Definition of b-tree in English English dictionary
- An indexed data structure suitable for storage of a large number of items in a balanced fashion, with very few disk hits required for locating the correct record block
- 3-on-the-tree
- Alternative spelling of three-on-the-tree
- 3-on-the-tree
- On an automobile (especially those produced from 1939 through the mid-1970s), a three-speed manual transmission whose gearshift lever is mounted on the steering column
Mother and Father learned to drive in a car with a 3-on-the-tree.
- Charlie Brown tree
- A Christmas tree considered undesirable by normal standards, often small and sparse. Usually, this is a term of endearment
She liked to think of it as a Charlie Brown tree, worthy of pity, not just a plain old ugly tree.
- Christmas tree
- The collection of valves sometimes found at the top of a working oil well
- Christmas tree
- A pole with lights, similar to a traffic signal, used for signalling the start of an automobile race
- Christmas tree
- A pattern of muscles visible in the lower back, shaped to look like a conifer
- Christmas tree
- A conifer used during the Christmas holiday season, typically decorated with lights and ornaments and often a star or angel at its tip
- Christmas tree bill
- A bill consisting of many riders that attracts many, often unrelated, floor amendments, which may provide special benefits to various groups or interests
- Christmas tree bills
- plural form of Christmas tree bill
- Jesse Tree
- A symbolic tree, used as a common figure in medieval art, whose branches represent religious genealogies
- Joshua tree
- A yucca, Yucca brevifolia, of the southwestern U.S. with spiky leaves
- Judas tree
- A small deciduous tree, Cercis siliquastrum, noted for its prolific display of deep-pink flowers in spring
- Pará rubber tree
- Hevea brasiliensis, the rubber tree
- Yule tree
- A yuletide decoration comprising of a potted tree decorated with ribbons and religions symbols used by modern pagans, especially followers of Heathenry
- apple does not fall far from the tree
- A child grows up to be very similar to its parents, both in behavior and in physical characteristics
It's important that I know what diseases affect other members of your immediate family, because the apple does not fall far from the tree..
- apple never falls far from the tree
- Alternative form of apple does not fall far from the tree
- apple tree
- Any cultivar of the Malus domestica tree
- bark up the wrong tree
- To do, believe, or pursue something wrong or inappropriate; to take the wrong approach; to follow a false lead; to blame or rebuke the wrong person
After three failed marriages I realised that I may have been barking up the wrong tree and should abandon the search for the perfect wife.
- barking up the wrong tree
- Present participle of bark up the wrong tree
- binary tree
- a data structure in which each node has at most two children, each node but the root has one parent, and there are no cycles
- bo tree
- A fig tree regarded as sacred by Hindus and Buddhists
- bodhi tree
- The Indian fig tree, Ficus religiosa, that is sacred to Buddhism
- bodhi tree
- The specific fig tree under which the Buddha sat when he attained enlightenment; the descendant of that tree on the same spot at Bodh Gaya
- boron tree
- a binary tree
- box tree
- Any of several trees, of the genus Buxus, often used as a hedge and as a source of boxwood
- cat tree
- A structure of platforms and scratching posts designed for a cat to play on
- caterpillar tree
- A tree consisting of only a path (the spine or stalk of the tree) and vertices directly connected to (i.e. one edge away from) that path; a tree whose vertices with a degree of at least 3 are all surrounded by at most two vertices of degree two or greater
- caterpillar tree
- Catalpa bignonioides; the Southern catalpa tree, a deciduous tree of family Bignoniaceae growing in Southeastern U.S., which is the host plant for the catawba worms, caterpillars that are popular fishing bait
- chaste tree
- A shrub native to the Mediterranean region (Vitex agnus-castus)
- cherry tree
- A tree of the subgenus Cerasus, the members of which are valued agriculturally for their fruit, the cherry. The wood of the tree, cherrywood, is also valued in woodworking
- chestnut tree
- A tree that bears chestnuts; a tree of the genus Castanea
- clothes tree
- A pole with pegs for temporary storage of clothing
- coat tree
- An upright pole having hooks on which to hang coats or other clothing
- computation tree logic
- A particular modal logic of branching time with operators "next", "globally", "finally" or "eventually", "until", and "weak until"
- coral tree
- The collective term for plants of the genus Erythrina
- cow-tree
- Any of various South American trees which, when wounded, exude a rich milky liquid
- cumball tree
- Alternate name for the Osage Orange tree. See cumball for derivation
- dead tree
- A tree that is still standing, but no longer alive. (compare: log, stump)
- dead tree
- A quantity of paper; a collection of paper such as a book or newspaper
come out of this wicked, evil world and her seductive, dogmatic, heretical religious systems, all of whom seek to prove their righteousness by manipulating colored marks written on a dead tree.
- dead tree
- made of or pertaining to paper, especially as opposed to a digital alternative
It used to be that SuSE Linux was available in personal and professional; editions, and that the Pro edition came with additional dead tree documentation.
- dead tree edition
- Paper version of a publication that can be found online
dead-tree edition Derogatory cyberspeak for the paper version of a periodical.
- dead tree editions
- plural form of dead tree edition
- dead-tree
- Alternative spelling of dead tree
- decision tree
- A visualization of a complex decision-making situation in which the possible decisions and their likely outcomes are organized in the form of a graph that resembles a tree
- dragon tree
- any of several trees, of the genus Dracaena, having a thick trunk, sword-shaped leaves and orange fruit, especially Dracaena draco from the Canary Islands - the source of dragon's blood
- family tree
- A diagrammatic representation of a pedigree
- family tree
- The totality of someone's ancestors
- flame tree
- Any one of several trees or shrubs with yellow or bright red flowers
its scarlet-flowered cousin the maple leaved Sterculia, or Australian flame-tree, which we grow in California for ornament, too, is a tough waterproof fiber a couple of inches thick, that is good material for cordage and mats.
- fruit of the poisonous tree
- Evidence that has been obtained as the result of an illegal act on the part of law enforcement personnel (such as a warrantless search, or continued questioning of a witness who has invoked the right of counsel), and which is therefore excluded from being admitted as evidence in a trial
- fruit tree
- A tree that bears a crop of edible fruit on a regular basis
- fruit-tree
- Attributive form of fruit tree, noun
- fruits of the poisonous tree
- plural form of fruit of the poisonous tree
- hat tree
- A hat rack; hatstand
- hedge tree
- Alternate name for the Osage Orange tree, referring to its use as barrier vegetation on the Great Plains of the US
- hemp tree
- Another name of the chaste tree
- jellyfish tree
- A rare tree, Medusagyne oppositifolia, indigenous to the island of Mahé in the Seychelles
- make like a tree and leave
- to leave, depart
- mantle-tree
- A beam of wood over the opening of an open fireplace, from which items were hung
To honour thee, my little parlsey crown.
- money tree
- A Malabar chestnut (Pachira aquatica)
- money tree
- A kind of holy tree which can bring money and good fortune
- money tree
- A cocoa tree. (Theobroma cacao)
- money tree
- A jade plant (Crassula ovata)
- money tree
- A cheap, basic kind of tree sculpture, decorated with currency, used as a raffle prize because it would be illegal to offer a cash prize
- nail Jell-O to a tree
- To do something that is impossible or very difficult, with connotations of “pointless”
They are asking us to nail Jell-O to a tree if they insist on having everything done in three days.
- oak tree
- A tree of the genus Quercus, bearing acorns and having lobed leaves
- olive tree
- An evergreen tree, Olea europaea, that produces olives as fruit
- order tree
- A set that is the union of subsets (called segments), each of which is totally ordered, such that the segments fit together a certain way
- palm tree
- common name for a tree of the genus Arecaceae usually characterised by having a single stem or trunk, directly from which sprout several leaves or fronds giving a shape like an outstretched hand
- palm tree justice
- A pragmatic approach to justice that is entirely discretionary and transcends legal rights or precedent, enabling the court to make such order as it thinks fair and just in the circumstances of the case
vary agreed or established rights to property in an endeavor to achieve a kind of palm tree justice.
- palm-tree
- Alternative spelling of palm tree
- pear tree
- A tree of the genus Pyrus, which bears the pears as fruits
A partridge in a pear tree - The Twelve Days of Christmas.
- pencil tree
- A shrub found in semi-arid tropical climates
- phylogenetic tree
- A graph illustrating evolutionary relationships among various entities (most often taxonomic groups) that are known to share a common ancestor
- phylogenetic tree
- A tree diagram that represents hypothesised phylogenetic (not tokogenetic) relationships between groups of organisms
- pine tree
- Any coniferous tree in the genus Pinus
- poison tree bears poison fruit
- Unethical actions in the service of good intentions will have immoral or unethical consequences
- rain tree
- an ornamental tropical American tree (of uncertain taxonomy) having bipinnate leaves, globose clusters of flowers with crimson stamens, and sweet-pulp pods eaten by cattle
- red-black tree
- A type of self-balancing binary search tree, typically used to implement associative arrays
- regression tree
- A data-analysis method that recursively partitions data into sets each of which are simply modeled using regression methods
- regression tree
- A classification and regression tree
- rubber tree
- A tropical South American tree, Hevea brasiliensis, that is the source of latex
- saddle tree
- The base on which the rest of the saddle is built. Usually based on wood or a similar synthetic material, It is eventually covered in leather or a leatherlike synthetic. The tree size determines its fit on the horse's back as well as the size of the seat for the rider
- saddle-tree
- Alternative spelling of saddle tree
- saddle-tree
- Alternative spelling of saddletree
- search tree
- A tree (data structure) set up to facilitate searching
Google came up with a red-black tree, a balanced binary search tree that has quite fast insert and delete operations and is always sorted.
- service tree
- Either of two rare Old World deciduous trees, Sorbus domestica and Sorbus torminalis
- shake the pagoda tree
- to find a source of easy enrichment; to become absurdly rich in a short time
- shoe tree
- A device approximating the shape of a foot that is placed inside a shoe when it is being stored to preserve its shape and extend the life of the shoe
- skill tree
- A hierarchal visual representation of customizations a player can make to their character. Skill trees can either branch out or eventually fold back to a single point depending on the game. Typically some form of skill point is used as opposed to spending experience points
- strawberry tree
- an evergreen shrub or small tree in the family Ericaceae, native to the Mediterranean region and western Europe north to western France and Ireland
- suffix tree
- a radix tree containing all suffixes of the string
- sulfur tree
- Any tree whose branches are covered with yellow club moss spores
- sulphur tree
- Alternative spelling of sulfur tree
- sweet gum tree
- A tree, Liquidambar styraciflua, found in the southern US
- tea tree
- a shrub or small tree native to New Zealand and southeast Australia
- technology tree
- A hierarchical representation of technology that may be researched and implemented for the whole faction by the player, most often in real-time strategy games
- the apple doesn't fall far from the tree
- Alternative form of apple does not fall far from the tree
- three-on-the-tree
- On an automobile (especially those produced from 1939 through the mid-1970s), a three-speed manual transmission whose gearshift lever is mounted on the steering column
In driver's education, they used to teach students to drive in cars with a three-on-the-tree, but now the cars all have automatic transmission.
- three-on-the-tree
- On an automobile, describing the gearshift lever of a steering column-mounted three-speed manual transmission
- tree
- To chase (an animal or person) up a tree
The dog treed the cat.
- tree
- A large plant, not exactly defined, but typically over four meters in height, a single trunk which grows in girth with age and branches (which also grow in circumference with age)
- tree
- A connected graph with no cycles or, equivalently, a connected graph with n vertices and n-1 edges
- tree
- Any plant that is reminiscent of the above but not classified as a tree in the strict botanical sense: for example the banana "tree"
- tree
- A display or listing of entries or elements such that there are primary and secondary entries shown, usually linked by drawn lines or by indenting to the right
We’ll show it as a tree list.
- tree
- The structural frame of a saddle
- tree
- A recursive data structure in which each node has zero or more nodes as children
- tree
- A device used to hold or stretch a shoe open
He put a shoe tree in each of his shoes.
- tree
- The structure or wooden frame used in the construction of a saddle used in horse riding
- tree
- An object made from a tree trunk and having multiple hooks or storage platforms
He had the choice of buying a scratching post or a cat tree.
- tree
- Any structure or construct having branches akin to (1)
- tree bark
- all the tissues of a tree external to the vascular cambium; includes epidermis, cortex and phloem
- tree farm
- A privately-owned farm where trees are grown for eventual harvest, usually softwoods
- tree farms
- plural form of tree farm
- tree fern
- Any of many tropical plants, of the families Cyatheaceae and Dicksoniaceae, that have tall trunks topped with fronds
- tree frog
- Tree frogs are frogs of the family Hylidae. They are of small size and more elegant in form than the true frogs (family Ranidae). Many tree frogs have bright coloration
- tree frogs
- plural form of tree frog
- tree house
- a recreational structure built among the branches of a tree
- tree house
- a tropical residence built in a tree, or on stilts
- tree houses
- plural form of tree house
- tree hugger
- An environmental campaigner, especially one who aims to restrict logging
Let's go now, tree-hugger, gasped one of them. The show's over. Everybody beat it, ordered the other.
- tree huggers
- plural form of tree hugger
- tree kangaroo
- Any of several Australian macropods, of the genus Dendrolagus, adapted for life in the trees
- tree kangaroos
- plural form of tree kangaroo
- tree kingfisher
- the most numerous family, Halcyonidae, of kingfishers; they are widely distributed in Africa, Asia and Australia
- tree kingfishers
- plural form of tree kingfisher
- tree lawn
- The grassy area between the sidewalk and the street
- tree line
- A division in altitude above which trees tend not to grow on mountains
- tree of heaven
- an Asiatic tree (Ailanthus altissima) having foliage similar to that of the sumacs and ill-scented staminate flowers, much used in traditional Chinese medicine, but considered invasive and often subject to control efforts
- tree pangolins
- plural form of tree pangolin
- tree pipit
- A small passerine bird, Anthus trivialis
- tree pipits
- plural form of tree pipit
- tree rat
- A squirrel
- tree rats
- plural form of tree rat
- tree ring
- The annual growth ring in the trunk of a tree
- tree sap
- the fluid that circulates within the phloem of a tree to distribute water and nutrients
- tree shrew
- A small mammal native to the tropical forests of Southeast Asia, resembling the shrew and classified scientifically as order Scandentia
- tree traversal
- The process for accessing each node of a tree (data structure) in a systematic, hierarchical manner
- tree traversals
- plural form of tree traversal
- tree trunk
- the main structural member of a tree
- tree trunks
- plural form of tree trunk
- tree-hugging
- Supporting of environment concerns such as combatting pollution, deforestation, etc
He could have developed his oil wells if it wasn't for those pesky tree-hugging hippies.
- tree-line
- the edge of the habitat at which trees are capable of growing; the timberline
- tree-ring
- Alternative spelling of tree ring
- tree-shrew
- Alternative spelling of tree shrew
- trestle tree
- A structure attached to a mast to support the top and the heel of a topmast
- tulip tree
- A North American tree, Liriodendron tulipfera, that has squarish leaves, cone-shaped fruit and an aromatic odour
- tung tree
- Any of several East Asian trees, of the genus Aleurites, cultivated for their seeds which are a source of tung oil
- ℝ-order tree
- An order tree whose segments are homeomorphic to segments of the real line and that is the union of countably many segments
- tree stump
- stump: the base part of a tree that remains standing after the tree has been felled
- evolutionary tree
- A phylogenetic tree or evolutionary tree is a branching diagram or "tree" showing the inferred evolutionary relationships among various biological species or other entities based upon similarities and differences in their physical and/or genetic characteristics
- phylogenetic tree
- A phylogenetic tree or evolutionary tree is a branching diagram or "tree" showing the inferred evolutionary relationships among various biological species or other entities based upon similarities and differences in their physical and/or genetic characteristics
- pulmonary tree
- (Nükleer Bilimler) The trachea, bronchi, and bronchioles of the lungs, which together resemble an upside-down tree
- tree hollow
- A void in a branch or trunk, which may provide habitat for animals
- plane tree
- Any of several trees of the genus Platanus, having ball-shaped fruit clusters and, usually, outer bark that flakes off in patches. a large tree with broad leaves that is often planted along streets. Any of ten species of large trees that make up the genus Platanus, sole genus of the family Platanaceae, native to North America, eastern Europe, and Asia. Plane trees are planted widely in cities for their resistance to diseases and to air pollution and because they grow rapidly and furnish quick shade. They are characterized by scaling bark; large, deciduous, usually lobed leaves; and globular heads of flower and seed. Ball-shaped smooth or bristly seed clusters, which dangle singly and often persist after leaf fall, are key identifiers. Winter bark is patchy and picturesque; as the outer bark flakes off, inner bark shows shades of white, gray, green, and yellow
- tree
- {n} the largest of plants, with a ligneous stem and branches
- Monkey Puzzle tree
- (Botanik, Bitkibilim) Araucaria araucana (popularly called the monkey puzzle tree or monkey tail tree) is an evergreen tree growing to 40 metres (130 ft) tall with a 2 metres (7 ft) trunk diameter. The tree is native to central and southern Chile, western Argentina, and southern Brazil. Araucaria araucana is the hardiest species in the conifer genus Araucaria. Because of the species's great age it is sometimes described as a living fossil
- decision tree
- A tree diagram which is used for making decisions in business or computer programming and in which the branches represent choices with associated risks, costs, results, or probabilities
- spanning tree
- A tree which contains every vertex of a more general graph
- tree rat
- (Hayvan Bilim, Zooloji) (colloq.) the grey squirrel