Pine vs. Vine: What's the Difference?
Pine and Vine Definitions
Pine
Any of various evergreen trees of the genus Pinus, having fascicles of needle-shaped leaves and producing woody seed-bearing cones. These trees are widely cultivated for ornament and shade and for their timber and resinous sap, which yields turpentine and pine tar.
Vine
A weak-stemmed plant that derives its support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface.
Pine
Any of various other coniferous trees, such as the Norfolk Island pine.
Vine
The stem of such a plant.
Pine
The wood of any of these trees.
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Vine
A grapevine.
Pine
Intense longing or grief.
Vine
Grapevines considered as a group
Products of the vine.
Pine
To feel a lingering, often nostalgic desire.
Vine
To form or develop like a vine.
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Pine
To wither or waste away from longing or grief
Pined away and died.
Vine
The climbing plant that produces grapes.
They picked the grapes off the vine.
Pine
To grieve or mourn for.
Vine
Any plant of the genus Vitis.
Pine
Any coniferous tree of the genus Pinus.
The northern slopes were covered mainly in pine.
Vine
(by extension) Any similar climbing or trailing plant.
Pine
(countable) Any tree (usually coniferous) which resembles a member of this genus in some respect.
Vine
Any woody climbing plant which bears grapes.
There shall be no grapes on the vine.
And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds.
Pine
(uncountable) The wood of this tree.
Vine
Weak-stemmed plant that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface
Pine
A pineapple.
Pine
(archaic) A painful longing.
Pine
(intransitive) To languish; to lose flesh or wear away through distress.
Pine
(intransitive) To long, to yearn so much that it causes suffering.
Laura was pining for Bill all the time he was gone.
Pine
(transitive) To grieve or mourn for.
Pine
(transitive) To inflict pain upon; to torment.
Pine
Woe; torment; pain.
Pine
Any tree of the coniferous genus Pinus. See Pinus.
Pine
The wood of the pine tree.
Pine
A pineapple.
Pine
To inflict pain upon; to torment; to torture; to afflict.
That people that pyned him to death.
One is pined in prison, another tortured on the rack.
Pine
To grieve or mourn for.
Pine
To suffer; to be afflicted.
Pine
To languish; to lose flesh or wear away, under any distress or anexiety of mind; to droop; - often used with away.
Pine
To languish with desire; to waste away with longing for something; - usually followed by for.
For whom, and not for Tybalt, Juliet pined.
Pine
A coniferous tree
Pine
Straight-grained durable and often resinous white to yellowish timber of any of numerous trees of the genus Pinus
Pine
Have a desire for something or someone who is not present;
She ached for a cigarette
I am pining for my lover
