dead tree
See also: dead-tree
English
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- Made of or pertaining to paper, especially as opposed to a digital alternative.
- 1998, Shirley Duglin. Kennedy, Best bet Internet: reference and research when you don't have time to mess around, page 55:
- By the way, if you're annoyed by the bright green background (which shouldn't be a total shock to anyone who reads the dead-tree edition of Wired) ...
- 2005, Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, Dead tree?, alt.linux.suse, [4]
- It used to be that SuSE Linux was available in personal and professional; editions, and that the Pro edition came with additional dead tree documentation.
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editdead tree (plural dead trees)
- (dysphemistic) A quantity of paper; a collection of paper such as a book or newspaper.
- You can't grep dead trees.
- 1985 Jul 23: Thomas Johnsson, DECUS public domain C compiler: where can I get it? (signature), net.lang.c, [5]
- Mail on dead trees: Dept. of CS, Chalmers University of Technology, S-412 96 Goteborg, Sweden
- 1991 October 29, Daniel Mocsny, “Re: Ecological Dependency”, in sci.environment[6] (Usenet):
- I wouldn't be surprised to hear of parents telling their children how we used to spend hundreds of watts to light a room, or how we drove 3000 kg vehicles to pick up a single newspaper printed on a dead tree, and so on.
- 2003 May 16: yoodaw elder{:}child, Re: kjv #1? consider, alt.christnet, [8]
- come out of this wicked, evil world and her seductive, dogmatic, heretical religious systems, all of whom seek to prove their righteousness by manipulating colored marks written on a dead tree.
- A tree that is still standing, but no longer alive. (compare: log, stump)