[Elamur Dictionary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/vine/) [dictionaries](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [English](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) / [V](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/v/) / vine # vine noun (a vine, vines) «vine» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova. ## Everyday 1. A vine is a plant with a long, thin, bendy stem that climbs up walls, fences or trees, or spreads along the ground. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vine/#m1) 2. A grapevine, the plant that grapes grow on. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vine/#m2) 3. In the jungle, a vine is a long hanging plant stem that animals (and people in stories) can swing on. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vine/#m3) ### In the lessons In science lessons vines show how plants grow towards light and use other things for support; their curling stems are called tendrils. In everyday life you see vines on garden walls, trellises and fences (ivy, grapes, beans, pumpkins, melons). In stories, explorers and monkeys swing from vine to vine through the jungle. Phrases: «grapevine», «climbing vine», «hear it on the grapevine» (hear news as a rumour). ### Examples - Ivy is a vine that climbs up the old brick wall. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vine/#x1) - Grapes grow in bunches on a vine. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vine/#x2) - Pumpkins grow on long vines that spread across the ground. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vine/#x3) - The monkey swung from one vine to the next. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vine/#x4) - Bean vines curl around the poles in our garden. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vine/#x5) - Vines use thin curly tendrils to hold on. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vine/#x6) - Don't pull the vine, or the whole plant may come down. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vine/#x7) - I heard on the grapevine that we're getting a new teacher. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vine/#x8) - The field was full of vines heavy with grapes. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vine/#x9) ### Note Countable: a vine, two vines. Not the same as «wine» (a drink made from grapes) — vine and wine sound alike but are different words. Some vines, like poison ivy, can give you an itchy rash, so do not touch plants you do not know. «To hear something on the grapevine» means to hear it as gossip, not from an official source. ## In Jewish tradition In the Torah and prophets, the vine is the plant that grows grapes. The prophets and psalms also use it as a picture of Israel and of the land's good harvest, and its failing as a sign of trouble. **Interpretation.** The vine is one of the seven kinds of fruit that praise the Land of Israel. Wine from its grapes is used in blessings and holiday meals. The tradition reads Isaiah's vine as a picture of Israel, which God planted and cared for. ### Examples - Joseph is a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine by a fountain; its branches run over the wall. (Torah GEN.49.22, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/V/vine/#x1) - a land of wheat and barley, and vines and fig-trees and pomegranates; a land of olive-trees and honey; (Torah DEU.8.8, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/V/vine/#x2) - And the chief butler told his dream to Joseph, and said to him: 'In my dream, behold, a vine was before me; (Torah GEN.40.9, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/V/vine/#x3) - He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycamore-trees with frost. (Writings PSA.78.47, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/V/vine/#x4) - The new wine faileth, the vine fadeth; all the merry-hearted do sigh. (Prophets ISA.24.7, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/V/vine/#x5) - Smiting upon the breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine; (Prophets ISA.32.12, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/V/vine/#x6) ### Note Countable: a vine, two vines. Not the same as «wine» (a drink made from grapes) — vine and wine sound alike but are different words. Some vines, like poison ivy, can give you an itchy rash, so do not touch plants you do not know. «To hear something on the grapevine» means to hear it as gossip, not from an official source. ## On Mova - [Trees and pragmatics of «vine» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vine/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«vine» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/vine.html) on Mova free. - [Trees and pragmatics of «vine» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/V/vine/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«vine» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/vine.html) on Mova free.