The difference between Forest and Timber

When used as nouns, forest means a dense uncultivated tract of trees and undergrowth, larger than woods, whereas timber means trees in a forest regarded as a source of wood.

When used as verbs, forest means to cover an area with trees, whereas timber means to fit with timbers.


Timber is also interjection with the meaning: used by loggers to warn others that a tree being felled is falling.

check bellow for the other definitions of Forest and Timber

  1. Forest as a noun:

    A dense uncultivated tract of trees and undergrowth, larger than woods.

  2. Forest as a noun:

    Any dense collection or amount.

    Examples:

    "a forest of criticism"

  3. Forest as a noun (historical):

    A defined area of land set aside in England as royal hunting ground or for other privileged use; all such areas.

  4. Forest as a noun (graph theory):

    A graph with no cycles; i.e., a graph made up of trees.

  5. Forest as a noun (computing, Microsoft Windows):

    A group of domains that are managed as a unit.

  6. Forest as a noun:

    The colour forest green.

  1. Forest as a verb (transitive):

    To cover an area with trees.

  1. Timber as a noun (uncountable):

    Trees in a forest regarded as a source of wood.

  2. Timber as a noun (outside, North America, uncountable):

    Wood that has been pre-cut and is ready for use in construction.

  3. Timber as a noun (countable):

    A heavy wooden beam, generally a whole log that has been squared off and used to provide heavy support for something such as a roof.

    Examples:

    "the timbers of a ship"

  4. Timber as a noun:

    Material for any structure.

  5. Timber as a noun (firearms, informal):

    The wooden stock of a rifle or shotgun.

  6. Timber as a noun (archaic):

    A certain quantity of fur skins (as of martens, ermines, sables, etc.) packed between boards; in some cases forty skins, in others one hundred and twenty. Also timmer, timbre.

  1. Timber as a verb (transitive):

    To fit with timbers.

    Examples:

    "timbering a roof"

  2. Timber as a verb (transitive, obsolete):

    To construct, frame, build.

  3. Timber as a verb (falconry, intransitive):

    To light or land on a tree.

  4. Timber as a verb (obsolete):

    To make a nest.

  5. Timber as a verb (transitive):

    To surmount as a timber does.

  1. Timber as a noun: