The difference between Timber and Wood

When used as nouns, timber means trees in a forest regarded as a source of wood, whereas wood means the substance making up the central part of the trunk and branches of a tree. used as a material for construction, to manufacture various items, etc. or as fuel.

When used as verbs, timber means to fit with timbers, whereas wood means to cover or plant with trees.

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

Wood is also adjective with the meaning: mad, insane, crazed.

check bellow for the other definitions of Timber and Wood

  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:

  1. Wood as a noun (uncountable):

    The substance making up the central part of the trunk and branches of a tree. Used as a material for construction, to manufacture various items, etc. or as fuel.

    Examples:

    "This table is made of wood."

    "There was lots of wood on the beach."

  2. Wood as a noun (countable):

    The wood of a particular species of tree.

    Examples:

    "Teak is much used for outdoor benches, but a number of other woods are also suitable, such as ipé, redwood, etc."

  3. Wood as a noun (countable):

    A forested or wooded area.

    Examples:

    "He got lost in the woods beyond Seattle."

  4. Wood as a noun:

    Firewood.

    Examples:

    "We need more wood for the fire."

  5. Wood as a noun (countable, golf):

    A type of golf club, the head of which was traditionally made of wood.

  6. Wood as a noun (music):

    A woodwind instrument.

  7. Wood as a noun (uncountable, slang):

    An erection of the penis.

    Examples:

    "That girl at the strip club gave me wood."

  8. Wood as a noun (chess, uncountable, slang):

    Chess pieces.

  1. Wood as a verb (transitive):

    To cover or plant with trees.

  2. Wood as a verb (reflexive, intransitive):

    To hide behind trees.

  3. Wood as a verb (transitive):

    To supply with wood, or get supplies of wood for.

    Examples:

    "to wood a steamboat or a locomotive"

  4. Wood as a verb (intransitive):

    To take or get a supply of wood.

  1. Wood as an adjective (obsolete):

    Mad, insane, crazed.

  1. Wood as a noun (US, sometimes, _, offensive, chiefly, prison, _, slang, of a person):

    A peckerwood.

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