wooden

«wooden» in Mova's school dictionary: made of wood — 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

adjective

meaning for a pupil

1) Wooden means made of wood. tree →

2) Wooden means stiff and without feeling, like a wooden smile or wooden acting. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science lessons about materials, wooden objects (spoons, chairs, toys) are hard, strong, and do not conduct heat or electricity well, so wooden spoons stay cool in hot pans. Wood floats and burns. In stories, wooden toys and wooden houses often feel old-fashioned; Pinocchio was a wooden puppet. Phrases: wooden spoon (also a prize for coming last), wooden floor, wooden toy, wooden expression.

examples

• We stirred the soup with a wooden spoon. tree →
• The old house has a wooden floor. tree →
• Pinocchio was a wooden puppet. tree →
• A wooden ruler doesn't bend. tree →
• The bridge is made of wooden planks. tree →
• The actor's voice sounded wooden. tree →
• Others rode on bicycles or on wooden horses. tree →

note

Wooden is the adjective; wood is the material (noun): "a wooden box" = "a box made of wood". Similar: woollen (from wool), golden (from gold). "Wooden spoon" in some sports means the team that came last.

In the corpora

• Picture a small church in Wellington: at the front stands a long wooden box covered in flowers, the coffin.
• Storks hardly have a voice; they greet each other by throwing their heads back and clattering their bills like a wooden toy.
• In a solid like a wooden block the particles are locked in place and only wobble, so it keeps its shape.
• Leave a metal spoon in hot soup and soon the handle is too hot to hold, while a wooden spoon stays cool.
• Metals conduct heat well, so a metal spoon in hot soup gets hot while a wooden one stays cool.

Trees and pragmatics

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