What's the difference between bough and tree?

Bough


Definition:

  • (n.) An arm or branch of a tree, esp. a large arm or main branch.
  • (n.) A gallows.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A collection of poems by his widow Karen Green, entitled Bough Down, won praise earlier this year , and Quack This Way , a tribute from his friend Bryan A Garner was published this month.
  • (2) Bough Down is a collection of prose poems interspersed with small collages, in which Green charts her "passage through grief", said small US publisher Siglo Press, which released the book earlier this spring.
  • (3) "They shiver in the wind and throw out boughs with a calculated aim, which is to be beautiful," wrote Ronald Blythe of a pair of young ashes near his home in Essex.
  • (4) Fragments showing up on the ceiling and the other walls – partly covered by a particularly horrible 1960s version of Morris's classic willow boughs design, whose owner could never have guessed they were burying a genuine piece by the master – suggest there is much more work to come.
  • (5) Instead, I fixed my eyes upwards to those boughs laden with keys.
  • (6) Then relax under laden boughs in the idyllic Orchard Tearoom, while the kids chase the peacocks.
  • (7) P. obscura primarily moves quadrupedally along large boughs; P. melalophos relies more on leaping between smaller supports.
  • (8) The modern day druids and pagans who assemble bearing green boughs for the winter and summer solstices, much mocked for inventing supposedly ancient rituals, may not be so far off the mark after all.
  • (9) "I worry I broke your kneecaps when I cut you down," she writes in Bough Down .
  • (10) Gerard Manley Hopkins admired the "contradictory supple curvings" of an ash's boughs.
  • (11) The plant Soma is described as "thousand boughs" and photographic evidence has been offered in support.
  • (12) Frank Bough took over as the main anchor in 1968 and stayed for 15 years, followed by Des Lynam for a decade from 1983 and then Steve Rider.
  • (13) It also introduced them to famous hosts from David Coleman to Frank Bough and Des Lynam.
  • (14) Right now wade, ankle deep, through flame-coloured leaves, catch a glimpse of ripening blue sloes shimmering in the undergrowth and dodge overhanging boughs laden with berries and rose hips.
  • (15) Alex is perched on a bough above him, naked under an olive-green parka, wide open down the front.
  • (16) Travel is primarily by brachiation along large boughs.
  • (17) "Ms Green turns out to be a profoundly good writer: Bough Down is lovely, smart and funny, in addition to being brutally clear and sad," writes the Wall Street Journal .
  • (18) In the tree picture, Lutz is on a lower bough, wearing only a red PVC coat, which is hanging open.
  • (19) On Breakfast Time, from 1983, he had a pop news slot and became the presenter Frank Bough's once-a-week stand-in.
  • (20) "Perhaps most impressive about Bough Down is that, despite the poetic pitch of its language, it refuses to poeticize its subject.

Tree


Definition:

  • (n.) Any perennial woody plant of considerable size (usually over twenty feet high) and growing with a single trunk.
  • (n.) Something constructed in the form of, or considered as resembling, a tree, consisting of a stem, or stock, and branches; as, a genealogical tree.
  • (n.) A piece of timber, or something commonly made of timber; -- used in composition, as in axletree, boottree, chesstree, crosstree, whiffletree, and the like.
  • (n.) A cross or gallows; as Tyburn tree.
  • (n.) Wood; timber.
  • (n.) A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution. See Lead tree, under Lead.
  • (v. t.) To drive to a tree; to cause to ascend a tree; as, a dog trees a squirrel.
  • (v. t.) To place upon a tree; to fit with a tree; to stretch upon a tree; as, to tree a boot. See Tree, n., 3.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Arterial compliance of great vessels can be studied through the Doppler evaluation of pulsed wave velocity along the arterial tree.
  • (2) The only sign of life was excavators loading trees on to barges to take to pulp mills.
  • (3) These findings suggest that aerosolization of ATP into the cystic fibrosis-affected bronchial tree might be hazardous in terms of enhancement of parenchymal damage, which would result from neutrophil elastase release, and in terms of impaired respiratory lung function.
  • (4) While there has been almost no political reform during their terms of office, there have been several ambitious steps forward in terms of environmental policy: anti-desertification campaigns; tree planting; an environmental transparency law; adoption of carbon targets; eco-services compensation; eco accounting; caps on water; lower economic growth targets; the 12th Five-Year Plan; debate and increased monitoring of PM2.5 [fine particulate matter] and huge investments in eco-cities, "clean car" manufacturing, public transport, energy-saving devices and renewable technology.
  • (5) Anhidrotic ectodermal dysplasia is characterized by an absence of seromucous glands in the oropharynx and tracheobronchial tree, making children with this disease prone to viral and bacterial respiratory infections.
  • (6) Celebrity woodlanders Tax breaks and tree-hugging already draw the wealthy and well-known to buy British forests.
  • (7) A new family tree of the tyrannosaurs in the paper considers Lythronax to be very close to Tyrannosaurus and its nearest relatives.
  • (8) Increasing awareness of disorders such as coronary arterial spasm, functional impairment of subendocardial blood flow and the possible role of variant patterns of anatomic distribution of the coronary arterial tree, will provide a better understanding of their significance as determining or contributing factors in patients with the anginal syndrome.
  • (9) It's of her and Barack Obama planting an olive tree in Uhuru park in the city centre in October 2006.
  • (10) The alterations of dendritic trees of pyramidal neurons of layer III of visual cortex of the rat exposed to the influence of space flight aboard biosputnik "Cosmos-1887" were studied and the results are described to illustrate the methods power.
  • (11) The trachea and the bronchial tree (first through seventh order branches) both synthesized alpha1(II) chains.
  • (12) Using a large clinic population with adequate controls, significant correlation between ragweed, grass or tree pollen sensitivity and the dates of birth was not obtained.
  • (13) The criteria selected by a classification tree method were similar: palpable purpura, age less than or equal to 20 years at disease onset, biopsy showing granulocytes around arterioles or venules, and gastrointestinal bleeding.
  • (14) The results are consistent with an action of banana tree juice on the molecule responsible for excitation-contraction coupling in skeletal muscle, resulting in a labilization of intracellular Ca2+.
  • (15) Studying the bronchial tree on the chest x-ray it is possible to indicate the visceral situs with asplenia or with polysplenia.
  • (16) Reconstruction of the intrahepatic biliary tree was carried out in all patients using intrahepatic cholangiojejunostomies between common segmental hepatic stomata and a Roux-en-Y jejunal loop.
  • (17) Axonal trees display differential growth during development or regeneration; that is, some branches stop growing and often retract while other branches continue to grow and form stable synaptic connections.
  • (18) When the vascular supply is abnormal, reconstruction of the vascular tree of one or both organs may be needed.
  • (19) A major outbreak in Kent in 2012 saw 2,000 trees felled.
  • (20) "We are alarmed to see the government is even wavering about continuing its programme of tracing, testing and destroying infected young ash trees.

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