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
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Forest as a noun:
A dense uncultivated tract of trees and undergrowth, larger than woods.
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Forest as a noun:
Any dense collection or amount.
Examples:
"a forest of criticism"
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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.
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Forest as a noun (graph theory):
A graph with no cycles; i.e., a graph made up of trees.
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Forest as a noun (computing, Microsoft Windows):
A group of domains that are managed as a unit.
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Forest as a noun:
The colour forest green.
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Forest as a verb (transitive):
To cover an area with trees.
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Timber as a noun (uncountable):
Trees in a forest regarded as a source of wood.
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Timber as a noun (outside, North America, uncountable):
Wood that has been pre-cut and is ready for use in construction.
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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"
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Timber as a noun:
Material for any structure.
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Timber as a noun (firearms, informal):
The wooden stock of a rifle or shotgun.
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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.
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Timber as a verb (transitive):
To fit with timbers.
Examples:
"timbering a roof"
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Timber as a verb (transitive, obsolete):
To construct, frame, build.
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Timber as a verb (falconry, intransitive):
To light or land on a tree.
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Timber as a verb (obsolete):
To make a nest.
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Timber as a verb (transitive):
To surmount as a timber does.
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Timber as a noun: