| timber | | |
| n. (substance) | 1. lumber, timber | the wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material. |
| ~ stock | lumber used in the construction of something.; "they will cut round stock to 1-inch diameter" |
| ~ strip | thin piece of wood or metal. |
| ~ building material | material used for constructing buildings. |
| ~ wood | the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees. |
| ~ plank, board | a stout length of sawn timber; made in a wide variety of sizes and used for many purposes. |
| ~ planking | planks collectively; a quantity of planks. |
| n. (artifact) | 2. timber | a beam made of wood. |
| ~ beam | long thick piece of wood or metal or concrete, etc., used in construction. |
| ~ coulisse | a timber member grooved to take a sliding panel. |
| ~ sternpost | (nautical) the principal upright timber at the stern of a vessel. |
| ~ stringer | a long horizontal timber to connect uprights. |
| ~ two-by-four | a timber measuring (slightly under) 2 inches by 4 inches in cross section. |
| n. (artifact) | 3. timber | a post made of wood. |
| ~ post | an upright consisting of a piece of timber or metal fixed firmly in an upright position.; "he set a row of posts in the ground and strung barbwire between them" |
| n. (object) | 4. forest, timber, timberland, woodland | land that is covered with trees and shrubs. |
| ~ biome | a major biotic community characterized by the dominant forms of plant life and the prevailing climate. |
| ~ black forest, schwarzwald | a hilly forest region in southwestern Germany. |
| ~ greenwood | woodlands in full leaf.; "the greenwood was Robin Hood's home" |
| ~ dry land, ground, solid ground, terra firma, earth, land | the solid part of the earth's surface.; "the plane turned away from the sea and moved back over land"; "the earth shook for several minutes"; "he dropped the logs on the ground" |
| ~ riparian forest | woodlands along the banks of stream or river. |
| ~ sherwood forest | an ancient forest in central England; formerly a royal hunting ground; said to be the home of Robin Hood and his merry band. |
| ~ silva, sylva | the forest trees growing in a country or region. |
| ~ tree farm | a forest (or part of a forest) where trees are grown for commercial use. |
| ~ wilderness | a wooded region in northeastern Virginia near Spotsylvania where bloody but inconclusive battles were fought in the American Civil War. |
| n. (attribute) | 5. quality, timber, timbre, tone | (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound).; "the timbre of her soprano was rich and lovely"; "the muffled tones of the broken bell summoned them to meet" |
| ~ sound property | an attribute of sound. |
| ~ harmonic | any of a series of musical tones whose frequencies are integral multiples of the frequency of a fundamental. |
| ~ resonance | the quality imparted to voiced speech sounds by the action of the resonating chambers of the throat and mouth and nasal cavities. |
| ~ coloration, colouration, color, colour | the timbre of a musical sound.; "the recording fails to capture the true color of the original music" |
| ~ nasality | a quality of the voice that is produced by nasal resonators. |
| ~ plangency, reverberance, sonority, sonorousness, vibrancy, resonance, ringing | having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant. |
| ~ stridence, stridency, shrillness | having the timbre of a loud high-pitched sound. |
| ~ register | (music) the timbre that is characteristic of a certain range and manner of production of the human voice or of different pipe organ stops or of different musical instruments. |
| ~ music | an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner. |
| wood | | |
| n. (substance) | 1. wood | the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees. |
| ~ beam | long thick piece of wood or metal or concrete, etc., used in construction. |
| ~ bentwood | wood that is steamed until it becomes pliable and then is shaped for use in making furniture.; "bentwood chairs" |
| ~ chopping block | a steady wooden block on which food can be cut or diced or wood can be split. |
| ~ spindle | a piece of wood that has been turned on a lathe; used as a baluster, chair leg, etc.. |
| ~ pine | straight-grained durable and often resinous white to yellowish timber of any of numerous trees of the genus Pinus. |
| ~ larch | wood of a larch tree. |
| ~ fir | nonresinous wood of a fir tree. |
| ~ cedarwood, cedar | durable aromatic wood of any of numerous cedar trees; especially wood of the red cedar often used for cedar chests. |
| ~ spruce | light soft moderately strong wood of spruce trees; used especially for timbers and millwork. |
| ~ hemlock | soft coarse splintery wood of a hemlock tree especially the western hemlock. |
| ~ cypress | wood of any of various cypress trees especially of the genus Cupressus. |
| ~ redwood | the soft reddish wood of either of two species of sequoia trees. |
| ~ sandarac, citronwood | durable fragrant wood; used in building (as in the roof of the cathedral at Cordova, Spain). |
| ~ kauri | white close-grained wood of a tree of the genus Agathis especially Agathis australis. |
| ~ yellowwood | the yellow wood of any of various yellowwood trees. |
| ~ yew | wood of a yew; especially the durable fine-grained light brown or red wood of the English yew valued for cabinetwork and archery bows. |
| ~ lancewood | durable straight-grained wood of the lacewood tree; used for building and cabinetwork and tools. |
| ~ true tulipwood, whitewood, yellow poplar, tulipwood, white poplar | light easily worked wood of a tulip tree; used for furniture and veneer. |
| ~ zebrawood | handsomely striped or mottled wood of the zebrawood tree; used especially for cabinetwork. |
| ~ cocoswood, cocuswood, granadilla wood | wood of the granadilla tree used for making musical instruments especially clarinets. |
| ~ shittimwood | wood of the shittah tree used to make the ark of the Hebrew Tabernacle. |
| ~ sabicu, sabicu wood | the wood of the sabicu which resembles mahogany. |
| ~ bamboo | the hard woody stems of bamboo plants; used in construction and crafts and fishing poles. |
| ~ tulipwood | the variegated or showily striped ornamental wood of various tulipwood trees. |
| ~ balsa, balsa wood | strong lightweight wood of the balsa tree used especially for floats. |
| ~ silver quandong | pale easily worked timber from the quandong tree. |
| ~ obeche | the wood of an African obeche tree; used especially for veneering. |
| ~ basswood, linden | soft light-colored wood of any of various linden trees; used in making crates and boxes and in carving and millwork. |
| ~ beefwood | any of several heavy hard reddish chiefly tropical woods of the families Casuarinaceae and Proteaceae; some used for cabinetwork. |
| ~ briarwood, brier-wood, brierwood | wood from the hard woody root of the briar Erica arborea; used to make tobacco pipes. |
| ~ beechwood, beech | wood of any of various beech trees; used for flooring and containers and plywood and tool handles. |
| ~ chestnut | wood of any of various chestnut trees of the genus Castanea. |
| ~ oak | the hard durable wood of any oak; used especially for furniture and flooring. |
| ~ birch | hard close-grained wood of any of various birch trees; used especially in furniture and interior finishes and plywood. |
| ~ alder | wood of any of various alder trees; resistant to underwater rot; used for bridges etc. |
| ~ hazel | the fine-grained wood of a hazelnut tree (genus Corylus) and the hazel tree (Australian genus Pomaderris). |
| ~ olive | hard yellow often variegated wood of an olive tree; used in cabinetwork. |
| ~ ash | strong elastic wood of any of various ash trees; used for furniture and tool handles and sporting goods such as baseball bats. |
| ~ ironwood | exceptionally tough or hard wood of any of a number of ironwood trees. |
| ~ walnut | hard dark-brown wood of any of various walnut trees; used especially for furniture and paneling. |
| ~ hickory | valuable tough heavy hardwood from various hickory trees. |
| ~ pecan | wood of a pecan tree. |
| ~ pyinma | relatively hard durable timber from the Queen's crape myrtle; light reddish brown, smooth and lustrous. |
| ~ gumwood, gum | wood or lumber from any of various gum trees especially the sweet gum. |
| ~ eucalyptus | wood of any of various eucalyptus trees valued as timber. |
| ~ tupelo | pale soft wood of a tupelo tree especially the water gum. |
| ~ poon | wood of any poon tree; used for masts and spars. |
| ~ red lauan | hard heavy red wood of the red lauan tree; often sold as Philippine mahogany. |
| ~ elmwood, elm | hard tough wood of an elm tree; used for e.g. implements and furniture. |
| ~ brazilwood | heavy wood of various brazilwood trees; used for violin bows and as dyewoods. |
| ~ locust | hardwood from any of various locust trees. |
| ~ logwood | very hard brown to brownish-red heartwood of a logwood tree; used in preparing a purplish red dye. |
| ~ rosewood | hard dark reddish wood of a rosewood tree having a strongly marked grain; used in cabinetwork. |
| ~ kingwood | handsome violet-streaked wood of the kingwood tree; used especially in cabinetwork. |
| ~ granadilla wood | dark red hardwood derived from the cocobolo and used in making musical instruments e.g. clarinets. |
| ~ blackwood | very dark wood of any of several blackwood trees. |
| ~ panama redwood, quira | hard heavy red wood of a quira tree. |
| ~ red sandalwood, ruby wood | hard durable wood of red sandalwood trees (Pterocarpus santalinus); prized for cabinetwork. |
| ~ black locust | strong stiff wood of a black-locust tree; very resistant to decay. |
| ~ cherry | wood of any of various cherry trees especially the black cherry. |
| ~ fruitwood | wood of various fruit trees (as apple or cherry or pear) used especially in cabinetwork. |
| ~ lemonwood | hard tough elastic wood of the lemonwood tree; used for making bows and fishing rods. |
| ~ incense wood | fragrant wood of two incense trees of the genus Protium. |
| ~ mahogany | wood of any of various mahogany trees; much used for cabinetwork and furniture. |
| ~ satinwood | hard yellowish wood of a satinwood tree having a satiny luster; used for fine cabinetwork and tools. |
| ~ orangewood | fine-grained wood of an orange tree; used in fine woodwork. |
| ~ citronwood | wood of a citron tree. |
| ~ guaiac wood, guaiacum wood | heartwood of a palo santo; yields an aromatic oil used in perfumes. |
| ~ guaiac, lignum vitae, guaiacum | hard greenish-brown wood of the lignum vitae tree and other trees of the genus Guaiacum. |
| ~ poplar | soft light-colored non-durable wood of the poplar. |
| ~ sandalwood | close-grained fragrant yellowish heartwood of the true sandalwood; has insect repelling properties and is used for carving and cabinetwork. |
| ~ boxwood, turkish boxwood | very hard tough close-grained light yellow wood of the box (particularly the common box); used in delicate woodwork: musical instruments and inlays and engraving blocks. |
| ~ maple | wood of any of various maple trees; especially the hard close-grained wood of the sugar maple; used especially for furniture and flooring. |
| ~ sumac | wood of a sumac. |
| ~ ebony | hard dark-colored heartwood of the ebony tree; used in cabinetwork and for piano keys. |
| ~ lacewood, sycamore | variably colored and sometimes variegated hard tough elastic wood of a sycamore tree. |
| ~ teak, teakwood | hard strong durable yellowish-brown wood of teak trees; resistant to insects and to warping; used for furniture and in shipbuilding. |
| ~ dogwood | hard tough wood of any dogwood of the genus Cornus; resembles boxwood. |
| ~ sapwood | newly formed outer wood lying between the cambium and the heartwood of a tree or woody plant; usually light colored; active in water conduction. |
| ~ duramen, heartwood | the older inactive central wood of a tree or woody plant; usually darker and denser than the surrounding sapwood. |
| ~ burl | the wood cut from a tree burl or outgrowth; often used decoratively in veneer. |
| ~ brushwood | the wood from bushes or small branches.; "they built a fire of brushwood" |
| ~ cabinet wood | moderately dense wood used for cabinetwork.; "teak and other heavy cabinet wood" |
| ~ driftwood | wood that is floating or that has been washed ashore. |
| ~ lignin | a complex polymer; the chief constituent of wood other than carbohydrates; binds to cellulose fibers to harden and strengthen cell walls of plants. |
| ~ log | a segment of the trunk of a tree when stripped of branches. |
| ~ lumber, timber | the wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material. |
| ~ matchwood | wood suitable for making matchsticks. |
| ~ matchwood, splinters | wood in small pieces or splinters.; "the vessel was beaten to matchwood on the rocks" |
| ~ plant material, plant substance | material derived from plants. |
| ~ sawdust | fine particles of wood made by sawing wood. |
| ~ wicker | slender flexible branches or twigs (especially of willow or some canes); used for wickerwork. |
| ~ dyewood | any wood from which dye is obtained. |
| ~ hardwood | the wood of broad-leaved dicotyledonous trees (as distinguished from the wood of conifers). |
| ~ softwood, deal | wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir). |
| ~ raw wood | wood that is not finished or painted. |
| ~ knot | a hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a branch emerged.; "the saw buckled when it hit a knot" |
| n. (group) | 2. forest, wood, woods | the trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area. |
| ~ botany, flora, vegetation | all the plant life in a particular region or period.; "Pleistocene vegetation"; "the flora of southern California"; "the botany of China" |
| ~ bosk | a small wooded area. |
| ~ grove | a small growth of trees without underbrush. |
| ~ jungle | an impenetrable equatorial forest. |
| ~ rain forest, rainforest | a forest with heavy annual rainfall. |
| ~ underbrush, undergrowth, underwood | the brush (small trees and bushes and ferns etc.) growing beneath taller trees in a wood or forest. |
| ~ tree | a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms. |
| ~ old growth, virgin forest | forest or woodland having a mature or overly mature ecosystem more or less uninfluenced by human activity. |
| ~ second growth | a second growth of trees covering an area where the original stand was destroyed by fire or cutting. |
| n. (person) | 3. natalie wood, wood | United States film actress (1938-1981). |
| ~ actress | a female actor. |
| n. (person) | 4. sir henry joseph wood, sir henry wood, wood | English conductor (1869-1944). |
| ~ conductor, music director, director | the person who leads a musical group. |
| n. (person) | 5. ellen price wood, mrs. henry wood, wood | English writer of novels about murders and thefts and forgeries (1814-1887). |
| ~ author, writer | writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay). |
| n. (person) | 6. grant wood, wood | United States painter noted for works based on life in the Midwest (1892-1942). |
| ~ painter | an artist who paints. |
| n. (artifact) | 7. wood, woodwind, woodwind instrument | any wind instrument other than the brass instruments. |
| ~ beating-reed instrument, reed instrument, reed | a musical instrument that sounds by means of a vibrating reed. |
| ~ finger hole | one of a series of holes in a woodwind instrument; pitch changes when a finger covers it. |
| ~ flute, transverse flute | a high-pitched woodwind instrument; a slender tube closed at one end with finger holes on one end and an opening near the closed end across which the breath is blown. |
| ~ thumbhole | the hole in a woodwind that is closed and opened with the thumb. |
| ~ wind instrument, wind | a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by an enclosed column of air that is moved by the breath. |
| n. (artifact) | 8. wood | a golf club with a long shaft used to hit long shots; originally made with a wooden head.; "metal woods are now standard" |
| ~ brassie | (formerly) a golfing wood with a face more elevated that a driver but less than a spoon. |
| ~ number one wood, driver | a golf club (a wood) with a near vertical face that is used for hitting long shots from the tee. |
| ~ golf-club, golf club, club | golf equipment used by a golfer to hit a golf ball. |
| ~ metal wood | golf wood with a metal head instead of the traditional wooden head. |
| ~ spoon | formerly a golfing wood with an elevated face. |
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