Timber

['tɪmbə] or ['tɪmbɚ]

解释:

(noun.) a beam made of wood.

(noun.) a post made of wood.

丹整理--From WordNet

解释:

(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.

(n.) The crest on a coat of arms.

(v. t.) To surmount as a timber does.

(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.

(n.) The body, stem, or trunk of a tree.

(n.) Fig.: Material for any structure.

(n.) 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.

(n.) Woods or forest; wooden land.

(n.) 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.

(v. t.) To furnish with timber; -- chiefly used in the past participle.

(v. i.) To light on a tree.

(v. i.) To make a nest.

校对:蒂米

同义词及近义词：

n. [1]. Wood (for building).[2]. Beam, stick, squared timber.[3]. Rib (of a ship's frame).[4]. [Western, U. S.] Woods, forest.

编辑:莎蒂

解释:

n. wood for building purposes: the trunk of a tree: material for any structure: one of the larger pieces of the framework of a house ship &c.: one of the planks forming the sides and roof of a gallery in a mine.—v.t. to furnish with timber or beams.—p.adj. Tim′bered furnished with timber: (Shak.) built formed contrived: (Spens.) made like timber massive.—ns. Tim′bering timber materials; Tim′ber-man one responsible for the timbers in a mine; Tim′ber-toes a person with a wooden leg; Tim′ber-tree a tree suitable for timber; Tim′ber-yard a yard or place where timber is stored.

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