woodnoun
uk/wʊd/us/wʊd/wood noun (MATERIAL)
A2 [ C or U ] a hard substance that forms the branches and trunks of trees and can be used as a building material, for making things, or as a fuel:
He gathered some wood to build a fire.
She attached a couple of planks of wood to the wall for shelves.
Mahogany is a hard wood and pine is a soft wood.
The room was heated by a wood-burning stove.
[ C ] a type of golf club (= long, thin stick) with a rounded wooden end, used for hitting the ball over long distances:
He likes to use a number 2 wood to tee off.
More examples
- He was chopping wood in the yard.
- The house was built of wood but faced with brick.
- A flute is made of wood or metal in three jointed sections.
- In cheap furniture, plastic is often used to simulate wood.
- Screw this piece of wood to the wall.
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Types of wood
- balsa wood
- bark
- close-grained
- ebony
- firewood
- hickory
- jelutong
- lumber
- maple
- matchwood
- MDF
- mulga
- oak
- oaken
- pine
- rosewood
- three-ply
- wood pulp
- wooden
- yew
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Golf
wood noun (GROUP OF TREES)
A2 [ C ] also woods [ plural ] an area of land covered with a thick growth of trees:
an oak wood
We went for a walk in the woods after lunch.
See also
woodland
More examples
- The wood lies on the southern extremity of the estate.
- The cottage is situated in the middle of a wood at the end of a narrow potholed lane.
- From the top of the hill we could see our house and the woods beyond.
- The police searched the woods for the missing boy.
- We go for a ramble through the woods every Saturday.
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Forestry
- afforestation
- arborist
- brushwood
- cut sth down
- deforestation
- flitch
- forested
- forester
- glade
- grove
- jungle
- logging
- logjam
- old growth
- ranger
- saw sth down
- spinney
- the timberline
- tree-lined
- wooded
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Idiom(s)
be out of the woods
from the wood
not see the wood for the trees
woodadjective
uk/wʊd/us/wʊd/made of wood:
Solid wood furniture is sturdy and durable.
We sanded and polished the wood floor in the living room.
Much of the original 18th-century wood panelling was destroyed in the fire.
See also
wooden
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Types of wood
- balsa wood
- bark
- close-grained
- ebony
- firewood
- hickory
- jelutong
- lumber
- maple
- matchwood
- MDF
- mulga
- oak
- oaken
- pine
- rosewood
- three-ply
- wood pulp
- wooden
- yew
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