| 单词 | timber |
| 释义 | timber (once / 241 pages) 1n 2n Timber! That's the call of warning you hear before a tree falls. That's because those lumberjacks are going to use the tree to make timber, otherwise known as "lumber" or the wood used for construction. Timber can actually be the trees used to make or build something, or the wood that comes from those trees, which you could also call "lumber." You might think that when a pirate yells "shiver me timbers!" he's referring to his wooden peg leg. But the timbers he's talking about are actually the boards and planks used to build the frame of a ship. WORD FAMILYtimber: timbers USAGE EXAMPLESThat’s the way they do things at Starker Forests, the Philomath timber company founded by Oregon Agricultural College forestry professor T.J. Washington Times(Dec 31, 2016) The resulting panels are lighter and less energy-intensive than concrete and steel and much faster to assemble on-site than regular timber, proponents say. Washington Times(Dec 30, 2016) Cross Timbers State Park: The hike along the half-mile Post Oak Trail begins at 2 p.m. Washington Times(Dec 30, 2016) 1 1n the wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material Syn|Hypo|Hyper lumber stock lumber used in the construction of something stripthin piece of wood or metal board, planka stout length of sawn timber; made in a wide variety of sizes and used for many purposes plankingplanks collectively; a quantity of planks battena strip fixed to something to hold it firm cleata strip of wood or metal used to strengthen the surface to which it is attached fingerboarda narrow strip of wood on the neck of some stringed instruments (violin or cello or guitar etc) where the strings are held against the wood with the fingers furring, furring stripstrip used to give a level surface for attaching wallboard jackstraw, spillikina thin strip of wood used in playing the game of jackstraws matchboarda board that has a groove cut into one edge and a tongue cut into the other so they fit tightly together (as in a floor) pale, picketa wooden strip forming part of a fence skidone of a pair of planks used to make a track for rolling or sliding objects slat, splinea thin strip (wood or metal) splinea flexible strip (wood or rubber) used in drawing curved lines toothpickpick consisting of a small strip of wood or plastic; used to pick food from between the teeth strake, walethick plank forming a ridge along the side of a wooden ship chipboard, hardboarda cheap hard material made from wood chips that are pressed together and bound with synthetic resin deala plank of softwood (fir or pine board) building material material used for constructing buildings 2n a beam made of wood Hypo|Hyper coulisse a timber member grooved to take a sliding panel sternpost(nautical) the principal upright timber at the stern of a vessel stringera long horizontal timber to connect uprights two-by-foura timber measuring (slightly under) 2 inches by 4 inches in cross section beam long thick piece of wood or metal or concrete, etc., used in construction 3n a post made of wood Hyper post an upright consisting of a piece of timber or metal fixed firmly in an upright position 4n land that is covered with trees and shrubs 2Syn|Exp|Hypo|Hyper forest, timberland, woodland Black Forest a hilly forest region in southwestern Germany Sherwood Forestan ancient forest in central England; formerly a royal hunting ground; said to be the home of Robin Hood and his merry band Wildernessa wooded region in northeastern Virginia near Spotsylvania where bloody but inconclusive battles were fought in the American Civil War greenwood woodlands in full leaf riparian forestwoodlands along the banks of stream or river silva, sylvathe forest trees growing in a country or region tree farma forest (or part of a forest) where trees are grown for commercial use pinetuman area planted with pine trees or related conifers biome a major biotic community characterized by the dominant forms of plant life and the prevailing climate dry land, earth, ground, land, solid ground, terra firmathe solid part of the earth's surface n (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound) Syn|Hypo|Hyper quality, timbre, tone harmonic any of a series of musical tones whose frequencies are integral multiples of the frequency of a fundamental resonancethe quality imparted to voiced speech sounds by the action of the resonating chambers of the throat and mouth and nasal cavities color, coloration, colour, colourationthe timbre of a musical sound nasalitya quality of the voice that is produced by nasal resonators plangency, resonance, reverberance, ringing, sonority, sonorousness, vibrancyhaving the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant shrillness, stridence, stridencyhaving 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 nasal twang, twangexaggerated nasality in speech (as in some regional dialects) head register, head tone, head voicethe higher ranges of the voice in speaking or singing; the vibrations of sung notes are felt in the head chest register, chest tone, chest voicethe lower ranges of the voice in speaking or singing sound property an attribute of sound |
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