Definitions for wood
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. woodnoun

   the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees

2. forest, wood, woodsnoun

   the trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area

3. Wood, Natalie Woodnoun

   United States film actress (1938-1981)

4. Wood, Sir Henry Wood, Sir Henry Joseph Woodnoun

   English conductor (1869-1944)

5. Wood, Mrs. Henry Wood, Ellen Price Woodnoun

   English writer of novels about murders and thefts and forgeries (1814-1887)

6. Wood, Grant Woodnoun

   United States painter noted for works based on life in the Midwest (1892-1942)

7. woodwind, woodwind instrument, woodnoun

   any wind instrument other than the brass instruments

8. woodnoun

   a golf club with a long shaft used to hit long shots; originally made with a wooden head

   "metal woods are now standard"

WiktionaryRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. woodnoun

   A peckerwood.

2. Woodnoun

   An English topographic surname for someone who lived in or near a wood.

3. Woodnoun

   An English occupational surname for a woodsman.

4. woodnoun

   Plural form of woodman.

5. Etymology: wudu, from widuz, from widhu-. Cognate with Old High German witu, Old Norse viðr (Swedish ved).

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. WOODadjective

   Mad; furious; raging. Obsolete.

   Etymology: wods, Gothick; wod , Saxon; woed, Dutch.

   Winds do rage, as winds were wood,
   And cause spring tides to raise great flood. Thomas Tusser.

   Coal-black steeds yborn of hellish brood,
   That on their rusty bits did champ as they were wood. Fairy Queen.

   Calm the tempest of his passion wood;
   The banks are overflown, when stopped is the flood. Fa. Q.

2. Woodnoun

   Etymology: wude , Saxon; woud, Dutch.

   1. A large and thick plantation of trees.

   The wood-born people fall before her flat,
   And worship her as goddess of the wood. Fairy Queen.

   St. Valentine is past:
   Begin these wood-birds but to couple now? William Shakespeare.

   The woods are ruthless, dreadful, deaf and dull:
   There speak and strike. William Shakespeare, Titus and Andronicus.

   Light thickens, and the crow
   Makes wing to the rooky wood. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

   Hecate, when she gave to rule the woods,
   Then led me trembling through those dire abodes. Dryden.

   2. The substance of trees; timber.

   Balm his foul head with warm distilled waters,
   And burn sweet wood to make the lodging sweet. William Shakespeare.

   The cavity of the tin plate was filled with a melted cement, made of pitch, rosin, and wood-ashes, well incorporated. Boyle.

   Having filled it about five inches with throughly kindled wood-coals, we let it down into the glass. Boyle.

   Of long growth there stood
   A laurel’s trunk, a venerable wood. John Dryden, Æneid.

   The soft wood turners use commonly. Joseph Moxon.

   The size of faggots and wood-stacks differs in most countries. John Mortimer, Husbandry.

   Herrings must be smoked with wood. Josiah Child.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. wood

   Wood is a hard, fibrous structural tissue that is commonly found in the stems and roots of trees and other woody plants. It has been used for thousands of years for both fuel and as a construction material for making houses, tools, furniture, paper, and many other products. Wood is composed of cellulose fibers that are bound together by a substance called lignin.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Woodadjective

   mad; insane; possessed; rabid; furious; frantic

2. Woodverb

   to grow mad; to act like a madman; to mad

3. Woodnoun

   a large and thick collection of trees; a forest or grove; -- frequently used in the plural

4. Woodnoun

   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

5. Woodnoun

   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

6. Woodnoun

   trees cut or sawed for the fire or other uses

7. Woodverb

   to supply with wood, or get supplies of wood for; as, to wood a steamboat or a locomotive

8. Woodverb

   to take or get a supply of wood

9. Etymology: [OE. wode, wude, AS. wudu, wiodu; akin to OHG. witu, Icel. vir, Dan. & Sw. ved wood, and probably to Ir. & Gael. fiodh, W. gwydd trees, shrubs.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Wood

   Wood is a hard, fibrous structural tissue found in the stems and roots of trees and other woody plants. It has been used for thousands of years for both fuel and as a construction material. It is an organic material, a natural composite of cellulose fibers embedded in a matrix of lignin which resists compression. Wood is sometimes defined as only the secondary xylem in the stems of trees, or it is defined more broadly to include the same type of tissue elsewhere such as in tree roots or in other plants such as shrubs. In a living tree it performs a support function, enabling woody plants to grow large or to stand up by themselves. It also mediates the transfer of water and nutrients to the leaves and other growing tissues. Wood may also refer to other plant materials with comparable properties, and to material engineered from wood, or wood chips or fiber. The earth contains about one trillion tonnes of wood, which grows at a rate of 10 billion tonnes per year. As an abundant, carbon-neutral renewable resource, woody materials have been of intense interest as a source of renewable energy. In 1991, approximately 3.5 billion cubic meters of wood were harvested. Dominant uses were for furniture and building construction.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Wood

   wood, n. the solid part of trees: trees cut or sawed: timber: a collection of growing trees: the cask or barrel, as distinguished from the bottle: (print.) a woodblock.—v.t. to supply with wood.—ns. Wood′-ac′id, wood-vinegar, impure acetic acid from wood-distillation; Wood′-anem′one, the wind-flower, a little woodland plant, blooming in early spring, with a single white flower purplish outside; Wood′-ant, a large forest-dwelling ant: a white ant infesting the wood of old buildings.—n.pl. Wood′-ash′es, ashes obtained by burning wood or plants—the source of many potassium salts.—ns. Wood′bine, Wood′bind, the honeysuckle, applied also to other climbers, such as some kinds of ivy, the Virginia-creeper, &c.; Wood′-bird, a bird that lives in the woods; Wood′block, a die cut in relief on wood and ready to furnish ink impressions: a woodcut.—adjs. Wood′-bō′ring; Wood′-born, born in the woods.—ns. Wood′-car′ving, the process of carving in wood; Wood′chat, a bird which, notwithstanding its name, is not a species of Chat, but of Shrike; Wood′chuck, the green woodpecker; Wood′-coal, coal like wood in texture: charcoal: lignite or brown coal; Wood′cock, a genus of birds allied to the snipes, but of a more bulky body, and with shorter and stronger legs; Wood′cock's-head, a tobacco-pipe; Wood′craft, skill in the chase or anything pertaining to forests, forestry generally; Wood′cut, an engraving cut on wood: an impression from it; Wood′-cut′ter, one who cuts wood: a wood-engraver; Wood′-cut′ting, the act or employment of cutting wood: wood-engraving.—adjs. Wood′ed, supplied with wood: covered with wood; Wood′en, made of wood: hard: dull, insensible: heavy, stupid: clumsy, without grace or spirit—of literary style, &c.—ns. Wood′-engrā′ver; Wood′-engrāving, the art of engraving designs on wood, differing from copper and steel plate engraving by having the parts intended to print on the paper in relief: an engraving on or taken from wood; Wood′en-head, a blockhead, stupid person.—adj. Wood′en-head′ed, stupid.—n. Wood′en-head′edness.—adv. Wood′enly.—ns. Woodenness, wooden quality: want of spirit or expression, clumsiness; Wood′-ē′vil, red-water: severe constipation in cattle, often occurring after eating freely of hedge-cuttings or shoots of trees; Wood′-fī′bre, fibre derived from wood; Wood′-fret′ter, a wood-borer or wood-eater; Wood′-god, a deity of the woods; Wood′-grouse, the capercailzie; Wood′-hole, a place where wood is stored; Wood′-hon′ey, wild honey; Wood′-horse, a saw-horse; Wood′-house, a house or shed in which wood for fuel is deposited; Wood′-ī′bis (see Tantalus); Wood′iness, the state or quality of being woody; Wood′land, land covered with wood; Wood′lander, an inhabitant of the woods; Wood′lark, a species of lark, found in or near woods, singing chiefly on the wing; Wood′-lay′er, a young oak, &c., laid down in a hedge.—adj. Wood′less, without wood.—ns. Wood′lessness; Wood′-louse, any terrestrial isopod of the family Oniscidæ—the Scotch slater, common under stones, &c.: a termite or white ant: any one of the pseudo-neuropterous family Psocidæ, found in the woodwork of houses; Wood′man, a man who cuts down trees: a forest officer: a huntsman; Wood′-mite, a beetle-mite; Wood′-naph′tha, the mixture of light hydrocarbons distilled from wood (see Pyroxylic); Wood′-night′shade, bitter-sweet, or woody nightshade; Wood′-note (Milt.), a wild musical note, like that of a song-bird; Wood′-nymph, a nymph or goddess of the woods; Wood′-off′ering (B.), wood burned on the altar; Wood′-ō′pal, silicified wood; Wood′-owl, the European brown owl; Wood′-pā′per, paper prepared from wood; Wood′pecker, one of a family (Picidæ) of birds in the order Picariæ, remarkable for the structural modification of the skull in adaptation to its use as an axe, and for the long flexible tongue, which is used for extracting insects from holes and crevices of trees; Wood′-pig′eon, the cushat or ringdove; Wood′-pulp, wood-fibre reduced to a pulp, used in making paper; Wood′-reeve, the overseer of a wood; Wood′ruff, a genus of rubiaceous plants with whorled leaves and a funnel-shaped corolla—Sweet Woodruff has a creeping root-stock sending up erect stems, and small white flowers; when dried it has a very agreeable fragrance like vernal-grass—(obs.) Wood′-roof; Wood′-sage, the wood germander; Wood′-sand′piper, a common European tattler, allied to the redshank; Wood′-screw, a screw for fastening pieces of wood or wood and metal; Wood′shed, a shed for storing firewood; Wood′-shook, the pekan, fisher, or Pennant's marten—also Black-cat and Black-fox; Wood′-skin, a Guiana Indian's canoe, made of the bark of the purple heart-tree; Woods′man, a woodman; Wood′-soot, soot from burnt wood; Wood′-sorr′el, a plant of the genus Oxalis; Wood′-spir′it (same as Pyroxylic spirit); Wood′-spite, the green woodpecker or yaffle; Wood′-stamp, a stamp made of wood, as for stamping fabrics in colours; Wood′-stone, petrified wood; Wood′-swall′ow, an Australian name for any of the fly-catching Artamidæ, also called Swallow-shrike—the resemblance to shrikes being considerably closer than to swallows either in appearance or habits.—adj. Wood′sy, pertaining to, or characteristic of, woods.—ns. Wood′-tar, tar obtained from the dry distillation of wood; Wood′thrush, a singing-thrush common in the woods of the eastern United States, reddish-brown above, olive on the rump, white spotted with black on breast; Wood′-tick, any tick of the family Ixonidæ: a small insect which makes a ticking sound in the woodwork of a house, the death-watch; Wood′-tin, a nodular variety of cassiterite, or tin-stone; Wood′-vin′egar (see Wood-acid); Wood′wale, a woodpecker, esp. the green woodpecker, Yaffle or Rainbird; Wood′-warb′ler, the yellow willow-warbler or woodwren: an American warbler, esp. of the beautiful genus Dendrœca; Wood′ward, an officer to guard the woods; Wood′work, a part of any structure made of wood; Wood′worm, a worm or larva infesting wood; Wood′wren, the willow-warbler or willow-wren (Phylloscopus trochilus): the true wood-warbler or yellow willow-wren (Phylloscopus sibilatrix)—neither being properly wrens.—adj. Wood′y, abounding with woods: pertaining to woods: consisting of wood.—n. Wood′y-night′shade (see Wood-nightshade).—Wooden horse, or Timber-mare (see Horse); Wooden leg, an artificial leg made of wood; Wooden spoon, a spoon of wood presented to the person who stands lowest for the year in the mathematical tripos list at Cambridge; Wooden type, large type cut in wood.—Commissioners of Woods and Forests, a department of government having charge of the Crown woods and forests. [A.S. wudu; cog. with Ice. vidhr, wood; akin to Ir. fiodh, timber.]

2. Wood

   wood, adj. (Shak.) mad, furious.—n. Wood′ness. [A.S. wód; Ice. ódhr, Goth. wods, frantic, Ger. wuth, madness.]

U.S. National Library of MedicineRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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.

Military Dictionary and GazetteerRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. wood

   The most useful timbers in the United States are: the hickory, which is very tough and inflexible; white oak, tough and pliable; white ash, tough and elastic; black walnut, hard and fine-grained; white poplar, soft, light, fine-grained wood; white pine and other pines, for building; cypress, soft, light, straight-grained, and grows to a large size; dogwood, hard and fine-grained. The timber growing in the centre of a forest is best.

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1. woodnoun

   Erected penis. "Delivering the wood" stands for having sexual intercourse.

2. woodnoun

   a slang word for marijuana: "You got the wood?"

3. woodnoun

   Wood grain

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Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. WOOD

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Wood is ranked #84 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Wood surname appeared 250,715 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 85 would have the surname Wood.
   
   88.7% or 222,434 total occurrences were White.
   5.5% or 13,965 total occurrences were Black.
   2.4% or 6,067 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   1.7% or 4,488 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   0.8% or 2,106 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
   0.6% or 1,655 total occurrences were Asian.

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British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'wood' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2115

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'wood' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1481

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'wood' in Nouns Frequency: #698

How to pronounce wood?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say wood in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of wood in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of wood in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of wood in a Sentence

1. Ralph Waldo Emerson:

   If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

2. Ralph Hernandez:

   Upon reviewing the case, we observed the autopsy photos and the autopsy report, and Natalie Wood had numerous bruises on Natalie Wood head, arms and legs, which appeared to be assaultive in nature, there was a broken bottle that was found on the boat that Robert Wagner had told investigators, originally, that Robert Wagner believed that it was rough seas — it had fallen over and broken.

3. Robert Frost:

   I shall be telling this with a sigh somewhere ages and ages hence. Two roads diverged in a wood, and I --I took the one less traveled by and that has made all the difference.

4. Tina Schneider:

   If you don't understand where wood comes from, that's a giant red flag.

5. Natalie Wood:

   Oh goodness, if I was n’t able to touch [ that money ], I would n’t have electricity, water, or a roof over my head, but you know, the thing a lot of us forget, Natalie Wood included, is you put down first, last, and a security deposit and you’re in a place. But how about all the deposits necessary for water, gas, electricity — all of our things had to be put in storage. Even doing that we lost more than half of everything we owned … and finding a motel that would accept us with dogs was not easy. It was costly … We’re still coming to terms with everything, so we’re not pulled together by any stretch of the imagination, but we’re trying. I ’m trying very hard to make it a home.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=wood
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wood
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=wood
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wood
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=wood
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=wood
8. ^ Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/59563/pg59563-images.html
9. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html