spruce

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Finnish is a great language:The spruce is on fire.

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Quick take

light soft moderately strong wood of spruce trees; used especially for timbers and millwork

Meaning at a glance

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noun

light soft moderately strong wood of spruce trees; used especially for timbers and millwork

noun

any coniferous tree of the genus Picea

verb

make neat, smart, or trim; "Spruce up your house for Spring"; "titivate the child"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for spruce.

noun

light soft moderately strong wood of spruce trees; used especially for timbers and millwork

noun

any coniferous tree of the genus Picea

verb

make neat, smart, or trim; "Spruce up your house for Spring"; "titivate the child"

verb

dress and groom with particular care, as for a special occasion; "He spruced up for the party"

adjective

marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners; "a dapper young man"; "a jaunty red hat"

See also: dapper, dashing, jaunty, natty, raffish, rakish, spiffy, snappy

Example sentences

Finnish is a great language:The spruce is on fire.

Then logs of spruce and oak were unearthed at irregular intervals, and some of the wood was charred.

I use a Fiskar X27[0] splitting axe and swinging that into a 12" round log of white birch or white spruce at -30C to -45C is like cutting through butter.

If there's something small you need design help on, feel free to contact me. Usually I only have a couple hours a week to hack on open-source, but always looking for engineery projects to spruce up.

The best way to spruce up your screenshots is to just get out there with a camera and and try out interesting things and ask people if you can take their photos.

Apps have used this to spruce up plain Ruby objects, and libraries like Mongoid have used this to make alternate persistence libraries feel like the ActiveRecord people know and love.

I was paralyzed to do anything other than cold call companies/recruiters, spruce up the resume on monster/dice, and feel sorry for myself over and over again on a daily basis.