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单词 teak
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teakn.

Brit. /tiːk/, U.S. /tik/
Forms: 1600s–1700s teke, 1700s teek, tecka, 1700s–1800s teck, tick, 1800s tæk, teake, 1700s– teak.
Etymology: < Portuguese teca (1602–1644 in Yule), < Malayalam tēkka; in Tamil tēkku, Telugu tēku, Tulu tekki, Kannada tēgu, tēga, tēṅgu.
1.
a. A large East Indian tree ( Tectona grandis, N.O. Verbenaceæ), with opposite egg-shaped leaves and panicles of white flowers; more usually, its timber, a dark, heavy, oily wood of great strength and durability, used largely in the construction of ships and railway carriages, and in India also for building houses, and for sleepers, furniture, etc.; distinctively called Indian teak.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood of specific trees > [noun] > teak
teak1698
teak timber1727
teak-wood1783
teak-oil1968
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular timber trees or shrubs > non-British timber trees > [noun] > Asian > teak trees
teak1698
teak-tree1801
ben teak1866
1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 142 The Sheds here were round, thatch'd, and lined with broad Leaves of Teke (the Timber Ships are built with).
1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 178 Teke..is the firmest Wood they have for Building.
1757 J. H. Grose Voy. E.-Indies x. 174 As to the wood, it is a sort, called teak, to the full as durable as oak.
1783 J. O. Justamond tr. G. T. F. Raynal Philos. Hist. Europeans in Indies (new ed.) II. 244 Their ships..of a very strong wood called Teck.
a1785 A. Parsons Trav. (1808) x. 215 This timber and plank are peculiar to India only;..it is called tick.
1793 W. Hodges Trav. India 87 I found the teek, a timber remarkable for its hardness and size.
1811 tr. Niebuhr's Trav. Arabia cliv, in J. Pinkerton Gen. Coll. Voy. X. 216 That excellent wood called Tæk.
1853 F. Wayland Mem. Life Judson I. xi. 413 Large forests of teak have been discovered in the interior [of Burma].
1883 Chambers's Encycl. IX. 325/1 Indian Teak (Tectona grandis).
b. A fashion shade resembling the colour of teak-wood, a rich reddish brown.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > brown or brownness > [noun] > reddish brown
russet1422
red-brown?a1450
reddish-brown1530
sorrel1530
mordoré1791
alezan1820
mahogany1822
henna1911
teak1934
1934 in Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang.
1971 Vogue 15 Sept. 49 (advt.) Rich autumn colours like wine, mole and teak.
2. Applied, usually with defining words, to other trees which produce strong or durable timber, or otherwise resemble the Indian teak; as African teak n. Oldfieldia africana (N.O. Euphorbiaceæ), or its wood, which is too heavy to be exclusively used in shipbuilding. ben teak n. Lagerstrœmia microcarpa, of tropical Asia; also, a poor quality of teak. teak of New South Wales n. a small tree, Endiandra glauca, N.O. Leguminosæ, the wood of which is fine-grained and dense (Miller Plant-n. 1884). teak of New Zealand n. the puriri n., Vitex littoralis. white teak n. of Queensland, a species of Flindersia, N.O. Meliaceæ. In Australia also applied to Dissilaria baloghioides, N.O. Euphorbiaceæ (Morris Austral Eng.). See also bastard teak n. at bastard n., adj., and adv. Compounds 2.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular timber trees or shrubs > non-British timber trees > [noun] > African
shittima1382
citrus1555
cam-wood1699
jacaranda1753
kokerboom1774
quiver tree1789
geelhout1790
rooihout1790
yellowwood1790
mat-wood1792
assegai1793
assegai tree1793
hardpear1801
rooi els1801
argan1809
beaver-wood1810
mat tree1812
saffraan1819
salie1819
sneezewood1834
African teak1842
hyawaballi1851
sage-wood1854
mvule1858
til1858
yari-yari1858
cannibal stinkwood1859
kiaat1862
knobwood1862
milkwood1862
tryssil1862
sulphur-tree1863
khaya1864
cailcedra1866
flat-crown1868
umzimbeet1870
kuka1882
odum1887
iroko1890
opepe1891
Natal mahogany1904
muhimbi1906
obeche1906
agba1908
makoré1915
afara1920
agboin1920
abura1921
podo1922
afrormosia1923
guarea1936
Mansonia1936
dahoma1955
utile1956
society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood of specific trees > [noun] > teak > types of
African teak1842
ben teak1866
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular timber trees or shrubs > non-British timber trees > [noun] > Australasian
tallow-tree1704
rata1773
rosewood1779
red mahogany1798
ironbark1799
wild orange1802
red gum1803
rewarewa1817
red cedar1818
black-butted gum1820
Huon pine1820
miro1820
oak1821
horoeka1831
hinau1832
maire1832
totara1832
blackbutt1833
marri1833
raspberry jam tree1833
kohekohe1835
puriri1835
tawa1839
hickory1840
whau1840
pukatea1841
titoki1842
butterbush1843
iron gum1844
York gum1846
mangeao1848
myall1848
ironheart1859
lilly-pilly1860
belah1862
flindosa1862
jarrah1866
silky oak1866
teak of New South Wales1866
Tolosa-wood1866
turmeric-tree1866
walking-stick palm1869
tooart1870
queenwood1873
tarairi1873
boree1878
yate1880
axe-breaker1884
bangalay1884
coachwood1884
cudgerie1884
feather-wood1884
forest mahogany1884
maiden's blush1884
swamp mahogany1884
tallow-wood1884
teak of New Zealand1884
wandoo1884
heartwood1885
ivorywood1887
Jimmy Low1887
Burdekin plum1889
corkwood1889
pigeon-berry ash1889
red beech1889
silver beech1889
turnip-wood1891
black bean1895
red bean1895
pinkwood1898
poplar1898
rose mahogany1898
quandong1908
lancewood1910
New Zealand honeysuckle1910
Queensland walnut1919
mahogany gum1944
Australian mahogany1948
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular timber trees or shrubs > non-British timber trees > [noun] > Asian > teak trees
teak1698
teak-tree1801
ben teak1866
1842 W. T. Brande Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art 1217/1 A species of timber called African teak is pretty largely imported..from the west coast of Africa... It is not teak.
1858 R. Hogg Veg. Kingdom 663 African Teak, or Oak, is the wood of Oldfieldia africana.
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 1128 Ben Teak, the wood of Lagerströmia microcarpa; also applied to inferior Teak. New South Wales Teak, Endiandra glauca.
1878 H. M. Stanley Through Dark Continent II. vi. 156 Many a village stood..embowered in the thick shade of tamarind and bombax, teak.
1883 Chambers's Encycl. IX. 325/1 The leaves of many different trees have been brought to botanists as those of the African teak.
1884 W. Miller Dict. Eng. Names Plants Vitex littoralis, New Zealand Teak or Puriri-tree.

Compounds

attributive and in other combinations, as teak forest, teak log, teak-oil, teak ship, teak timber, teak-tree, teak-wood; teak-built (in quot. 1847 fig.), teak-lined, teak-panelled, teak-producing, teak-veneered adjs.; teak-oak n. the teak (sense 1).
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood of specific trees > [noun] > teak
teak1698
teak timber1727
teak-wood1783
teak-oil1968
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel of specific construction or shape > [noun] > wooden > of specific wood
teak ship1783
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular timber trees or shrubs > non-British timber trees > [noun] > Asian > teak trees
teak1698
teak-tree1801
ben teak1866
society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood of specific trees > [adjective] > other specific tree
aldernOE
ashena1400
terebinthenc1440
elmen1466
yewen1501
Brazil1577
walnut-tree1687
arbuteana1706
white pine1708
mahogany1730
teak-built1835
the world > time > duration > [adjective] > long-lasting or enduring
longeOE
longsomeeOE
long of lifeOE
lastinga1225
cleaving1340
continualc1340
dwellingc1380
long-livinga1382
everlastingc1384
long-duringa1387
long-lasting?a1400
long-liveda1400
broadc1400
permanable?c1422
perseverant?a1425
permanentc1425
perdurable?a1439
continuedc1440
abiding1448
unremoved1455
eternalc1460
long-continued1464
continuing1526
long-enduring1527
enduring1532
immortal1538
diuturn?1541
veterated1547
resiant?1567
stayinga1568
well-wearinga1568
substantive1575
pertinacious1578
extant1581
ceaseless1590
marble1596
of length1597
longeval1598
diuturnal1599
nine-lived1600
chronic1601
unexhausted1602
chronical1604
endurable1607
continuant1610
indeflourishing1610
aged1611
indurant1611
continuatea1616
perennious1628
seculara1631
undiscontinueda1631
continuated1632
untransitory1632
long-spun1633
momently1641
stative1643
outliving1645
constant1653
long-descended1660
voluminousa1661
perduring1664
perdurant1671
livelong1673
perennial1676
longeve1678
consequential1681
unquenched1703
lifelong1746
momentary1755
inveterate1780
stabile1797
persistent1826
unpassing1831
all-time1846
year-long1846
teak-built1847
lengthful1855
long-term1867
long haul1873
sticky1879
week-to-week1879
perenduring1883
long-range1885
longish1889
long-time1902
long run1904
long-life1915
the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > stability, fixity > [adjective] > like hard substance
adamantinea1382
rock-like1595
unmalleable1606
immarbled1641
iron-bound1648
inflexible1698
cast iron1829
teak-built1847
granitic1862
inelastic1867
petrified1870
ossified1901
shatter-proof1936
sclerotic1965
society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood in specific form > [noun] > undressed trunk or log > types of
butt log1779
upper1877
stave bolt1878
sinker1884
teak log1889
peeler1935
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > wallcovering > [adjective] > wood-panelled > specific
teak-lined1896
teak-panelled1968
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > inlaying, etc., in wood > [adjective] > veneered > specific type
oystered1914
oyster1953
teak-veneered1970
1727 A. Hamilton New Acct. E. Indies I. xv. 177 Gundavee.., where good Quantities of Teak Timber are cut.
1783 J. Price Tracts I. 191 Ships..built in India of tekewood, and bound with iron spikes and bolts.
1783 J. Rennell Mem. Map Hindoostan vi. 89 (note) Teek ships of 40 years old and upwards, are no uncommon objects.
1794 Trans. Soc. Arts 12 314 Tickwood plant or Iattee.
1801 Asiatic Ann. Reg. 1800 Misc. Tracts 187 During the two last days I had occasionally observed the teak-tree.
1835 J. E. Alexander Sketches in Portugal viii. 179 In May, the fleet of her Most Faithful Majesty consisted of the following ships:—..50, Don Pedro,..Very strong, teak-built.
1847 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) xxxii. 333 That teak-built and trim ballad.
1869 E. J. Reed Our Iron-clad Ships ii. 26 In the ‘Bellerophon’, the armour-plating is 6 inches, and the teak backing 10 inches thick.
1884 W. Miller Dict. Eng. Names Plants African Teak-tree, Oldfieldia africana.
1889 R. Kipling From Sea to Sea (1899) i. iii. 220 I saw the elephants playing with the teak logs.
1896 Daily News 30 Dec. 6/3 The library at Groote Schuur is a cosy, teak-lined room.
1968 A. Diment Bang Bang Birds vi. 89 We stepped into a small, teak-panelled lift.
1968 J. Arnold Shell Bk. Country Crafts 198 For such articles as salad-bowls..teak-oil is used.
1970 Interior Design Dec. 753/3 Small teak-veneered tables.
1979 P. Way Sunrise xv. 157 Two wrought-iron gates, massively reinforced by teak logs.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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