Woods

Definition: Woods

Woods

Adjective

1. Concerning or dwelling or situated in a wood; "a wood nymph"; "woods animals".

Noun

1. The trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "woods" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Dream Interpretation

Food & Agriculture

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Woods

Safety

Adjective: safe, secure, sure; in safety, in security; on the safe side; under the shield of, under the shade of, under the wing of, under the shadow of one's wing; under cover, under lock and key; out of danger, out of the woods, out of the meshes, out of harm's way; unharmed, unscathed; on sure ground, at anchor, high and dry, above water; unthreatened, unmolested; protected; Verb: cavendo tutus; panoplied; (defended).

Crosswords: Woods

They say that a great sorceress lives in these woods. An Elf witch of terrible power (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring; writing credit: Frances Walsh)

I've gotta bag of uh hamburgers for you. All you have to do is to come out into the dark shadowy part of the woods where no one can see you (Scooby-Doo; writing credit: William Hanna; Joseph Barbera)

Willie. If a window was broken in the woods, but there was no one there to hear it, would it really be broken (ALF; writing credit: Alberto Fischerman; Rodolfo Rabanal)

It's called the Big Woods and I'll manage thank you. (Little House on the Prairie; writing credit: Arthur Heinemann; John Hawkins)

I'll bet you a hundred bucks you slice it into the woods. (Caddyshack; writing credit: Brian Doyle-Murray; Harold Ramis)

Out past the cornfields where the woods got heavy (Night Moves; performing artist: BOB SEGER; writing credit: Bob Seger)

I live back in the woods you see (A Country Boy Can Survive (Y2K Verison); performing artist: Chad Brock)

Way back up in the woods among the evergreens, (Johnny B. Goode; performing artist: Chuck Berry)

Back to the howling old owl in the woods (Goodbye Yellow Brick Road; performing artist: Elton John)

Now my party pad is out in the woods ("All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight"; performing artist: Hank Williams Jr.)

The woods are always empty if you're a poor hunter. (references; author: unknown)

I worked in the woods as a lumberjack; but I just couldn't hack it, so they gave me the ax. (references; author: unknown)

Use what talents you possess. The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best. (references; author: unknown)

A Howling in the Woods (1971)

Wild in the Woods (1970)

Beyond the Woods Beyond the Forest (1963)

The House in the Woods (1959)

Girl in the Woods (1958)

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References

• Penns Woods Bancorp, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Sanctuary Woods Multimedia Corporation: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

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Books

• Boo and Baa in the Woods (reference)

• Ring around the punch bowl : the story of the Beebe Woods in Falmouth on Cape Cod (reference)

• Woods and lakes of Maine; a trip from Moosehead Lake to New Brunswick in a birch-bark canoe, to which are added some Indian place-names and their meanings (reference)

• Blain's Woods (reference)

• Spilled Fairy Dust: Bluebell's Adventures in the Shady Woods (reference)

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Periodicals

• North Woods Call (reference)

• Devil In The Woods (reference)

• Reinventing Bretton Woods Committee - Quarterly Bulletin (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• Into the Woods (reference)

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Music

• Saint Mary of the Woods (reference)

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High Tech

• Tiger Woods PGA Tour Golf Palm Computing Organizers (reference)

• Handspring Tiger Woods PGA TOUR Golf Springboard Module (reference)

• MALDEN DESIGNS 622-46 4"x6" MALDEN WOODS DOMED BLACK PICTURE FRAME (reference)

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Consumer Goods

• Mountain Woods Chip and Dip Tray Set (reference)

• American Woods 2090M Maple Kitchen Center (reference)

• Mountain Woods 2-Quart Art Deco Red Bowl (reference)

• Mountain Woods Art Deco Blue Bowl (reference)

• Mountain Woods 7-Piece Art Deco Party Bowl Set, Red (reference)

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1) A temporary administration building for M.D. Anderson was set up in 1940 in this converted residence known as "the oaks" on the former Baker Estate near downtown Houston. 2) biochemistry and biology laboratories were set up in late 1942 by five scientists using this one-time stable and carriage house on the old Baker Estate. The first patients were seen in other converted residential quarters starting in March, 1944. 3) the permanent home for University of Texas M.D. Anderson hospital began taking shape in the early 1950s in the newly designated Texas Medical Center, which only a few years earlier had been "way out in the woods". 4) M.D. Anderson's first seven-story structure was opened for patient care on March 19, 1954. This initial building contained 310 beds, which were phased into use over a five-year period, along with facilities for cancer research and educational activities. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Transportation outfit - party of E.R. Martin International Boundary Commission Continental Divide to Lake of Woods. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Nautical chart of Woods Hole, Massachusetts, 1857. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Overlooking the Ferry Landing Woods sediment settlement pond and marsh. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Looking at Buzzards Bay from The Knob, Woods Hole. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Aerial view of Woods Hole - ALBATROSS IV fisheries research vessel at pier. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

An aerial view of the ALBATROSS IV at Woods Hole. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Star flower - Trientalis borealis; Canada mayflower - Maianthemum canadense. Northeast woods at Swift. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

Figure 24. Clarke-Bumpus plankton gathering device. Invented in 1939 by George L. Clarke of Harvard University and Dean F. Bumpus of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. This device was used on the Atlantis. Top: view of the apparatus. Middle: view of the apparatus with net on frame. Lower left: rear view of the device's mouth. Lower right: plankton recovery unit. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Figure 32 (left). Phleger corer devised by Fred B. Phleger of Scripps about 1951 for the study of the Foraminifera in deep water bottom samples. Phleger , previously of Amherst and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, used a similar device on the Swedish Deep-Sea Expedition. The instrument on the right is attributed to Kullenberg (Figure 34). Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

He that would have been insolent and injurious in the woods of America, would not probably be much better in a throne; where perhaps learning and religion shall be found out to justify all that he shall do to his subjects, and the sword presently silence all those that dare question it: for what the protection of absolute monarchy is, what kind of fathers of their countries it makes princes to be and to what a degree of happiness and security it carries civil society, where this sort of government is grown to perfection, he that will look into the late relation of Ceylon, may easily see. (Second Treatise of Government)

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Perhaps to Hartfield, perhaps to the Abbey Mill, perhaps into his woods.

Her intellect and heart had their home, as it were, in desert places, where she roamed as freely as the wild Indian in his woods.

On the 18th of June, 1815, his family fled and hid in the woods.

These fields were intermingled with woods of half a sting, and the tallest trees, as I could judge, appeared to be seven feet high

I speak of fishing only now, for I had long felt differently about fowling, and sold my gun before I went to the woods.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Individuals who live or work in residential areas surrounded by tick-infested woods or overgrown brush are at risk of getting Lyme disease. (references)

The risk of exposure to ticks is greatest in the woods and garden fringe areas of properties, but ticks may also be carried into lawns and gardens by animals. (references)

Business

The world’s best golf players are American, such as Tiger Woods, who is currently considered even better than Jack Nicklaus. (references)

When given choices of wood, they prefer oak, birch or mahogany wood and are willing to pay extra for furniture made of these woods because they tend to last longer and are perceived as a good investment. (references)

Economic History

Cote d'Ivoire

Principal exports are cocoa, coffee, cotton, pineapples, tuna, and tropical woods. (references)

San Marino

San Marino has no mineral resources, and today most of the land is cultivated or covered by woods. (references)

Russia

Trade: Exports (f.o.b.)--$74 billion: petroleum and petroleum products, natural gas, woods and wood products, metals, chemicals. (references)

Trade

Nicaragua

The National Forestry Institute (INAFOR) is the entity that controls wood inventories and authorizes the export of precious woods. (references)

Nicaragua

A CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species) permit is required for the export of wild and precious species, including precious woods. (references)

Egypt

The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD): frequently called the "World Bank," was conceived in July 1944 at the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Woods

Woods

City of woods

Row of houses near the woods

Row of houses near the woods

Expressions using "woods": affect the woods ♦ beat the woods ♦ beech woods ♦ chateau Woods ♦ cock of the woods ♦ Deschutes River Woods ♦ deschutes river woods or ♦ edge of the woods ♦ Fancy woods ♦ Grosse Pointe Woods ♦ Harper Woods ♦ Hawthorn Woods ♦ hen of the woods ♦ Huntington Woods ♦ in this neck of the woods ♦ lady of the woods ♦ Lake of the Woods ♦ Lake of the Woods County ♦ Merriam Woods ♦ Mission Woods ♦ North Woods Beac ♦ out of the woods ♦ Platte Woods ♦ Sugarmill Woods ♦ Trent Woods ♦ Warson Woods ♦ Woods County ♦ Woods Cross ♦ Woods Heights ♦ Woods Hole. Additional references.

Beginning with "woods": woods-inspired.

Ending with "woods": back-woods, green-woods, hen-of-the-woods, oak-woods, old-man-of-the-woods, running-through-the-woods, Tallow-woods, three-woods, willow-woods, Winter-woods.

Afrikaans

bos (forest). (various references)

Albanian

pyll (forest, wood). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نحن في نهاية النفق (out of the woods). (various references)

Bulgarian 

гори (forestry, timber, woodland), дърва (wood). (various references)

Chinese 

林 (attach, brandish, forest, hold), 樹林 (forest, grove), 树林. (various references)

Czech

les (forest, wood). (various references)

Danish

skov (forest). (various references)

Dutch

bos (bunch, bundle, cluster, forest, sheaf, tuft), woud (forest). (various references)

Esperanto

arbaro (forest). (various references)

Faeroese

skógur (forest). (various references)

Finnish

puuklossit (woodjack), metsikkö (coppice, wood), metsä (forest, wood, woodland). (various references)

French

bois (wood, woodwind, woodwind instruments). (various references)

Frisian

wâld (forest), bosk (bunch, bundle, cluster, forest, sheaf). (various references)

German

Wald (forest, timber, wood, woodland). (various references)

Greek 

τσιμπίδα με ξύλινη επένδυση (woodjack), δάση, δάσος (forest), δασάκι (copse). (various references)

Hawaiian

pyll (forest). (various references)

Hebrew 

נחלץ מצרה (out of the woods). (various references)

Hungarian

liget (boscage, bosket, grounds, Grove, Park, wood), erdõ (forest, vert, wood), erdő (forest, timber, wood). (various references)

Icelandic

skógur (forest). (various references)

Indonesian

hutan (forest, jungle). (various references)

Irish

foraois (forest), coill (forest, wood). (various references)

Italian

bosco (forest, wood, woodland). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

林 (forest), 森林　 (forest), 森林 (forest). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しんりん (forest, visit by an emperor or noble), はやし (accompaniment, band, forest, Japanese orchestra). (various references)

Korean 

나무 (tree, Trees, Wood). (various references)

Lombard

bosch (forest). (various references)

Manx

keylljyn. (various references)

Norwegian

skog (forest). (various references)

Papiamen

mondi (forest). (various references)

Pig Latin

oodsway.(various references)

Polish

las (forest). (various references)

Portuguese

mata (brake, forest, jungle, thicket, weald), floresta (forest, jungle). (various references)

Romanian

pådure (forest). (various references)

Russian 

лес (forest, scaffold, scaffolding, wood), дрова (fire wood, firewood, wood). (various references)

Scottish

coille (forest, grove, wood). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

šuma (forest, greenwood, wood). (various references)

Spanish

bosque (backwood, backwoods, forest, timber, wood, woodland). (various references)

Sranan

busi (forest, primeval forest). (various references)

Swahili

msitu (forest). (various references)

Swedish

skog (forest, forests, wood, woodland). (various references)

Thai

ผู้บริสุทธิ์ (babe in arms, babe in the woods, innocent). (various references)

Turkish

orman (forest, forestry, hurst, jungle, sylvan). (various references)

Welsh

coeden (timber, tree, wood). (various references)

Yucatec

k'aax (forest, jungle). (various references)

silva. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "woods": woodshed, woodshedded, woodshedding, woodsheds, woodsia, woodsias, woodsier, woodsiest, woodsman, woodsmen, woodstove, woodstoves, woodsy. (additional references)

Words ending with "woods": agalwoods, arrowwoods, backwoods, basswoods, baywoods, bearwoods, beefwoods, bentwoods, blackwoods, bluewoods, bogwoods, boxwoods, brazilwoods, brushwoods, buttonwoods, candlewoods, cedarwoods, cordwoods, corkwoods, cottonwoods, dagwoods, deadwoods, devilwoods, dogwoods, driftwoods, dyewoods, earlywoods, fatwoods, firewoods, fruitwoods, fuelwoods, greasewoods, greenwoods, groundwoods, gumwoods, hardwoods, heartwoods, inkwoods, ironwoods, kingwoods, lacewoods, lancewoods, latewoods, leatherwoods, lightwoods, logwoods, matchwoods, milkwoods, nutwoods, orangewoods, peckerwoods. (additional references)

Words containing "woods": backwoodsman, backwoodsmen, backwoodsy. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Woods" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: oods, woads, wod, wodes, wodos, wods, wolds, Woodes, woodo, woodys, woud, wud, wudu. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: dows, wood, woos.

-2 letters: dos, dow, ods, sod, sow, woo, wos.

-3 letters: do, od, os, ow, so, wo.

+1 letter: woodsy.

+2 letters: dewools, godowns, sapwood, swooned, swooped, woodies, woodsia, woopsed, wooshed.

+3 letters: advowson, basswood, baywoods, bogwoods, boxwoods, dagwoods, dogwoods, doorways, dyewoods, fatwoods, foodways, gumwoods, hoedowns, inkwoods, logwoods, lowdowns, nonwords, nutwoods, plywoods, redwoods, roadshow, rosewood, sapwoods, sasswood, showdown, slowdown, snowdrop, snowmold, softwood, sorrowed, sourwood, swooshed, towmonds, twofolds, whooshed, wondrous, woodbins, woodcuts, woodhens, woodiest, woodless, woodlots, woodshed, woodsias, woodsier, woodsman, woodsmen, woolshed.