timber
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(noun) a beam made of wood |
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Related Words: beam, coulisse, sternpost, stringer, two-by-four |
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(noun) a post made of wood |
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Related Words: post |
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(noun) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound); "the timbre of her soprano was rich and lovely"; "the muffled tones of the broken bell summoned them to meet" |
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Synonyms: quality, timbre, tone |
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Related Words: color, colour, fullness, harshness, mellowness, nasality, plangency, register, resonance, reverberance, richness, ringing, roughness, shrillness, sonority, sonorousness, sound property, stridence, stridency, vibrancy |
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(noun) the wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material |
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Synonyms: lumber |
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Related Words: board, building material, plank, stock, strip |
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(noun) land that is covered with trees and shrubs |
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Synonyms: forest, timberland, woodland |
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Related Words: Black Forest, Schwarzwald, Sherwood Forest, dry land, earth, greenwood, ground, jungle, land, rain forest, riparian forest, silva, solid ground, sylva, terra firma, tree farm, tropical rain forest |
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