timber [tim-ber] Example Sentences
Main Entry:
timber [tim-ber]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: trees, wood
Synonyms: balk, beam, board, boom, club, forest, frame, girder, grove, hardwood, log, mast, plank, pole, rafter, rib, stake, timberland, weald, woodland, woodlot, woods
Notes: what American call lumber, Britons call timber; timbre refers to the quality of sound
timber refers to cut wood and to one's qualification for a position; timbre refers to the quality of sound
Main Entry: board
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: piece of wood
Synonyms: lath, panel, plank, slat, strip, timber
Main Entry: ceiling
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: top of a room
Synonyms: baldachin, beam, canopy, covert, dome, fan vaulting, groin, highest point, housetop, plafond, planchement, plaster, roof, roofing, timber, topside covering
Antonyms: floor
Example Sentences
  • It also includes magnificent stands of old-growth trees coveted by timber companies.
  • Environmentalists prevent us from using down timber from national forests, so the wood rots.
  • Until trees are grown specifically for fuel, timber harvesting won't need to divert high quality wood to energy production.
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Main Entry: essence
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: heart, significance
Synonyms: aspect, attribute, backbone, base, basis, be-all and end-all, being, bottom, bottom line, burden, caliber, character, chief constituent, constitution, core, crux, element, entity, essentia, essentiality, fiber, form, fundamentals, germ, grain, kernel, life, lifeblood, main idea, marrow, meaning, meat*, name of game, nature, nitty-gritty, nub, nucleus, pith, point, principle, property, quality, quiddity, quintessence, reality, root, soul, spirit, structure, stuff, substance, timber, vein, virtuality
Main Entry: forest
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: area with a large number of trees
Synonyms: backwoods, brake, chase, clump, coppice, copse, cover, covert, grove, growth, jungle, park, shelter, stand, thicket, timber, timberland, weald, wildwood, wood, woodland, woodlot, woods
Main Entry: log
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: stump of tree
Synonyms: block, bole, chunk, driftwood, length, piece, stick, timber, trunk, wood
Main Entry: stick
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: pole, often wooden
Synonyms: bar, bat, baton, billet, birch, bludgeon, board, branch, cane, club, cudgel, drumstick, ferrule, ingot, mast, rod, rule, ruler, shoot, slab, slat, staff, stake, stalk, stave, stem, strip, switch, timber, twig, wand, wedge
Main Entry: support
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: something that holds up structure
Synonyms: abutment, agency, back, backing, base, bed, bedding, block, brace, buttress, collar, column, cornerstone, device, flotation, foothold, footing, foundation, fulcrum, groundwork, guide, hold, lining, means, medium, pillar, platform, pole, post, prop, rampart, reinforcement, rest, rib, rod, shore, stake, stanchion, stave, stay, stiffener, stilt, substratum, substructure, sustentation, timber, underpinning
Main Entry: tree
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: large plant enclosed in bark and shedding leaves
Synonyms: forest, hardwood, pulp, sapling, seedling, shrub, softwood, stock, timber, topiary, wood, woods
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