prune

noun · verbA2

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noun

Plural noun:

prunesproin

1.
(obsolete)A plum.
2.
The dried, wrinkled fruit of certain species of plum.
3.
(figuratively)(figurative) Something wrinkly like a prune.
4.
(slang)An old woman, especially a wrinkly one.

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verb

V_es/s

prunes

V_ing/Gerund

pruning

V_ed/pp

prunedproin

1.
(informal, intransitive)To become wrinkled like a dried plum, as the fingers and toes do when kept submerged in water.
2.
(transitive)(transitive, horticulture) To remove excess material from a tree or shrub; to trim, especially to make more healthy or productive.
A good grape grower will prune the vines once a year.
3.
(figuratively, transitive)To cut down or shorten (by the removal of unnecessary material).
to prune a budget, or an essay
4.
(transitive)To remove (something unnecessary) for the sake of cutting down or shortening that which it was previously part of.
5.
(Internet, transitive)(transitive, Internet slang) To remove participation status from or contributed material attributed to users usually deemed inactive or undesirable from an interactive computer service or website for the sake of housekeeping.
6.
(transitive)(transitive, computer science) To remove unnecessary branches from a tree data structure.
7.
(obsolete)(obsolete, falconry) To trim the feathers with the beak.
8.
(obsolete)To preen; to prepare; to dress.

Nguồn gốc từ

ine-ana From Middle English prune, from Old French prune, from *prūna, feminine singular formed from the neutral plural of Latin prūnum, from Ancient Greek προῦνον, variant of προῦμνον (plum), a loanword from a language of Asia Minor. plum.