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vine

[ vahyn ]

noun

  1. any plant having a long, slender stem that trails or creeps on the ground or climbs by winding itself about a support or holding fast with tendrils or claspers.
  2. the stem of any such plant.
  3. a grape plant.


vine

1

/ ±¹²¹Éª²Ô /

noun

  1. any of various plants, esp the grapevine, having long flexible stems that creep along the ground or climb by clinging to a support by means of tendrils, leafstalks, etc
  2. the stem of such a plant
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Vine

2

/ ±¹²¹Éª²Ô /

noun

  1. Barbara. See (Ruth) Rendell
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈ±¹¾±²Ô²â, adjective
  • vined, adjective
  • ˈ±¹¾±²Ô±ðËŒ±ô¾±°ì±ð, adjective
  • ˈ±¹¾±²Ô±ð±ô±ð²õ²õ, adjective
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

  • ±¹¾±²Ô±ðl±ð²õ²õ adjective
  • ±¹¾±²Ô±ðl¾±°ì±ð adjective
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of vine1

1250–1300; Middle English < Old French vi ( g ) ne < Latin ±¹Ä«²Ô±ð²¹ vine(yard), equivalent to ±¹Ä«²Ô ( um ) wine + -ea, feminine of -eus -eous
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of vine1

C13: from Old French vine, from Latin ±¹Ä«²Ô±ð²¹ vineyard, from ±¹Ä«²Ôeus belonging to wine, from ±¹Ä«²Ôum wine
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Idioms and Phrases

see clinging vine ; wither on the vine .
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Example Sentences

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Ice wine is made from grapes that freeze on the vine and are pressed while still frozen, creating a sweet, almost syrupy dessert wine.

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Bruce and Gill host the class once a year in the springtime, when their wisteria vines bloom with purple flowers.

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California’s wine country struggles with changing tastes, foreign competition and too many grapes on the vine.

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As Meghan is shown picking blackberries from rows and rows of bushes she says: "These vines were here actually when we moved in, this is sort of what inspired my jam and preserve making."

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Now, thousands of grape vines are being destroyed because there’s no market for their grapes.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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