What's the difference between tree and twee?

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.

Twee


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Of course, the great British countryside was never as twee as that – a point made forcibly by the second album from mysterious electronic collective Hacker Farm .
  • (2) By the time her debut album proper came out, nu rave had melted into the witchouse hipster scene and Charli turned her attentions to darkwave electro-pop: but her image and sound turned out to be too twee for the leftfield crowd and too postmodern for the pop scene.
  • (3) The second definition highlights followers of a certain hipster culture, which revels in a childlike naivety; the films of Wes Anderson , the early books of Dave Eggers , and the twee indie pop of Belle and Sebastian are all mentioned.
  • (4) I used to avoid watching Bake Off, thinking it twee, but I was scratching around for a new interest as this series rolled around – having started a mammoth stint off the booze.
  • (5) is the clifftop of bare acceptability beyond which tweeting like a child tips into the rolling, sticky spume of gormless, cuff-clenching twee.
  • (6) And as for the healthy eating campaign , given that half the food sold in the US appears to be fashioned purely from E numbers and polystyrene, that's not a twee first lady hobby, that's humanitarian crisis work.
  • (7) "Only Britain," said Burns (another Aussie), "could make rape sound twee."
  • (8) It starts with these lines: When a language dies The divine things stars, sun and moon the human things thinking and feeling are no longer reflected in that mirror The poem is a little twee, granted, but the message couldn't be truer.
  • (9) Ti Va Zadou is a twee little guesthouse with four cosy bedrooms a five-minute walk from the little beach next to the port.
  • (10) The website is a curious affair – a sort of doggy dating site riddled with twee canine puns from “how to create a pawesome profile” to a section devoted to “waggy tales”.
  • (11) Their hearts won’t be wrenched asunder by baking tragedy, encapsulated by a lingering shot of some lumpy petits fours and ultimately soothed by plinky lullaby music and incidental twee.
  • (12) It's kind of a luxury rent-controlled ghetto for lawyers and barristers, and there is a beautiful tailors, a fine chapel, established by the Knights Templar (from which the compound takes its name), a twee cottage designed by Sir Christopher Wren and a rose garden; which I never promised you.
  • (13) Much has been made of millennials and our distain for the big, in favor of the small, the organic, the handcrafted, the twee, the old-time-y.
  • (14) Chic but not twee, the hotel is 30 minutes from Porto, close to the grandly be-churched town of Penafiel.
  • (15) Among the many twee exhibits at the museum are over 500 2D and 3D images of Santa, a mock storybook village depicting Christmas fairytales and Toyland Train Mountain, a three-tier, 30ft wide electric train set that encircles a tree decorated with over 3,000 festive ornaments.
  • (16) From the twee Match.com adverts featuring hipster-style couples to the cocktails served in jam jars at the trendy incomer bar the Albert in EastEnders, “the idea of the hipster has been swallowed up by the mainstream”, says Sanderson.
  • (17) "When I first saw Paro on YouTube I thought it was very twee," says Jepson, as she prepares to give me a demonstration.
  • (18) Only from the 1870s did Austen's critical fortunes revive, courtesy of a saccharine biography by her dull nephew, James Edward Austen-Leigh, and the twee chocolate-box illustrations of the Macmillan edition of her novels.
  • (19) The front, for example, is a twee, unnecessary Nigel Waymouth photo of Drake the Homely Folkie sitting moon-faced and dozy-eyed pouring over a Spanish guitar and fronted by a pair of “bumper”-styled brothel-creepers.
  • (20) For years, I had stupidly dismissed her books because of their rather twee jacket covers featuring blotches of paint and bucolic countryside scenes.

Words possibly related to "tree"