pine
pine (pīn)
noun
- any of a genus (Pinus) of evergreen trees of the pine family, with hard, woody cones and bundles of two to five needle-shaped leaves; many pines are valuable for their wood and their resin, from which turpentine, tar, etc. are obtained
- the wood of such a tree
- the odor of pine trees, or a synthetic odor resembling this, often used to scent deodorizers, cleaning solutions, etc.
- pineapple
Etymology: ME < OE pin < L pinus, pine tree < IE *pitsnus < base *pi-, fat > L pix, pitch, OE fæted, fat
adjective
designating a family (Pinaceae) of conifers having needlelike leaves and, usually, woody cones and valuable wood, including the larches, spruces, firs, and hemlocks
pine (pīn)
intransitive verb pined, pin′·ing
- to waste (away) through grief, pain, longing, etc.
- to have an intense longing or desire; yearn: with for, after, or an infinitive
Etymology: ME pinen < OE pinian, to torment < pin, pain < L poena: see penal
transitive verb
Archaic to mourn for
pine
n.
Varieties of pine include: white, stone, mugo, whitebark, foxtail, bristlecone, nut, singleleaf, piñon, Weymouth, Scots, ponderosa, limber, Aleppo, Jeffrey, sugar, longleaf, loblolly, western yellow, pond, Arizona, Monterey, digger, Chihuahua, jack, gray, lodgepole, Georgia pitch, yellow, Torrey, bull, imou, red, Corsican; Scotch fir, balsam fir, Frasier fir;
Converse of object
- reclaim: We also manufacture from reclaimed pine to produce a softer, antique pine style.
- strip: Downstairs fans out from the bar into several eating and sitting areas, with stripped pine and old oak furniture.
Adjective modifier
- Scots: Natural stands of Scots pine can also be found in the heath lands of Southern England.
- knot-free: Made of solid knot-free pine this would turn any ordinary divan bed into a real style statement.
- Scandinavian: Suitable for children and adults, made from top quality Scandinavian pine and finished with a clear lacquer for an easy wip... .
- Caledonian: The Caledonian Pine woodlands, which spread along and up Ben Shieldaig are the most westerly remnant of native Caledonian pine in Britain.
- antique: A tall antique pine double bed is set in the center of this painted wood paneled room.
- solid: Our pine furniture is made from solid pine which comes from the sustainable forests of Brazil.
Modifies a noun
- marten: The wood is also visited by foxes, badgers and pine marten too.
- forest: The airport was slap in the middle of a pine forest.
- cone: Exhibition of accessories made from recycled plastic bags, animals crafted from pine cones, animals made from recycled tin.
- nut: I have pine nuts, do i need anything else?
- dresser: The dining room is next to the kitchen and is furnished with a pine dresser, dining table and chairs.
- furniture: Two exposed stone walls, old pine furniture, high ceiling with exposed beams.
Noun used with modifier
- lodgepole: The dominant species are Sitka spruce and lodgepole pine although there is some Norway spruce.
- scot: The species are larch, norway and sitka spruce, douglas fir and scots pine.
- Lodgepole: Give preference where appropriate to those species of tree which deer prefer to browse or fray, such as Norway spruce and Lodgepole pine.
- bristlecone: There are bristlecone pines growing today on the mountains of California and Nevada that are confirmed to be 4,300 years old.
- redwood: Made from high grade redwood pine that will mellow to a honey brown with weathering.
- scotch: Lincoln recently had a bit of a nonsense over 4 or 5 scotch pines.
By the shore of Gitche Gumee By the shining Big-Sea-Water, Stood the wigwam of Nokomis, Daughter of the Moon, Nokomis. Dark behind it rose the forest, Rose the black and gloomy pine-trees, 516 Rose the firs with cones upon them; Bright before it beat the water, Beat the clear and sunny water, Beat the shining Big-Sea-Water.
Hail to the Chief who in honour advances! Honoured and bless'd be the evergreen Pine!
Learn about a pine tree from a pine tree, and about a bamboo stalk from a bamboo stalk.
Who sees pale Mammon pine amidst his store, Sees but a backward steward for the poor; This year a reservoir, to keep and spare, The next a fountain, spouting through his heir, In lavish streams to quench a country's thirst, And men and dogs shall drink him 'till they burst.
We look before and after, And pine for what is not: Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught: Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
No little lily-handed baronet he, A great broad-shouldered genial Englishman, A lord of fat prize-oxen and of sheep, A raiser of huge melons and of pine, A patron of some thirty charities, A pamphleteer on guano and on grain.
The sailing pine, the cedar proud and tall, The vine-prop elm, the poplar never dry, The builder oak, sole king of forests all, The aspen good for staves, the cypress funeral. The laurel, meed of mighty conquerors And poets sage, the fir that weepeth still, The willow worn of forlorn paramours, The ewe obedient to the benders will, The birch for shafts, the sallow for the mill, The myrrh sweet bleeding in the bitter wound, The warlike beech, the ash for nothing ill, The fruitful olive, and the platan round, The carver holme, the maple seldom inward sound.
And on that grave where English oak and holly And laurel wreaths entwine, Deem it not all a too presumptuous folly, This spray of Western pine!
She was cut off fromthe past and therefore did not live in the present. But suddenly, as she stood close against a pine tree and breathed in its sharp, bitter scent, a clear space opened to her childhood, as though a wind had sprung fromthesea, clearing a mist.It wasnot a memory from the past, it was the past itself, as alive, as real; and she knew that she and the child of forty years ago were the same person.
I, Dekanahwideh, and the Confederated Chiefs, now uproot the tallest pine tree, and into the cavity thereby made we cast all weapons of war Thus shall the Great Peace be established.
Browse dictionary entries near pine
- Pindus
- pindling
- Pindaric
- Pindar
- pincushion
- Pinckney
- pinchpenny
- pinchers
- pinchcock
- pinchbeck
- Pine Bluff
- pine cone
- pine needle
- pine nut
- pine siskin
- pine snake
- pine straw
- pine tar
- pine warbler
- pineal
