Wooden
adjective
Made of wood.
He sat on a wooden bench.
Often appears as...
- wooden bench
- wooden table
adjective
Not flexible or smooth; awkward.
His dance moves were very wooden.
Often appears as...
- wooden performance
- wooden dance
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Disapproving
adjective
Showing no emotion or personality; not natural.
His acting was wooden and unconvincing.
Often appears as...
- wooden acting
- wooden speech
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Disapproving
adjective
Designed to look like wood.
She wore a wooden-patterned dress.
Often appears as...
- wooden-patterned wallpaper
- wooden-patterned cloth
adjective
Made of wood.
He sat on a wooden bench.
Often appears as...
- wooden bench
- wooden table
adjective
Not flexible or smooth; awkward.
His dance moves were very wooden.
Often appears as...
- wooden performance
- wooden dance
Usage tips
Disapproving
adjective
Showing no emotion or personality; not natural.
His acting was wooden and unconvincing.
Often appears as...
- wooden acting
- wooden speech
Usage tips
Disapproving
adjective
Designed to look like wood.
She wore a wooden-patterned dress.
Often appears as...
- wooden-patterned wallpaper
- wooden-patterned cloth
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Pro Tip 1/2Natural Material
Describing objects as wooden emphasizes their natural origin and can suggest traditional craftsmanship.
She cherished the wooden flute for its natural beauty.
Pro Tip 2/2Positive Connotation
In contexts where being ecological or rustic is valued, wooden can carry a positive connotation.
They chose wooden cutlery for their eco-friendly cafe.
Pro Tip 1/2Natural Material
Describing objects as wooden emphasizes their natural origin and can suggest traditional craftsmanship.
She cherished the wooden flute for its natural beauty.
Pro Tip 2/2Positive Connotation
In contexts where being ecological or rustic is valued, wooden can carry a positive connotation.
They chose wooden cutlery for their eco-friendly cafe.
Pro Tip 1/2Natural Material
Describing objects as wooden emphasizes their natural origin and can suggest traditional craftsmanship.
She cherished the wooden flute for its natural beauty.
Pro Tip 2/2Positive Connotation
In contexts where being ecological or rustic is valued, wooden can carry a positive connotation.
They chose wooden cutlery for their eco-friendly cafe.
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Are Crows the Ultimate...
Imagine that you're a crow. Here's your food in a deep hole. How would you go about, with the tools available to you on this table, solving this problem? The bird's tool kit includes a short stick hanging on a piece of string, three stones inside wooden cages, and a longer stick trapped in a plastic box.
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Living Off the Land PIPE...
a throwing stick is a handmade wooden tool with a sharpened end when thrown sideways it is an effective hunting weapon for small games such as rabbits sidearm just like a martial arts punch is that spinning action of this stick that when it hits it creates all that force
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Why is biodiversity so...
huge mix of species, and the genetic variety within those species. Here are tangled liana vines, which crawl up from the forest floor to the canopy, intertwining with treetops and growing thick wooden stems that support these towering trees. Helped along by the vines,
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How the stethoscope was...
and one end over the young woman's heaving bosom. He is delighted by the clarity of the sound. Laennec spends the next three years developing and testing various materials and mechanisms before settling on a hollow wooden tube with detachable plug.
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The Egyptian myth of the...
The warrior god Set and his wife, the goddess Nephtys, decorated an extravagant hall for the occasion, with a beautiful wooden chest as the centerpiece. They invited all the most important gods, dozens of lesser deities, and foreign monarchs.
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Rhythm in a box: The...
may have helped get around laws prohibiting slaves from playing music. Early Peruvian cajons consisted of a simple box with five thick wooden sides. The sixth side, made of a thinner sheet of wood, would be used as the striking surface,
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Why Shakespeare loved...
"I am a pirate with a wooden leg." The pirate can only walk in iambs, a living reminder of Shakespeare's favorite meter. Iambic pentameter is when he takes ten steps. Our pirate friend can even help us remember how to properly mark it
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The myth of Icarus and...
to fall in love with the king's prized bull. Under this spell, she asked Daedalus to help her seduce it. With characteristic audacity, he agreed. Daedalus constructed a hollow wooden cow so realistic that it fooled the bull.
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Where's Google going...
So I thought about a notice board. A simple wooden notice board. When I get information on my phone, I'm able to post the information on the notice board. So it's basically like a computer. I use the Internet to help people.
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Violence is a failure of...
with model replica wooden replica guns and they were having a gun battle over the tops of some cars and he turned to me and he said I tell their parents don't let your kids play with those guns
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Are Crows the Ultimate...
Imagine that you're a crow. Here's your food in a deep hole. How would you go about, with the tools available to you on this table, solving this problem? The bird's tool kit includes a short stick hanging on a piece of string, three stones inside wooden cages, and a longer stick trapped in a plastic box.
Video examples
Living Off the Land PIPE...
a throwing stick is a handmade wooden tool with a sharpened end when thrown sideways it is an effective hunting weapon for small games such as rabbits sidearm just like a martial arts punch is that spinning action of this stick that when it hits it creates all that force
Video examples
Why is biodiversity so...
huge mix of species, and the genetic variety within those species. Here are tangled liana vines, which crawl up from the forest floor to the canopy, intertwining with treetops and growing thick wooden stems that support these towering trees. Helped along by the vines,
Video examples
How the stethoscope was...
and one end over the young woman's heaving bosom. He is delighted by the clarity of the sound. Laennec spends the next three years developing and testing various materials and mechanisms before settling on a hollow wooden tube with detachable plug.
Video examples
The Egyptian myth of the...
The warrior god Set and his wife, the goddess Nephtys, decorated an extravagant hall for the occasion, with a beautiful wooden chest as the centerpiece. They invited all the most important gods, dozens of lesser deities, and foreign monarchs.
Video examples
Rhythm in a box: The...
may have helped get around laws prohibiting slaves from playing music. Early Peruvian cajons consisted of a simple box with five thick wooden sides. The sixth side, made of a thinner sheet of wood, would be used as the striking surface,
Video examples
Why Shakespeare loved...
"I am a pirate with a wooden leg." The pirate can only walk in iambs, a living reminder of Shakespeare's favorite meter. Iambic pentameter is when he takes ten steps. Our pirate friend can even help us remember how to properly mark it
Video examples
The myth of Icarus and...
to fall in love with the king's prized bull. Under this spell, she asked Daedalus to help her seduce it. With characteristic audacity, he agreed. Daedalus constructed a hollow wooden cow so realistic that it fooled the bull.
Video examples
Where's Google going...
So I thought about a notice board. A simple wooden notice board. When I get information on my phone, I'm able to post the information on the notice board. So it's basically like a computer. I use the Internet to help people.
Video examples
Violence is a failure of...
with model replica wooden replica guns and they were having a gun battle over the tops of some cars and he turned to me and he said I tell their parents don't let your kids play with those guns
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Felix Dennis
British Publisher
Nobody could like Donald Trump, surely, except his mother. No one really likes The Donald. But how can you not have respect for a guy who's been down on the floor and just keeps coming back? Nothing will keep Donald Trump down until they drive a wooden stake in his heart and a silver bullet in his brain.
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Charles Dickens
English Novelist
A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don't make either of them able to do a walking-match.
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Joaquin Phoenix
American Actor
I feel like everything you learn as an actor growing up is wrong. You're supposed to hit your mark, find your light and know your lines. Those are all things that just make things wooden, dull and boring.
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Suzanne Vega
American Musician
I loved the atmosphere of the dance studios - the wooden floors, the big mirrors, everyone dressed in pink or black tights, the musicians accompanying us - and the feeling of ritual the classes had.
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Vic Reeves
Every day I'm in my studio - it's wooden and purpose-built at the end of our garden. It's filthy and has got paint everywhere.
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Janet Fitch
American Author
My house is modern, but I like my writing room to be old fashioned. I write on a little wooden secretary desk.
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Tadao Ando
Japanese Architect
Japanese architecture is traditionally based on wooden structures that need renovating on a regular basis.
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Mavis Staples
American Musician
The best music of my life I heard at my grandmother's church, this little wooden church up on a hill.
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Jean Cocteau
French Director
There are too many souls of wood not to love those wooden characters who do indeed have a soul.
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Victoria Pendleton
British Athlete
I go round and round in circles, really, really fast, on a big wooden bowl.
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Felix Dennis
British Publisher
Nobody could like Donald Trump, surely, except his mother. No one really likes The Donald. But how can you not have respect for a guy who's been down on the floor and just keeps coming back? Nothing will keep Donald Trump down until they drive a wooden stake in his heart and a silver bullet in his brain.
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Charles Dickens
English Novelist
A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don't make either of them able to do a walking-match.
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Joaquin Phoenix
American Actor
I feel like everything you learn as an actor growing up is wrong. You're supposed to hit your mark, find your light and know your lines. Those are all things that just make things wooden, dull and boring.
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Suzanne Vega
American Musician
I loved the atmosphere of the dance studios - the wooden floors, the big mirrors, everyone dressed in pink or black tights, the musicians accompanying us - and the feeling of ritual the classes had.
Quote examples
Vic Reeves
Every day I'm in my studio - it's wooden and purpose-built at the end of our garden. It's filthy and has got paint everywhere.
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Janet Fitch
American Author
My house is modern, but I like my writing room to be old fashioned. I write on a little wooden secretary desk.
Quote examples
Tadao Ando
Japanese Architect
Japanese architecture is traditionally based on wooden structures that need renovating on a regular basis.
Quote examples
Mavis Staples
American Musician
The best music of my life I heard at my grandmother's church, this little wooden church up on a hill.
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Jean Cocteau
French Director
There are too many souls of wood not to love those wooden characters who do indeed have a soul.
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Victoria Pendleton
British Athlete
I go round and round in circles, really, really fast, on a big wooden bowl.
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