pine
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From Middle English pyne, from Old English *pīne, from Proto-West Germanic *pīnā, from Latin pīnus, see there for more. Doublet of pinus. Possibly related to fat.
Inflected forms:
form: pines
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pyne
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: pines
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pined
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pined
pos: verb
tags: past
form: pyne
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Any coniferous tree of the genus Pinus.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The northern slopes were covered mainly in pine.
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.
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.
Among the pines grew rowans hung with scarlet berries, and bilberry bushes whose leaves would be fair game for white moth caterpillars in spring. […] The increased vegetation also provides food for the pine martens, red squirrels and mountain hares that MacDonell is seeing in rising numbers, while the population of endangered birds such as crossbills and crested tits has also risen.
gloss: Any tree (usually coniferous) which resembles a member of this genus in some respect.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: The wood of this tree.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A pineapple.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Guyana
South-Africa
countable
uncountable
examples: "[…] I bought a pine-apple at the same time, which I gave to Sambo. Let's have it for tiffin; very cool and nice this hot weather." Rebecca said she had never tasted a pine, and longed beyond everything to taste one.
Linda carried the oysters in one hand and the pineapple in the other. […] [S]he put the bottle of oysters and the pine on a little carved chair.
gloss: The bench, where players sit when not playing.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
uncountable
examples: […] rather than languish on the pine in Miami.
Take off your gear and hit the pine. And don't take your time. You understand me, boy?
gloss: A counter or bartop.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
uncountable
examples: I'll be behind the pine slinging your favorite cold ones, so come and see me!
gloss: To languish; to lose flesh or wear away through distress.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Why pine not I, and die in this distress?
[T]hou mayſt know / What miſerie th' inabſtinence of Eve / Shall bring on men. Immediately a place / Before his eyes appeard, ſad, noyſom, dark, / A Lazar-houſe it ſeemd, wherein were laid / Numbers all diſeas'd, […] / […] / Dæmoniac Phrenzie, moaping Melancholie / And Moon-ſtruck madneſs, pining Atrophie, / Maraſmus and wide-waſting Peſtilence.
This night shall see the gaudy wreath decline, The roses wither and the lilies pine.
Long lay the world in sin and error pining / Till He appear’d and the soul felt its worth
The way the story went was that the man's foot healed up all right but that he just pined away.
Before I pine away (Pine away)
gloss: To long, to yearn so much that it causes suffering.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Laura was pining for Bill all the time he was gone.
Praline: "That parrot is definitely deceased. And when I bought it not half an hour ago you assured me that its lack of movement was due to it being tired and shagged out after a long squawk."
Shopkeeper: "It's probably pining for the fiords."
Praline: "Pining for the fiords, what kind of talk is that?"
Ten years ago, liberals pined for a post-religious right, a different culture war. Be careful what you wish for.
Of the group, Max (Room’s Jacob Tremblay) is the most nominally mature, at least biologically speaking; unlike his childhood companions, he’s entered the early throes of puberty, and spends a lot of his waking hours pining, rather chastely, for a classmate (Millie Davis).
gloss: To grieve or mourn for.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To inflict pain upon; to torment.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Which way, O Lord, which way can I look, and not see some sad examples of misery? […] [O]ne is pined in prison; another, tortured on the rack; a third, languisheth under the loss of a dear son, or wife, or husband.
Derived words: Aleppo pine
arolla pine
Austrian pine
ayacahuite pine
Balfour pine
Balkan pine
Baltic pine
Bhutan pine
black pine
blue pine
Bosnian pine
Brazilian pine
bristlecone pine
bull pine
bunya pine
Burnt Pine
California Pines
Canadian red pine
Caribbean pine
celery pine
Chihuahua pine
Chile pine
Chilean pine
chilgoza pine
City of Pines
cluster pine
Corsican pine
Cuban pine
cypress pine
digger pine
Dundathu pine
fern pine
festoon pine
foothill pine
foxtail pine
grab some pine
gray pine
grey pine
ground pine
Guadalupe pine
hard pine
hazel pine
heart pine
high as a Georgia pine
Hispaniolan pine
Hispaniola pine
hoop pine
horsetail pine
Huon pine
Illawarra mountain pine
insignis-pine
insignis pine
Isle of Pines
jack pine
Japanese pine
Japanese umbrella pine
Jeffrey pine
Jerusalem pine
joint pine
kauri pine
King Billy pine
King William pine
klinkii pine
klinki pine
knobcone pine
Korean pine
Lake of the Pines
Lambert pine
Leichhardt pine
Leichhardt's pine
Little Pine Lagoon
loblolly pine
lodgepole pine
longleaf pine
longschat pine
Macedonian pine
Macquarie pine
maritime pine
Mediterranean pine
Monterey pine
mountain pine beetle
mountain pine
mugo pine
Murray pine
nonpine
Norfolk Island pine
Norfolk pine
Norfolk Island star pine
North Carolina pine
Norway pine
nut pine
Oregon pine
Oyster Bay pine
Pacific Pines
Parana pine
Paraná pine
parasol pine
Pembroke Pines
pencil pine
pickled pine
pineal
pine aphid
pineapple
pine beetle
pine box
pinebranch
pine bunting
Pine Camp
Pine City
pineclad
Pine Clump
pine-cone
pinecone
pine cone
Pine County
Pine Creek
Pine Creek Station
pinedrops
pinefinch
pinegrass
pine green
pine grosbeak
pine grouse
Pine Grove
Pine Hill
Pine Hills
Pine Island
pine kernel
Pine Lake
pineland
Pinelands
pineless
pinelike
pine linnet
pine lizard
Pine Lodge
pine marten
pine-moss
Pine Mountain
pine mouth
pine mushroom
pine needle
pine nut
pine nut syndrome
pine oil
Pine Point
pine processionary
Pine Rat
pine reproduction weevil
Pine Ridge
Pineridge
pinery
pine sap
pinesap
pine shoot moth
pine siskin
pine snake
pine squirrel
pine straw
pine tar
pine terpene
pine thistle
pine torch
pine tree
Pinevale
Pine Valley
Pine Valley Mountains
Pine View
pine vole
pine warbler
pineweed
pine weevil
pine woods snake
Piney
pineyard
Piney Range
pinic
pinite
piñon pine
pinosaur
piny
pitch pine
plum pine
Pollock Pines
ponderosa pine
Port Jackson pine
prairie pine
Pretty Pine
prince's pine
pug and pine
Puget Sound pine
radiata pine
red pine
remarkable pine
ride the pine
River Pines
rosemary pine
Rottnest Island pine
Royal Pines
sand pine
Scotch pine
Scots pine
screw pine
scrub pine
shore pine
shortleaf pine
Siberian pine
silver pine
slash pine
soft pine
spruce pine
star pine
stone pine
sugar pine
Sumatran pine
swamp pine
Swiss pine
tanyosho pine
The Pines
Torrey pine
Turkish pine
umbrella pine
Upper Pinelands
Westland pine
West Pine
whitebark pine
white pine
Wollemi pine
yellow pine
yew pine
forpine
pine away
piningly
pining stool
repine
unpining
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