Wooden

Definition: Wooden

Wooden

Adjective

1. 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".

2. Lacking ease or grace; "the actor's performance was wooden;" "a wooden smile".

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

Date "wooden" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonym: Wooden

Adversity

Planet-struck, devoted; born under an evil star, born with a wooden ladle in one's mouth; ill-fated, ill-starred, ill-omened.

Combatant

Marine, man-of-war's man; (sailor); navy, wooden walls, naval forces, fleet, flotilla, armada, squadron.

Defense

Hold, stronghold, fastness; asylum; (refuge); keep, donjon, dungeon, fortress, citadel, capitol, castle; tower of strength, tower of strength; fort, barracoon, pah, sconce, martello tower, peelhouse, blockhouse, rath; wooden walls.

Ignoramus

Noun: ignoramus, dunce; wooden spoon; no scholar.

Materials

Adjective: raw; (unprepared); wooden; Noun: adobe.

Money

Phrase: barbarus ipse placet dummodo sit dives; "but the jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that honor feels"; Gelt regiert die Welt, money makes the world go round; nervos belli pecuniam infinitam; redet Geld so schweigt die Welt; " money is the mother's milk of politics"; money is the root of all evil; money isn't everything; "as phony as a three-dollar bill"; "don't take any wooden nickels".

Scourge

Triangle, wooden horse, iron maiden, thumbscrew, boot, rack, wheel, iron heel; chinese water torture.

Vegetable

Adjective: vegetable, vegetal, vegetive, vegitous; herbaceous, herbal; botanic; sylvan, silvan; arborary, arboreous, arborescent, arborical; woody, grassy; verdant, verdurous; floral, mossy; lignous, ligneous; wooden, leguminous; vosky, cespitose, turf-like, turfy; endogenous, exogenous.

Crosswords: Wooden

A big wooden cross, so every time you feel unappreciated for all your sacrifices, you can climb up and nail yourself to it. (The Ref; writing credit: Marie Weiss and Richard LaGravenese. Starring Denis Leary as Gus, Judy Davis as Caroline Chasseur and Kevin Spacey as Lloyd Chasseur.)

Have you ever been beaten half to death by wooden rakes (Vengeance Unlimited; writing credit: Andrew Davies; William Makepeace Thackeray)

Karen, you're not going to die. It would take a silver bullet and a wooden stake to do that (Will & Grace; writing credit: Evan Weinstein)

What do you think of the wooden soldiers (Babes in Toyland; writing credit: Frank Butler; Nick Grinde)

Stomach contents revealed - let's see, beer cans, a Maryland licence plate, half a bicycle tyre, a goat, and a small wooden puppet (Twin Peaks; writing credit: G. William Jones)

Across the stream with wooden shoes (Matilda Mother; performing artist: Pink Floyd)

Fong Sze Yu's 3 Ventures Into the Land of Wooden Robots (1951)

The Wooden Horse (1950)

Wooden Shoes (1933)

Parade of the Wooden Soldiers (1933)

His Wooden Wedding (1925)

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

References

• Multi-Family Wooden Houses in Japan: A Strategic Entry Report, 1998 (reference)

• Wooden Doors and Windows and Flooring in Mexico: A Strategic Entry Report, 2000 (reference)

• The 2000 Import and Export Market for Wooden Packing Cases, Boxes, Crates, and Drums in Africa (reference)

• The 2003 World Market Forecasts for Imported Wooden Packing Cases, Boxes, Crates, and Drums (reference)

• The 2002 World Forecasts of Wooden Packing Cases, Boxes, Crates, and Drums Export Supplies (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Classic Wooden Motor Yachts (reference)

• Wooden (reference)

• Wooden Boats 2003 Calendar (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Wooden Bell (reference)

• Wooden Artifacts Specialty Group (reference)

• Wooden Canoe (reference)

• Harlows Wooden Man (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Shaolin Wooden Men (reference)

• March of the Wooden Soldier (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Wooden Boat (reference)

• Wooden Flute Obsession (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• FELLOWES 300CD/200DVD Wooden Media Rack (reference)

• LASERLINE Wooden DVD Rack (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• DMT W6CXXX 6" Whetstone 325 Grit Diamond Sharpening Stones with Wooden Case (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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

There are 2 grey wooden crates filled with and surrounded by broccoli, peppers, grapefruits and oranges in a tight frame. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

An overflowing grocery bag spills out. Broccoli, pears, red kidney beans, peppers and tomatoes are on a wooden table in a tight shot. See artwork: PV-44. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer).

239-foot tower built on Bugsuk Island in southwest Philippines This tower was built completely from native timber cut on location It took 19 men off the PATHFINDER three weeks to build this signal This was the largest wooden tower ever built by the C&GS Used for both observing and as a signal. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Hecht was the observer at this station in North Dakota Small wooden observing stand Triangulation party of Wilbur Porter. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

The Fishing Vessel KIM G. is a traditional wooden shrimp trawler. Credit: Fisheries.

A wooden bulkhead protects the end of an oil and gas pipeline on the Gulf of Mexico. The restoration was conducted to fortify this area as it filled repeatedly with water. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Placement of oyster shell along the wooden plug. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Wooden foundations uncovered on dune line following passage of Hurricane Bob on August 19. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

Standard instrument shelter (called a Stevenson Screen) used by NSSL. Shelter houses temperature, pressure, and relative humidity instruments. Observer comes to shelter to take readings. The shelter is a wooden box painted white with double-louvered sides. It is mounted on a stand 4 feet above the ground. Credit: National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL).

The Negretti and Zambra deep-sea thermometer with wooden frame and metal case. In: "Report on the Construction and Work in 1880 of United States Fish Commission Steamer FISH-HAWK", by Lieutenant Zera Luther Tanner, U. S. N. United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries. Part IX. Report of the Commissioner for 1881. Plate XVI, p. 53. 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.

Listolier blew a wooden trumpet that he had bought at Saint Cloud

A thick book, opened at the frontispiece, lay before him on the wooden rest

There was a wooden creaking from the wheels, and a thin jet of steam escaped through a hole in the top of the radiator cap.

They make a rude kind of earthen and wooden vessels, and bake the former in the sun.

They are no better than wooden horses to hang the clean clothes on.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Use metal flashing around the base of wooden, earthen or adobe homes to provide a strong metal barrier. (references)

Business

This figure includes furniture stores, showrooms, manufacturers, wholesalers, distributors, and wooden furniture workshops. (references)

The U.S. share in these imports was USD 2 million, consisting mainly of prefabricated wooden houses, aluminum profiles, and structural steel. (references)

The revised housing regulations described above and Korea's increased demand for wooden products have created an excellent opportunity for exporters in this market. (references)

Civil Liberties

Korea

There has been a limited revival of Buddhism with the translation and publication of Buddhist scriptures that had been carved on 80,000 wooden blocks and kept at an historic temple. (references)

Rwanda

In late 2000, several "storefront" churches consisting of wooden frames covered by plastic sheeting were torn down because the churches were not registered with the Ministry of Justice. (references)

Zimbabwe

On August 27, ruling party supporters beat Daily News reporter Mduduzi Mathuthu with wooden clubs when he visited a farm 31 miles from Bulawayo to report on its occupation by war veterans. (references)

Economic History

Mexico

Most specialize in wooden furniture (rustic pine and mahagony). (references)

Kazakhstan

Locally produced materials include cement, bricks, wooden doors, windows, steel doors, and soft and iron roofs. (references)

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Industry: Types--Steel, minerals, vehicle assembly, textiles, tobacco products, wooden furniture, tank and aircraft assembly, domestic appliances, oil refining. (references)

Human Rights

Laos

In some cases detainees reportedly are held in leg chains or wooden stocks. (references)

Brazil

In April the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Torture testified to seeing iron bars and wooden sticks used to beat FEBEM inmates. (references)

Malaysia

The caning, which is carried out with a 1/2-inch-thick wooden cane, commonly causes welts, and it sometimes causes scarring. (references)

Minorities

Kenya

In September Muslim youths were suspected of responsibility for burning down two wooden churches in Isolo. (references)

Georgia

In a September 23 attack against members of an evangelical church, Basilists attacked parishioners with wooden clubs and crosses. (references)

Political Economy

Sudan

No action was taken against the members of the security forces responsible for torturing, beating, raping, or otherwise abusing persons in the following cases from 2000: The November beating of a foreign ICRC worker during an NDA attack on government forces in Kassala; the September incidents in which police used tear gas, batons, and live ammunition to disperse demonstrators and in some instances, beat or otherwise injured numerous individuals; the June beating in Hilla Kuku of a Catholic seminarian on the neck and wrist with a stick after he refused to remove a wooden cross that he was wearing; the June attack on Juba University in Khartoum using sticks and tear gas; the May raids by security forces on Alnasr Technology College in which they arrested, beat, injured students, and fired bullets in the air to disperse a student protest on education issues; and the February detention and beating of two students for political activity by security forces. (references)

Trade

New Zealand

The GNZ has established a requirement that exporters' declarations must include a statement to the effect that any wooden or plywood packing case, crates, wooden containers, or cargo pallets destined for New Zealand have been inspected before shipment and found to be free from bark and visible signs of insect and fungal infestation. (references)

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

Wooden

Expressions using "wooden": wooden bowl ♦ wooden case ♦ wooden dish ♦ wooden engraving ♦ wooden face ♦ wooden fork ♦ wooden frame ♦ wooden goods ♦ Wooden Horse ♦ wooden house ♦ wooden kitchenware ♦ wooden ladle ♦ wooden lath ♦ wooden leg ♦ wooden nail ♦ wooden pear ♦ wooden peg ♦ wooden plate ♦ wooden plough ♦ wooden plug ♦ wooden screw ♦ wooden shed ♦ wooden shoe ♦ wooden spoon ♦ wooden stare ♦ wooden storehouse ♦ wooden tongue ♦ wooden trestle ♦ wooden tub ♦ wooden vessel ♦ wooden walls ♦ wooden ware ♦ wooden wedding ♦ wooden winnowing fork. Additional references.

Beginning with "wooden": wooden-backed, wooden-beamed, wooden-bedded, wooden-blocked, wooden-bodied, wooden-clad, wooden-faced, wooden-frame, wooden-framed, wooden-head, wooden-headed, wooden-leg, wooden-legged, wooden-looking, wooden-panelled, wooden-seated, wooden-shafted, wooden-sided, wooden-slat, wooden-slatted, wooden-soled, wooden-tongued, wooden-topped, wooden-walled, wooden-walls, wooden-wheeled.

Ending with "wooden": all-wooden, leatherette-and-wooden, mock-wooden.

Albanian

i trashë (bearish, clumsy, coarse, coarse grained, crass, deep, dense, dullish, dumb, dummy, fat, fatuous, fool, full-bodied, full-fed, gross, gruff, lardy, oafish, obese, obtuse, puddingy, purblind, ropy, rough and ready, round, roundabout, slapstick, slow witted, slowcoach, stupid, tactless, thick, uncouth, viscous, wooden-headed), i ngurtë (firm, obdurate, rigid, solid, stark, stiff, straitlaced), i ngathët (angular, atonic, awkward, clumsy, cubbish, dawdler, dead, dead alive, dull, dullish, footless, gauche, gawky, ham-fisted, heavy, heavy-handed, hulking, inept, laggard, languid, left handed, lubberly, lumbering, lymphatic, maladroit, oafish, pedestrian, poky, quick, shiftless, slack, torpid, ungainly, unhandy, unmoved, unready, unwieldy), i drunjtë (Ligneous, woodsy, Woody), gdhë (bonehead, chump, dolt, duffer, dunce, dunderhead, knot, knur, knurr, muggins, sang, yokel). (various references)

Arabic 

‏متبلد (indolent), ‏غبي (asinine, dense, dick, dim witted, drip, dull, dullard, empty headed, fathead, jerk, lacking, lunatic, moronic, opaque, patsy, plonker, sap, slow witted, soppy, stupid, thick, thick-headed, thickish, thick-witted, tomfool, twerp, uncivil, unintelligent), ‏عديم الحيوية, ‏خشبي (woody), ‏أخرق (awkward, bungling, clumsy, elephantine, gauche, gawky, impolitic, left handed, lubberly, lump, mad, maladroit, meaningless, nincompoop, oafish, ponderous, preposterous, senseless, shy, uncouth, ungainly, unhappy). (various references)

Basque

zaldiko-maldiko (wooden horse). (various references)

Bulgarian 

трудноприспособим, вдървен (stiff, tense), от дърво (wood), дървен (stockish, timbered). (various references)

Chinese 

木製 , 木. (various references)

Czech

strnuly, prkenný, neohrabaný (awkward, bumbling, clumsy, cumbersome, gauche, ham-fisted, ham-handed, hulking, inept, unwieldy), dřevìný (firry, Ligneous). (various references)

Danish

træ-, af træ. (various references)

Dutch

houten. (various references)

Esperanto

ligna. (various references)

Faeroese

klæði (article of clothing, cloth, clothing, garment, wooden cloth). (various references)

Farsi 

چوبی (Wood, Woody), سیخ (Broach, Erect, Gad, Goad, Grid, Ramrod, Spur, Stiff), خشن (Blatant, Blowsy, Blowzy, Boorish, Brutish, Churlish, Coarse, Crusty, Gruff, Harsh, High, Hoarse, Impolite, Indelicate, Knockkneed, Plebeian, Ragged, Random, Rough, Rowdy, Rude, Scraggy, Truculent, Ungracious, Unkempt, Unmannered, Unmennerly), ازچوب ساخته شده , راست (Bolt, Erect, Prick, Right, Sheer, Straight, Straightforward, True, Upright), شق (Inelastic, Prick, Stiff, Taut, Tough). (various references)

Finnish

puinen (of wood), kankea (numb, rigid, stiff). (various references)

French

raide, imbécile, idiot (wood-headed), en bois (wood), de bois (wood, woodland). (various references)

Frisian

houten. (various references)

German

hölzern (Ligneous, wodden, woodenly). (various references)

Greek 

ξύλινοσ (timbered), ξύλινος. (various references)

Hebrew 

עצי, חסר הבעה. (various references)

Hungarian

fából való (Ligneous). (various references)

Icelandic

tré-, timbur-. (various references)

Indonesian

kayu (log, timber, wood). (various references)

Italian

rigido (harsh, inflexible, martinet, numbly, primly, relentless, rigid, rigorous, rugged, severe, stark, stern, stiff, strait laced, stringent, taut), legnoso (Woody), di legno (timber, wood). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

木造　 (made of wood), 木造 (made of wood), 木製 (made of wood). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

もくぞう (made of wood, wooden statue or image), もくせい (fragrant olive, Jupiter, made of wood, the spirit of a tree, wood alcohol). (various references)

Korean 

나무로 되는. (various references)

Manx

maidjey (bail, bail in stable, bar, bar on doorway, bat, boarding, club, cue, lever, pitprop, pointer, pole, rod, stick, straddle), fuyghagh (ligneous, woody). (various references)

Norwegian

tre-. (various references)

Occitan

cavalet de fusta (wooden horse). (various references)

Papago

wachiho (wooden bowl). (various references)

Pig Latin

oodenway.(various references)

Portuguese

grosseiro (awkward, bearish, blanket, boorish, bumbling, caddish, churlish, cloddish, clownish, clumsy, coarse-grained, common, crass, crude, cub, curmudgeon, curmudgeonly, earthy, gross, gruff, harsh, heavy-handed, hoggish, homely, ill-bred, ill-mannered, impolite, incondite, indelicate, inelaborate, joggly, lacerated, left-handed, lob, loutish, low-bred, lubberly, lumpish, piggish, ragged, ribald, rough, rude, rugged, scurrilous, surly, swinish, thick, uncivil, uncouth, uncultivated, unkind, unladylike, unmannerly, unparliamentary, untaught, vulgar, vulgarian), desajeitado (awkward, backhanded, blundering, boorish, bulky, bumbling, chuckle, cloddish, clownish, clumsy, cubbish, floppy, fumbling, gawky, graceless, hawbuck, hobbledehoy, homely, hulking, ill-favored, ill-favoured, ill-mannered, inexpert, left-handed, lout, loutish, low-bred, lubber, lubberly, maladroit, muff, shiftless, uncouth, ungainly, ungraceful, unhandy, unskilful, unwieldy), de pau, de madeira (timbered). (various references)

Romanian

de lemn. (various references)

Russian 

деревянный (timbered, wood). (various references)

Scottish

placaid (a wooden dish, wooden dish), biceir (a wooden dish), botaidh (a wooden vessel), clabar-nasg (the clasp of wooden cow collar), clogais (a wooden clog), dail (a dale, a wooden collar for cattle, field, meadow, plain), geòlach (a wooden bier), ballan (a vessel, tub, wooden domestic vessel), meadar (a wooden pail or vessel, circular wooden vessel, verse), stòp (a wooden vessel for liquor), séiseach (wooden bench or couch), samhach (wooden haft, wooden haft or handle), sgàlla (a large wooden dish cut out of a tree), sgolb (a splinter, prickle, splinter, wooden pin), siola (a gill, a syllable, a wooden collar for a plough horse, gill; also), spleadhan (a sort of wooden paddle to dig up sand eels), gogan (a wooden milk-pail, small cogue). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

drven (ligneous, wood). (various references)

Spanish

de madera (log, madeiran, wood). (various references)

Sranan

udu (timber, wood). (various references)

Swedish

trä- (ligneous). (various references)

Turkish

tahta (blackboard, board, plank, wood), ruhsuz (dead alive, dull, impassive, inanimate, soulless, spiritless, stagnant), kazık gibi, kalın kafalı (bonehead, bone-headed, chucklehead, dense, dim, dull, fat-headed, mutton head, numskull, obtuse, slow on the uptake, slow witted, thick, thickheaded, thick-headed, thickskulled, thickwitted, woodenheaded), alık (booby, chump, dimwitted, dolt, gunsel, nincompoop, scatterbrained, scatty, simpleton), ahxap, ahşap (hardwood, timbered), ağaçlı, ağaç (arboreal, hardwood, timber, tree, wood). (various references)

Turkmen 

tokmak (mallet, wooden hammer). (various references)

Ukrainian

тупий (asleep, bat-eyed, blockish, blunt, dense, dim witted, doughy, dull, logy, obtuse, opaque, oscitant, pointless, slow witted, wooden-headed), незграбний (angular, artless, awkward, blundering, bouncing, bovine, clumsy, cubbish, cumbersome, fumbling, gangling, gauche, gawky, gnarled, graceless, ham-fisted, hulking, lob, lubberly, maladroit, oafish, shamble, splay, splayfooted, uncouth, ungainly, unskilful), дерев'яний (wood). (various references)

abiegnis, caudicalis, caudicarius, caudiceus, lignea, ligneas, lignei, ligneis, ligneo, ligneos, ligneum. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "wooden": woodener, woodenest, woodenhead, woodenheaded, woodenheads, woodenly, woodenness, woodennesses, woodenware, woodenwares. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Wooden" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cooden, gooden, hooden, looden, welden, wooder, Woodes, woodet, woodeu, Woodfern, Woodner, woodo, wooten, Wootey, wowen, wude. (additional references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: endow, odeon, owned, wooed.

-2 letters: done, down, enow, node, owed, wend, wood.

-3 letters: den, dew, doe, don, dow, end, eon, new, nod, noo, now, ode, one, owe, own, wed, wen, woe, won, woo.

-4 letters: de, do, ed, en, ne, no, od, oe, on, ow, we, wo.

+1 letter: hoedown, swooned, unwooed, woodhen, woodmen.

+2 letters: bentwood, comedown, downcome, hoedowns, pinewood, unwooded, wanderoo, woodbine, woodener, woodenly, woodhens, woodnote, woodsmen.

+3 letters: bentwoods, bondwomen, closedown, comedowns, cornrowed, dewooling, downcomes, downslope, greenwood, lancewood, overwound, pinewoods, snowshoed, underwood, underwool, wanderoos, woodbines, woodenest, woodiness, woodnotes, wrongdoer.

+4 letters: brownnosed, candlewood, closedowns, cottonweed, donkeywork, downloaded, downstroke, downtowner, greenwoods, hoodwinked, hoodwinker, lancewoods, orangewood, outfrowned, snowplowed, underwoods, underwools, wonderwork, woodenhead, woodenness, woodenware, woodlander, wordmonger, wrongdoers.