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planks
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | board |
| Synonyms: | deal, lumber, platform, slab, support, timber |
| Notes: | a plank is thicker than a board |
| Main Entry: | beam |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | length of material used as support |
| Synonyms: | axle, bail, balk, bolster, boom, brace, cantilever, column, crossbar, crosspiece, girder, jamb, joist, lath, lintel, pile, piling, pillar, plank, pole, post, prop, rafter, reach, scaffolding, scantling, shaft, sill, spar, stanchion, stay, stringer, strip, strut, stud, timber, transverse, trestle, two-by-four |
| Notes: | ray is distinguished from beam in that it describes a smaller quantity of light (beam being a collection of parallel rays) |
| Main Entry: | board |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | piece of wood |
| Synonyms: | lath, panel, plank, slat, strip, timber |
| Notes: | a board is a committee having supervisory powers, a plank, or food served to lodgers - while bored is tired of the world a plank is thicker than a board |
| Main Entry: | plant |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | establish, set |
| Synonyms: | deposit, fix, found, imbed, insert, install, institute, lodge, park, plank, plank down, plop, plunk, root, settle, station |
| Antonyms: | disestablish, disorder, disorganize, unsettle, upset |
| Main Entry: | platform |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | political stance, promises |
| Synonyms: | manifesto, objectives, party line, plank, policy, principle, program, soapbox, stump, tenets |
| Main Entry: | pole |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bar, post |
| Synonyms: | beam, extremity, flagpole, flagstaff, leg, mast, pile, plank, rod, shaft, spar, staff, stake, standard, stave, stick, stilt, stud, terminus |
| Main Entry: | put |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | position |
| Synonyms: | bring, concenter, concentrate, deposit, embed, establish, fasten, fix, fixate, focus, insert, install, invest, lay, nail, park, peg, place, plank, plank down, plant, plop, plunk, plunk down, quarter, repose, rest, rivet, seat, set, settle, situate, stick |
| Antonyms: | remove, take |
| Main Entry: | set |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | position, place |
| Synonyms: | affix, aim, anchor, apply, arrange, bestow, cast, deposit, direct, embed, ensconce, establish, fasten, fix, head, insert, install, introduce, lay, level, locate, lock, lodge, make fast, make ready, mount, park, plank, plant, plop, plunk, point, post, prepare, put, rest, seat, settle, situate, spread, station, stick, train, turn, wedge, zero in |
| Notes: | to set is to place something; to sit is to be seated |
| Antonyms: | displace, remove |
| Main Entry: | timber |
| 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 |
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