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US
/ˈpaɪn/
]
[ UK /pˈaɪn/ ]
[ UK /pˈaɪn/ ]
NOUN
- a coniferous tree
- straight-grained durable and often resinous white to yellowish timber of any of numerous trees of the genus Pinus
VERB
-
have a desire for something or someone who is not present
She ached for a cigarette
I am pining for my lover
How To Use pine In A Sentence
- Recent studies have revealed a correlation between prognosis in heart failure and plasma levels of such neurohormones as endothelin, norepinephrine and renin, among others.
- So far, only a couple of the trees (literally two) have been found to be successful in fending off beetle attacks, using chemical and physical responses similar to those in lower-elevation tree species, such as lodgepole pine and Douglas fir. Louisa Willcox: Whitebark Pine: Functionally Gone in Much of the Greater Yellowstone
- Her name means happiness, but she is a widow with five children who makes ends meet by washing clothes for the neighbourhood and preparing injera, the unleavened bread prepared today as it was 1000 years ago.
- With a little coo of happiness he began to toddle forwards into the darkness, still clutching his bottle. MY BABYSITTER BITES BACK
- Wish you success in your career and happiness of your family!
- Even in the straight world of economics, where production and tangibles were once central, indices of happiness, creativity and other non-material values have taken centre stage.
- Evergreen plants, including dwarf conifers such as hemlocks, junipers, pines, and spruces, can form a backbone to anchor the design of a rock garden.
- But, more than the excitement, the sheer seclusion and beauty that a quiet alpine ski run can give is something rarely experienced.
- -- They lived together; and when Dr. Grant had brought on apoplexy and death, by three great institutionary dinners in one week, they still lived together; for Mary, though perfectly resolved against ever attaching herself to a younger brother again, was long in finding among the dashing representatives, or idle heir apparents, who were at the command of her beauty, and her 20_000L. any one who could satisfy the better taste she had acquired at Mansfield, whose character and manners could authorise a hope of the domestic happiness she had there learnt to estimate, or put Edmund Bertram sufficiently out of her head. Mansfield Park
- The prehensile tail porcupine in South American actually lives in the treetops.
