What's the difference between mahogany and tree?

Mahogany


Definition:

  • (n.) A large tree of the genus Swietenia (S. Mahogoni), found in tropical America.
  • (n.) The wood of the Swietenia Mahogoni. It is of a reddish brown color, beautifully veined, very hard, and susceptible of a fine polish. It is used in the manufacture of furniture.
  • (n.) A table made of mahogany wood.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In the first of two experiments, four wether lambs (BW = 26.8 kg) and four wether Angora goats (BW = 31.7 kg) were used in two simultaneous 4 x 4 Latin squares to study the influence of condensed tannins (CT) on nutrient usage and concentrations of serum urea N, somatotropin (GH), and insulin (INS) when the animals were fed low-quality diets containing mountain mahogany (MM; Cercocarpus montanus) leaves.
  • (2) This excellent 19th-century boozer has private mahogany snugs, with etched-glass partitions, so you can hide from the shoppers and enjoy a quiet pint (or cheeky gin, a house speciality).
  • (3) The first object confronting the modern visitor is a towering mahogany and brass collection box with a brutally frank inscription: “Pray remember the poor lunatics.” It dates from the days of the harsh Georgian regime depicted in William Hogarth’s Rake’s Progress, when beating in the original Bedlam was regarded as a therapeutic shock for the mentally ill. Curator Victoria Northwood said she felt it was important to tackle the hospital’s history head on.
  • (4) The "hinging" property of the Haberdasher's Puzzle, which Dudeney had made out of mahogany and bronze, has fascinated and delighted mathematicians for more than a century.
  • (5) Other items on sale include Gulfstream jets, space-age pianos, and mahogany-panelled yachts, which might appeal to Peter Mandelson.
  • (6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photos on a wall at Casa-Museo Gabriel Miró A mahogany staircase leads to the first floor, where black-and-white portraits of the writer, taken by writer and photographer Juan Guerrero Ruiz, hang on the wall.
  • (7) In the first experiment, lambs were fed wheat (W) and mountain mahogany (MM) (Cercocarpus montanus) from 50 to 110 d of age.
  • (8) An 8-year-old boy developed a sudden mahogany discoloration of his skin after exposure to defensive secretions of a millipede.
  • (9) The logs, usually mahogany-like species such as jatobá, ipé, garapa and maçaranduba, came from state-owned parts of the rainforest, where no logging permits have been issued.
  • (10) The quality of the wood we get is often extraordinary, including hard woods such as mahogany in large pieces that burn slowly.
  • (11) Also claimed £119 for a Corby trouser press, finished in mahogany, from John Lewis.
  • (12) A patient is described in whom orange-brown discoloration occurred following occupational exposure to mahogany wood.
  • (13) The woods were: white mangrove (Avicennia nitida), red mangrove (Rhizophora racemosa), mahogany Khaya sp.
  • (14) With one hand propped on her hip like a starlet posing on a red carpet, Miller purringly extols the plane’s luxuries: seat belts plated in 24-carat gold, head rests on which the Trump family’s spurious crest is embroidered, silk-clad walls for the boss’s bedroom, Ultrasuede ceiling panels, mahogany cabinets, a shower cubicle.
  • (15) He manoeuvres the other with surprising ease: he's a small but compact man, around 5ft 7in, sinewy, with a light mahogany tan; and although there is some grey amid the glossy black curls, it's very easy to forget that he is 70.
  • (16) "If we want it to sound like a Gibson we use mahogany and if we want a [Fender] Strat or Telecaster sound we use maple."
  • (17) So if you don't want to look like you're doing a homage to 80s Madonna, or like you have mahogany boobs, give up the dream of the white blouse, the beige blouse and pretty much any blouse, and embrace instead the navy blouse.
  • (18) After exposure to W and MM, lambs preferred (P less than .05) W when offered with barley (B) but did not prefer (P greater than .05) MM when offered with serviceberry (SB) (Amelanchier alnifolia), probably because lambs were reluctant to eat mountain mahogany during exposure.
  • (19) More likely, a sense that the worst of the government's austerity measures and the eurozone crisis are behind us has made bank managers relax a little when requests for credit cross their mahogany desks.
  • (20) Of the four rooms, the Terrace Room is probably the prettiest, with a mahogany double bed and a large balcony overlooking the garden.

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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