Tree vs Weed - What's the difference?

Tree is a related term of weed.

As nouns the difference between tree and weed

is that 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) while weed is pasture or weed can be willow.

As a verb tree

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

tree

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(en-noun) (plural "treen" is obsolete)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

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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weed

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

A plant.

# (label) Any plant growing in cultivated ground to the injury of the crop or desired vegetation, or to the disfigurement of the place; an unsightly, useless, or injurious plant.

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# (label) A species of plant considered harmful to the environment or regarded as a nuisance.

# Short for duckweed.

# Underbrush; low shrubs.

#* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)

one rushing forth out of the thickest weed

#* (1809-1892)

A wild and wanton pard/ Crouched fawning in the weed .

A drug or the like made from the leaves of a plant.

# Marijuana.

# Tobacco.

# A cigar.

A horse unfit to breed from.

A puny person; one who has with little physical strength.

A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which attacks women in childbed.

Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.

Synonyms

* See also

Derived terms

* goutweed * hawkweed * horseweed * in the weeds * knapweed * knotweed * milkweed * pigweed * ragweed * tumbleweed

Etymology 2

From (etyl) .

Verb

(en verb)

To remove unwanted vegetation from a cultivated area.

I weeded my flower bed.

Etymology 3

From (etyl) , from which also wad, wadmal. Cognate to Dutch lijnwaad, gewaad, German Wat.

Noun

(en noun)

(archaic) A garment or piece of clothing.

(archaic) Clothing collectively; clothes, dress.

* 1599 ,

DON PEDRO. Come, let us hence, and put on other weeds ;

And then to Leonato's we will go.

CLAUDIO. And Hymen now with luckier issue speed's,

Than this for whom we rend'red up this woe!

* 1819 , Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

These two dignified persons were followed by their respective attendants, and at a more humble distance by their guide, whose figure had nothing more remarkable than it derived from the usual weeds of a pilgrim.

(archaic) An article of dress worn in token of grief; a mourning garment or badge.

He wore a weed on his hat.

(archaic) widow's weeds : female mourning apparel

* Milton

In a mourning weed , with ashes upon her head, and tears abundantly flowing.

Etymology 4

From the verb wee.

Verb

(head)

(wee)

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