pine
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Is pine a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (countable, uncountable) Any coniferous tree of the genus Pinus.Examples: "The northern slopes were covered mainly in pine."; "I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn."; "Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind."Synonyms: pine tree, pinuscountableuncountable
2. (countable) Any tree (usually coniferous) which resembles a member of this genus in some respect.countable
3. (uncountable) The wood of this tree.Synonyms: pinewooduncountable
4. (archaic except Caribbean, Guyana, South Africa, Australia) A pineapple.Examples: ""[…] I bought a pine-apple at the same time, which I gave to Sambo. Let's have it for tiffin; very cool and nice this hot weather." Rebecca said she had never tasted a pine, and longed beyond everything to taste one."; "Linda carried the oysters in one hand and the pineapple in the other. […] [S]he put the bottle of oysters and the pine on a little carved chair."AustraliaGuyanaSouth-Africacountableuncountable
5. (sports, uncountable, colloquial) The bench, where players sit when not playing.Examples: "[…] rather than languish on the pine in Miami."; "Take off your gear and hit the pine. And don't take your time. You understand me, boy?"colloquialuncountable
6. (uncountable, colloquial) A counter or bartop.Examples: "I'll be behind the pine slinging your favorite cold ones, so come and see me!"colloquialuncountable
noun (English)
1. (archaic) A painful longing.archaic
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To languish; to lose flesh or wear away through distress.Examples: "Why pine not I, and die in this distress?"; "[T]hou mayſt know / What miſerie th' inabſtinence of Eve / Shall bring on men. Immediately a place / Before his eyes appeard, ſad, noyſom, dark, / A Lazar-houſe it ſeemd, wherein were laid / Numbers all diſeas'd, […] / […] / Dæmoniac Phrenzie, moaping Melancholie / And Moon-ſtruck madneſs, pining Atrophie, / Maraſmus and wide-waſting Peſtilence."; "This night shall see the gaudy wreath decline, The roses wither and the lilies pine."Synonyms: languish, droopintransitive
2. (intransitive) To long, to yearn so much that it causes suffering.Examples: "Laura was pining for Bill all the time he was gone."; "Praline: "That parrot is definitely deceased. And when I bought it not half an hour ago you assured me that its lack of movement was due to it being tired and shagged out after a long squawk." Shopkeeper: "It's probably pining for the fiords." Praline: "Pining for the fiords, what kind of talk is that?""; "Ten years ago, liberals pined for a post-religious right, a different culture war. Be careful what you wish for."Synonyms: long, yearnintransitive
3. (transitive) To grieve or mourn for.Synonyms: bewail, lament, begrieve, bemoan, bewail, beweep, condole, deploretransitive
4. (transitive) To inflict pain upon; to torment.Examples: "Which way, O Lord, which way can I look, and not see some sad examples of misery? […] [O]ne is pined in prison; another, tortured on the rack; a third, languisheth under the loss of a dear son, or wife, or husband."Synonyms: afflict, torment, torture, ache, afflict, aggrieve, agonize, anguishtransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary