📖 W — The English dictionary · page 28

wondrously — Everyday, meaning 1: In a way that is wonderful and amazing, so beautiful or strange that you stop and stare.↗ Example: The birch looked wondrously beautiful in the summer wind.↗ · The sunlight shone wondrously through the red and blue glass.↗ · The garden was wondrously quiet after the storm.↗ · So Manoah took the kid with the meal-offering, and offered it upon the rock unto the LORD; and the angel did wondrously, and Manoah and his wife looked on.↗ (Prophets JDG.13.19, JPS 1917)↗ · And ye shall eat in plenty and be satisfied, and shall praise the name of the LORD your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you; and My people shall never be ashamed.↗ (Prophets JOL.2.26, JPS 1917)↗

wonky — Everyday, meaning 1: (informal, UK, Australia) Wonky means crooked, not straight or not level.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal) Wonky means shaky, weak or not working properly, as in a wonky table or wonky Wi-Fi.↗ Example: That picture on the wall is wonky.↗ · My bike wheel is a bit wonky.↗ · The table's wonky; put a coaster under the leg.↗ · Supermarkets sell wonky carrots cheaply.↗ · He has a wonky smile.↗ · The Wi-Fi is wonky today.↗

wont — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal, old-fashioned) If someone is wont to do something, they usually do it; it is their habit.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal, old-fashioned) «As is his wont» means as he usually does.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Without an apostrophe, «wont» is also a common misspelling of «won't» (will not).↗ Early Modern English, meaning 1: Accustomed; in the habit of doing something.↗ Example: As was his wont, Grandad fell asleep after lunch.↗ (old-fashioned)↗ · She was wont to sing while she cooked.↗ · The old cat was wont to sleep by the fire.↗ · As is her wont, the teacher arrived early.↗ · «I won't go» — not «I wont go».↗ · He was wont to walk five miles each morning.↗ · Woe was drowned, and the merchant began to live again as he had been wont to do of old.↗ · We remember the fish, which we were wont to eat in Egypt for nought; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic; (Torah NUM.11.5, JPS 1917)↗ · And the ass said unto Balaam: 'Am not I thine ass, upon which thou hast ridden all thy life long unto this day? was I ever wont to do so unto thee?'↗ And he said: 'Nay.'↗ (Torah NUM.22.30, JPS 1917)↗ · Or if it be known that the ox was wont to gore in time past, and its owner hath not kept it in; he shall surely pay ox for ox, and the dead beast shall be his own.↗ (Torah EXO.21.36, JPS 1917)↗ · Great are Thy compassions, O LORD; quicken me as Thou art wont.↗ (Writings PSA.119.156, JPS 1917)↗ · Hear my voice according unto Thy lovingkindness; quicken me, O LORD, as Thou art wont.↗ (Writings PSA.119.149, JPS 1917)↗ · Turn Thee towards me, and be gracious unto me, as is Thy wont to do unto those that love Thy name.↗ (Writings PSA.119.132, JPS 1917)↗ · We remember the fish, which we were wont to eat in Egypt for nought; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic;↗ (Torah NUM.11.5, JPS 1917) · I'll take away the last little one, and you wont have to bother about her.”↗ (English Fairy Tales) · And the ass said unto Balaam: 'Am not I thine ass, upon which thou hast ridden all thy life long unto this day? was I ever wont to do so unto thee?'↗ And he said: 'Nay.'↗ (Torah NUM.22.30, JPS 1917)

woo — Everyday, meaning 1: (old-fashioned) To try to make someone love you so they will be your boyfriend, girlfriend or partner.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To try hard to get someone's support, such as voters or customers.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (informal) «Woo!» or «woo-hoo!» is a cry of excitement.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (slang) «Woo» or «woo-woo» means ideas that are mystical and not backed by science.↗ Example: The prince wooed the princess with songs.↗ · The shop is trying to woo new customers with discounts.↗ · Both parties are wooing young voters.↗ · Woo-hoo, it's snowing!↗ · Woo, we won!↗ · She thinks crystal healing is a lot of woo.↗ · A suitor comes to woo her.↗

wood — Everyday, meaning 1: Wood is the hard material that trees are made of, used for building, furniture and fires.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A wood, or the woods, is a small forest.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A piece of wood is a plank, stick or log.↗ Example: He has a piece of wood 2 meters long.↗ · She cut the wood into 4 equal parts.↗ · Each birdhouse needs 3 pieces of wood.↗ · They walked 2 km through the woods.↗ · The table is made of wood.↗ · Wood floats, but a stone sinks.↗ · Little Red Riding Hood walked through the woods.↗ · We gathered dry wood for the campfire.↗ · They came to a great wood.↗ · and rams' skins dyed red, and sealskins, and acacia-wood; (Torah EXO.25.5, JPS 1917)↗ · And he made staves of acacia-wood, and overlaid them with gold.↗ (Torah EXO.37.4, JPS 1917)↗ · And thou shalt make staves of acacia-wood, and overlay them with gold.↗ (Torah EXO.25.13, JPS 1917)↗ · He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.↗ (Writings JOB.41.19, JPS 1917)↗ · And when they came to the Jordan, they cut down wood.↗ (Prophets 2KI.6.4, JPS 1917)↗ · and for the wood-offering, at times appointed, and for the first-fruits.↗ (Writings NEH.13.31, JPS 1917)↗

woodcut — Everyday, meaning 1: A picture printed from a block of wood that has had a design cut into it.↗ Example: The printer made a woodcut of a bird.↗ · The sheet showed a woodcut of a comet over the town.↗ · We pressed the inked block onto paper to make a woodcut.↗

woodcutter — Everyday, meaning 1: A person whose job is cutting down trees or chopping wood.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (art) A person who makes woodcuts, pictures printed from carved wood.↗ Example: The woodcutter lived with his family at the edge of the forest.↗ · In some versions, a woodcutter saves Little Red Riding Hood.↗ · The woodcutter carried his axe over his shoulder.↗ · The woodcutter cut 4 logs an hour, so in 3 hours he cut 12.↗ · Hansel and Gretel's father was a poor woodcutter.↗ · Modern woodcutters use chainsaws and safety helmets.↗ · A LION demanded the daughter of a woodcutter in marriage.↗

wooden — Everyday, meaning 1: Wooden means made of wood.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Wooden means stiff and without feeling, like a wooden smile or wooden acting.↗ Example: We stirred the soup with a wooden spoon.↗ · The old house has a wooden floor.↗ · Pinocchio was a wooden puppet.↗ · A wooden ruler doesn't bend.↗ · The bridge is made of wooden planks.↗ · The actor's voice sounded wooden.↗ · Others rode on bicycles or on wooden horses.↗

woodland — Everyday, meaning 1: Woodland is land covered with trees, an area of woods; it is usually smaller and more open than a forest.↗ Example: We went for a walk in the woodland near our house.↗ · Many animals live in woodland.↗ · Bluebells cover the woodland floor in spring.↗ · The woodland was quiet except for birdsong.↗ · Owls hunt at night in the woodlands.↗ · Our class planted trees to make a new woodland.↗

woodlouse — Everyday, meaning 1: A woodlouse is a small grey animal with a hard, jointed shell and fourteen legs that lives in damp, dark places like under stones, logs and leaves.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Some kinds can roll up into a ball when in danger (pill bugs).↗ Example: We found woodlice under the log.↗ · A woodlouse rolled into a ball when I touched it.↗ · Woodlice like damp, dark places.↗ · In our experiment, most woodlice moved to the wet side.↗ · Woodlice eat rotting leaves and wood.↗ · A woodlouse has fourteen legs.↗ · Put the woodlice back where you found them.↗ · In Australia, a woodlouse is called a slater.↗

woodman — Everyday, meaning 1: A man whose work is cutting down trees or cutting and carrying wood; a woodcutter.↗ Example: The woodman carried logs on his back.↗ · The woodman chopped the old tree in two.↗ · Mercury asked the woodman whose axe he had found.↗

woodpecker — Everyday, meaning 1: A woodpecker is a bird that clings to tree trunks and hammers into the wood with its strong, sharp beak to find insects and to make nest holes.↗ Example: We heard a woodpecker drumming on the oak tree.↗ · The woodpecker pecked a hole for its nest.↗ · A woodpecker's tongue is long enough to wrap round its skull.↗ · The green woodpecker hops on lawns to eat ants.↗ · Woodpeckers do not get headaches because of their special skulls.↗ · Woody Woodpecker is a cartoon bird.↗ · The woodpecker held on to the trunk with its stiff tail.↗ · After they had gone some way, they passed a tree-stump, on which a bright coloured woodpecker was tapping.↗

woodpile — Everyday, meaning 1: A woodpile is a neat heap or stack of logs or chopped wood, usually kept outside for burning in a fire or stove.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In older sayings, a hidden problem is sometimes called something hiding in the woodpile.↗ Example: Dad stacked the logs on the woodpile behind the shed.↗ · Grandma asked me to fetch three logs from the woodpile.↗ · A little mouse ran out from under the woodpile.↗ · Wear gloves when you take wood from the woodpile because spiders hide there.↗ · The woodpile was covered with a tarp to keep it dry.↗ · By the end of winter the woodpile was almost gone.↗ · We counted 40 logs in the woodpile and burned 6 a day.↗ · Snakes sometimes sleep in a warm woodpile in Australia, so be careful.↗ · His woodpile was not yet kindled.↗

woodwind — Everyday, meaning 1: The family of musical instruments played by blowing, mostly with a reed or across a hole: flute, recorder, clarinet, oboe, bassoon and saxophone.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The players of these instruments in an orchestra or band.↗ Example: The recorder is a woodwind instrument.↗ · The clarinet and the oboe both belong to the woodwind family.↗ · In the orchestra the woodwind sit behind the violins.↗ · A flute is made of metal but it is still woodwind.↗ · The woodwind played the bird song in «Peter and the Wolf».↗ · My brother is learning the saxophone, which counts as woodwind.↗

woodwork — Everyday, meaning 1: Woodwork is the skill or school subject of making things out of wood.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The woodwork of a building is the parts made of wood, such as doors, window frames and stairs.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (UK, football) «Hit the woodwork» means the ball hit the goal post or crossbar.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: «Come out of the woodwork» means to appear suddenly, often unwelcome.↗ Example: We made a bird box in woodwork.↗ · Always wear goggles in the woodwork room.↗ · Dad is painting the woodwork white.↗ · The striker's shot hit the woodwork.↗ · When I won the prize, long-lost cousins came out of the woodwork.↗ · Measure twice and cut once, the woodwork teacher said.↗ · The houses were called hotels; the woodwork on the windows and balconies was curiously carved.↗

woody — Everyday, meaning 1: Woody plants have hard stems made of wood, like trees and bushes.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A woody place has lots of trees.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Woody can describe a taste or smell like wood.↗ Example: Trees and shrubs are woody plants.↗ · Cut off the woody end of the asparagus.↗ · The garden had a woody corner full of oaks.↗ · Rosemary has a woody stem.↗ · The old cupboard has a woody smell.↗ · Grass is not woody; it bends easily.↗ · High up, on the woody hillside, stood the new mansion.↗

wooer — Everyday, meaning 1: A man who wants to marry a particular woman and pays her attention to win her.↗ Example: Many wooers came to the palace to try to win the princess.↗ · Her wooers brought her gifts every day.↗ · The king's daughter sent away all her wooers but one.↗

woof — Everyday, meaning 1: Woof is the sound a dog makes when it barks, written as a word.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A woof is one bark.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To woof is to bark like a dog.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (weaving, also «weft») The woof is the set of threads that run across a piece of woven cloth.↗ Example: «Woof!↗ Woof!» barked the puppy.↗ · The dog gave a happy woof when we came home.↗ · The big dog woofed at the postman.↗ · «Woof» is an onomatopoeia, like «meow» and «moo».↗ · In weaving, the woof goes over and under the warp.↗ · My baby sister says «woof» every time she sees a dog.↗ · ‘Shuttle, weave both web and woof, Bring my love beneath my roof.’↗ · or in the warp, or in the woof, whether they be of linen, or of wool; or in a skin, or in any thing made of skin.↗ (Torah LEV.13.48, JPS 1917)↗ · And if the priest shall look, and, behold, the plague be not spread in the garment, or in the warp, or in the woof, or in any thing of skin; (Torah LEV.13.53, JPS 1917)↗ · And if it appear still in the garment, or in the warp, or in the woof, or in any thing of skin, it is breaking out, thou shalt burn that wherein the plague is with fire.↗ (Torah LEV.13.57, JPS 1917)↗

wool — Everyday, meaning 1: Wool is the soft, thick hair of sheep and some other animals, like goats and alpacas.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Wool is also the yarn or cloth made from this hair, spun into thread to make warm clothes like jumpers, hats and scarves.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Steel wool is a pad of thin metal threads for scrubbing.↗ Example: She has 5 balls of wool.↗ · Each scarf needs 3 balls of wool.↗ · A sheep gives 4 kg of wool a year.↗ · She used 40 m of wool for a hat.↗ · Grandma knitted me a wool jumper.↗ · Farmers shear the sheep to get their wool.↗ · Wool keeps you warm even when it is a little damp.↗ · The kitten played with a ball of wool.↗ · Thou shalt not wear a mingled stuff, wool and linen together.↗ (Torah DEU.22.11, JPS 1917)↗ · or in the warp, or in the woof, whether they be of linen, or of wool; or in a skin, or in any thing made of skin.↗ (Torah LEV.13.48, JPS 1917)↗ · This is the law of the plague of leprosy in a garment of wool or linen, or in the warp, or in the woof, or in any thing of skin, to pronounce it clean, or to pronounce it unclean.↗ (Torah LEV.13.59, JPS 1917)↗ · He giveth snow like wool; He scattereth the hoar-frost like ashes.↗ (Writings PSA.147.16, JPS 1917)↗ · She seeketh wool and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands.↗ (Writings PRO.31.13, JPS 1917)↗ · Ye did eat the fat, and ye clothed you with the wool, ye killed the fatlings; but ye fed not the sheep.↗ (Prophets EZK.34.3, JPS 1917)↗