Timber
noun
Wood that is all prepared for building.
They used high-quality timber to construct the house.
Often appears as...
- timber construction
- timber industry
noun
Trees that are grown for wood.
The timber in this forest are mature enough to be cut down.
Often appears as...
- timber trees
- timber forest
interjection
A shout to warn that a tree is about to fall after being cut.
The faller shouted 'Timber!' as the tree started to fall.
Often appears as...
- shout timber
- yell timber
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Colloquial
noun
A person's mental or moral qualities.
He is of strong timber, never backing down from challenges.
Often appears as...
- character timber
- moral timber
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Literary
noun
Wood that is all prepared for building.
They used high-quality timber to construct the house.
Often appears as...
- timber construction
- timber industry
noun
Trees that are grown for wood.
The timber in this forest are mature enough to be cut down.
Often appears as...
- timber trees
- timber forest
interjection
A shout to warn that a tree is about to fall after being cut.
The faller shouted 'Timber!' as the tree started to fall.
Often appears as...
- shout timber
- yell timber
Usage tips
Colloquial
noun
A person's mental or moral qualities.
He is of strong timber, never backing down from challenges.
Often appears as...
- character timber
- moral timber
Usage tips
Literary
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/3Construction Material
Timber refers to wood processed for use in building or carpentry.
The carpenter ordered more timber for the flooring.
Pro Tip 2/3Preparation Required
Not all wood is timber; it becomes timber after being cut into specific sizes and treated.
After drying and milling, the wood finally became timber.
Pro Tip 3/3Quality Matters
Different projects require different types of timber, often graded by quality.
For the cabinetry, only premium-grade timber will do.
Pro Tip 1/3Construction Material
Timber refers to wood processed for use in building or carpentry.
The carpenter ordered more timber for the flooring.
Pro Tip 2/3Preparation Required
Not all wood is timber; it becomes timber after being cut into specific sizes and treated.
After drying and milling, the wood finally became timber.
Pro Tip 3/3Quality Matters
Different projects require different types of timber, often graded by quality.
For the cabinetry, only premium-grade timber will do.
Pro Tip 1/3Construction Material
Timber refers to wood processed for use in building or carpentry.
The carpenter ordered more timber for the flooring.
Pro Tip 2/3Preparation Required
Not all wood is timber; it becomes timber after being cut into specific sizes and treated.
After drying and milling, the wood finally became timber.
Pro Tip 3/3Quality Matters
Different projects require different types of timber, often graded by quality.
For the cabinetry, only premium-grade timber will do.
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An Island On the Brink...
fruit timber to make a living but the end result was an area that was now covered in trees yes you could harvest some trees and you still had a forest conservation was a day job our model is that economic development is directly opposed to environmental conservation we can't conserve the natural world because
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The global movement to...
like clean water, soil fertility, and most urgently, protection from the intense fires that now threaten the region every summer. The UN suggests that almost half of reforested areas around the world are monocultures just like this, planted for rapid timber production or carbon capture.
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A Forest Garden With 500...
medicinal plants timber but also logs that you might grow other things on like mushrooms there are also plants of in directives system plants to help the system function better and that includes nitrogen-fixing plants mineral accumulators plants to attract
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Is the world getting...
It goes something like this. We are born into a pitiless universe, facing steep odds against life-enabling order and in constant jeopardy of falling apart. We were shaped by a process that is ruthlessly competitive. We are made from crooked timber,
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Discovery: Buddha's...
excavations the first is the world's earliest Buddhist structure and it's not built in brick it's not built in stone it's actually built in timber so it's really exciting because it gives us for the first time an understanding of what
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Bloodwood: Rosewood...
make coffee tables and fancy guitars this is where all gets made in here okay huge demand has attracted criminal syndicates that will go to any lengths to protect their profits as cambodia's timber stocks run out they have moved
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The spear-wielding stork...
In reality these are two distinct species— similar in shape and size, but never appearing at the same time. Over the following centuries, birds were said to morph into humans, plants, and even the timbers of ships.
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How to rebuild the world...
distributed amongst the entire population from operating a timber mill or mining metal ore or refining the fuel that we use to move things around it takes many thousands of people to make a
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Sting: How I started...
Through the teeth of this tempest In the mouth of a gale May the angels protect me If all else should fail And the last ship sails Oh the roar of the chains And the cracking of timbers
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Woman Becomes Part of...
she was rescued by leg from a life of toil and hardship the felling of the forests for hardwood timber was once common in northern thailand
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An Island On the Brink...
fruit timber to make a living but the end result was an area that was now covered in trees yes you could harvest some trees and you still had a forest conservation was a day job our model is that economic development is directly opposed to environmental conservation we can't conserve the natural world because
Video examples
The global movement to...
like clean water, soil fertility, and most urgently, protection from the intense fires that now threaten the region every summer. The UN suggests that almost half of reforested areas around the world are monocultures just like this, planted for rapid timber production or carbon capture.
Video examples
A Forest Garden With 500...
medicinal plants timber but also logs that you might grow other things on like mushrooms there are also plants of in directives system plants to help the system function better and that includes nitrogen-fixing plants mineral accumulators plants to attract
Video examples
Is the world getting...
It goes something like this. We are born into a pitiless universe, facing steep odds against life-enabling order and in constant jeopardy of falling apart. We were shaped by a process that is ruthlessly competitive. We are made from crooked timber,
Video examples
Discovery: Buddha's...
excavations the first is the world's earliest Buddhist structure and it's not built in brick it's not built in stone it's actually built in timber so it's really exciting because it gives us for the first time an understanding of what
Video examples
Bloodwood: Rosewood...
make coffee tables and fancy guitars this is where all gets made in here okay huge demand has attracted criminal syndicates that will go to any lengths to protect their profits as cambodia's timber stocks run out they have moved
Video examples
The spear-wielding stork...
In reality these are two distinct species— similar in shape and size, but never appearing at the same time. Over the following centuries, birds were said to morph into humans, plants, and even the timbers of ships.
Video examples
How to rebuild the world...
distributed amongst the entire population from operating a timber mill or mining metal ore or refining the fuel that we use to move things around it takes many thousands of people to make a
Video examples
Sting: How I started...
Through the teeth of this tempest In the mouth of a gale May the angels protect me If all else should fail And the last ship sails Oh the roar of the chains And the cracking of timbers
Video examples
Woman Becomes Part of...
she was rescued by leg from a life of toil and hardship the felling of the forests for hardwood timber was once common in northern thailand
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Quote examples
Richard Ojeda
American Politician
We're not really a state. We're a colony. Everything we've ever had - timber, coal - it's all been extracted out of our state. Our people have been here and have worked in those industries, and they remained poor, but the people outside of our state that are the ones that come and get the timber, get the coal, have become billionaires.
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John Muir
American Environmentalist
Under the Timber and Stone Act of 1878, which might well have been called the 'Dust and Ashes Act,' any citizen of the United States could take up one hundred and sixty acres of timber land and, by paying two dollars and a half an acre for it, obtain title.
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Blake Lively
American Actress
My mother had very humble beginnings - to put it mildly. Her dad built their home out of timber that he cut down on their land. No heat, no air-conditioning - 'no foolishness,' as he would call it.
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Bruce Babbitt
American Politician
There's a basic kind of tension here. It's between those who say, I'd like to clear cut this forest and reduce it to saw timber because that's an economically productive thing for me to do.
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Pablo Neruda
Chilean Writer
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
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Woody Harrelson
American Actor
If you manage to stop the timber industry from cutting this forest, they'll cut that forest. If you stop oil drilling here, they'll go drill there.
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Winnie Byanyima
Ugandan Politician
Cutting down a forest for timber adds to GDP, but what we don't record is the loss to our wealth in terms of natural resources.
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John Millington Synge
Irish Poet
It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms.
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Judy Sheindlin
American Lawyer
To be considered presidential timber, there has to be a measure in the way you present your argument.
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Immanuel Kant
German Philosopher
Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.
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Richard Ojeda
American Politician
We're not really a state. We're a colony. Everything we've ever had - timber, coal - it's all been extracted out of our state. Our people have been here and have worked in those industries, and they remained poor, but the people outside of our state that are the ones that come and get the timber, get the coal, have become billionaires.
Quote examples
John Muir
American Environmentalist
Under the Timber and Stone Act of 1878, which might well have been called the 'Dust and Ashes Act,' any citizen of the United States could take up one hundred and sixty acres of timber land and, by paying two dollars and a half an acre for it, obtain title.
Quote examples
Blake Lively
American Actress
My mother had very humble beginnings - to put it mildly. Her dad built their home out of timber that he cut down on their land. No heat, no air-conditioning - 'no foolishness,' as he would call it.
Quote examples
Bruce Babbitt
American Politician
There's a basic kind of tension here. It's between those who say, I'd like to clear cut this forest and reduce it to saw timber because that's an economically productive thing for me to do.
Quote examples
Pablo Neruda
Chilean Writer
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
Quote examples
Woody Harrelson
American Actor
If you manage to stop the timber industry from cutting this forest, they'll cut that forest. If you stop oil drilling here, they'll go drill there.
Quote examples
Winnie Byanyima
Ugandan Politician
Cutting down a forest for timber adds to GDP, but what we don't record is the loss to our wealth in terms of natural resources.
Quote examples
John Millington Synge
Irish Poet
It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms.
Quote examples
Judy Sheindlin
American Lawyer
To be considered presidential timber, there has to be a measure in the way you present your argument.
Quote examples
Immanuel Kant
German Philosopher
Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.
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