Tree-maker
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 One who makes or constructs a tree, i.e., a branching diagram or a family tree.
"Alfred S. Romer, a paleontologist at Harvard, was one of the great tree makers of the midcentury, and his reached a broad audience of young scientists-in-training through his influential textbooks, most notably Vertebrate Paleontology."
- 2 One who makes or constructs saddle trees.
"In making saddles to run and try in, the trees oƒf them are occasionally leaded by the tree-maker or saddler, agreeably to the directions either may receive from his employer; and a four-pound saddle in this way is made to weigh seven pounds."
- 3 One who combines the waxes (wax molds) for multiple rings onto a wax rod in order to cast a plaster mold for making multiple rings.
"Next a tree maker takes a handful of the waxes and attaches them to a wax rod; the waxes branch up off the rod like the limbs of a Christmas tree, connected to the rod by the twig of wax created when the wax was forced down the channel of the mold (this twig is called a "sprue")."
- 4 A software program that constructs family trees.
"Titles found in this category include Compton's Encyclopedia, Microsoft Encarta, Mavis Beacon Typing, home designing software, family tree makers, as well as a wide range of college test preparation software and programs to help you learn a new language."
- 5 Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see tree, maker.
Example
More examples"Alfred S. Romer, a paleontologist at Harvard, was one of the great tree makers of the midcentury, and his reached a broad audience of young scientists-in-training through his influential textbooks, most notably Vertebrate Paleontology."
Etymology
From tree + maker.
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