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Synonyms for timber
ˈtɪm bərtim·ber

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Wiktionary4.0 / 1 vote

  1. timbernoun

    Used by loggers to warn others that a tree being felled is falling.

    Synonyms:
    timberland, forest

  2. timbernoun

    Wood that has been pre-cut and is ready for use in construction.

    Synonyms:
    wood, lumber

  3. timbernoun

    Synonyms:
    rafter, beam

Princeton's WordNet1.0 / 3 votes

  1. lumber, timbernoun

    the wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material

    Synonyms:
    woodland, tone, quality, timbre, timberland, lumber, forest, baseball bat

  2. timbernoun

    a beam made of wood

    Synonyms:
    woodland, lumber, tone, quality, timbre, forest, timberland

  3. timbernoun

    a post made of wood

    Synonyms:
    woodland, lumber, tone, quality, timbre, forest, timberland

  4. forest, woodland, timberland, timbernoun

    land that is covered with trees and shrubs

    Synonyms:
    woodland, tone, quality, wood, timbre, timberland, woods, lumber, forest

  5. timbre, timber, quality, tonenoun

    (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"

    Synonyms:
    note, shade, smell, tone of voice, caliber, tonicity, lineament, quality, feel, feeling, flavor, look, tint, lumber, tonus, flavour, spirit, whole step, tincture, timberland, pure tone, step, forest, whole tone, character, tone, woodland, timbre, calibre, musical note

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. timbernoun

    Synonyms:
    wood (for building)

  2. timbernoun

    Synonyms:
    beam, stick, squared timber

  3. timbernoun

    Synonyms:
    rib (of a ship's frame)

  4. timbernoun

    Synonyms:
    [western, U. S.] woods, forest

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How to use timber in a sentence?

  1. Evelyn Waugh, Work Suspended (1943):

    Beavers bred in captivity, inhabiting a concrete pool, will, if given the timber, fatuously go through all the motions of damming and ancestral stream.

  2. J. Willard Marriott:

    Good timber does not grow with ease the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees.

  3. Swe Ba:

    We have been reducing timber extraction, and now we have decided to stop logging completely, this measure will cover teak and other hardwoods all across the country.

  4. Jonathan Reiner:

    The biggest issue is about 55 million adults have chosen not to get vaccinated, and that is the giant pile of dried timber for this relentless fire.

  5. Jennifer Frame:

    The cladding was n’t the issue at all, it was the fact that it was a timber frame building, with a cavity between that and the cladding.


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