Shaft vs Tree - What's the difference?
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(lb) The entire body of a long weapon, such as an arrow.
* , (Geoffrey Chaucer):
* , (Roger Ascham):
The long, narrow, central body of a spear, arrow, or javelin.
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(lb) Anything cast or thrown as a spear or javelin.
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* , (Vicesimus Knox):
Any long thin object, such as the handle of a tool, one of the poles between which an animal is harnessed to a vehicle, the driveshaft of a motorized vehicle with rear-wheel drive, an axle, etc.
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The main axis of a feather.
(lb) The long narrow body of a lacrosse stick.
A long, narrow passage sunk into the earth, either natural or for artificial.
A vertical passage housing a lift or elevator; a liftshaft.
A ventilation or heating conduit; an air duct.
(lb) Any column or pillar, particularly the body of a column between its capital and pediment.
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The main cylindrical part of the penis.
The chamber of a blast furnace.
(slang) To fuck over; to cause harm to, especially through deceit or treachery.
to equip with a shaft.
(slang) To fuck; to have sexual intercourse with.
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).
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.
A device used to hold or stretch a shoe open.
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.
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.
* Bible, Acts x. 39
(obsolete) wood; timber
* Wyclif Bible (2 Tim. ii. 20)
(chemistry) A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution.
To chase (an animal or person) up a tree.
To place upon a tree; to fit with a tree; to stretch upon a tree.
In obsolete terms the difference between shaft and tree
is that shaft is the entire body of a long weapon, such as an arrow while tree is wood; timber.In transitive terms the difference between shaft and tree
is that shaft is to equip with a shaft while tree is to place upon a tree; to fit with a tree; to stretch upon a tree.shaft
English
Noun
(en noun)- His sleep, his meat, his drink, is him bereft, /
- A shaft hath three principal parts, the stele, the feathers, and the head.
- Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out.. Ikey the blacksmith had forged us a spearhead after a sketch from a picture of a Greek warrior; and a rake-handle served as a shaft .
- And the thunder, / Winged with red lightning and impetuous rage, / Perhaps
- Some kinds of literary pursuitshave been attacked with all the shafts of ridicule.
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- They were a fine company of old women, and a Dutch painter would have loved to find them there together, where the sun made bright patches on the floor and sent long, quivering shafts of gold through the dusky shade up among the rafters.
- Bid time and nature gently spare /
Usage notes
In Early Modern English, the shaft referred to the entire body of a long weapon, such that an arrow's "shaft" was composed of its "tip", "stale" or "steal", and "fletching". empenne as "I [[feather, fether a shafte, I put fethers upon a steale". Over time, the word came to be used in place of the former "stale" and lost its original meaning.Synonyms
* stale, stail, steal, stele, steel (arrows, spears ) * mineshaft (vertical underground passage )Verb
(en verb)- Your boss really shafted you by stealing your idea like that.
- Turns out my roommate was shafting my girlfriend.
Anagrams
* English transitive verbstree
English
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(en-noun) (plural "treen" is obsolete)- is the tallest living tree in the world.
- Birds have a nest in a tree in the garden.
- He had the choice of buying a scratching post or a cat tree .
- He put a shoe tree in each of his shoes.
- We’ll show it as a tree list.
- Tyburn tree
- [Jesus] whom they slew and hanged on a tree .
- In a great house ben not only vessels of gold and of silver but also of tree and of earth.
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* *Hypernyms
* plant * (in graph theory) graphHyponyms
* oak, fir, pine * see also:Synonyms
* sapling, seedlingSee also
* * arborealVerb
(d)- The dog treed the cat.
- to tree a boot