceae, especially of the genera .
  • (uncountable) The aromatic wood from a Cedrus tree, or from any of several unrelated trees.
  • Derived terms

    * Alaska cedar * Alaska yellow cedar * Atlantic cedar * Atlantic white cedar * Atlas cedar * Barbados bastard cedar * Barbados cedar * bastard cedar * Bermuda cedar * Brazilian cedar * British Columbian cedar * Bussaco cedar * * Canary cedar * Cape cedar * cedar apple * cedar-apple rust * cedar ball * cedar bird * (Cedar Bluff) * (Cedar Bluffs) * (Cedar Beach) * cedar camphor * cedar chest * (Cedar City) * cedar closet * (Cedar County) * (Cedar Crest) * cedared * cedar elm * (Cedar Falls) * (Cedar Fire) * (Cedar Forest) * (Cedar Fort) * (Cedar Glen Lakes) * (Cedar Glen West) * cedar green, cedar-green * (Cedar Grove) * (Cedar Hill) * (Cedar Hill Lakes) * (Cedar Hills) * (Cedar Island) * (Cedar Key) * (Cedar Lake) * cedar leaf oil * cedar-like * cedar mahogany * cedar marble * (Cedar Mill) * (Cedar Mills) * (Cedar Mountain) * cedarn * cedar-nut * cedar of Goa * * cedar oil * (Cedar Park) * (Cedar Rapids) * (Cedar Revolution) * (Cedar River) * cedar robe * cedar shake * cedar shingle * cedar siding * (Cedar Springs) * cedar-swamp * (Cedar Township) * (Cedar Vale) * (Cedar Valley) * cedar waxwing * cedar-wood, cedarwood * cedar wood oil * cedary * Chilean cedar * Chinese cedar * cigar-box cedar * coast white cedar * Cyprus cedar * deodar cedar * Dominica cedar * east African cedar * eastern red cedar * East Indian cedar * falsa cedar * Goa cedar * ground cedar * Himalayan cedar * Honduras cedar * incense cedar * Jamaica cedar * Japan cedar * Japanese cedar * Lawson's cedar * Lebanon cedar * Mexican cedar * Nootka cedar * oil of cedar * Oregon cedar * Oregon white cedar * pencil cedar * pencil-wood cedar * Philippine cedar * Port Orford white cedar * prickly cedar * red Australian cedar * red Californian cedar * red cedar * redcedar * Russian cedar * salt cedar * Singapore cedar * southern red cedar * southern white cedar * Spanish cedar * stinking cedar * true cedar * Turkish cedar * Virginia red cedar * water cedar * West Indian cedar * white cedar * whitecedar * yellow cedar

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    pine

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

  • (countable, uncountable) Any coniferous tree of the genus Pinus .
  • * , chapter=1
  • , title= 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.}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
  • , title=(The China Governess), chapter=3 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.}}
  • (countable) Any tree (usually coniferous) which resembles a member of this genus in some respect.
  • (uncountable) The wood of this tree.
  • (archaic) A pineapple.
  • Synonyms
    * (tree of genus Pinus) pine tree * (wood) pinewood
    Derived 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 pine

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) . Cognate to (m). Entered Germanic with Christianity; cognate to (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) A painful longing.
  • Verb

    (pin)
  • To languish; to lose flesh or wear away through distress; to droop.
  • * Tickell
  • The roses wither and the lilies pine .
  • To long, to yearn so much that it causes suffering.
  • Laura was pining for Bill all the time he was gone.
  • * 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
  • Long lay the world in sin and error pining / Till He appear’d and the soul felt its worth
  • * {{quote-book, year=1994
  • , author=(Walter Dean Myers) , title=The Glory Field , chapter= , pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=_ePdzF_m3V4C&q=%22pined%22 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.}}
  • To grieve or mourn for.
  • (Milton)
  • To inflict pain upon; to torment; to torture; to afflict.
  • * Bishop Hall
  • One is pined in prison, another tortured on the rack.

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