单词 | wood |
释义 | wood (once / 39 pages) n WORD FAMILY wood: underwood, wooden, woodlet, woods, woody+/underwood: underwoods/wooden: woodenest, woodenly, woodenness/woods: woodses, woodsy/woodsy: woodsiest, woodsiness/woody: nonwoody, woodier, woodiest, woodiness, woodyer USAGE EXAMPLESInspectors detect the larvae by looking for the powdery product of their wood boring, which looks like sawdust. Washington Times(Jan 03, 2017) Tiger Woods misses cut at Masters, but says it’s a process. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) Proceeds from a so-called revolutionary tax imposed on wood sales was transferred to his personal accounts, prosecutors allege. The Guardian(Jan 02, 2017) 1n the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees Hypo|Hyper bentwood wood that is steamed until it becomes pliable and then is shaped for use in making furniture pinestraight-grained durable and often resinous white to yellowish timber of any of numerous trees of the genus Pinus larchwood of a larch tree firnonresinous wood of a fir tree cedar, cedarwooddurable aromatic wood of any of numerous cedar trees; especially wood of the red cedar often used for cedar chests sprucelight soft moderately strong wood of spruce trees; used especially for timbers and millwork hemlocksoft coarse splintery wood of a hemlock tree especially the western hemlock cypresswood of any of various cypress trees especially of the genus Cupressus redwoodthe soft reddish wood of either of two species of sequoia trees citronwood, sandaracdurable fragrant wood; used in building (as in the roof of the cathedral at Cordova, Spain) kauriwhite close-grained wood of a tree of the genus Agathis especially Agathis australis yellowwoodthe yellow wood of any of various yellowwood trees yewwood of a yew; especially the durable fine-grained light brown or red wood of the English yew valued for cabinetwork and archery bows lancewooddurable straight-grained wood of the lacewood tree; used for building and cabinetwork and tools true tulipwood, tulipwood, white poplar, whitewood, yellow poplarlight easily worked wood of a tulip tree; used for furniture and veneer zebrawoodhandsomely striped or mottled wood of the zebrawood tree; used especially for cabinetwork cocoswood, cocuswood, granadilla woodwood of the granadilla tree used for making musical instruments especially clarinets shittimwoodwood of the shittah tree used to make the ark of the Hebrew Tabernacle sabicu, sabicu woodthe wood of the sabicu which resembles mahogany bamboothe hard woody stems of bamboo plants; used in construction and crafts and fishing poles tulipwoodthe variegated or showily striped ornamental wood of various tulipwood trees balsa, balsa woodstrong lightweight wood of the balsa tree used especially for floats silver quandongpale easily worked timber from the quandong tree obechethe wood of an African obeche tree; used especially for veneering basswood, lindensoft light-colored wood of any of various linden trees; used in making crates and boxes and in carving and millwork beefwoodany of several heavy hard reddish chiefly tropical woods of the families Casuarinaceae and Proteaceae; some used for cabinetwork briarwood, brier-wood, brierwoodwood from the hard woody root of the briar Erica arborea; used to make tobacco pipes beech, beechwoodwood of any of various beech trees; used for flooring and containers and plywood and tool handles chestnutwood of any of various chestnut trees of the genus Castanea oakthe hard durable wood of any oak; used especially for furniture and flooring birchhard close-grained wood of any of various birch trees; used especially in furniture and interior finishes and plywood alderwood of any of various alder trees; resistant to underwater rot; used for bridges etc hazelthe fine-grained wood of a hazelnut tree (genus Corylus) and the hazel tree (Australian genus Pomaderris) olivehard yellow often variegated wood of an olive tree; used in cabinetwork ashstrong elastic wood of any of various ash trees; used for furniture and tool handles and sporting goods such as baseball bats ironwoodexceptionally tough or hard wood of any of a number of ironwood trees walnuthard dark-brown wood of any of various walnut trees; used especially for furniture and paneling hickoryvaluable tough heavy hardwood from various hickory trees pecanwood of a pecan tree pyinmarelatively hard durable timber from the Queen's crape myrtle; light reddish brown, smooth and lustrous gum, gumwoodwood or lumber from any of various gum trees especially the sweet gum eucalyptuswood of any of various eucalyptus trees valued as timber tupelopale soft wood of a tupelo tree especially the water gum poonwood of any poon tree; used for masts and spars red lauanhard heavy red wood of the red lauan tree; often sold as Philippine mahogany elm, elmwoodhard tough wood of an elm tree; used for e.g. implements and furniture brazilwoodheavy wood of various brazilwood trees; used for violin bows and as dyewoods locusthardwood from any of various locust trees logwoodvery hard brown to brownish-red heartwood of a logwood tree; used in preparing a purplish red dye rosewoodhard dark reddish wood of a rosewood tree having a strongly marked grain; used in cabinetwork kingwoodhandsome violet-streaked wood of the kingwood tree; used especially in cabinetwork granadilla wooddark red hardwood derived from the cocobolo and used in making musical instruments e.g. clarinets blackwoodvery dark wood of any of several blackwood trees Panama redwood, quirahard heavy red wood of a quira tree red sandalwood, ruby woodhard durable wood of red sandalwood trees (Pterocarpus santalinus); prized for cabinetwork black locuststrong stiff wood of a black-locust tree; very resistant to decay cherrywood of any of various cherry trees especially the black cherry fruitwoodwood of various fruit trees (as apple or cherry or pear) used especially in cabinetwork lemonwoodhard tough elastic wood of the lemonwood tree; used for making bows and fishing rods incense woodfragrant wood of two incense trees of the genus Protium mahoganywood of any of various mahogany trees; much used for cabinetwork and furniture satinwoodhard yellowish wood of a satinwood tree having a satiny luster; used for fine cabinetwork and tools orangewoodfine-grained wood of an orange tree; used in fine woodwork citronwoodwood of a citron tree guaiac wood, guaiacum woodheartwood of a palo santo; yields an aromatic oil used in perfumes guaiac, guaiacum, lignum vitaehard greenish-brown wood of the lignum vitae tree and other trees of the genus Guaiacum poplarsoft light-colored non-durable wood of the poplar sandalwoodclose-grained fragrant yellowish heartwood of the true sandalwood; has insect repelling properties and is used for carving and cabinetwork Turkish boxwood, boxwoodvery hard tough close-grained light yellow wood of the box (particularly the common box); used in delicate woodwork: musical instruments and inlays and engraving blocks maplewood of any of various maple trees; especially the hard close-grained wood of the sugar maple; used especially for furniture and flooring sumacwood of a sumac ebonyhard dark-colored heartwood of the ebony tree; used in cabinetwork and for piano keys lacewood, sycamorevariably colored and sometimes variegated hard tough elastic wood of a sycamore tree teak, teakwoodhard strong durable yellowish-brown wood of teak trees; resistant to insects and to warping; used for furniture and in shipbuilding dogwoodhard tough wood of any dogwood of the genus Cornus; resembles boxwood sapwoodnewly formed outer wood lying between the cambium and the heartwood of a tree or woody plant; usually light colored; active in water conduction duramen, heartwoodthe older inactive central wood of a tree or woody plant; usually darker and denser than the surrounding sapwood burlthe wood cut from a tree burl or outgrowth; often used decoratively in veneer brushwoodthe wood from bushes or small branches cabinet woodmoderately dense wood used for cabinetwork driftwoodwood that is floating or that has been washed ashore loga segment of the trunk of a tree when stripped of branches matchwoodwood suitable for making matchsticks matchwood, splinterswood in small pieces or splinters sawdustfine particles of wood made by sawing wood wickerslender flexible branches or twigs (especially of willow or some canes); used for wickerwork dyewoodany wood from which dye is obtained hardwoodthe wood of broad-leaved dicotyledonous trees (as distinguished from the wood of conifers) deal, softwoodwood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir) raw woodwood that is not finished or painted knota hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a branch emerged knotty pinepine lumber with many knots; used especially for paneling and furniture white pinesoft white wood of white pine trees yellow pinehard yellowish wood of a yellow pine red cedarfragrant reddish wood of any of various red cedar trees douglas firstrong durable timber of a douglas fir cypress pineany of several evergreen trees or shrubs of Australia and northern New Caledonia Port Orford cedarthe wood of the Port Orford cedar tree juniperconiferous shrub or small tree with berrylike cones redwood, sequoiaeither of two huge coniferous California trees that reach a height of 300 feet; sometimes placed in the Taxodiaceae Taxodium distichum, bald cypress, pond bald cypress, southern cypress, swamp cypresscommon cypress of southeastern United States having trunk expanded at base; found in coastal swamps and flooding river bottoms Taxodium ascendens, bald cypress, pond cypresssmaller than and often included in the closely related Taxodium distichum Mexican swamp cypress, Montezuma cypress, Taxodium mucronatumcypress of river valleys of Mexican highlands Callitris quadrivalvis, Tetraclinis articulata, sandarac, sandarac treelarge coniferous evergreen tree of North Africa and Spain having flattened branches and scalelike leaves yielding a hard fragrant wood; bark yields a resin used in varnishes fumed oakoak given a weathered appearance by exposure to fumes of ammonia; used for cabinetwork holm oakhard wood of the holm oak tree hazelwood, red gum, satin walnut, sweet gumreddish-brown wood and lumber from heartwood of the sweet gum tree used to make furniture Andaman redwood, amboynamottled curly-grained wood of Pterocarpus indicus applewoodwood of any of various apple trees of the genus Malus Philippine mahoganyred hardwood of the Philippine mahogany tree used for cigar boxes and interior finish cigar-box cedarfragrant wood much used for cigar boxes bird's-eye maplemaple wood having a wavy grain with eyelike markings nurse loga large decomposing tree trunk that has fallen, usually in a forest; the decaying wood provides moisture and nutrients for a variety of insects and plants saw loglog large enough to be sawed into boards pulpwoodsoftwood used to make paper plant material, plant substance material derived from plants 2n the trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area Syn|Hypo|Hyper forest, woods bosk a small wooded area grovea small growth of trees without underbrush junglean impenetrable equatorial forest rain forest, rainforesta forest with heavy annual rainfall old growth, virgin forestforest or woodland having a mature or overly mature ecosystem more or less uninfluenced by human activity second growtha second growth of trees covering an area where the original stand was destroyed by fire or cutting temperate rain foresta rain forest in a temperate area selva, tropical rain foresta rain forest in a tropical area botany, flora, vegetation all the plant life in a particular region or period 3n any wind instrument other than the brass instruments Syn|Hypo|Hyper woodwind, woodwind instrument beating-reed instrument, reed, reed instrument a musical instrument that sounds by means of a vibrating reed flute, transverse flutea high-pitched woodwind instrument; a slender tube closed at one end with finger holes on one end and an opening near the closed end across which the breath is blown double reed, double-reed instrumenta woodwind that has a pair of joined reeds that vibrate together fifea small high-pitched flute similar to a piccolo; has a shrill tone and is used chiefly to accompany drums in a marching band free-reeda reed that does not fit closely over the aperture nose flutea flute that is played by blowing through the nostrils (used in some Asian countries) piccoloa small flute; pitched an octave above the standard flute single-reed instrument, single-reed woodwinda beating-reed instrument with a single reed (as a clarinet or saxophone) wind, wind instrument a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by an enclosed column of air that is moved by the breath 4n a golf club with a long shaft used to hit long shots; originally made with a wooden head metal woods are now standard Hypo|Hyper brassie (formerly) a golfing wood with a face more elevated that a driver but less than a spoon driver, number one wooda golf club (a wood) with a near vertical face that is used for hitting long shots from the tee metal woodgolf wood with a metal head instead of the traditional wooden head spoonformerly a golfing wood with an elevated face club, golf club, golf-club golf equipment used by a golfer to hit a golf ball Wood (once / 1308 pages) 1n 2n 3n 4n WORD FAMILY Wood USAGE EXAMPLESThree of the four will spend time in prison for the fires in rural parts of Wood County south of Toledo. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) Defense attorney Scott Wood also questioned instructions to the jury and alleged the court wrongly found Kelly guilty of contempt. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) Wood framing inside a wall ignited when an outdoor gas fireplace in a courtyard was lit. Washington Times(Dec 31, 2016) 1 n English writer of novels about murders and thefts and forgeries (1814-1887) 2Syn|Exp Ellen Price Wood, Mrs. Henry Wood author, writer writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay) n English conductor (1869-1944) 3Syn|Exp Sir Henry Joseph Wood, Sir Henry Wood conductor, director, music director the person who leads a musical group n United States painter noted for works based on life in the Midwest (1892-1942) 4Syn|Exp Grant Wood painter an artist who paints n United States film actress (1938-1981) Syn|Exp Natalie Wood actress a female actor |
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