单词 | treeware |
释义 | treewaren. 1. Chiefly North American. = wooden ware n. at wooden adj. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > [noun] > articles made of wood wooden ware1727 treen1927 treeware1956 1956 Chron.-Telegram (Elyria, Ohio) 18 July 13/4 That is just what nine of the women of the Elyria Chapter of the Cereamic [sic] Hobbyist Guild did and came up with interesting looking treeware planters. 1987 Toronto Star (Nexis) 4 Apr. e12 Workshops vary not only by subject—from bowl turning to carving treeware to making fine furniture with hand tools—but by length and type of instruction. 1997 Des Moines (Iowa) Reg. (Nexis) 9 Oct. 25 Learn ‘treeware’ making from Roger, of Missouri, who crafts wooden bowls, boards, rolling pins and such from trees, just as early settlers did. 2. Computing slang (frequently humorous). Material printed on paper, as opposed to material stored, published, or read in an electronic format. ΚΠ 1993 E. S. Raymond New Hacker's Dict. (ed. 2) 420 Treeware, printouts, books, and other information media made from pulped dead trees. 1998 Interzone June 47/3 With all this digital activity, we have to ask whether on-line publishing will ever replace treeware like Interzone. 2001 Electronic Publishing (Nexis) 1 Jan. 72 The only way to compete with treeware is with an electronic counterpart that provides many of paper's attributes. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1956 |
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