forest

1. 1

   A dense uncultivated tract of trees and undergrowth, larger than woods.countableuncountable

   • Who after Archimagoes fowle defeat / Led her away into a foreſt wilde, / And turning wrathfull fyre to luſtfull heat, / With beaſtly ſin though her to haue defilde, / And made the vaſſal of his pleaſures vilde.
2. 2

   Any dense collection or amount.countableuncountable

   • a forest of criticism
3. 3

   A defined area of land set aside in England as royal hunting ground or for other privileged use; all such areas.countablehistoricaluncountable

   • […] in places such as the Forest of Bowland there is hardly a tree in sight and much of the area is a vast tract of almost barren gritstone hills and peat moorland.
4. 4

   A graph with no cycles; i.e., a graph made up of trees.countableuncountable

   • Let H be a traversal of an undirected graph G = (X, U). For given H, the set U can be split into set of tree edges from the forest G_H and the set of inverse edges that do not belong to this forest.
5. 5

   A group of domains that are managed as a unit.countableuncountable

   • Forests are considered the security boundary in Active Directory; by this we mean that if you need to definitively restrict access to a resource within a particular domain so that administrators from other domains do not have any access to
6. 6

   The color forest green.uncountable

syn. forest · woods · woodland

1. 1

   To cover an area with trees.transitive

   • From the view-point of national economy professor Fehér communicates to us most interesting facts, which he has established in an important question now of actuality : in the subject of foresting the Great Hungarian Plains.