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(vīn) 
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To form or develop like a vine.
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- A weak-stemmed plant that derives its support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface.
- The stem of such a plant.
- A grapevine.
- Grapevines considered as a group: products of the vine.
To form or develop like a vine.
[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin vīnea, from feminine of vīneus, of wine, from vīnum, wine.]
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Plant whose stem requires support and that climbs by tendrils or twining or creeps along the ground, or the stem of such a plant. Examples include bittersweet, most grapes, some honeysuckles, ivy, lianas, and melons.
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(VIrtual NEtworking System) An earlier Unix System V-based network operating system from Banyan Systems that ran on DOS and OS/2-based servers. It provided internetworking of PCs, minis, mainframes and other computer resources providing information sharing across organizations of unlimited size. Incorporating mainframe-like security with a global directory service called Streettalk, VINES allowed access to all network users and resources. Options included printer sharing, e-mail, remote PC dial-in, bridges and gateways. See ePresence.
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A plant whose stem is not self-supporting.
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n. clothing. (Black.) Good-looking vines on that guy, right?
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Any plant, whether woody or herbaceous, with slender climbing or trailing stems. It may climb by tendrils, twining, or holdfasts or simply run along the ground.
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IN BRIEF: A plant with a long, thin stem that grows along the ground or climbs up things.
A fairy seed I planted, so dry and white and old, there sprang a vine enchanted, with magic flowers of gold.
— Marjorie Barrows.
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Dreaming about a growing vine can relate to our fruitfulness as individuals, or to our family lineage. Vines can also be plants that grow up and choke us. The dream might also be alluding to the expression "to whither on the vine."
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The Vines
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| Members include Ryan Griffiths, guitar; Patrick Matthews, bass, vocals; Craig Nicholls, vocals, guitar; David Olliffe (stopped touring with group, 2002), drums; Hamish Rosser (joined group, 2002), drums. Group formed in Sydney, Australia, late 1990s; "Highly Evolved" single from debut album named New Musical Express's "Single of the Week," 2002; released sophomore effort, Winning Days, 2004. Addresses: Website—The Vines Official Website: http://www.thevines.com. |
Rock group
Hailing from Sydney, Australia, the Vines rose to rock' n' roll prominence as purveyors of music heavily influenced by both the Beatles and Nirvana. The group's popularity benefited from the resurgence of punk-influenced garage rock led by such bands as Detroit's White Stripes, the Swedish band the Hives, and New York City bands such as the Strokes and the Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs. Each of these groups have professed an allegiance to the earlier work of the Stooges, the MC5, and the Seeds, which is characterized by simple chords, short songs, and minimal studio effects. The end result is a music that is visceral, immediate, and easily emulated.
The Vines formed in the late 1990s. The founding members—guitarist and vocalist Craig Nicholls, bass player and vocalist Patrick Matthews, and drummer David Olliffe—were schoolmates who also worked together at McDonald's. The trio took their band name from the Vynes, a 1960s' group that included Nicholls's father. The group recorded a debut single, "Factory," which helped them net a contract with the British record company Heavenly. Heavenly Artist and Repertory executive Robin Turner told Music & Media's Chris Barrett: "What attracted our attention was a 19-track demo—the first song sounded like the Stooges and the second The Stone Roses circa their debut album. I thought anyone that can cross these two boundaries within five minutes is staggeringly good." Turner traveled from England to Los Angeles to see the group perform at the Viper Room, and declared that "Craig is one of the greatest performers I've ever seen."
Through Heavenly, the group was signed to the American record label Capitol. The band left Australia in order to record in Los Angeles with producer Rob Schnapf, who had previously earned a considerable reputation as a producer of works by the Foo Fighters, Beck, and Elliott Smith. Schnapf helped the band hone its style; the producer had, after all, worked with former Nirvana member Dave Grohl as a producer for Grohl's band the Foo Fighters.
The group's debut full-length recording, Highly Evolved, prompted critical comparisons to Nirvana, due to the high-energy performances of the Vines. The album's 90-second title track was named "Single of the Week" by the British magazine New Musical Express in March of 2002. The following month they made their American concert debut at the Coachella Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California. The Vines also toured Europe extensively before the American release of Highly Evolved in July of 2002. Olliffe, unhappy with touring, returned to Sydney and was replaced by Hamish Rosser. The group also added a second guitarist, Ryan Griffiths, freeing Nicholls to become a more outrageous performer. The group quickly gained a reputation for its incendiary live shows. The day after the release of their debut album, the group performed a highly charged show at the Bowery Ballroom in New York. Along with songs from their album, Nicholls covered a portion of the Outkast single "Sorry, Miss Jackson," which Hollywood Reporter critic Tom Terrell called "genius" for its re-imagining of "Outkast's Dirty South done as Aussie rock power ballad." During the performance witnessed by Terrell, the band also tipped its hat to the Stooges with a "giddily primal screaming '1969,' which, although an original composition of the band's, also is the title of a classic song by the Detroit punk progenitors.
Highly Evolved sold more than 650,000 copies, with sales spurred by creative videos for the singles "Get Free" and "Outtathaway." In the former video, directed by Roman Coppola, son of Francis Ford Coppola, the group performs during a lightning storm. The latter video features the band being bombarded by food from audience members during a club performance. Both songs were noted for their similarities to the vocals of Nicholls and Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain. The album had its share of critical detractors, including a reviewer from MacLeans's who labeled the group as "pretenders" to the "Saviours of Rock 'n' Roll title," and who compared the group's sound to a synthesis of "Offspring meets the Hoodoo Gurus." The reviewer declared that the album "veers wildly from grungy call and response to pretty neo-psychedelia," before delivering the damning-with-faint-praise assessment, "Unlikely to inspire any revolutions, but a welcome departure from Sum-182-Day's reign of pop."
People critic Carolyn E. Davis, however, felt that the album's Beatles, Kinks, Cheap Trick, and Nirvana influences were a winning combination. "The result," Davis wrote, "is an exhilarating mix of raw rock—as noisy as it is infectious—tempered by a smattering of dreamy, psychedelic rock that might have impressed John Lennon. Throw in some melodic ballads, skainfluenced bop and post-modern punk, and you're left with a debut disc that easily transcends other garage-band revivalists."
The band's second album, Winning Days, was released in 2004. The album was considered more eclectic than the group's debut. MTV.com assessed the group's new sound: "Depending on what song from their new album ... is playing, the Vines are snotty, post-grunge rockers; ambitious psychedelic poppers, jangly pop torchbearers; or heavy metal hotheads." Nicholls told the television network: "We've rolled a mixed bag.... There's a lot of country rock, and there's also a lot of heavy metal, which is untraditional, but we never think of traditional when we are playing in the Vines." The album's first single, "Ride," drew renewed comparisons to Nirvana. MTV scribe Jon Wiederhorn described the song: "On it, frontman Craig Nicholls plays searing guitars and shouts like his larynx is on fire. But between the ripping riffing and megatonic solos lie spangly guitars, handclaps and a harmonized chorus." To support the album's release, the Vines toured North America in the spring of 2004 with the Australian power rock group Jet.
The group's grueling touring schedule caused them to pull out of a planned 2004 summer tour with Incubus. The announcement came as no surprise to most fans, due to an incident that occurred on May 27, 2004, in Sydney. During a performance of the first song of the set, Nicholls kicked a photographer's camera, and Matthews left the stage shortly thereafter. The charges stemming from the incident were dropped later in the year, when Matthews was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome, a mild form of autism. Despite the canceled tour, Nicholls's illness, and transparent ill will within the band, the group issued a statement that they did not intend to split up.
Selected discography
Highly Evolved, Capitol, 2002.
Winning Days, Capitol, 2004.
Sources
Periodicals
Hollywood Reporter, July 19, 2002.
MacLeans, July 1, 2002.
Music & Media, June 29, 2002.
People, August 5, 2002.
Online
Trouser Press, http://www.trouserpress.com (August 6, 2004).
"The Vines," All Music Guide, http://www.allmusic.com (August 6, 2004).
"The Vines Archive," MTV.com, http://www.mtv.com (August 6, 2004).
The Vines Official Website, http://www.thevines.com (November 20, 2004).
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categories related to 'vine'
- Botany and Plant Parts - vine: plant that grows along the ground or clings to a vertical support by means of twining stems, tendrils, or rootlets
- Vines - vine: plant that grows along the ground or clings to a vertical support by means of twining stems, tendrils, or rootlets
- Farming and Crops - vine: woody climbing plant, esp. grapevine
- Plants and Plant Parts - vine: plant that grows along the ground or clings to vertical support by means of twining stems, tendrils, and rootlets
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This article is about the term "vine" in its broad sense. For grapevines, see Vitis. For other uses, see Vine (disambiguation).
A vine (Latin vīnea "grapevine", "vineyard", from vīnum "wine") in the narrowest sense is the grapevine (Vitis), but more generally it can refer to any plant with a growth habit of trailing or scandent, that is to say climbing, stems or runners. The word also can refer to such stems or runners themselves, for instance when used in wicker work.[1][2]
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Climbing plants
Certain plants always grow as vines, while a few grow as vines only part of the time. For instance, poison ivy and bittersweet can grow as low shrubs when support is not available, but will become vines when support is available.
A vine displays a growth form based on long stems. This has two purposes. A vine may use rock exposures, other plants, or other supports for growth rather than investing energy in a lot of supportive tissue, enabling the plant to reach sunlight with a minimum investment of energy. This has been a highly successful growth form for plants such as kudzu and Japanese honeysuckle, both of which are invasive exotics in parts of North America. There are some tropical vines that develop skototropism, and grow away from the light, a type of negative phototropism. Growth away from light allows the vine to reach a tree trunk, which it can then climb to brighter regions.[3]
The vine growth form may also enable plants to colonize large areas quickly, even without climbing high. This is the case with periwinkle and ground ivy. It is also an adaptation to life in areas where small patches of fertile soil are adjacent to exposed areas with more sunlight but little or no soil. A vine can root in the soil but have most of its leaves in the brighter, exposed area, getting the best of both worlds.
A climbing habit has evolved independently in several plant families, using many different climbing methods.[4] Some plants climb by twining their stems around a support (e.g., morning glories, Ipomoea species). Others climb by way of adventitious, clinging roots (e.g., ivy, Hedera species), with twining petioles (e.g., Clematis species), or using tendrils, which can be specialized shoots (Vitaceae), leaves (Bignoniaceae), or even inflorescences (Passiflora). Others climb through the use of thorns, which pierce the support (e.g. climbing rose); or by other hooked structures, such as hooked branches (e.g. Artabotrys hexapetalus). The climbing fetterbush (Pieris phillyreifolia) is a woody shrub-vine which climbs without clinging roots, tendrils, or thorns. It directs its stem into a crevice in the bark of fibrous barked trees (such as bald cypress) where the stem adopts a flattened profile and grows up the tree underneath the host tree's outer bark. The fetterbush then sends out branches that emerge near the top of the tree.[5] Species of Parthenocissus (Vitaceae) produce twining tendrils that are modified stems, but which also produce adhesive pads at the end that attach themselves quite strongly to the support. The evolution of a climbing habit has been implicated as a key innovation associated with the evolutionary success and diversification of a number of taxonomic groups of plants.[6]
Most vines are flowering plants. These may be divided into woody vines or lianas, such as wisteria, kiwifruit, and common ivy, and herbaceous (nonwoody) vines, such as morning glory.
One odd group of vining plants is the fern genus Lygodium, called climbing ferns. The stem does not climb, but rather the fronds (leaves) do. The fronds unroll from the tip, and theoretically never stop growing. In the meantime, they can form thickets as they unroll over other plants, rockfaces, and fences.
Use as garden plants
Gardeners can use the tendency of climbing plants to grow quickly. If a plant display is wanted quickly, a climber can achieve this. Climbers can be trained over walls, pergolas, fences, etc. Climbers can be grown over other plants to provide additional attraction. Artificial support can also be provided. Some climbers climb by themselves; others need work, such as tying them in and training them.
Some types of vines
- Bitter gourd
- Bottle gourd
- Bougainvillea
- Common Ivy
- Cucumber
- Grape
- Japanese Honeysuckle
- Kudzu
- Luffa
- Lygodium
- Morning glory
- Nepenthes
- Passionfruit
- Poison ivy
- Sweet pea
- Virginia Creeper
- Wild Grape
- Wisteria
See also
References
- ^ Brown, Lesley (1993). The New shorter Oxford English dictionary on historical principles. Oxford [Eng.]: Clarendon. ISBN 0-19-861271-0.
- ^ Jackson, Benjamin, Daydon; A Glossary of Botanic Terms with their Derivation and Accent; Published by Gerald Duckworth & Co. London, 4th ed 1928
- ^ Janice Glimn-Lacy, Peter B. Kaufman. Botany Illustrated. Springer (2006).
- ^ Francis E. Putz. "Vine Ecology". http://www.ecology.info/vines.htm. Retrieved 2012-03-01.
- ^ Alan Weakley Flora of the Southern and Mid-Atlantic States (2010) p661
- ^ Royal Society Publishing - Proc. R. Soc. B (1996-) - Volume 271 - Number 1552/October 07, 2004 - p2011-2015 - Evolution of a climbing habit promotes diversification in flowering plants - Journal Article
External links
- The article about the oldest vine in the world http://www.vinest.net/vinestjournal/index.php?ntc=113
- Beach, Chandler B., ed. (1914). "
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Vine
Dansk (Danish)
n. - ranke, vinstok
v. intr. - fjerne ranker
Nederlands (Dutch)
(wijn)rank, kruip-/ klimplant, groeien als kruip-/klimplant
Français (French)
n. - vigne, plante grimpante
v. intr. - faire du vin
Deutsch (German)
n. - Ranke, Weinrebe
v. - mit Weinreben ausschmücken
Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - (φυτολ.) αμπελόκλημα, κληματαριά, αναρριχητικό φυτό
Italiano (Italian)
tralcio, vite
Português (Portuguese)
n. - vinha (f), videira (f), trepadeira (f) (Bot.)
Русский (Russian)
вьющееся растение, виноградная лоза, мужской костюм, виться
Español (Spanish)
n. - enredadera, trepadora, vid, parra, hiedra
v. intr. - trepar o enredarse como una hiedra
Svenska (Swedish)
n. - vinranka, vinstock, slingerväxt
中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
攀爬植物, 蔓, 藤, 形成蔓藤
中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 攀爬植物, 蔓, 藤
v. intr. - 形成蔓藤
한국어 (Korean)
n. - 포도나무, 덩굴 식물
v. intr. - 덩굴이 뻗다, 덩굴 모양으로 뻗다
日本語 (Japanese)
n. - ブドウの木, つる植物, つる
العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) كرمه العنب, داليه, نبات متسلق
עברית (Hebrew)
n. - גפן, צמח מטפס
v. intr. - טיפס (צמח)
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