Mr. Smit's conclusion: locks should be able to wrap around a stationary object, like a tree.
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Structured like a tree, the new centre will have a huge canopy letting in light through the roof.
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The noise that the tiger had made: a sound like a tree breaking.
The evolution of recovery is much like a tree budding in the spring.
Embellishment can precede structure, like a tree sprouting leaves before branches.
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Notable: The owners of this brown shingled home perched on a Mill Valley hillside say it feels like a tree house albeit one with three levels, a wine cellar and a "Harry Potter" room under the stairs where their daughter once liked to hide.
If the extra clarity and absence of motion blur make you wonder if Orlando Bloom's elf ear is crooked or an Ent isn't blowing in the breeze like a tree ought to, then we might get another 90 years of good ol' 24 frames per second.
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"Human organisms are not things you hang ornaments on like a Christmas tree, " says Thomas Murray, Hastings' director.
Some enchanted evening, in 1950, Freddie wanders past a wharf, where a fancy yacht is moored, lit like a Christmas tree.
Indeed, images of the dry, parched, arid, almost certainly lifeless surface of another planet lit up Twitter like a Christmas tree.
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Network Magic provides users with an easily interpreted topology map that creates a diagram like a family tree of devices on the network.
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WHO's Essential Drugs Programme (a worthy attempt to work out a minimum list of the drugs that should be available in every country in the world), describes the organisation as being like a Christmas tree on whose branches new projects are hung at random, frequently without regard to what is there already.
The question is whether you should buy a number of separate trinkets (phone, PDA, pager) and walk around like a digital Christmas tree, or look for a device that combines them all.
Sunday's fire broke out amid a group of apartment blocks on the 2km-long Trunk of the island, which is shaped like a date palm tree.
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And then there is the strange life force of the Delphos, the way its hem pools on the ground like the spreading roots of a tree, and how the vertical pleating begins to look like bark.
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In nature, a moth that is camouflaged to look like a certain kind of tree knows that it must land on that tree in order to evade detection by predators.
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From the air, close to 400 villas fan out into the ocean in the shape of a giant palm tree, much like the Palm in Dubai -- a grandiose development that has been plagued with problems from its inception.
Her torso, outlined in light, was like the trunk of a cypress tree just entering the soil.
It bounced along beside her, glowing like the moon, and struck a tree.
The architect created a tree house-like design, where two floors of living space floated above ground, anchored by a steel support.
Ms. SYLVESTER: The fact that they'd hang on to something like that, that's a tree, that's just covered in people's spit.
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