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Definition: Wood |
WoodAdjective1. Concerning or dwelling or situated in a wood; "a wood nymph"; "woods animals". 2. Made or consisting of (entirely or in part) or employing wood; "a wooden box"; "an ancient cart with wooden wheels"; "wood houses"; "a wood fire". Noun1. The hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees. 2. The trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area. 3. United States film actress (1938-1981). 4. English conductor (1869-1944). 5. English writer of novels about murders and thefts and forgeries (1814-1887). 6. United States painter noted for works based on life in the Midwest (1892-1942). 7. Any wind instrument other than the brass instruments. 8. A golfclub with a long shaft used to hit long shots; originally made with a wooden head; metal woods are now available. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "wood" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
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Bible | Wood See FOREST. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Biology & Biotechnology | The principal strengthening and water-conducting tissue of stems, leaves, and roots, characterised by the presence of tracheary elements. Source: European Union. (references) |
| The cells differentiated mostly toward the inside of the cambium. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Food & Agriculture | A community of trees growing more or less closely together, of smaller extent than a forest and generally larger than a coppice. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Wood Knight of the Wood or Knight of the Mirrors. So called because his coat was overspread with numerous small mirrors. It was Sampson Carasco, a bachelor of letters, who adopted the disguise of a knight under the hope of overthrowing Don Quixote, when he would have imposed upon him the penalty of returning to his home for two years; but it so happéned that Don Quixote was the victor, and Carrasco's scheme was abortive. As Knight of the White Moon Carrasco again challenged the Manchegan lunatic, and overthrew him; whereupon the vanquished knight was obliged to return home, and quit the profession of knight-errantry for twelve months. Before the term expired he died. (Cervantes: Don Quixote, pt. ii. bk. i. 11, etc.; bk. iv. 12.) Wood Don't cry [or halloo] till you are out of the wood. Do not rejoice for having escaped danger till the danger has passed away. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Slang in 1811 | WOOD. In a wood; bewildered, in a maze, in a peck of troubles, puzzled, or at a loss what course to take in any business. To look over the wood; to ascend the pulpit, to preach: I shall look over the wood at St. James's on Sunday next. To look through the. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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Anthony Wood or Anthony à Wood (December 17, 1632 - November 28, 1695) was an English antiquary.He was the fourth son of Thomas Wood (1580-1643), B.C.L. of Oxford, where Anthony was born. He was sent to New College school in 1641, and at the age of twelve was removed to the free grammar school at Thame, where his studies were interrupted by civil war skirmishes. He was then placed under the tuition of his brother Edward (1627-1655), of Trinity College; and, as he tells us, "while he continued in this condition his mother would alwaies be soliciting him to be an apprentice which he could never endure to heare of." He was entered at Merton College in 1647, and made postmaster.
In 1652 he took up ploughing and bell-ringing. In the Life he speaks of himself and his family as Wood or à Wood, the last form being a pedantic return to old usage adopted by himself and "having had from his most tender years an extraordinary ravishing delight in music," began to teach himself the violin, and was took his B.A. examinations. He engaged a music-master, and obtained permission to use the Bodleian, "which he took to be the happiness of his life." He became an M.A. in 1655, and in the following year published a volume of sermons by his late brother Edward.
He began systematically to copy monumental inscriptions and to search for antiquities in the city and neighbourhood. He went through the Christ Church registers, "at this time being resolved to set himself to the study of antiquities." Dr John Wallis, the keeper, allowed him free access to the university registers in 1660; "here he layd the foundation of that book which was fourteen years afterwards published, viz. Hist. et Antiq. Univ. Oxon." He also came to know the Oxford collections of Brian Twyne to which he was greatly indebted. He steadily investigated the muniments of all the colleges, and in 1667 made his first journey to London, where he visited William Dugdale, who introduced him into the Cottonian library, and William Prynne showed him the same civility for the Tower records.
On October 22, 1669, he was sent for by the delegates of the press, "that whereas he had taken a great deal of paines in writing the Hist. and Antiq. of the Universitie of Oxon, they would for his paines give him an 100 li. for his copie, conditionally, that he would suffer the book to be translated into Latine." He accepted the offer and set to work to prepare his English manuscript for the translators, Richard Peers and Richard Reeve, both appointed by Dr Fell, dean of Christ Church, who undertook the expense of printing. In 1674 appeared Historia, et antiquitates Universitatis Oxoniensis, handsomely reprinted "e Theatre Sheldoniano," in two folio volumes, the first devoted to the university in general and the second to the colleges. Copies were widely distributed, and university and author received much praise. On the other hand, Bishop Barlow told a correspondent that "not only the Latine but the history itself is in many things ridiculously false" (Genuine Remains, 1693, p.183).
In 1678 the university registers which had been in his custody for eighteen years were removed, as it was feared that he would be implicated in the Popish plot. To relieve himself from suspicion he took the oaths of supremacy and allegiance. During this time he had been gradually completing his great work, which was produced by a London publisher in 1691-1692, 2 vols. folio, Athenae Oxonienses: an Exact History of all the Writers and Bishops who have had their Education in the University of Oxford from 1500 to 1690, to which are added the Fasti, or Annals for the said time.
On July 29 1693 he was condemned in the vice-chancellor's court for certain libels against the late Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, fined, banished from the university until he recanted, and the offending pages burnt. The proceedings were printed in a volume of Miscellanies published by Edmund Curll in 1714. Wood was attacked by Bishop Burnet in a Letter to the Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry (1693), and defended by his nephew Dr Thomas Wood, in a Vindication of the Historiographer, to which is added the Historiographer's Answer (1693), reproduced in the subsequent editions of the Athenae. The nephew also defended his uncle in An Appendix to the Life of Bishop Selh Ward, 1697. After a short illness he died, and was buried in the outer chapel of St John Baptist (Merton College), in Oxford, where he had superintended the digging of his own grave only a few days before.
He is described as "a very strong lusty man," of uncouth manners and appearance, not so deaf as he pretended, of reserved and temperate habits, not avaricious and a despiser of honours. He received no recognition from the university which owed so much to his labours. He never married, and led a life of self-denial, entirely devoted to antiquarian research. Bell-ringing and music were his chief relaxations. His literary style is poor, and his taste and judgment are frequently warped by prejudice, but his two groat works and unpublished collections form a priceless source of information on Oxford and her worthies. He was always suspected of being a Roman Catholic, and invariably treated Jacobites and Papists better than Dissenters in the Athenae, but he died in communion with the Church of England.
Wood's original manuscript (purchased by the Bodleian in 1846) was first published by John Gutch as The History and Antiquities of the Colleges and Halls in the University of Oxford, with a continuation (1786-1790, 2 vols. 4to), and The History and Antiquities of the University of Oxford (1792-1796, 3 vols. 410), with portrait of Wood. To these should be added The Antient and Present State of the City of Oxford, chiefly collected by A. à Wood, with additions by the Rev. Sir J. Peshall (1773, 4to; the text is garbled and the editing very imperfect). An admirable edition of the Survey of the Antiquities of the City of Oxford, composed in 1661-66 by Anthony Wood, edited by Andrew Clark, was issued by the Oxford Historical Society (1889-1899, 3 vols. 8vo). Modius Salium, a Collection of Pieces of Humour, chiefly ill-natured personal stories, was published at Oxford in 1751, 12mo.
Some letters between Aubrey and Wood were given in the Gentleman's Magazine (3rd ser., ix. x. xi.). Wood consulted Dr Hudson about getting a third volume of the Athenae printed in Holland, saying, "When this volume comes put I'll make you laugh again" (Reliq. Hearnianae, i. 59). This was included in a second edition of the Athenae published by R Knaplock and J Tonson in 1721 (2 vols. folio), "very much corrected and enlarged, with the addition of above 500 new lines." The third appeared as "a new edition, with additions, and a continuation by Philip Bliss" (1813-1820, 4 vols. 4to). The Ecclesiastical History Society proposed to bring out a fourth edition, which stopped at the Life, ed. by Bliss (1848, 8vo; see Cent. Mag., N.S., xxix. 135, 268). Dr Bliss's interleaved copy is in the Bodleian, and Dr Griffiths announced in 1859 that a new edition was contemplated by the Press, and asked for additional matter (see Notes and Queries, 2nd ser., vii. 514, and 6th ser., vi. 5, 51). Wood bequeathed his library (127 manuscripts and 970 printed books) to the Ashmolean Museum, and the keeper, William Huddesford, printed a catalogue of the manuscripts in 1761. In 1858 the whole collection was transferred to the Bodleian, where 25 volumes of Wood's manuscripts had been since 1690. Many of the original papers from which the Athenae was written, as well as several large volumes of Wood's correspondence and all his diaries, are in the Bodleian.
We are intimately acquainted with the most minute particulars of Wood's life from his Diaries (1657-1695) and autobiography; all earlier editions are now superseded by the elaborate work of Andrew Clark, The Life and Times of Anthony Wood, Antiquary, of Oxford, 1632-1695, described by himself (Oxford Historical Society, 1891-1900, 5 vols. 8vo). See also Reliquiae Hearnianae, ed. Bliss (2nd ed., 1869, 3 vols. 12mo): Hearne's Remarks and Collections (Oxford Historical Society, 1885-1907), vols. i.-viii.; Macray's Annals of the Bodleian Library (2nd ed., 1890); Nichols's Literary Anecdotes, i. iv. v. viii.; Noble's Biogr. History of England, i.
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Wood is a material found as the primary content of the stems of 'woody plants', especially trees, but also all shrubs. These perennial plants are characterised by stems that grow outward year after year, and that are composed of cellulose and lignin based tissue. Plants that do not produce wood are called 'herbaceous'; this group of plants includes all annual plants, many perennial plants, and most submerged and floating aquatic plants.
The woody tissue is formed by the plant for structural purposes, and because it is an effective and efficient structural material, it is useful to humans. Wood is made of cellulose fibers, held together with lignin.
When cut down and dried, wood is used for many different purposes. Wood that is broken down into fibers is called pulp, which may then be made into paper. Artists and craftsmen shape and join pieces of wood with special tools, which is called woodworking or carpentry. Wood has been an important construction material since humans began building shelters, and remains in plentiful use today.
In modern times, many of the traditional uses of wood may be filled by metal and plastics.
Wood is commonly classified as either hardwood or softwood. The wood from conifers (e.g., pine) is called softwood, and the wood from broad-leaved trees (e.g., oak) is called hardwood. This classification is sometimes misleading, as some hardwoods (e.g., balsa) are actually softer than most softwoods.
Additionally, woods from different types of trees have different colors and grain densities. Because of these differences, and the fact that some woods take longer to grow than others, wood from different kinds of trees have different qualities and values. For example, while mahogany is a dark, dense hardwood which is excellent for fine furniture crafting, balsa is light, soft, and almost spongelike, making it useful for model building.
See also: list of woods, Chinese five elements
External links
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- how trees are made into paper
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Wood is a town located in Mellette County, South Dakota. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 66.Geography
Wood is located at 43°29'55" North, 100°28'48" West (43.498689, -100.480085)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 0.6 km² (0.2 mi²). 0.6 km² (0.2 mi²) of it is land and none of the area is covered with water.Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there are 66 people, 30 households, and 18 families residing in the town. The population density is 106.2/km² (274.6/mi²). There are 38 housing units at an average density of 61.1/km² (158.1/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 68.18% White, 0.00% African American, 28.79% Native American, 0.00% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.00% from other races, and 3.03% from two or more races. 0.00% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 30 households out of which 20.0% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 46.7% are married couples living together, 10.0% have a female householder with no husband present, and 36.7% are non-families. 30.0% of all households are made up of individuals and 16.7% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.20 and the average family size is 2.79. In the town the population is spread out with 21.2% under the age of 18, 1.5% from 18 to 24, 37.9% from 25 to 44, 15.2% from 45 to 64, and 24.2% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 39 years. For every 100 females there are 88.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 92.6 males. The median income for a household in the town is $27,083, and the median income for a family is $29,375. Males have a median income of $25,313 versus $21,458 for females. The per capita income for the town is $11,070. 23.9% of the population and 16.7% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 23.8% are under the age of 18 and 50.0% are 65 or older.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Wood, South Dakota."
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Wood is a town located in Wood County, Wisconsin. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 786.Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 86.4 km² (33.3 mi²). 86.3 km² (33.3 mi²) of it is land and 0.1 km² (0.04 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 0.12% water.Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there are 786 people, 285 households, and 222 families residing in the town. The population density is 9.1/km² (23.6/mi²). There are 309 housing units at an average density of 3.6/km² (9.3/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 99.24% White, 0.13% African American, 0.51% Native American, 0.13% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.00% from other races, and 0.00% from two or more races. 0.13% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 285 households out of which 34.4% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 66.3% are married couples living together, 4.9% have a female householder with no husband present, and 22.1% are non-families. 16.5% of all households are made up of individuals and 4.9% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.76 and the average family size is 3.12. In the town the population is spread out with 24.7% under the age of 18, 8.4% from 18 to 24, 27.9% from 25 to 44, 26.1% from 45 to 64, and 13.0% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 39 years. For every 100 females there are 112.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 116.1 males. The median income for a household in the town is $44,853, and the median income for a family is $47,955. Males have a median income of $38,333 versus $22,321 for females. The per capita income for the town is $18,534. 6.7% of the population and 6.4% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 13.4% are under the age of 18 and 0.0% are 65 or older.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Wood, Wisconsin."
Synonyms: WoodSynonyms: wood(a) (adj), wooden (adj), forest (n), woods (n), woodwind (n), woodwind instrument (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Agent | Workman, artisan; craftsman, handicraftsman; mechanic, operative; working man; laboring man; demiurgus, hewers of wood and drawers of water, laborer, navvy; hand, man, day laborer, journeyman, charwoman, hack; mere tool; beast of burden, drudge, fag; lumper, roustabout. |
Animal | Bird; poultry, fowl, hen, chicken, chanticleer, partlet, rooster, dunghill cock, barn door fowl; feathered tribes, feathered songster; singing bird, dicky bird; canary, warbler; finch; aberdevine, cushat, cygnet, ringdove, siskin, swan, wood pigeon. |
Boasting | Exult, crow, crow over, neigh, chuckle, triumph; throw up one's cap; talk big, se faire valoir, faire claquer son fouet, take merit to oneself, make a merit of, sing Io triumphe, holloa before one is out of the wood. |
Calefaction | Coke, carbon, charcoal; wood alcohol, turpentine, tea tree oil; gasoline, kerosene, naptha, fuel oil (fuel); wax, paraffin; residue, tar. |
Commonalty | Peasant, countryman, boor, carle, churl; villain, villein; terrae filius; serf, kern, tyke, tike, chuff, ryot, fellah; longshoreman; swain, clown, hind; clod, clodhopper; hobnail, yokel, bog-trotter, bumpkin; plowman, plowboy; rustic, hayseed, lunkhead, chaw-bacon, tiller of the soil; hewers of wood and drawers of water, groundling; gaffer, loon, put, cub, Tony Lumpkin, looby, rube, lout, underling; gamin; rough; pot-wallopper, slubberdegullion; vulgar fellow, low fellow; cad, curmudgeon. |
Danger | At stake, in question; precarious, critical, ticklish; slippery, slippy; hanging by a thread; Verb: with a halter round one's neck; between the hammer and the anvil, between Scylla and Charybdis, between a rock and a hard place, between the devil and the deep blue sea, between two fires; on the edge of a precipice, on the brink of a precipice, on the verge of a precipice, on the edge of a volcano; in the lion's den, on slippery ground, under fire; not out of the wood. |
Difficulty | Under a difficulty; in a box; in difficulty, in hot water, in the suds, in a cleft stick, in a fix, in the wrong box, in a scrape; Noun: in deep water, in a fine pickle; in extremis; between two stools, between Scylla and Charybdis; surrounded by shoals, surrounded by breakers, surrounded by quicksands; at cross purposes; not out of the wood. |
Engraving | Noun: engraving, chalcography; line engraving, mezzotint engraving, stipple engraving, chalk engraving; dry point, bur; etching, aquatinta; chiseling; plate engraving, copperplate engraving, steel engraving, wood engraving; xylography, lignography, glyptography, cerography, lithography, chromolithography, photolithography, zincography, glyphography, xylograph, lignograph, glyptograph, cerograph, lithograph, chromolithograph, photolithograph, zincograph, glyphograph, holograph. |
Graver, burin, etching point, style; plate, stone, wood block, negative; die, punch, stamp. | |
Furnace | Fireplace, gas fireplace; coal fire, wood fire; fire-dog, fire-irons; grate, range, kitchener; caboose, camboose; poker, tongs, shovel, ashpan, hob, trivet; andiron, gridiron; ashdrop; frying-pan, stew-pan, backlog. |
Jupiter | Allah, Bathala, Brahm, Brahma, Brahma, cloud-compeller, Devi, Durga, Kali, oread, the Great Spirit, Ushas; water nymph, wood nymph; Yama, Varuna, Zeus; Vishnu, Siva, Shiva, Krishna, Juggernath, Buddha; Isis, Osiris, Ra; Belus, Bel, Baal, Asteroth; Thor, Odin; Mumbo Jumbo; good genius, tutelary genius; demiurge, familiar; sibyl; fairy, fay; sylph, sylphid; Ariel, peri, nymph, nereid, dryad, seamaid, banshee, benshie, Ormuzd; Oberon, Mab, hamadryad, naiad, mermaid, kelpie, Ondine, nixie, sprite; denizens of the air; pixy; (bad spirit). |
Materials | Noun: material, raw material, stuff, stock, staple; adobe, brown stone; chinking; clapboard; daubing; puncheon; shake; shingle, bricks and mortar; metal; stone; clay, brick crockery; compo, composition; concrete; reinforced concrete, cement; wood, ore, timber. |
Secret | Maze, labyrinth, Hyrcynian wood; intricacy, meander. |
Smoothness | Slide; bowling green; (level); asphalt, wood pavement, flagstone, flags. |
Vegetable | Timber, forest; wood, woodlands; timberland; hurst, frith, holt, weald, park, chase, greenwood, brake, grove, copse, coppice, bocage, tope, clump of trees, thicket, spinet, spinney; underwood, brushwood; scrub; boscage, bosk, ceja, chaparal, motte.; arboretum . |
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Screenplays | Now, does wood float in water (Monty Python and the Holy Grail; writing credit: Graham Chapman; John Cleese) After a few weeks, he was carved out of wood. (Fight Club; writing credit: Jim Uhls) Most of the men in this town think monogamy is some kind of wood. (The Mask; writing credit: Michael Fallon; Mark Verheiden) Oh for goodness sakes, get down off that crucifix, someone needs the wood! (The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert; writing credit: Stephan Elliott.) I can hardly look at her without sporting wood. (Grosse Pointe; writing credit: Amy Engelberg; Wendy Engelberg) | |
Lyrics | There stood a log cabin made of earth and wood (Johnny B. Goode; performing artist: Chuck Berry) Hitch a ride to the end of the highway where the neons turn to wood. (UP AROUND THE BEND; performing artist: Creedence Clearwater Revival) Can I feel up on your wood and grill (Hey Papi; performing artist: Jay-Z) Now I don't mind choppin' wood, and I don't care if the money's no good (The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down; performing artist: Joan Baez) But yo it's all good, Range Rover all wood (Ride Wit Me (Featuring City Spud); performing artist: Nelly) | |
Clever | Write without pay until somebody offers to pay you. If nobody offers within three years, sawing wood is what you were intended for. (references; author: Mark Twain) You are an engineer if you use a CAD package to design your son's Pine Wood Derby car. (references; author: unknown) | |
Tongue Twisters | How much wood would a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood? (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Wood Demon (1974) Dry Wood (1973) Under Milk Wood (1972) Pogles' Wood (1965) | |
Song Titles | Please Don't Leave (performing artist: Lauren Wood) Don't Leave Home Without Her (performing artist: The Wood Brothers) Shelly's Winter Love (performing artist: The Wood Brothers) | |
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 | Members of the first National Advisory Cancer Council at the groundbreaking ceremonies at the NCI's building 6 in June, 1938. (Left to right) Francis Wood, C.C Little, James Ewing, Arthur Compton, James Conant, Thomas Parran, and Ludwig Hektoen. This new building, erected on land donated by Mrs. Luke J. Wilson was the fourth to be constructed in the complex that is now the National Institutes of Health. The structure was unique in that year of 1939, with its physical equipment and facilities designed solely for scientific research in a specialized field of science. Building 6 was to house the National Cancer Institute, the first of the nine specialized institutes that would comprise NIH. See also ar003810. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | All wood rat species are quick to occupy and construct nests in human habitations or outbuildings within their range, thereby, bringing vector fleas into close contact with humans and their pets. Credit: CDC. |
 | Great Caspar Signal - built around tree trunk Note boatswain chair transporting man to top 135-foot signal --- main wood scaffold supports instrument Tree trunk supports small scaffolding and observer at top Western terminus of 39th Parallel Survey. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Wood storks hanging out at Mary's Fish Camp near the cleaning table. Waiting for a tidbit. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | Gentle draft horses were used to transport wood to the sensitive regions of the upper river where heavy machinery would have been inappropriate. The horses were less expensive and worked in conjunction with the spyder to minimize disturbance to the stream bed and riparian buffer areas. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | A single draft horse pulls wood to the restoration site at the Glade Bekken watershed. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | ACE Basin National Estuarine Research Reserve. A wood stork nesting area. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |  | Sapelo Island National Estuarine Research Reserve. McIntosh County is home to a large nesting population of wood storks. Considered an endangered species, wood storks frequent both estuarine and fresh water systems. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |
 | Figure 1. Model of Aime's first wave study instrument, built in 1838 and tested in the anchorage at Algiers the same year at depths of 11 and 18 meters. A wood top furnished with fixed points in the center of a sheet of lead and tilted by the movement of the water left markings in the metal which were compared to observations made at the surface. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Figure 5. An Aime tide gauge. Aime's tidal studies began at the port of Algiers in 1838. Aime designed a prismatic lead tube supported by wood and provided with a filtering mechanism at its base that attenuated wave motion. A wood float connected to a counterweight by a silk cord, indicated the level of the sea on a reverse graduated scale which was calibrated on a calm day. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
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| "Wood and water" by Hans Renner Commentary: "This picture was taken in a small forrest in Holland." | "A very old wood table" by Dino Gracio Commentary: "Clicked (1972) in a centenary house in a very small city in Goias, Brasil." |
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 | Drilling wood with an electric drill. | | Electric chainsaw cutting through wood. |
| Starting up jigsaw and cutting wood. | | Electric chainsaw cutting through wood. |
| Sawing wood. | | Manual hand saw cutting wood. |
| Scratching sandpaper on wood. | | Two hits of a wood switch. |
| Book dropping onto a wood floor. | | Pneumatic nail gun firing a nail into wood . |
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Brigham Young | Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up. |
Dante Alighieri | In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost. |
Ellen Wood | We are truly indefatigable in providing for the needs of the body, but we starve the soul. |
Francis Bacon | Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. |
Frank A. Clark | Faith is what makes you feel the comfort of the hearth while you're chopping the wood. |
George Carlin | I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood. |
Immanuel Kant | From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned. |
John Heywood | You cannot see the wood for the trees. |
Mencius | Rotten wood cannot be carved. |
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Magna Carta | 1215 | Neither we nor our bailiffs shall take, for our castles or for any other work of ours, wood which is not ours, against the will of the owner of that wood. (reference) |
John Locke | 1690 | He that is nourished by the acorns he picked up under an oak, or the apples he gathered from the trees in the wood, has certainly appropriated them to himself. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | The Allied and Associated Governments may file with the Reparation Commission lists showing: (a) Animals, machinery, equipment, tools and like articles of a commercial character, which have been seized, consumed or destroyed by Germany or destroyed in direct consequence of military operations, and which such Governments, for the purpose of meeting immediate and urgent needs, desire to have replaced by animals and articles of the same nature which are in being in German territory at the date of the coming into force of the present Treaty; (b) Reconstruction materials (stones, bricks, refractory bricks, tiles, wood, window-glass, steel, lime, cement, etc.), machinery, heating apparatus, furniture and like articles of a commercial character which the said Governments desire to have produced and manufactured in Germany and delivered to them to permit of the restoration of the invaded areas. (reference) |
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Alice in Wonderland | Carroll, Lewis | She felt very curious to know what it was all about, and crept a little way out of the wood to listen |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | The very ideal of ignominy was embodied and made manifest in this contrivance of wood and iron |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The scaffold is not a mere frame, the scaffold is not a machine, the scaffold is not an inert piece of mechanism made of wood, of iron, and of ropes |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | And he remembered an evening when he had dismounted from a borrowed creaking bicycle to pray to God in a wood near Malahide |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | She piled wrung clothes like cord wood on the table |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | The superficies was composed of several bits of wood, about the bigness of a die, but some larger than others |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | Sometimes a rambler in the wood was attracted by the sound of my axe, and we chatted pleasantly over the chips which I had made |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Rocky Mountain wood tick (Dermacentor andersoni) is found in the Rocky Mountain states and in southwestern Canada. (references) | |
Many other rodent species, for instance, prairie dogs, wood rats, chipmunks, and other ground squirrels and their fleas, suffer plague outbreaks and some of these occasionally serve as sources of human infection. (references) | ||
The organism that causes Rocky Mountain spotted fever is transmitted by the bite of an infected tick. The American dog tick (Dermacentor variabilis) and Rocky Mountain wood tick (Dermacentor andersoni) are the primary vectors of Rocky Mountain spotted fever bacteria in the United States. (references) | ||
Business | There currently are no non-tariff barriers against wood flooring boards in Korea. (references) | |
Foreign suppliers currently account for more than 30% of the Korean wood flooring market. (references) | ||
The demand for imported wood fiber, pulp, and chips will also evolve in the next 4-6 years. (references) | ||
Economic History | Brazil | Wood from such forests is also used in the production of furniture. (references) |
Uk | The largest item in the deficit is sawn and laminated wood products. (references) | |
Finland | The fall in demand was most pronounced in the wood products industry. (references) | |
Human Rights | Haiti | The ICRC also continues to donate reading material, sewing machines, wood, and other items to help prisoners pass the time. (references) |
Indonesia | Ten thousand workers protesting the new severance pay decree in June threw stones, wood, and plastic bottles, injuring at least nine persons and damaging two hotels in Jakarta. (references) | |
Cuba | A fistfight broke out between three of the officers and the activists, and the activists claimed that the officers hit them with a piece of wood; however, no one was injured seriously. (references) | |
Political Economy | Cote d'Ivoire | Principal exports are cocoa, coffee, and wood. (references) |
JAPAN | Tariffs on processed wood products place additional costs on end-users. (references) | |
JAPAN | Agricultural and Wood Products: Japan is the largest export market for U.S. farm and wood products. (references) | |
Trade | Azerbaijan | Goods subject to inspection include plants, certain foodstuffs, wood, and leather. (references) |
Taiwan | This means that market access for U.S. exports of wood construction products is limited. (references) | |
Nicaragua | The National Forestry Institute (INAFOR) is the entity that controls wood inventories and authorizes the export of precious woods. (references) | |
Travel | Chad | Chad has no cement factory or steel mill and wood is expensive. (references) |
Chad | One can find restaurants, bars, food products, carpets, woven mats, hardware, fabric, jewelry, African artisan goods, wool rugs, beads, leather products, and wood carvings. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Indonesia | Children work in the rattan and wood furniture industries, the garment industry, the footwear industry, food processing, toy-making, and small mining operations, and other industries. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | GRAVE, n. A place in which the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student. Beside a lonely grave I stood -- With brambles 'twas encumbered; The winds were moaning in the wood, Unheard by him who slumbered, A rustic standing near, I said: "He cannot hear it blowing!" "'Course not," said he: "the feller's dead -- He can't hear nowt [sic] that's going." "Too true," I said; "alas, too true -- No sound his sense can quicken!" "Well, mister, wot is that to you? -- The deadster ain't a-kickin'." I knelt and prayed: "O Father, smile On him, and mercy show him!" That countryman looked on the while, And said: "Ye didn't know him." Pobeter Dunko |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Their lives ended in places called Belleau Wood, The Argonne, Omaha Beach, Salerno and halfway around the world on Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Pork Chop Hill, the Chosin Reservoir, and in a hundred rice paddies and jungles of a place called Vietnam. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Wood" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 73.22% of the time. "Wood" is used about 6,973 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 73.22% | 5,106 | 1,918 |
| Noun (proper) | 26.78% | 1,867 | 4,567 |
| Total | 100.00% | 6,973 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "wood" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Wood | Last name | 98,000 | 78 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "wood". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Ezion-geber | N/A | Biblical | The wood of the man |
| Harsha | N/A | Biblical | A wood |
| Jarah | N/A | Biblical | A wood |
| Maaz | N/A | Biblical | Wood |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Japan | Mitsui Wood Systems, Inc. | United Kingdom | Arthur Wood & Son (Longport) P.L.C. |
| (more examples...) |
Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
1. Wood, SD (town, FIPS 72620) |
Expressions using "wood": adult wood ♦ alcohol of wood ♦ alder wood ♦ Alligator wood ♦ aloes wood ♦ Amboyna wood ♦ aromatic wood ♦ arrow wood ♦ ash wood ♦ autumn wood ♦ babes in the wood ♦ balsa wood ♦ bearing wood ♦ beech wood ♦ Belleau Wood ♦ Bethabara wood ♦ birch wood ♦ block of wood ♦ bow wood ♦ box wood ♦ bracelet wood ♦ brazil wood ♦ brown wood paperboard ♦ bull wood ♦ Bullet wood ♦ cabinet wood ♦ Calamander wood ♦ camp Wood ♦ campeachy wood ♦ Canary wood ♦ carib wood ♦ case wood ♦ Cassava wood ♦ caviuna wood ♦ cedar wood asthma ♦ chinese wood oil ♦ chop wood ♦ chunck of wood ♦ clean wood ♦ cleft wood ♦ Cocus wood ♦ common wood sorrel ♦ compression wood ♦ coniferous raw wood category ♦ coniferous wood ♦ converted wood ♦ Coral wood ♦ Cord wood ♦ core wood ♦ Coromandel wood ♦ Crab wood ♦ creeping wood sorrel ♦ dead wood ♦ destructive distillation of wood ♦ dog wood ♦ downy wood mint ♦ early wood ♦ Ellen Price Wood ♦ european wood mouse ♦ evergreen wood fern ♦ fire wood ♦ Fort Leonard Wood ♦ Fossil wood ♦ fragrant wood fern ♦ fresh wood ♦ gather wood ♦ Glance wood ♦ glassy wood ♦ goldie's wood fern ♦ Gopher wood ♦ grain of the wood ♦ grain of wood ♦ granadilla wood ♦ grant Wood ♦ grave on wood ♦ Grease wood ♦ green wood ♦ guaiac wood ♦ guaiacum wood ♦ guiaiac wood ♦ Gum wood ♦ hairy wood mint ♦ Hard wood ♦ holloa before one is out of the wood ♦ horse of the wood ♦ icon mounted on wood ♦ immature wood ♦ impregnated wood ♦ incense wood ♦ juniper wood ♦ juvenile wood ♦ Kiabooca wood ♦ kindling wood ♦ King wood ♦ Kyaboca wood ♦ Ladle wood ♦ laminated wood ♦ late wood ♦ leatherleaf wood fern ♦ Lima wood ♦ Lingoa wood. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "wood": wood-aged, wood-and-fabric, wood-and-foam, wood-and-thatch, wood-anemone, wood-anemones, wood-ash, wood-axe, wood-bark, wood-based, wood-bending, wood-block, wood-boring, Wood-bound, wood-bugs, wood-built, wood-burned, wood-burning, wood-carver, wood-carving, wood-carvings, wood-chip, wood-chips, wood-chopping, wood-clad, wood-containing, wood-cuts, wood-cutter, wood-cutters, wood-cutting, wood-edges, wood-encased, wood-engraved, wood-engraving, wood-engravings, wood-faced, wood-fern, wood-fibre, wood-filler, wood-fire, wood-fired, wood-flesh, wood-flour, wood-frame, wood-framed, wood-free, wood-fretter, wood-gas, Wood-gush, wood-handled, Wood-harper, wood-headed, wood-house, wood-jagged, wood-land, Wood-layer, wood-lice, wood-like, wood-lined, wood-locked, wood-louse, wood-machining, wood-monger, Wood-note, wood-notes, wood-nymphs, Wood-o-cork, Wood-offering, wood-or, wood-panelled, wood-panelling, wood-pasture, wood-pastures, wood-path, wood-pigeon, wood-pigeons, wood-pile, wood-plank, wood-plastic, wood-polystyrene-wood, wood-powder, wood-print, wood-processing, wood-products, wood-pulp, wood-rangers, wood-remains, wood-rich, wood-ride, Wood-Ridge, Wood-sare, wood-scented, wood-screw, wood-screws, wood-seer, Wood-sere, wood-shavings, wood-shed, wood-smiths, wood-smoke, wood-smoked, wood-sorrel family, wood-spirit, wood-spirits, wood-sprite, wood-stained, wood-staining, wood-stealers, wood-storage, wood-store, wood-stoves, wood-surrounded, wood-to-liquid, wood-to-wood, wood-trimmed, wood-turner, wood-turning, wood-warbler-like, Wood-wash, wood-wax, wood-waxen, Wood-way, wood-wind, Wood-winters, wood-wool, wood-work, wood-working, wood-worm, wood-wormed, wood-wormers, wood-yard. | |
Ending with "wood": all-wood, four-wood, Haigh-wood, Hill-wood, Mensah-wood. | |
Containing "wood": Hay-Wood City, pine-wood wool. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
elijah wood | 4,598 | wood table | 725 |
wood | 4,530 | wood turning | 572 |
tiger wood | 3,794 | wood door | 570 |
wood working | 3,761 | wood chipper | 524 |
wood craft | 1,722 | natalie wood | 510 |
wood working plan | 1,608 | wood burning stove | 482 |
wood carving | 1,336 | lake of the wood | 479 |
wood flooring | 1,237 | wood pen | 467 |
free wood working plan | 1,221 | wood stain | 467 |
wood working tool | 1,149 | wood elf | 421 |
wood floor | 1,106 | penthouse stephanie wood | 407 |
wood stove | 1,070 | muir wood | 396 |
wood blind | 1,058 | wood working pattern | 396 |
stephanie wood | 1,052 | fort leonard wood | 395 |
wood furniture | 878 | wood window | 377 |
wood deck | 871 | faux wood blind | 375 |
wood fence | 863 | wood project | 361 |
wood working supply | 838 | cynthia wood mitchell pavilion | 340 |
tiger wood girlfriend | 827 | wood bat | 322 |
wood working project | 726 | wood swing set | 319 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "wood"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | hout (timber). (various references) | |
Albanian | dru (drubbing, kindling, thrashing, timber, tree, walloping). (various references) | |
Arabic | حطب (chop, firewood, firing, hew, log), زود بالحطب, عائش بالغابات, خشب (lignify, lumber, timber), أيكة (bosket, copse, grove, spinney, thicket), برميل (barrel, drum, keg, rumble, vat). (various references) | |
Aymara | k'ullu. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | който работи с дърво, гора (covert, forest, hurst), от дърво (wooden), на дърво, за дърво, лес (forest), дърво (arbutus, billet, tree), дървесина, дървена топка за кегли, дървена пръчка за голф, дървен материал (lumber), дърва (woods). (various references) | |
Catalan | fusta (timber). (various references) | |
Chinese | 木頭 (log, timber), 木材 , 木头, 木 (delay, drag out, endure, in order, in sequence, lean to, next to, play for time, stall, suffer, tree). (various references) | |
Czech | dřevo (block, Holt, sap-wood, stick, timber). (various references) | |
Danish | træ (timber, tree). (various references) | |
Dutch | hout (timber). (various references) | |
Esperanto | ligno (timber). (various references) | |
Faeroese | viður (timber), træ (timber, tree). (various references) | |
Farsi | هیزم , چوبی (Wooden, Woody), چوب (Rod, Shaft, Spunk, Stave, Stick, Timber), جنگل (Forest, Greenwood, Jungle, Timberland, Weald, Woodland), الوارانباشتن , درختکاری کردن (Forest), بیشه (Brake, Brushwood, Forest, Glade, Grove). (various references) | |
Finnish | puu (firewood, timber, tree), metsikkö (coppice). (various references) | |
French | bois (woods, woodwind, woodwind instruments). (various references) | |
Frisian | hout (timber). (various references) | |
German | Holz (lumber, ninepin, skittle, timber), Wald (forest, timber, woodland, woods). (various references) | |
Greek | ξύλο (stick, whacking). (various references) | |
Hawaiian | dru (timber, tree). (various references) | |
Hebrew | יער (forest), עץ (log, lumber, pole, timber, tree), חורשה (coppice, copse, forest, spinney, thicket), חבית (barrel, butt, cask, drum, vat). (various references) | |
Hungarian | fa (bad mark, lumber, timber, tree, wooden). (various references) | |
Icelandic | tré (timber, tree). (various references) | |
Indonesian | kayu (log, timber, wooden). (various references) | |
Irish | coill (forest, woods), adhmad (timber). (various references) | |
Italian | legno (timber), selva (forest), legna (firewood, fuelwood, wood fuel), bosco (forest, woodland, woods). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 木材 (lumber, timber), 木 (timber, tree), ウォール街 (surveillance, Ukraine, ukulele, umlaut, vodka, Vostok, Wall Street, walnut, wand, wanted, washable, wash-and-wear, washer, watch, watchdog, watching, watchman, won, woodcraft, woodpecker, Worcestersauce). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | もくざい (lumber, timber), ウッド , き (10th in rank, 6th in rank, chest, chronicle, coffer, crude, deed, lean on, mood, period, plan, pure, raw, rest against, rice tub, rule, season, season word or phrase, sixth sign of the Chinese calendar, skill, spirit, table, tenth sign of the Chinese calendar, that, timber, time, tree, undiluted, yellow). (various references) | |
Korean | 나무 (tree, Trees, woods). (various references) | |
Lombard | legn (timber). (various references) | |
Malay | kayu (timber). (various references) | |
Manx | ros, fuygh (timber), foiee (boarding, piece of timber, timber, timbered), aamaid (timber, timbered). (various references) | |
Mohawk | oyente. (various references) | |
Norwegian | ved (about, at, for, in, timber), tre (three, timber, tree). (various references) | |
Occitan | lenha, fusta, bòsc (forest). (various references) | |
Papago | uhs (tree). (various references) | |
Papiamen | palu (baton, cane, pole, post, stake, stanchion, stick, timber, tree), palo (pole, post, stake, stanchion, timber, tree). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oodway.(various references) | |
Portuguese | madeira (birch, Madeira, raft), pau (bar, baton, cane, mast, pole, rod, stick, tent-peg, timber), mata (brake, forest, jungle, thicket, weald, woods), floresta (forest, jungle, woods), bosque (boskage, forest, grove, holt, woodland). (various references) | |
Romanian | lemn (billet, chuck, peg, stick, timber). (various references) | |
Romansch | guaud (forest). (various references) | |
Romany | kash. (various references) | |
Russian | сажать лес, лесной материал, лесной (silvan, sylvan, woodland, woodsy), лес;дерево, лес (forest, scaffold, scaffolding, woods), бочка (barrel, barrel-roll, bun, cask, hogshead, snap-roll, vat), дрова (fire wood, firewood, woods), древесина (matchwood), деревянный (timbered, wooden), дерево (tree, zebrawood). (various references) | |
Scottish | fiodh (timber). (various references) | |
Sepedi | legong. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | drveni predmet, drven (ligneous, wooden), drva (firewood, logs, lumber), šuma (forest, greenwood, woods). (various references) | |
Shona | mushava (yellow wood tree). (various references) | |
Spanish | madera (duramen, Madeira, timber), leño (billet, log, timber), bosque (backwood, backwoods, forest, timber, woodland, woods). (various references) | |
Sranan | udu (timber, wooden). (various references) | |
Swahili | mti (pole, post, stake, stanchion, timber, tree). (various references) | |
Swazi | lú-khûni. (various references) | |
Swedish | ved (firewood), trä (fallow, lace, pass, slip, string, thread, timber), skog (forest, forests, woodland, woods), virke (fibre, lumber, timber). (various references) | |
Tagalog | káhoy (timber). (various references) | |
Turkish | tahta (blackboard, board, plank, wooden), odun, koru (coppice, copse, Grove, Holt, small forest, spinney), kereste (lumber, stuff, timber), fıçı (barrel, barreled, barrelled, cask, keg, tap, tub, vat), ağaçlık (coppice, copse, full of trees, Greenwood, Grove, hurst, silvan, sylvan, wooded, Woody), ağaç (arboreal, hardwood, timber, tree, wooden). (various references) | |
Turkmen | tokaя (forest), odun. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | ліс (forest), деревний (arboraceous, arboreal, arboreous, arborous, ligneous), деревообробний, дерев'яний (wooden), дерев'яні духові інструменти, дрова (firewood), деревина (beam, log), бочонок (butt, cask), скажений (mad, rabid), лісоматеріал (lumber, timber), лісовий (silvan, sylvan, woodsy), запасатися дровами, озеленяти (vegetate), гай (boscage, bosket), куля (ball, bullet, globe, orb, round, slug, sphere), дров'яний. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | thoát nạn phát cáu, tẩu thoát (track), nó ngu lắm khỏi nguy hiểm. (various references) | |
Welsh | prys (bush, Preece, Price), pren (timber, tree), gwig, gallt (cliff, hill), coedwig (forest), coediog (wooded), coeden (timber, tree, woods), allt (cliff, hill, hill-side). (various references) | |
Yucatec | che' (baton, cane, pole, post, stake, stanchion, stick, timber, tree). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | xylon. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | abies, abietem, abietes, abietibus, corneae, cypressus, lignum, materia, materiem, nemore, nemoribus, nemoris, nemorum, nemus, pinum, pinus, siloae, siloam, silva, silvae, silvam, silvarum. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | holt. (various references) |
| Middle High German | 1100-1500 | hag. (various references) |
| Portugese | 1100-Modern | madeira. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Luke Chapter 6, Verse 42 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | H pwV dunasai legein tw adelfw sou adelfe afeV ekbalw to karfoV to en tw ofqalmw sou autoV thn en tw ofqalmw sou dokon ou blepwn upokrita ekbale prwton thn dokon ek tou ofqalmou sou kai tote diableyeiV ekbalein to karfoV to en tw ofqalmw tou adelfou sou |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et quomodo potes dicere fratri tuo frater sine eiciam festucam de oculo tuo ipse in oculo tuo trabem non videns hypocrita eice primum trabem de oculo tuo et tunc perspicies ut educas festucam de oculo fratris tui |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | And hu miht þu segan þinum breþer broþor læt þæt ic ateo þa egle of þinum eage: and þu sylf ne gesyhst þæne beam on þinum agenum eagan; Eala licetere. teoh æryst þone beam of þinum eage: and þonne þu gesihst þæt ðu ateo þa egle of þines broðor eage; |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Or hou maist thou seie to thi brother, Brothir, suffre, Y schal caste out the moot of thin iye, and thou biholdist not a beem in thin owne iye? Ipocrite, first take out the beem of thin iye, and thanne thou schalt se to take the moot of thi brotheris iye. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Ether how canest thou saye to thy brother: Brother let me pull out ye moote that is in thyne eye: when thou perceavest not the beame that is in thyne awne eye? Ypocrite cast out ye beame out of thyne awne eye fyrst and then shalt thou se perfectly to pull out the moote out of thy brothers eye. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Either how canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, let me pull out the mote that is in thine eye, when thou thyself beholdest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine own eye, and then shalt thou see clearly to pull out the mote that is in thy brother's eye. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Either how canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, let me pull out the mote that is in thy eye, when thou thyself beholdest not the beam that is in thy own eye? Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thy own eye, and then shalt thou see clearly to pull out the mote that is in thy brother's eye. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | How will you say to your brother, Brother, let me take the grain of dust out of your eye, when you yourself do not see the bit of wood in your eye? O false one! first take the wood out of your eye and then you will see clearly to take the dust out of your brother's eye. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Luke Chapter 6, Verse 42 |
| Cebuano | Ug unsaon mo man sa pagpakaingon sa imong igsoon, `Igsoon, ambi, kuhiton ko kanang puling gikan sa imong mata,` nga dili ka man gani makakita sa troso nga anaa sa kaugalingon mong mata? Maut! Kuhaa una ang troso nga anaa sa kaugalingon mong mata, ug unya makakita ka na pag-ayo sa pagkuhit sa puling gikan sa mata sa imong igsoon. |
| Croatian | Kako možeš kazati bratu svomu: 'Brate, de da izvadim trun koji ti je u oku', a sam u svom oku brvna ne vidiš? Licemjere! Izvadi najprije brvno iz oka svoga pa æeš onda dobro vidjeti izvaditi trun što je u oku bratovu." |
| Danish | Eller hvorledes kan du sige til din Broder: Broder! lad mig drage Skæven ud, som er i dit Øje, du, som ikke ser Bjælken i dit eget Øje? Du Hykler! drag først Bjælken ud af dit Øje, og da kan du se klart til at drage Skæven ud, som er i din Broders Øje. |
| Dutch | Of hoe kunt gij tot uw broeder zeggen: Broeder, laat toe, dat ik den splinter, die in uw oog is, uitdoe; daar gij zelf den balk, die in uw oog is, niet ziet? Gij geveinsde! doe eerst den balk uit uw oog, en dan zult gij bezien, om den splinter uit te doen, die in uws broeders oog is. |
| Finnish | Kuinka saatat sanoa veljellesi: `Veljeni, annas, minä otan pois rikan, joka on silmässäsi`, sinä, joka et näe malkaa omassa silmässäsi? Sinä ulkokullattu, ota ensin malka omasta silmästäsi, sitten sinä näet ottaa pois rikan, joka on veljesi silmässä. |
| French | Ou comment peux-tu dire à ton frère: Frère, laisse-moi ôter la paille qui est dans ton oeil, toi qui ne vois pas la poutre qui est dans le tien? Hypocrite, ôte premièrement la poutre de ton oeil, et alors tu verras comment ôter la paille qui est dans l`oeil de ton frère. |
| German | Oder wie kannst du sagen zu deinem Bruder: Halt stille, Bruder, ich will den Splitter aus deinem Auge ziehen, und du siehst selbst nicht den Balken in deinem Auge? Du Heuchler, zieh zuvor den Balken aus deinem Auge und siehe dann zu, daß du den Splitter aus deines Bruders Auge ziehest! |
| Haitian Creole | Ou menm ki pa wè gwo bout bwa ki nan je pa ou la, ki jan ou kapab di frè ou: Frè m', kite m' wete ti pay ki nan je ou la? Ipokrit! Wete gwo bout bwa ki nan je pa ou la anvan. Apre sa, wa wè klè pou ou wete pay ki nan je frè ou la. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Bagaimana kalian dapat mengatakan kepada saudaramu, 'Mari, saudara, saya keluarkan kayu secukil itu dari matamu itu,' sedangkan dalam matamu sendiri ada balok yang tidak kalian lihat? Hai munafik! Keluarkanlah dahulu balok yang ada pada matamu sendiri. Barulah kalian dapat melihat dengan jelas dan dapat mengeluarkan secukil kayu dari mata saudaramu." |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Bagaimana boleh engkau mengatakan kepada saudaramu itu: Hai Saudara, biarlah aku mengeluarkan selumbar yang di dalam matamu itu, sedangkan engkau sendiri tiada nampak balok yang di dalam matamu? Hai munafik, keluarkanlah dahulu balok itu dari dalam matamu sendiri, kemudian baharulah engkau nampak terang akan mengeluarkan selumbar dari dalam mata saudaramu itu. |
| Italian | Come puoi dire al tuo fratello: Permetti che tolga la pagliuzza che è nel tuo occhio, e tu non vedi la trave che è nel tuo? Ipocrita, togli prima la trave dal tuo occhio e allora potrai vederci bene nel togliere la pagliuzza dall'occhio del tuo fratello. |
| Latvian | Vai kâ tu vari savam brâlim teikt: ïauj, brâli, es izvilkðu skabargu no tavs acs, bet pats tu savâ acî baïíi neredzi? Tu, liekuli, izmet vispirms baïíi no savas acs un tad lûko izvikt skabargu no sava brâïa acs! |
| Manx Gaelic | Ny kys oddys oo gra rish dty vraar, Vraar, lhig dou yn brenneein y ghoaill ass dty hooill's, tra nagh vel oo goaill tastey dy vel darrag ayns dty hooill hene? Er-crauee-oalsey, tilg hoshiaght yn darrag ass dty hooill hene, eisht bee soilshey ayd dy ghoaill yn brenneein ass sooill dty vraarey. |
| Maori | A me pehea e taea ai e koe te korero ki tou teina, E toku teina, iaua, kia kapea atu e ahau te otaota i roto i tou kanohi; te kite i te kurupae i roto i tou kanohi? E te tangata tinihanga, matua kapea atu e koe te kurupae i roto i tou kanohi, ka tahi koe ka marama ai ki te kape i te otaota i roto i te kanohi o tou teina. |
| Norwegian | Hvorledes kan du si til din bror: Bror! la mig dra ut splinten som er i ditt øie, du som ikke ser bjelken i ditt eget øie? Du hykler! dra først bjelken ut av ditt eget øie, så kan du se å dra ut splinten som er i din brors øie! |
| Rumanian | Sau cum poyi sq zici fratelui tqu: ,Frate, lasq-mq sq-yi scot paiul din ochi` wi, cknd colo, tu nu vezi bkrna din ochiul tqu? Fqyarnicule, scoate kntki bkrna din ochiul tqu, wi atunci vei vedea desluwit sq scoyi paiul din ochiul fratelui tqu. |
| Shuar | Ame jiimiin numi tuke enketaisha ¿itiurtsuk ame yatsumi jiiya Tsuátan jurustajme tame? ¡Antraitrume! Emka ame jiimiin numi enketna nu jusata. Nuinkia paant Wáinkiattame yatsumi jiin tsuat enketna nu jurustin.' |
| Swahili | Au, unawezaje kumwambia mwenzako, `Ndugu, ngoja nikuondoe kibanzi katika jicho lako,` na huku huioni boriti iliyoko katika jicho lako mwenyewe? Mnafiki wewe! Toa kwanza boriti iliyoko jichoni mwako, na hivyo utaona sawasawa kiasi cha kuweza kuondoa kibanzi kilicho katika jicho la ndugu yako. |
| Swedish | Huru kan du säga till din broder: 'Broder, låt mig taga ut grandet i ditt öga', du som icke ser bjälken i ditt eget öga? Du skrymtare, tag först ut bjälken ur ditt eget öga; därefter må du se till, att du kan tala ut grandet i din broders öga. |
| Uma | Beiwa-ta ma'ala mpo'uli' -ki doo: `Ompi', mai kulali gege' -nu,' bo uma moto tahiloi wince' kaju to hi mata-ta. Neo' mpetolompei' kehi! Kana talali ulu wince' kaju to hi mata-ta, bona monoto mata-ta mpolali gege' doo. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "wood": woodbin, woodbind, woodbinds, woodbine, woodbines, woodbins, woodblock, woodblocks, woodbox, woodboxes, woodcarver, woodcarvers, woodcarving, woodcarvings, woodchat, woodchats, woodchopper, woodchoppers, woodchuck, woodchucks, woodcock, woodcocks, woodcraft, woodcrafts, woodcut, woodcuts, woodcutter, woodcutters, woodcutting, woodcuttings, wooded, wooden, woodener, woodenest, woodenhead, woodenheaded, woodenheads, woodenly, woodenness, woodennesses, woodenware, woodenwares, woodhen, woodhens, woodie, woodier, woodies, woodiest, woodiness, woodinesses, wooding. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "wood": agalwood, arrowwood, backwood, basswood, baywood, bearwood, beefwood, bentwood, blackwood, bluewood, bogwood, boxwood, brazilwood, brushwood, buttonwood, candlewood, cedarwood, cordwood, corkwood, cottonwood, dagwood, deadwood, devilwood, dogwood, driftwood, dyewood, earlywood, fatwood, firewood, fruitwood, fuelwood, greasewood, greenwood, groundwood, gumwood, hardwood, heartwood, inkwood, ironwood, kingwood, lacewood, lancewood, latewood, leatherwood, lightwood, logwood, matchwood, milkwood, nutwood, orangewood, peckerwood. (additional references) | |
Words containing "wood": agalwoods, arrowwoods, backwoods, backwoodsman, backwoodsmen, backwoodsy, 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. (additional references) | |
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"Wood" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: jood, ood, oood, Owo, wido, wi'oot, woat, wobo, wod, wodoo, woed, wojo, wond, woob, woodo, wooe, woog, wooh, woom, woond, wooo, woop, woor, woord, woot, wooth, woow, wooy, wooz, worot, woud, wouw, wowo, wrod, wud, wudu, wuo. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "wood" (pronounced wuh"d) |
| 3 | w uh" d | would. |
| 2 | -uh" d | could, good, hood, misunderstood, should, stood, understood, withstood. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-o-o-w" | |
-1 letter: dow, woo. | |
-2 letters: do, od, ow, wo. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-o-o-w" | |
+1 letter: woods, woody, wooed. | |
+2 letters: dewool, godown, wooded, wooden, woodie, woodsy, woofed, wooled. | |
+3 letters: baywood, bogwood, boxwood, dagwood, dewools, dogwood, doorway, dyewood, fatwood, godowns, gumwood, hoedown, inkwood, kotowed, logwood, lowdown, nonword, nutwood, plywood, redwood, sapwood, swooned, swooped, towmond, twofold, unwooed, whoofed, whooped, woodbin, woodbox, woodcut, woodhen, woodier, woodies, wooding, woodlot, woodman, woodmen, woodsia, woodwax, woolled, woopsed, wooshed. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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