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timber English

Meaning timber meaning

What does timber mean?
Definitions in simple English

timber Noun

— Timber is trees and forests used as a source of wood. They walked into the tall timber to find a place to camp. — Timber is wood used for building. He went to the timber yard to buy the wood for his house. — Timber is a piece of wood used in building. She carefully chose a timber that had an interesting pattern. — Timber is wood used as a frame in building ships. During the battle he could feel the ship's timbers shiver.

timber Verb

— To timber is to use wood as a support or frame. The miners had to timber the shaft in the gold mine to make it safe.

timber

— noun (= lumber) the wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material — noun a beam made of wood — noun a post made of wood — noun (= timbre, tone) (music) 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 — noun (= forest) land that is covered with trees and shrubs

Synonyms timber synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as timber?

timber English » English

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Topics timber topics

What do people use timber to talk about?
Work and occupation Occupation Working with wood

Lumbering

  • What words refer to the trees that are cut down?
    tree timber
  • What are the products of lumbering?
    timber log
Universe, creation Plant

Tree

Conjugation timber conjugation

How do you conjugate timber?

timber · verb

Examples timber examples

How do I use timber in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Seasoned timber is better for construction and joinery.
Large amounts of timber are used in paper making.
The sawyer brought some timber over to the cooper's shop, but the cooper is still waiting on the hooper. The chandler is doing fine, though.
Canada abounds in timber.
The new floorcovering looks like timber but is actually vinyl.

Movie subtitles

The hunchback dies amidst the falling timber having found them together.
He's up in the timber a bit, and he's a-headed this way.
There it is, well-watered, nicely timbered, no reservation of timber.
Timber!
Quite a comer too, I understand. Political timber.
Across the plains, the pay for drivers, diggers, polemen, and timber cutters is two dollars a day, and when we hit the Indian country it's three dollars.
This timber's so dry, that it will burn up like paper.
And Thanksgiving in the Pine Timber.
They were forced day marches through trackers timber. Hot, dry days and bitter cold nights.
Their arms were strong, and their axes were sharp and timber abundant.
We just hauled in the timber and shored up the walls all the way back.
Isn't that what they call timber?
We'll get the timber and put it right back up, right?
The timber wolves?
He's only a bit up in the timber there, and he's a-headed this way.
Could you find me a good piece of timber about so thick and so long?
Political timber.
Early in the morning the timber drum summons the monks for their ritual daily work.
Use the timber to bridge the streams where we have to.
When we hit timber line he had trouble.
You're supposed to warn your daughter about timber tramps.
Some island with a deep harbor, good water and a good stand of timber.
The distance is four miles, twice around the course over timber.
The weight of this timber.
The two of you alone will never be able to move this timber.
Won't the tide float the timber off, Dad?
We tried to lift the timber off with it.
I'm 21 years old, and I own my own ranch in Timber Hill, Montana- l heard all that.
Gold, timber, wristwatches.
He went for the timber.
Timber.

News and current affairs

Indonesia depends less on exports than its Asian peers (let alone Russia), and its asset markets (timber, palm oil, and coal, in particular) have attracted major foreign investment.
Some of the resources that forests provide - such as timber, firewood, and tourism - can be valuated relatively easily.
Estonia was indeed poor, and its main exports were scrap metal and timber, but its economy was growing.
But Russian noblemen with timber interests in Korea persuaded the Tsar to resist.
He also has invested in non-traditional asset classes, including real estate, oil, timber, private equity, and venture capital and buyout firms.
One hundred years ago, our trading was limited to the supply of raw materials, mainly gold, timber and cocoa.
One hundred years later, our trading consists of raw materials, mainly gold, timber and cocoa.
As for natural capital, the World Bank has so far limited itself to the atmosphere as a sink for carbon dioxide, oil, and natural gas, and forests as sources of timber.
Before long, the colonies were exporting wood to the many nations that no longer had the timber they needed for ships, casks, shingles, and other construction materials.
Similarly, countries can import fossil fuels, mineral ores, and resources from the biosphere like fish and timber; but they cannot import water, which is essentially local, on a large scale and on a prolonged - much less permanent - basis.
Sendero, which supplemented its income with drug production and timber smuggling, deliberately chose drought-weakened and deforested mountain villages as the stronghold of its insurgency.
We obviously use cropland, grazing land, forests, and fishing grounds to produce our food, fiber, and timber, and we need space for our houses, roads, and cities.
Its rain forest, threatened by timber companies that have made deals with some of the militias, plays an important part in slowing global warming.
Here, the main partner is China, which Russia now supplies with fertilizers, seafood, timber, nonferrous metals, and increasing volumes of crude oil.
Russia's east should become a provider of relatively high value-added goods, rather than just an exporter of timber, oil, ore, and seafood, as is the case now.
Moreover, farmers have few alternatives to operating palm oil or timber plantations.So every dry season, more and more land is burned.
Faced with severe supply constraints, Asian economies are increasingly tapping other continents' fossil fuels, mineral ores, and timber.
But, to the extent that the products of land (food, timber, ethanol) are traded on world markets, the price of any particular kind of land should be roughly the same everywhere.

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