Wood

[wʊd]

解释:

(noun.) a golf club with a long shaft used to hit long shots; originally made with a wooden head; 'metal woods are now standard'.

(noun.) United States painter noted for works based on life in the Midwest (1892-1942).

(noun.) English writer of novels about murders and thefts and forgeries (1814-1887).

(noun.) English conductor (1869-1944).

(noun.) United States film actress (1938-1981).

(noun.) the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees.

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解释:

(a.) Mad; insane; possessed; rabid; furious; frantic.

(v. i.) To grow mad; to act like a madman; to mad.

(n.) A large and thick collection of trees; a forest or grove; -- frequently used in the plural.

(n.) The substance of trees and the like; the hard fibrous substance which composes the body of a tree and its branches, and which is covered by the bark; timber.

(n.) The fibrous material which makes up the greater part of the stems and branches of trees and shrubby plants, and is found to a less extent in herbaceous stems. It consists of elongated tubular or needle-shaped cells of various kinds, usually interwoven with the shinning bands called silver grain.

(n.) Trees cut or sawed for the fire or other uses.

(v. t.) To supply with wood, or get supplies of wood for; as, to wood a steamboat or a locomotive.

(v. i.) To take or get a supply of wood.

整理:萨莎

同义词及近义词：

n. [1]. Forest, grove, copse.[2]. Timber.

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同义词及反义词：

SYN:Thicket, grove, forest, cope

ANT:Open_place

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解释:

adj. (Shak.) mad furious.—n. Wood′ness.

n. the solid part of trees: trees cut or sawed: timber: a collection of growing trees: the cask or barrel as distinguished from the bottle: (print.) a woodblock.—v.t. to supply with wood.—ns. Wood′-ac′id wood-vinegar impure acetic acid from wood-distillation; Wood′-anem′one the wind-flower a little woodland plant blooming in early spring with a single white flower purplish outside; Wood′-ant a large forest-dwelling ant: a white ant infesting the wood of old buildings.—n.pl. Wood′-ash′es ashes obtained by burning wood or plants—the source of many potassium salts.—ns. Wood′bine Wood′bind the honeysuckle applied also to other climbers such as some kinds of ivy the Virginia-creeper &c.; Wood′-bird a bird that lives in the woods; Wood′block a die cut in relief on wood and ready to furnish ink impressions: a woodcut.—adjs. Wood′-bō′ring; Wood′-born born in the woods.—ns. Wood′-car′ving the process of carving in wood; Wood′chat a bird which notwithstanding its name is not a species of Chat but of Shrike; Wood′chuck the green woodpecker; Wood′-coal coal like wood in texture: charcoal: lignite or brown coal; Wood′cock a genus of birds allied to the snipes but of a more bulky body and with shorter and stronger legs; Wood′cock's-head a tobacco-pipe; Wood′craft skill in the chase or anything pertaining to forests forestry generally; Wood′cut an engraving cut on wood: an impression from it; Wood′-cut′ter one who cuts wood: a wood-engraver; Wood′-cut′ting the act or employment of cutting wood: wood-engraving.—adjs. Wood′ed supplied with wood: covered with wood; Wood′en made of wood: hard: dull insensible: heavy stupid: clumsy without grace or spirit—of literary style &c.—ns. Wood′-engrā′ver; Wood′-engrāving the art of engraving designs on wood differing from copper and steel plate engraving by having the parts intended to print on the paper in relief: an engraving on or taken from wood; Wood′en-head a blockhead stupid person.—adj. Wood′en-head′ed stupid.—n. Wood′en-head′edness.—adv. Wood′enly.—ns. Woodenness wooden quality: want of spirit or expression clumsiness; Wood′-ē′vil red-water: severe constipation in cattle often occurring after eating freely of hedge-cuttings or shoots of trees; Wood′-fī′bre fibre derived from wood; Wood′-fret′ter a wood-borer or wood-eater; Wood′-god a deity of the woods; Wood′-grouse the capercailzie; Wood′-hole a place where wood is stored; Wood′-hon′ey wild honey; Wood′-horse a saw-horse; Wood′-house a house or shed in which wood for fuel is deposited; Wood′-ī′bis (see Tantalus); Wood′iness the state or quality of being woody; Wood′land land covered with wood; Wood′lander an inhabitant of the woods; Wood′lark a species of lark found in or near woods singing chiefly on the wing; Wood′-lay′er a young oak &c. laid down in a hedge.—adj. Wood′less without wood.—ns. Wood′lessness; Wood′-louse any terrestrial isopod of the family Oniscid—the Scotch slater common under stones &c.: a termite or white ant: any one of the pseudo-neuropterous family Psocid found in the woodwork of houses; Wood′man a man who cuts down trees: a forest officer: a huntsman; Wood′-mite a beetle-mite; Wood′-naph′tha the mixture of light hydrocarbons distilled from wood (see Pyroxylic); Wood′-night′shade bitter-sweet or woody nightshade; Wood′-note (Milt.) a wild musical note like that of a song-bird; Wood′-nymph a nymph or goddess of the woods; Wood′-off′ering (B.) wood burned on the altar; Wood′-ō′pal silicified wood; Wood′-owl the European brown owl; Wood′-pā′per paper prepared from wood; Wood′pecker one of a family (Picid) of birds in the order Picari remarkable for the structural modification of the skull in adaptation to its use as an axe and for the long flexible tongue which is used for extracting insects from holes and crevices of trees; Wood′-pig′eon the cushat or ringdove; Wood′-pulp wood-fibre reduced to a pulp used in making paper; Wood′-reeve the overseer of a wood; Wood′ruff a genus of rubiaceous plants with whorled leaves and a funnel-shaped corolla—Sweet Woodruff has a creeping root-stock sending up erect stems and small white flowers; when dried it has a very agreeable fragrance like vernal-grass—(obs.) Wood′-roof; Wood′-sage the wood germander; Wood′-sand′piper a common European tattler allied to the redshank; Wood′-screw a screw for fastening pieces of wood or wood and metal; Wood′shed a shed for storing firewood; Wood′-shook the pekan fisher or Pennant's marten—also Black-cat and Black-fox; Wood′-skin a Guiana Indian's canoe made of the bark of the purple heart-tree; Woods′man a woodman; Wood′-soot soot from burnt wood; Wood′-sorr′el a plant of the genus Oxalis; Wood′-spir′it (same as Pyroxylic spirit); Wood′-spite the green woodpecker or yaffle; Wood′-stamp a stamp made of wood as for stamping fabrics in colours; Wood′-stone petrified wood; Wood′-swall′ow an Australian name for any of the fly-catching Artamid also called Swallow-shrike—the resemblance to shrikes being considerably closer than to swallows either in appearance or habits.—adj. Wood′sy pertaining to or characteristic of woods.—ns. Wood′-tar tar obtained from the dry distillation of wood; Wood′thrush a singing-thrush common in the woods of the eastern United States reddish-brown above olive on the rump white spotted with black on breast; Wood′-tick any tick of the family Ixonid: a small insect which makes a ticking sound in the woodwork of a house the death-watch; Wood′-tin a nodular variety of cassiterite or tin-stone; Wood′-vin′egar (see Wood-acid); Wood′wale a woodpecker esp. the green woodpecker Yaffle or Rainbird; Wood′-warb′ler the yellow willow-warbler or woodwren: an American warbler esp. of the beautiful genus Dendrœca; Wood′ward an officer to guard the woods; Wood′work a part of any structure made of wood; Wood′worm a worm or larva infesting wood; Wood′wren the willow-warbler or willow-wren (Phylloscopus trochilus): the true wood-warbler or yellow willow-wren (Phylloscopus sibilatrix)—neither being properly wrens.—adj. Wood′y abounding with woods: pertaining to woods: consisting of wood.—n. Wood′y-night′shade (see Wood-nightshade).—Wooden horse or Timber-mare (see Horse); Wooden leg an artificial leg made of wood; Wooden spoon a spoon of wood presented to the person who stands lowest for the year in the mathematical tripos list at Cambridge; Wooden type large type cut in wood.—Commissioners of Woods and Forests a department of government having charge of the Crown woods and forests.

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