Pine
name, noun, verb, slang ·1 syllable ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 Any coniferous tree of the genus Pinus. countable, uncountable
"The northern slopes were covered mainly in pine."
- 2 A painful longing. archaic
- 3 a coniferous tree wordnet
- 4 Any tree (usually coniferous) which resembles a member of this genus in some respect. countable
- 5 straight-grained durable and often resinous white to yellowish timber of any of numerous trees of the genus Pinus wordnet
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- 6 The wood of this tree. uncountable
- 7 A pineapple. Australia, Guyana, South-Africa, countable, uncountable
""[…] 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."
- 8 The bench, where players sit when not playing. colloquial, uncountable
"[…] rather than languish on the pine in Miami."
- 9 A counter or bartop. colloquial, uncountable
"I'll be behind the pine slinging your favorite cold ones, so come and see me!"
- 1 To languish; to lose flesh or wear away through distress. intransitive
"Why pine not I, and die in this distress?"
- 2 have a desire for something or someone who is not present wordnet
- 3 To long, to yearn so much that it causes suffering. intransitive
"Laura was pining for Bill all the time he was gone."
- 4 To grieve or mourn for. transitive
- 5 To inflict pain upon; to torment. transitive
"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."
- 1 A surname
Example
More examples"This is a well-shaped pine tree."
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.
From Middle English pyne, pine, probably from Old English *pīne (“pain”), from Proto-West Germanic *pīnā (“pain, torment, torture”), possibly from Latin poena (“punishment”), from Ancient Greek ποινή (poinḗ, “penalty, fine, bloodmoney”). Cognate to pain. Entered Germanic with Christianity; cognate to Middle Dutch pinen, Old High German pīnōn, Old Norse pína.
From Middle English pynen, from Old English pīnian (“to torment”), from Proto-West Germanic *pīnōn, from Proto-West Germanic *pīnā (“pain, torment, torture”), from the noun (see above). Cognate with German peinigen (“to torment, torture”), Icelandic pína (“to torment”).