spruce

Từ điển WordNet v3.1 - WordNet Dictionary

I - noun

1. light soft moderately strong wood of spruce trees;
used especially for timbers and millwork
• Hypernyms:
wood
2. any coniferous tree of the genus Picea
• Hypernyms:
conifer, coniferous tree
• Hyponyms:
Norway spruce, Picea abies, weeping spruce, Brewer's spruce, Picea breweriana,
Engelmann spruce, Engelmann's spruce, Picea engelmannii, white spruce, Picea glauca, black spruce,
Picea mariana, spruce pine, Siberian spruce, Picea obovata, Sitka spruce, Picea sitchensis,
oriental spruce, Picea orientalis, Colorado spruce, Colorado blue spruce, silver spruce, Picea pungens,
red spruce, eastern spruce, yellow spruce, Picea rubens
• Member Holonyms:
Picea, genus Picea

II - verb

1. make neat, smart, or trim
- Spruce up your house for Spring
- titivate the child
• Syn:
spruce up, titivate, tittivate, smarten up, slick up, spiff up
• Derivationally related forms:
tittivation (for: tittivate), titivation (for: titivate)
• Hypernyms:
fancify, beautify, embellish, prettify
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s somebody
- Something ----s something
2. dress and groom with particular care, as for a special occasion
- He spruced up for the party
• Syn:
spruce up, slick up, smarten up
• Hypernyms:
groom, neaten
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s somebody

III - adjective

marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners
- a dapper young man
- a jaunty red hat
• Syn:
dapper, dashing, jaunty, natty, raffish,
rakish, spiffy, snappy
• Similar to:
fashionable, stylish
• Derivationally related forms:
spruceness, rakishness (for: rakish), nattiness (for: natty), jauntiness (for: jaunty), dapperness (for: dapper)

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  dapper, dashing, jaunty, natty, raffish, rakish, spiffy, snappy, spruce up, slick up, smarten up, titivate, tittivate, spiff up