pine

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The axe is at its best on straight, dry, knot-free pine, oak, cedar, and so forth.

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a coniferous tree

Meaning at a glance

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

noun

a coniferous tree

noun

straight-grained durable and often resinous white to yellowish timber of any of numerous trees of the genus Pinus

verb

have a desire for something or someone who is not present; "She ached for a cigarette"; "I am pining for my lover"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for pine.

noun

a coniferous tree

noun

straight-grained durable and often resinous white to yellowish timber of any of numerous trees of the genus Pinus

verb

have a desire for something or someone who is not present; "She ached for a cigarette"; "I am pining for my lover"

Example sentences

The axe is at its best on straight, dry, knot-free pine, oak, cedar, and so forth.

I think it's safe to say that most people pine for social skills if they perceive they lack them.

I do not pine for Scheme or CL, although both had some of their own unique charm.

Of course I know now that there is not one working-class boy in a thousand who does not pine for the day when he will leave school.

Hell, some of them shoot rainbows out of their butts and smell like a pine forest after a spring rain--and they mostly aren't going to get jobs either.

The Leaf builds a pine tree next to the speedometer, and you can complete up to 5 trees by driving as eco-friendly as possible.

There's tons of other stuff I could go into, but the real lesson is that security is like raking pine needles: You will never be done.

Only if I contemplate my mistakes of the past, or the possibilities of the future does my happiness and theirs diverge.

Understandably and naturally, they pine for amenities that are well within reach for others their age in other parts of the country.

That's why you get vinyl siding, soft pine 2x4's, and the cheapest interior hardware money can buy. So in this instance innovation is a euphemism for selecting poor materials.

"You can't hang a pine tree from your 1972 Gremlin and pass the car off as new.| "Secondly, we're working more closely with folks to determine their strengths and desires and align them to the right systems.

And some of them starve to death rather than endure such a life, while even such as live, barely do so, and suffer and pine away, and if ever they find any opening, make their escape.

This starts off as a discussion of APUs but turns into a Q/A with participation by Concorde pilots, designers, and even a flight attendant who all clearly pine for their favorite plane ever.

According botanists, peanuts, cashews, macadamias, pistachios, walnuts, almonds, pecans, pine-nuts and Brazil nuts are not nuts.