Spruce
noun
A type of tree with needle-shaped leaves.
The northern forests are full of spruce trees.
Often appears as...
- spruce tree
- spruce forest
verb
To make someone or something cleaner, smarter, or more stylish.
She spruced up the room with fresh flowers.
Often appears as...
- spruce up the room
- spruce up appearance
adjective
Smart and neat in appearance.
He looked spruce in his new suit.
Often appears as...
- look spruce
- spruce appearance
Usage tips
Approving
noun
A bright or brown color resembling that of spruce wood.
He decided to paint the walls a shade of spruce.
Often appears as...
- spruce color
- spruce wood
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A type of tree with needle-shaped leaves.
The northern forests are full of spruce trees.
Often appears as...
- spruce tree
- spruce forest
verb
To make someone or something cleaner, smarter, or more stylish.
She spruced up the room with fresh flowers.
Often appears as...
- spruce up the room
- spruce up appearance
adjective
Smart and neat in appearance.
He looked spruce in his new suit.
Often appears as...
- look spruce
- spruce appearance
Usage tips
Approving
noun
A bright or brown color resembling that of spruce wood.
He decided to paint the walls a shade of spruce.
Often appears as...
- spruce color
- spruce wood
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/2Tree Species
Spruce refers to evergreens with sharp needles, distinguishable from other conifers by their cone shape.
Identify a spruce by its cones that hang down like ornaments.
Pro Tip 2/2Habitat Clue
Spruce trees are closely associated with colder climates and are often found in northern regions.
You'll see more spruce trees as you travel towards the polar areas.
Pro Tip 1/2Tree Species
Spruce refers to evergreens with sharp needles, distinguishable from other conifers by their cone shape.
Identify a spruce by its cones that hang down like ornaments.
Pro Tip 2/2Habitat Clue
Spruce trees are closely associated with colder climates and are often found in northern regions.
You'll see more spruce trees as you travel towards the polar areas.
Pro Tip 1/2Tree Species
Spruce refers to evergreens with sharp needles, distinguishable from other conifers by their cone shape.
Identify a spruce by its cones that hang down like ornaments.
Pro Tip 2/2Habitat Clue
Spruce trees are closely associated with colder climates and are often found in northern regions.
You'll see more spruce trees as you travel towards the polar areas.
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Safari Live - Day 32 PIPE...
there's been multiple cars going in and out and the grass gets squashed but as soon as the rain comes that all rejuvenates and spruces up again and up comes the grass and everything looks of all rights and wonderful I'm just trying to adjust the blankets that I sit on because the blankets that I sit on or helping me I don't know I'd like to be a
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See Elephants at Their...
of spends his time we're driving them around now since it's pointing to my hat because as you can all see I've just spruce things up a little bit and as Megan said it's my vibration ever and so you can see a nice kind of thing that's going on so I combined all three together for the my final appearance and
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Trees and their genetic...
process of evolution through natural selection takes quite a while so the trees of any given species have different genetic blueprints depending on where they live and that reflects the climates that they're adapted to so for example these are Sitka spruce and we
Video examples
Inside America's dead...
but I somehow always found a way in. The malls that are still open, they always do this weird thing -- like the dead malls. They'll have three stores left, but they try to spruce it up to make it appear like things are on the up-and-up.
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Diwali - Festival of...
their beauty they're just one of the ways India spruces up and gets into the holiday spirit so this is an occasion for all of us to rejoice and be with the family and enjoy all the good things in life so we buy good clothes and make
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Diwali: Festival of...
beauty they're just one of the ways India spruces up and gets into the holiday spirit so this is an occasion for all of us to rejoice and be with the family and enjoy all the good things in life so we buy good clothes and make
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How will we survive when...
zebra mussels in the Great Lakes, spruce budworm here in Canada. Populations explode, a hundredfold, a thousandfold, a millionfold. So here's a fundamental lesson from outbreaks in nature don't end well.
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Beached Wheel PIPE Life...
so fishwheel is made out of spruce log grafts and it floats out in the river what we do is we take it with big logs and push it far out into the river into a deep channel we drop the axle down and
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Game Calling PIPE Yukon...
game from spruce grouse to deer and Neil and his crew can't go another day without meat for the raft try to have fresh protein all the time it's important part of my diet I'm on the
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Penguins Kidnapping...
But the kidnappers won't be put off easily. Just in time, her partner returns, spruced up from the shower. He takes on the would-be kidnappers.
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 32 PIPE...
there's been multiple cars going in and out and the grass gets squashed but as soon as the rain comes that all rejuvenates and spruces up again and up comes the grass and everything looks of all rights and wonderful I'm just trying to adjust the blankets that I sit on because the blankets that I sit on or helping me I don't know I'd like to be a
Video examples
See Elephants at Their...
of spends his time we're driving them around now since it's pointing to my hat because as you can all see I've just spruce things up a little bit and as Megan said it's my vibration ever and so you can see a nice kind of thing that's going on so I combined all three together for the my final appearance and
Video examples
Trees and their genetic...
process of evolution through natural selection takes quite a while so the trees of any given species have different genetic blueprints depending on where they live and that reflects the climates that they're adapted to so for example these are Sitka spruce and we
Video examples
Inside America's dead...
but I somehow always found a way in. The malls that are still open, they always do this weird thing -- like the dead malls. They'll have three stores left, but they try to spruce it up to make it appear like things are on the up-and-up.
Video examples
Diwali - Festival of...
their beauty they're just one of the ways India spruces up and gets into the holiday spirit so this is an occasion for all of us to rejoice and be with the family and enjoy all the good things in life so we buy good clothes and make
Video examples
Diwali: Festival of...
beauty they're just one of the ways India spruces up and gets into the holiday spirit so this is an occasion for all of us to rejoice and be with the family and enjoy all the good things in life so we buy good clothes and make
Video examples
How will we survive when...
zebra mussels in the Great Lakes, spruce budworm here in Canada. Populations explode, a hundredfold, a thousandfold, a millionfold. So here's a fundamental lesson from outbreaks in nature don't end well.
Video examples
Beached Wheel PIPE Life...
so fishwheel is made out of spruce log grafts and it floats out in the river what we do is we take it with big logs and push it far out into the river into a deep channel we drop the axle down and
Video examples
Game Calling PIPE Yukon...
game from spruce grouse to deer and Neil and his crew can't go another day without meat for the raft try to have fresh protein all the time it's important part of my diet I'm on the
Video examples
Penguins Kidnapping...
But the kidnappers won't be put off easily. Just in time, her partner returns, spruced up from the shower. He takes on the would-be kidnappers.
Example 1 of 10
Quote examples
Kim Jong-un
North Korean Leader
We should educate all Party members and other working people to become genuine patriots who first love their parents, spouses and children and further sincerely shed sweat and dedicate their all to spruce up their homes, villages and workplaces so that they are better than others' and add lustre to their country, their motherland.
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Rene Redzepi
Danish Chef
In my home I tend to eat a very simple version of what we cook at the restaurant, which is vegetable-oriented, with a little bit of fish and very little meat. For instance, a dish in my home could be steamed spinach with spruce, where I take a spruce branch and put it in the pot and that infuses into the spinach.
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Song Joong-ki
South Korean Actor
Realistically, looks offer an advantage to an actor. I'm going to work hard to maintain my skin. I'm going to prevent aging as much as possible. And I will keep trying to become a better person on the inside as much as I spruce up the outside.
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Bruce Eric Kaplan
American Cartoonist
Yes, the people I draw don't have a wide variety of looks. Every now and then I'll spruce it up, like a woman will be wearing a two-piece suit as opposed to a one-piece, or a man will not be wearing a tie; he'll just have a collar.
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Katie Lowes
American Actress
When I start my mornings, I put some essential oils in a diffuser; it might be orange blossom or jasmine to energize and spruce me up or lavender at night to really calm me down.
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Diego Klattenhoff
Canadian Actor
I grew up working on farms. You'd do anything for money. You'd pick blueberries in the summertime for weeks; you'd cut down, like, spruce and fir trees for pulp.
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Rufus Wainwright
Canadian Musician
When I'm in the classical world, I really treat it as exactly classical and I don't try and spruce it up or jazz it up or make it easier for the masses.
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Taylor Swift
American Singer
I love the scents of winter! For me, it's all about the feeling you get when you smell pumpkin spice, cinnamon, nutmeg, gingerbread and spruce.
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Annie Dillard
American Author
I never met a man who was shaken by a field of identical blades of grass. An acre of poppies and a forest of spruce boggle no one's mind.
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Blake Lively
American Actress
The smell of pine needles, spruce and the smell of a Christmas tree - those to me, are the scents of the holidays.
Quote examples
Kim Jong-un
North Korean Leader
We should educate all Party members and other working people to become genuine patriots who first love their parents, spouses and children and further sincerely shed sweat and dedicate their all to spruce up their homes, villages and workplaces so that they are better than others' and add lustre to their country, their motherland.
Quote examples
Rene Redzepi
Danish Chef
In my home I tend to eat a very simple version of what we cook at the restaurant, which is vegetable-oriented, with a little bit of fish and very little meat. For instance, a dish in my home could be steamed spinach with spruce, where I take a spruce branch and put it in the pot and that infuses into the spinach.
Quote examples
Song Joong-ki
South Korean Actor
Realistically, looks offer an advantage to an actor. I'm going to work hard to maintain my skin. I'm going to prevent aging as much as possible. And I will keep trying to become a better person on the inside as much as I spruce up the outside.
Quote examples
Bruce Eric Kaplan
American Cartoonist
Yes, the people I draw don't have a wide variety of looks. Every now and then I'll spruce it up, like a woman will be wearing a two-piece suit as opposed to a one-piece, or a man will not be wearing a tie; he'll just have a collar.
Quote examples
Katie Lowes
American Actress
When I start my mornings, I put some essential oils in a diffuser; it might be orange blossom or jasmine to energize and spruce me up or lavender at night to really calm me down.
Quote examples
Diego Klattenhoff
Canadian Actor
I grew up working on farms. You'd do anything for money. You'd pick blueberries in the summertime for weeks; you'd cut down, like, spruce and fir trees for pulp.
Quote examples
Rufus Wainwright
Canadian Musician
When I'm in the classical world, I really treat it as exactly classical and I don't try and spruce it up or jazz it up or make it easier for the masses.
Quote examples
Taylor Swift
American Singer
I love the scents of winter! For me, it's all about the feeling you get when you smell pumpkin spice, cinnamon, nutmeg, gingerbread and spruce.
Quote examples
Annie Dillard
American Author
I never met a man who was shaken by a field of identical blades of grass. An acre of poppies and a forest of spruce boggle no one's mind.
Quote examples
Blake Lively
American Actress
The smell of pine needles, spruce and the smell of a Christmas tree - those to me, are the scents of the holidays.
Example 1 of 10
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