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# pine

«pine» in Mova's school dictionary: **a tall evergreen tree with thin, sharp leaves called…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (pine, pines; pine tree); verb (pine, pines, pined, pining)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A pine is a tall evergreen tree with thin, sharp leaves called needles that stay green all year. Its seeds grow in pine cones. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pine/#m1)

2) Pine is the pale wood of this tree, used for furniture. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pine/#m2)

3) To pine for someone or something is to miss them very much and feel sad. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pine/#m3)

4) To pine away means to grow weak and thin from sadness or longing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pine/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

a thing counted: pine trees in a forest or park, pine cones collected; sometimes a kind of tree beside oaks or maples; in science: pines are conifers, they keep their needles in winter and make cones; in everyday life: the smell of pine, pine furniture; in stories: a dog pines for its owner

### examples

- There are 24 pine trees in the park. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pine/#x1)
- Sam picked up 15 pine cones. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pine/#x2)
- The forest has 3 times as many pines as oaks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pine/#x3)
- They planted 8 rows of pine trees with 6 in each row. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pine/#x4)
- Pine trees stay green all winter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pine/#x5)
- The forest smelled of pine needles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pine/#x6)
- Our kitchen table is made of pine. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pine/#x7)
- The puppy pined for its owner while she was away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pine/#x8)
- But the Tsarevich did nothing but pine away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pine/#x9)

### note

Only names what is counted; carries no clue to the operation. Trap: «pine cones» and «pine trees» are different things, do not add them together unless asked for all items. «3 times as many pines as oaks» means pines = oaks × 3.

### In the corpora

- [He sits by a big pine, blows his whistle three times, waits, and his dad finds him within minutes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/229-gardens-and-forests/7/)
- [Collect conkers, acorns and pine cones for crafts, but never eat conkers or acorns, because they are poisonous.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/237-plants-that-sting-and-poison/21/)
- [Some bristlecone pine trees in America are nearly 5,000 years old, while an adult mayfly may live only a day.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/52-getting-old-how-long-people-and-animals-live/11/)
- [Some trees, such as bristlecone pines, can live for more than 4,000 years.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/76-trees-and-forests-through-the-year/16/)
- [No person lives a millennium, though some bristlecone pine trees in the USA are over 4,000 years old.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/124-decades-centuries-millennia/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «pine» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pine/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.