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Definition of 'wood' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) wood
the hard, fibrous substance composing most of the stem and branches of a tree or shrub, and lying beneath the bark; the xylem.

2.  wood
the trunks or main stems of trees as suitable for building and other purposes; timber or lumber.

3.  wood
Often, woods. a large and thick collection of growing trees; a grove or forest.

4.  wood
a cask or keg, as distinguished from a bottle:
aged in the wood.

5.  wood
any of a set of four golf clubs, orig. with wooden heads, used for hitting long shots.

6. (adj.) wood
made of wood; wooden.

7.  wood
used to store, work, or carry wood:
a wood chisel.

8.  wood
dwelling or growing in woods:
a wood bird.

9. (v.t.) wood
to cover or plant with trees.

10. (v.i.) wood
to take in or get supplies of wood (often fol. by up):
to wood up before winter comes.

11.  wood
out of the woods,

12.  wood
no longer in a dangerous, critical, or difficult situation or condition; safe.

13. (Archaic.) wood
mad; insane.

14. (n.) Wood
Grant, 1892–1942, U.S. painter.

Etymology:  (1860–65)

Definition of 'wood' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) wood
the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees

2. (noun) forest, wood, woods
the trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area

3. (noun) Wood, Natalie Wood
United States film actress (1938-1981)

4. (noun) Wood, Sir Henry Wood, Sir Henry Joseph Wood
English conductor (1869-1944)

5. (noun) Wood, Mrs. Henry Wood, Ellen Price Wood
English writer of novels about murders and thefts and forgeries (1814-1887)

6. (noun) Wood, Grant Wood
United States painter noted for works based on life in the Midwest (1892-1942)

7. (noun) woodwind, woodwind instrument, wood
any wind instrument other than the brass instruments

8. (noun) wood
a golf club with a long shaft used to hit long shots; originally made with a wooden head
"metal woods are now standard"


Definition of 'wood' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (noun) wood
the substance that comes from tree trunks
houses built out of wood; a wood fire; to cut wood

2.  wood
the woods
a forest
alone in the woods at night


Definition of 'wood' Webster Dictionary 

1. (adj) wood
mad; insane; possessed; rabid; furious; frantic

2. (noun) wood
a large and thick collection of trees; a forest or grove; -- frequently used in the plural

3. (noun) wood
the substance of trees and the like; the hard fibrous substance which composes the body of a tree and its branches, and which is covered by the bark; timber

4. (noun) wood
the fibrous material which makes up the greater part of the stems and branches of trees and shrubby plants, and is found to a less extent in herbaceous stems. It consists of elongated tubular or needle-shaped cells of various kinds, usually interwoven with the shinning bands called silver grain

5. (noun) wood
trees cut or sawed for the fire or other uses

6. (verb) wood
to grow mad; to act like a madman; to mad

7. (verb) wood
to supply with wood, or get supplies of wood for; as, to wood a steamboat or a locomotive

8. (verb) wood
to take or get a supply of wood


Definition of 'wood' U.S. National Library of Medicine 

1.  wood
A product of hard secondary xylem composed of CELLULOSE, hemicellulose, and LIGNANS, that is under the bark of trees and shrubs. It is used in construction and as a source of CHARCOAL and many other products.


Translation of 'wood' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: (
My desk is (made of) wood; She gathered some wood for the fire; I like the smell of a wood fire.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: hout Arabic flag Arabic: حَطَب Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: дърво
Brazilian flag Brazilian: madeira Czech flag Czech: dřevo, ze dřeva German flag German: das Holz, Holz-...
Danish flag Danish: træ; ved Greek flag Greek: ξύλο, ξύλινος Spanish flag Spanish: madera
Estonian flag Estonian: puu Farsi flag Farsi: چوب Finnish flag Finnish: puu
French flag French: (de) bois Hebrew flag Hebrew: עֵץ Hindi flag Hindi: लकड़ी
Croatian flag Croatian: drvo Hungarian flag Hungarian: fa(anyag) Indonesian flag Indonesian: kayu
Icelandic flag Icelandic: tré, viður Italian flag Italian: legno Japanese flag Japanese: 木材
Korean flag Korean: 목질, 재목 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: medis Latvian flag Latvian: koks
Malay flag Malay: kayu Dutch flag Dutch: hout Norwegian flag Norwegian: tre, ved
Polish flag Polish: drewno Persian flag Persian: چوب Pashto flag Pashto: لرګى، (معمولاً دجمعې په ص
Portuguese flag Portuguese: madeira Romanian flag Romanian: (de) lemn Russian flag Russian: дерево; дрова
Slovak flag Slovak: drevo; z dreva Slovenian flag Slovenian: les Serbian flag Serbian: drvo
Swedish flag Swedish: trä, ved Thai flag Thai: ทำด้วยไม้ Turkish flag Turkish: odun, tahta
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 木頭,木材 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: дерево Urdu flag Urdu: لکڑی
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: gỗ Chinese flag Chinese: 木头,木材

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