wood

«wood» in Mova's school dictionary: the hard material that trees are made of, used for… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (wood, woods)

meaning for a pupil

1) Wood is the hard material that trees are made of, used for building, furniture and fires. tree →

2) A wood, or the woods, is a small forest. tree →

3) A piece of wood is a plank, stick or log. tree →

sense in the lessons

In school maths: a material measured or cut (pieces of wood, logs, planks); material per item is a rate; a walk through the woods. In science: wood comes from trees, floats on water, is a natural material that burns and is a poor conductor of heat. In stories: a cottage in the woods, getting lost in the woods. Phrases: «made of wood», «a piece of wood», «in the woods», «touch wood», «not out of the woods yet» (not safe yet).

examples

• He has a piece of wood 2 meters long. tree →
• She cut the wood into 4 equal parts. tree →
• Each birdhouse needs 3 pieces of wood. tree →
• They walked 2 km through the woods. tree →
• The table is made of wood. tree →
• Wood floats, but a stone sinks. tree →
• Little Red Riding Hood walked through the woods. tree →
• We gathered dry wood for the campfire. tree →
• They came to a great wood. tree →

note

Material «wood» is uncountable («some wood», «a piece of wood»); a forest «a wood», «the woods» is countable. «Wooden» is the adjective: «a wooden spoon». Do not confuse with «would». Maths: material per item is a rate; cutting into equal parts divides. Safety: build a campfire only with a grown-up.

In the corpora

• Film sets are built to look real only from where the camera points; behind, they are often bare wood.
• Woodpeckers hammer wood up to about 20 times a second to find grubs, dig nests and drum to claim a territory.
• The North American wood frog can freeze solid in winter, with its heart stopped, and thaw and hop away in spring.
• African pygmy kingfishers are tiny kingfishers that mostly hunt insects in woods, not fish in rivers.
• Most of a tree's weight comes from carbon dioxide in the air turned into wood, not from the soil.

Trees and pragmatics

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