Used in a Sentence

maple

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for maple.

Editorial note

Nice rejoinder to 'Canadians overdose on maple syrup' - a page about a generic disease that never mentions maple syrup nor Canadians, nor dosage.

Examples16
Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

A tree of the genus Acer, characterised by its usually palmate leaves and winged seeds.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of maple gathered in one view.

noun

A tree of the genus Acer, characterised by its usually palmate leaves and winged seeds.

noun

Wood of such a tree, valued for its hardness and attractive appearance.

noun

The flavor of such a tree's sap, or an imitation of that flavor.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for maple.

noun

A tree of the genus Acer, characterised by its usually palmate leaves and winged seeds.

noun

Wood of such a tree, valued for its hardness and attractive appearance.

noun

The flavor of such a tree's sap, or an imitation of that flavor.

noun

A surname.

Example sentences

1

Nice rejoinder to 'Canadians overdose on maple syrup' - a page about a generic disease that never mentions maple syrup nor Canadians, nor dosage.

2

With maybe the exception of this season, the Toronto Maple Leafs were basically guaranteed to sell out every game.

3

There is also a maple syrup cartel in Quebec which has been in the news recently.

4

The issue with AVS is that it only matches numbers (so 123 Main Street and 123 Maple Street could both return true).

5

Okay so the Maple Leafs are the analog to the NBA New York Knicks!

6

The Maple Leafs are one of, if not the richest team in hockey.

7

Until recently, the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan owned the Toronto Maple Leafs, one of the most profitable pro sports teams in the world.

8

We have slightly increased their sugar consumption (e.g., maple syrup on pancakes) and they don't have the same reaction to small amounts of sugar.

9

Yeah, I remember reading news stories all the time about how Canadians overdose on maple syrup or how Egyptians overdose on water.

10

But instead of sweet sweet maple syrup these make pharmaceuticals.

11

I don't see a moral difference between eating a fruit and and an egg, or salmon and a herb, milk/blood and maple syrup.

12

I even called them fractional derivatives; and have a maple notebook somewhere in which I identified some fractional derivatives for various smooth functions.

Quote examples

1

It's like that episode of the Twilight Zone, "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street," where the invaders only have to sow a tiny bit of paranoia and mistrust and watch people teach each other apart.

2

Yes, the wood was different, the spruce being older-growth, harder and with higher mineral content on average than most of what was available elsewhere -- but there was probably more variation from slab to slab of the available spruce and maple than there would have been between the "average' log in Cremona and the "average" log in, say, Paris.

Proper noun examples

1

Of course, Maple, Mathcad and Matlab all had the same thing.

2

When you're revisiting calculus in order to accomplish some goal, are you doing everything by hand or are you leveraging software like Maple, Octave, Wolfram Alpha, Python, Julia, or a plain TI-89?

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use maple in a sentence?

Nice rejoinder to 'Canadians overdose on maple syrup' - a page about a generic disease that never mentions maple syrup nor Canadians, nor dosage.

What does maple mean?

A tree of the genus Acer, characterised by its usually palmate leaves and winged seeds.

What part of speech is maple?

maple is commonly used as noun.