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Definition of Timber
1. Noun. The wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material.
Specialized synonyms: Stock, Strip, Board, Plank, Planking
Generic synonyms: Building Material
Terms within: Wood
Derivative terms: Lumber
2. Noun. A beam made of wood.
3. Noun. A post made of wood.
4. Noun. Land that is covered with trees and shrubs.
Generic synonyms: Biome, Dry Land, Earth, Ground, Land, Solid Ground, Terra Firma
Specialized synonyms: Black Forest, Schwarzwald, Sherwood Forest, Wilderness
Specialized synonyms: Greenwood, Riparian Forest, Silva, Sylva, Tree Farm
Derivative terms: Forest
5. Noun. (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound). "The muffled tones of the broken bell summoned them to meet"
Generic synonyms: Sound Property
Specialized synonyms: Harmonic, Resonance, Color, Coloration, Colour, Colouration, Nasality, Plangency, Resonance, Reverberance, Ringing, Sonority, Sonorousness, Vibrancy, Shrillness, Stridence, Stridency, Register
Category relationships: Music
Derivative terms: Tonal, Tone
Definition of Timber
1. n. A certain quantity of fur skins, as of martens, ermines, sables, etc., packed between boards; being in some cases forty skins, in others one hundred and twenty; -- called also timmer.
2. n. The crest on a coat of arms.
3. v. t. To surmount as a timber does.
4. n. That sort of wood which is proper for buildings or for tools, utensils, furniture, carriages, fences, ships, and the like; -- usually said of felled trees, but sometimes of those standing. Cf. Lumber, 3.
5. v. t. To furnish with timber; -- chiefly used in the past participle.
6. v. i. To light on a tree.
Definition of Timber
1. Noun. Trees in a forest regarded as a source of wood. ¹
2. Noun. (British uncountable) Wood that has been pre-cut and is ready for use in construction. ¹
3. Noun. A heavy wooden beam, generally a whole log that has been squared off and used to provide heavy support for something such as a roof. Historically also used in the plural, as in "ship's timbers". ¹
4. Interjection. Used by loggers to warn others that a tree being felled is falling. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Timber
1. to furnish with timber (wood used as a building material) [v -ED, -ING, -S] : TIMBERY [adj]
Medical Definition of Timber
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1. That sort of wood which is proper for buildings or for tools, utensils, furniture, carriages, fences, ships, and the like; usually said of felled trees, but sometimes of those standing. Cf. Lumber. "And ta'en my fiddle to the gate, . . . And fiddled in the timber!" (Tennyson)
2. The body, stem, or trunk of a tree.
3. Material for any structure. "Such dispositions are the very errors of human nature; and yet they are the fittest timber to make politics of." (Bacon)
4. A single piece or squared stick of wood intended for building, or already framed; collectively, the larger pieces or sticks of wood, forming the framework of a house, ship, or other structure, in distinction from the covering or boarding. "So they prepared timber . . . To build the house." (1 Kings v. 18) "Many of the timbers were decayed." (W. Coxe)
5. Woods or forest; wooden land.
6. A rib, or a curving piece of wood, branching outward from the keel and bending upward in a vertical direction. One timber is composed of several pieces united. Timber and room.
Any larval insect which burrows in timber. Timber yard, a yard or place where timber is deposited.
Origin: AS. Timbor, timber, wood, building; akin to OFries. Timber, D. Timmer a room, G. Zimmer, OHG. Zimbar timber, a dwelling, room, Icel. Timbr timber, Sw. Timmer, Dan. Tommer, Goth. Timrjan to build, timrja a builder, L. Domus a house, Gr. House, to build, Skr. Dama a house. 62. Cf. Dome, Domestic.
A certain quantity of fur skins, as of martens, ermines, sables, etc, packed between boards; being in some cases forty skins, in others one hundred and twenty.
Synonym: timmer.
Alternative forms: timbre.
Origin: Probably the same word as timber sort of wood; cf. Sw. Timber, LG. Timmer, MHG. Zimber, G. Zimmer, F. Timbre, LL. Timbrium. Cf. Timmer.
1. To light on a tree.
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