She attached a couple of planks of wood to the wall for shelves. Mahogany is a hard wood and pine is a soft wood. The room was heated by a wood - burning stove. He likes to use a number 2 wood to tee off. He was chopping wood in the yard. The house was built of wood but faced with brick.
A flute is made of wood or metal in three jointed sections. In cheap furniture , plastic is often used to simulate wood. Screw this piece of wood to the wall. Types of wood. You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Golf.
We went for a walk in the woods after lunch. See also woodland. The wood lies on the southern extremity of the estate.
The cottage is situated in the middle of a wood at the end of a narrow potholed lane. From the top of the hill we could see our house and the woods beyond. The police searched the woods for the missing boy. We go for a ramble through the woods every Saturday. Idioms be out of the woods. Solid wood furniture is sturdy and durable. We sanded and polished the wood floor in the living room. Much of the original 18th-century wood panelling was destroyed in the fire.
See also wooden WOOD. Beyond them lay a dense wood. Examples of wood. Other products ranged from aromatic woods and rattans through to a range of ancillary medical and culinary products.
From the Cambridge English Corpus. Out of the woods: emerg ing traditions in the teaching of wr iting. Nevertheless, in many cases the woods produced by deciduous and evergreen conifers may be distinguished from one another on the basis of percentage skew values. Zones of medieval land-use open fields, woods and meadow land are often readily identifiable. The limits of the proposed reserve were chosen because the central part had virtually intact forest areas which included potentially valuable teak woods.
Their woods are avoided and nobody fishes in their pools. An appropriately bucolic sinfonia introduces her, and a change of scene to the wild woods. They lived in the woods all the time, with a contemptible appearance, their whole life in the woods.
The relationship between leaf longevity and growth ring markedness in modern conifer woods and its implications for palaeoclimatic studies. Naturally, wood's use as fuel figured prominently among these voluntary statements by declarants. Elemental analyses were completed on samples of historic woods using multi-elemental inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectroscopy.
The historic woods that currently have increased levels of lead pose no problems, but locations should be noted when future restoration work is done. The house was isolated in some woods on a hill and the effects were visible from a large distance, drawing the audience to the spot.
The house itself sat off in the woods. We can't go back to the era when mangos grew liberally on the trees and game ran free in the woods. See all examples of wood. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web.
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