Dictionary entry details
• TIMBER (noun)
Meaning:
The wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Synonyms:
lumber; timber
Hypernyms ("timber" is a kind of...):
building material (material used for constructing buildings)
Meronyms (substance of "timber"):
wood (the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "timber"):
stock (lumber used in the construction of something)
strip (thin piece of wood or metal)
board; plank (a stout length of sawn timber; made in a wide variety of sizes and used for many purposes)
planking (planks collectively; a quantity of planks)
Meaning:
A beam made of wood
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("timber" is a kind of...):
beam (long thick piece of wood or metal or concrete, etc., used in construction)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "timber"):
coulisse (a timber member grooved to take a sliding panel)
sternpost ((nautical) the principal upright timber at the stern of a vessel)
stringer (a long horizontal timber to connect uprights)
two-by-four (a timber measuring (slightly under) 2 inches by 4 inches in cross section)
Meaning:
A post made of wood
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("timber" is a kind of...):
post (an upright consisting of a piece of timber or metal fixed firmly in an upright position)
Meaning:
Land that is covered with trees and shrubs
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Synonyms:
woodland; timberland; forest; timber
Hypernyms ("timber" is a kind of...):
biome (a major biotic community characterized by the dominant forms of plant life and the prevailing climate)
dry land; earth; ground; land; solid ground; terra firma (the solid part of the earth's surface)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "timber"):
tree farm (a forest (or part of a forest) where trees are grown for commercial use)
greenwood (woodlands in full leaf)
jungle (an impenetrable equatorial forest)
rain forest; rainforest (a forest with heavy annual rainfall)
riparian forest (woodlands along the banks of stream or river)
silva; sylva (the forest trees growing in a country or region)
Instance hyponyms:
Sherwood Forest (an ancient forest in central England; formerly a royal hunting ground; said to be the home of Robin Hood and his merry band)
Black Forest; Schwarzwald (a hilly forest region in southwestern Germany)
Meaning:
(music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
timbre; tone; quality; timber
Context examples:
the timbre of her soprano was rich and lovely / the muffled tones of the broken bell summoned them to meet
Hypernyms ("timber" is a kind of...):
sound property (an attribute of sound)
Domain category:
music (an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "timber"):
register ((music) the timbre that is characteristic of a certain range and manner of production of the human voice or of different pipe organ stops or of different musical instruments)
shrillness; stridence; stridency (having the timbre of a loud high-pitched sound)
plangency; resonance; reverberance; ringing; sonority; sonorousness; vibrancy (having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant)
nasality (a quality of the voice that is produced by nasal resonators)
color; coloration; colour; colouration (the timbre of a musical sound)
resonance (the quality imparted to voiced speech sounds by the action of the resonating chambers of the throat and mouth and nasal cavities)
harmonic (any of a series of musical tones whose frequencies are integral multiples of the frequency of a fundamental)
