timber

«timber» in Mova's school dictionary: wood that is cut and used for building or making things — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (timber — mostly uncountable; timbers); interjection (Timber!)

meaning for a pupil

1) Timber is wood that is cut and used for building or making things. tree →

2) Timbers are the large wooden beams of a building or ship. tree →

3) Timber! is a shout made by tree-cutters to warn people that a tree is falling. tree →

sense in the lessons

In design and technology lessons pupils work with timber. In history, old houses have timber frames and ships were built of timber. In geography, forests produce timber, and cutting too many trees causes problems. In the UK and Australia timber is the usual word; Americans say lumber for cut wood.

examples

• The shed is built from timber. tree →
• Old Tudor houses have black timber frames. tree →
• The ship's timbers creaked in the storm. tree →
• Logs are taken to the mill to be cut into timber. tree →
• Timber! shouted the woodcutter as the tree fell. tree →
• The forest is grown for timber. tree →
• They had hardly reached the other side when there was a crashing of beams and timbers. tree →

note

Mostly uncountable: some timber, a piece of timber. Timbers (plural) means beams. Do not confuse with timbre, a word for the special sound quality of a voice or instrument, which sounds the same. US English often uses lumber.

In the corpora

• So Hiram gave Solomon timber of cedar and timber of cypress according to all his desire.
• For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.
• even to prepare me timber in abundance; for the house which I am about to build shall be great and wonderful.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «timber» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.