SPIFF UP vs SPRUCE: NOUN
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- A coniferous tree of the genus Picea; a spruce-fir.
- Prussian leather. Compare Pruce.
- A grayish green to dark greenish black.
- The wood of any of these trees.
- Any of various similar or related trees.
- Any of various coniferous evergreen trees of the genus Picea, having flattened or four-angled needlelike leaves, a conic shape, pendulous cones, and soft wood often used for paper pulp.
- Light soft moderately strong wood of spruce trees; used especially for timbers and millwork
- Any coniferous tree of the genus Picea
- An abbreviation of spruce-beer.
- Made of the wood of the spruce.
- The wood of a spruce.
- Any of various large coniferous evergreen trees from the genus Picea, found in northern temperate and boreal regions; originally and more fully spruce fir.
- A handsome American grouse (Dendragapus Canadensis) found in Canada and the Northern United States; -- called also Canada grouse.
- See Spruce, n., 3.
- Same as Spruce partridge, below.
- A kind of beer which is tinctured or flavored with spruce, either by means of the extract or by decoction.
- A graceful coniferous tree (Tsuga Canadensis) of North America. Its timber is valuable, and the bark is largely used in tanning leather.
- A thick, dark-colored, bitterish, and acidulous liquid made by evaporating a decoction of the young branches of spruce.
- A valuable timber tree (Pseudotsuga Douglasii) of Northwestern America.
- Prussia leather; pruce.
- The wood or timber of the spruce tree.
- P. pungens, a rare and local mountain species of the western United States. Also called blue spruce, Colorado blue spruce.
- P. Engelmanni, the most valuable timber-tree of the central Rocky Mountain region, where it forms extensive forests. Its wood is of a white or pale-yellow color, light and soft, in Colorado affording lumber, fuel, and charcoal. The bark is rich in tannin, which is locally utilized.
SPIFF UP vs SPRUCE: ADJECTIVE
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- Marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners
- Marked by smartness in dress and manners
- Smart, trim, and elegant in appearance; fastidious (said of a person).
- Neat, without elegance or dignity; smart; trim; -- formerly applied to things with a serious meaning; now chiefly applied to persons.
- Sprightly; dashing.
- Neat, trim, and smart in appearance.
SPIFF UP vs SPRUCE: VERB
- Make neat, smart, or trim
- To decorate or otherwise make more attractive
- Make neat, smart, or trim
- To tease.
- ) To make oneself spruce (neat and elegant in appearance).
- Dress and groom with particular care, as for a special occasion
- To arrange neatly; tidy up.
SPIFF UP vs SPRUCE: INTRANSITIVE VERB
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- To dress one's self with affected neatness.
- To make neat and trim.
- To make oneself neat and smart in appearance.
SPIFF UP vs SPRUCE: TRANSITIVE VERB
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- To dress with affected neatness; to trim; to make spruce; -- often used with up.
SPIFF UP vs SPRUCE: OTHER WORD TYPES
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- To become spruce; assume or affect an air of smartness in dress: often followed by up.
- To brown, as the crust of bread, by heating the oven too much.
- To make spruce; trim or dress so as to present a smart appearance: sometimes followed by up.
- Synonyms Foppish, etc. (see finical), smart, jaunty, nice, dandyish.
- Over-fastidious; excessively nice; finical.
- Smart in dress and appearance; affecting neatness or dapperness, especially in dress; trim; hence often, with a depreciatory force, dandified; smug.
SPIFF UP vs SPRUCE: RELATED WORDS
- Beautify, Exornation, Snazziness, Adorn, Betrim, Anorn, Decorate, Doll up, Tart up, Tittivate, Titivate, Slick up, Spruce up, Smarten up, Spruce
- Spiff up, Slick up, Titivate, Smart, Jaunty, Snappy, Rakish, Dashing, Smarten up, Raffish, Dapper, Natty, Fashionable, Spruce up, Stylish
SPIFF UP vs SPRUCE: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Spiffy, Trickment, Adorningly, Beautify, Exornation, Snazziness, Adorn, Betrim, Anorn, Decorate, Doll up, Tart up, Spruce up, Smarten up, Spruce
- Fir, Beautify, Spiff up, Smart, Jaunty, Snappy, Rakish, Dashing, Smarten up, Raffish, Dapper, Natty, Fashionable, Spruce up, Stylish
SPIFF UP vs SPRUCE: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- She was able to provide us with a list of contractors to help spiff up the house.
- A1 is a handy collection that can spiff up your batch files and make them seem like full-fledged applications.
- Spiff up your Twitter profile and start to build relationships with developers on this medium.
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- Spiff up description of the regression tests and outcomes.
- Cushion Rust, Chrysomyxa weirii Hosts: Colorado blue spruce, black, white, Serbian and occasionally Norway spruce.
- White spruce is moderately resistant, but black and Colorado blue spruce are extremely susceptible.
- Spruce up your holiday decor with this petite, faux spruce tree!
- Dendroctonus rufipennis, the spruce beetle, is alsofound on blue spruce.
- Cut your own: Blue Spruce, Norway Spruce, Scotch Pine.
- Canadian balsam, Concolor fir, blue spruce, and white spruce.
- Norway spruce, the Sitka spruce and the mediocre spruce respectively.
- Norway spruce, White spruce, Sitka spruce, Red pine and Scotch pine.
- Choose and Cut your own: Blue Spruce, White Spruce, Douglas Fir, Norway Spruce, Concolor Fir.
- Colorado Blue Spruce, Fraser Fir, Norway Spruce, White Spruce.
SPIFF UP vs SPRUCE: QUESTIONS
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- What are the characteristics of a spruce fir forest?
- How is Cytospora canker disease of spruce trees treated?
- Is there artificial regeneration of white spruce in Canada?
- Why are my dwarf Alberta spruce needles turning brown?
- Is western spruce budworm a target for spray programs?
- Can spruce Biosciences (SPRB) turn around its stock?
- Can white spruce reproduce under early succession trees?
- How is Engelmann spruce different from other woods?
- Does your Sitka spruce meet aircraft specificiations?
- Is Engelmann spruce a good replacement for German spruce?