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树干 — meaning in English

shù gàn

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English meaning

  • log noun A section of a tree trunk, especially one cleared of branches, used for timber or fuel.
  • stemming noun A technique in computing and search engines that reduces words to their base or root form.
  • stocks noun A historical wooden device with holes for the hands and feet, used to publicly restrain and punish offenders.
  • trunk verb To cut something short or reduce it drastically.

Senses

树干 is used for these senses in English:

  • bole The trunk or stem of a tree.
  • frustum A cone or pyramid whose tip has been truncated by a plane parallel to its base.
  • log The trunk of a dead tree, cleared of branches.
  • poor box A locked box with a slot for depositing coins into, usually placed in churches to accept donations for the needy.
  • stemming A process for removing the inflexional, and sometimes derivational, affixes from words.
  • stocks (plurale tantum) A device, similar to a pillory, formerly used for public humiliation and punishment.
  • trunk (software engineering) In software projects under source control: the most current source tree, from which the latest unstable builds (so-called "trunk builds") are compiled.

log — full definition

  1. noun A section of a tree trunk, especially one cleared of branches, used for timber or fuel.
  2. noun A written record of events, especially a ship's or aircraft's progress, or of computer activity.
  3. verb To cut down trees, especially commercially.
  4. verb To record something in writing or in a system.

stemming — full definition

  1. noun A technique in computing and search engines that reduces words to their base or root form.
  2. noun A climbing technique of bracing the feet against opposite walls or holds to stay balanced.

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