Tree vs. Three — What's the Difference?

In botany, a tree is a perennial plant with an elongated stem, or trunk, supporting branches and leaves in most species. In some usages, the definition of a tree may be narrower, including only wood plants with secondary growth, plants that are usable as lumber or plants above a specified height.

The cardinal number equal to 2 + 1.

A woody perennial plant, typically having a single stem or trunk growing to a considerable height and bearing lateral branches at some distance from the ground.

The third in a set or sequence.

A wooden structure or part of a structure.

Something having three parts, units, or members.

A thing that has a branching structure resembling that of a tree.

A numerical value after two and before four. Represented in Arabic digits as 3; this many dots (•••).

Force (a hunted animal) to take refuge in a tree.

Describing a set or group with three elements.

(of an area) planted with trees

The digit/figure 3.

A perennial woody plant having a main trunk and usually a distinct crown.

Anything measuring three units, as length.

An herbaceous plant or shrub resembling a tree in form or size.

A person who is three years old.

Something that resembles a tree in form, especially a diagram or arrangement that has branches showing relationships of hierarchy or lineage.

The playing card featuring three pips.

(Computers) A structure for organizing or classifying data in which every item can be traced to a single origin through a unique path.

Three o'clock, either a.m. or p.m.

A wooden beam, post, stake, or bar used as part of a framework or structure.

(basketball) three-pointer

A saddletree.

One more than two; two and one.

A gallows.

The number greater by a unit than two; three units or objects.

The cross on which Jesus was crucified.

A symbol representing three units, as 3 or iii.

To force up a tree

The cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one

(Informal) To force into a difficult position; corner

Being one more than two

To supply or cover with trees

A perennial woody plant, not exactly defined, but differentiated from a shrub by its larger size (typically over a few meters in height) or growth habit, usually having a single (or few) main axis or trunk unbranched for some distance above the ground and a head of branches and foliage.

Any plant that is reminiscent of the above but not classified as a tree (in any botanical sense).

An object made from a tree trunk and having multiple hooks or storage platforms.

A device used to hold or stretch a shoe open.

The structural frame of a saddle.

(graph theory) A connected graph with no cycles or, if the graph is finite, equivalently a connected graph with n vertices and n−1 edges.

(computing theory) A recursive data structure in which each node has zero or more nodes as children.

(graphical user interface) A display or listing of entries or elements such that there are primary and secondary entries shown, usually linked by drawn lines or by indenting to the right.

Any structure or construct having branches representing divergence or possible choices.

The structure or wooden frame used in the construction of a saddle used in horse riding.

Marijuana.

(obsolete) A cross or gallows.

(chemistry) A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution.

(cartomancy) The fifth Lenormand card.

(transitive) To chase (an animal or person) up a tree.

(transitive) To place in a tree.

(transitive) To place upon a tree; to fit with a tree; to stretch upon a tree.

(intransitive) To take refuge in a tree.

Any perennial woody plant of considerable size (usually over twenty feet high) and growing with a single trunk.

Something constructed in the form of, or considered as resembling, a tree, consisting of a stem, or stock, and branches; as, a genealogical tree.

A piece of timber, or something commonly made of timber; - used in composition, as in axletree, boottree, chesstree, crosstree, whiffletree, and the like.

A cross or gallows; as Tyburn tree.

Wood; timber.

A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution. See Lead tree, under Lead.

To drive to a tree; to cause to ascend a tree; as, a dog trees a squirrel.

A tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms

A figure that branches from a single root;

English actor and theatrical producer noted for his lavish productions of Shakespeare (1853-1917)

Chase a bear up a tree with dogs and kill it