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What is the difference between tree and wood?

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In obsolete terms the difference between tree and wood

is that tree is wood; timber while wood is mad, insane, crazed.

In transitive terms the difference between tree and wood

is that tree is to place upon a tree; to fit with a tree; to stretch upon a tree while wood is to supply with wood, or get supplies of wood for.

As an adjective wood is

made of or with wood.

As a proper noun Wood is

an English topographic surname for someone who lived in or near a wood.

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(en-noun) (plural "treen" is obsolete)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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    Proverbs

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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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    wood

    English

    (wikipedia wood)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) wode, from (etyl) wudu, (Danish and Swedish ved) .

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The substance making up the central part of the trunk and branches of a tree. Used as a material for construction, to manufacture various items, etc. or as fuel.
  • * (John Milton)
    • to worship their own work in wood and stone for gods
  • (countable) The wood of a particular species of tree.
  • (countable) A forested or wooded area.
  • * (William Shakespeare), The Tragedy of (Macbeth)
    • Macbeth shall never vanquish'd be until / Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill / Shall come against him.
  • Firewood.
  • * , chapter=8
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=We toted in the wood and got the fire going nice and comfortable. Lord James still set in one of the chairs and Applegate had cabbaged the other and was hugging the stove.}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author=(Henry Petroski)
    • , title= Geothermal Energy , volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame.}}
  • (countable, golf) A type of golf club, the head of which was traditionally made of wood.
  • (music) A woodwind instrument.
  • (uncountable, slang) An erection.
  • (chess, uncountable, slang) Chess pieces.
  • * 1971 , Chess Life & Review (volume 26, page 309)
    • White has nothing but a lot of frozen wood on the board while Black operates on the Q-side.
    Usage notes
    In the sense of "a forested area", the singular generally refers to a discrete area of forest, while the plural is often used when a more vaguely defined area is meant.
    Synonyms
    * timber
    Derived terms
    * bentwood * driftwood * greasewood * hardwood * heartwood * kingwood * knock on wood * ironwood * olivewood * out of the woods * purplewood * saw wood * softwood * whitewood * woodchopper * woodcock * wooded * wooden * woodpecker * woody

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (rfv-sense) Made of or with wood .
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
    • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=Foreword citation , passage=He stood transfixed before the unaccustomed view of London at night time, a vast panorama which reminded him […] of some wood engravings far off and magical, in a printshop in his childhood.}}
    Synonyms
    * wooden

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cover or plant with trees.
  • To supply with wood, or get supplies of wood for.
    • to wood a steamboat or a locomotive
  • To take or get a supply of wood.

    • Etymology 2

    (etyl), from (etyl) . See the full etymology at wode .

    Alternative forms

    * wode

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (obsolete) Mad, insane, crazed.
    • Derived terms
    * wood-wroth * woodness

    Etymology 3

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A peckerwood.
  • * 2009 , Brendan Joel Kelly, " Pride vs. Power", The Phoenix New Times :
    • Other than shout-outs to fellow "woods ," I found no references on their record to racism, and after getting to know the members, I think Woodpile's message is the opposite of what the L.A. Times construed it to be — they want to bring hardcore white guys to rap music, rather than alienating anyone of any race.
  • * 2011 , Christian Workman, Black Boxed: Coming of Age Behind Prison Walls :
    • The only thing is, even though there are ways to remain neutral, to just be a wood and not get caught up in the white supremacist gang stuff, you do have to take a side if things get bad.

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