FOREST vs TIMBER: NOUN
- Land that is covered with trees and shrubs
- A growth of trees and other plants covering a large area.
- A large number of objects bearing a similarity to such a growth, especially a dense collection of tall objects.
- A defined area of land formerly set aside in England as a royal hunting ground.
- In phytogeography, specifically, a closed woodland, that is, one in which the crowns of the trees touch.
- A tract of land covered with trees; a wood, usually one of considerable extent; a tract of woodland with or without inclosed intervals of open and uncultivated ground.
- A disjoint union of trees.
- A defined area of land set aside in England as royal hunting ground or for other privileged use; all such areas.
- Any dense collection or amount.
- In Great Britain, a designation still retained for some large tracts of land or districts formerly but not now covered with trees or constituting royal forests (see below), especially such as have some of the distinctive characteristics or uses of wild or broken woodland, as the Forest of Dean in England or some of the deer-forests of Scotland.
- A dense collection of trees covering a relatively large area. Larger than woods.
- In English law, and formerly also in Scots law, a territory of woody grounds and pastures privileged for wild beasts and fowls of chase and warren to rest and abide in, generally belonging to the sovereign, and set apart for his recreation, or granted by him to others, under special laws, and having officers specially appointed to look after it; a hunting-preserve maintained at public expense for royal or aristocratic use: specifically called a royal forest.
- An extensive wood; a large tract of land covered with trees; in the United States, a wood of native growth, or a tract of woodland which has never been cultivated.
- A large extent or precinct of country, generally waste and woody, belonging to the sovereign, set apart for the keeping of game for his use, not inclosed, but distinguished by certain limits, and protected by certain laws, courts, and officers of its own.
- The trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area
- A person considered to have qualities suited for a particular activity.
- A rib in a ship's frame.
- A dressed piece of wood, especially a beam in a structure.
- Wood used as a building material; lumber.
- Trees or wooded land considered as a source of wood.
- Land that is covered with trees and shrubs
- The wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material
- A post made of wood
- A beam made of wood
- In cricket, the stumps; the wickets: usually in the plural.
- (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound)
- The body, stem, or trunk of a tree.
- In mining, a local name for a braced frame forming the roof and side-supports of a gallery or drilt.
- A single piece or squared stick of wood intended for building, or already framed; collectively, the larger pieces or sticks of wood, forming the framework of a house, ship, or other structure, in distinction from the covering or boarding.
- Woods or forest; wooden land.
- A rib, or a curving piece of wood, branching outward from the keel and bending upward in a vertical direction. One timber is composed of several pieces united.
- Same as Room and space. See under Room.
- Any one of numerous species of beetles the larvæ of which bore in timber.
- The American woodcock.
- That sort of wood which is proper for buildings or for tools, utensils, furniture, carriages, fences, ships, and the like; -- usually said of felled trees, but sometimes of those standing. Cf. lumber, 3.
- A kind of hitch used for temporarily marking fast a rope to a spar. See Illust. under Hitch.
- A kind of instrument upon which soldiers were formerly compelled to ride for punishment.
- A metal tool or pointed instrument for marking timber.
- Same as Timber worm, below.
- A tree suitable for timber.
- Any larval insect which burrows in timber.
- A yard or place where timber is deposited.
- Trees in a forest regarded as a source of wood.
- Any species of grouse that inhabits woods, as the ruffed grouse and spruce partridge; -- distinguished from prairie grouse.
- A certain number or tale of skins, being forty of marten, ermine, sable, and the like, and one hundred and twenty of others.
- In heraldry, originally, the crest; hence, in modern heraldry, the helmet, miter, coronet, etc., when placed over the arms in a complete achievement.
- Wood suitable for building houses or ships, or for use in carpentry, joinery, etc.; trees cut down and squared or capable of being squared and cut into beams, rafters, planks, boards, etc.
- Growing trees, yielding wood suitable for constructive uses; trees generally; woods. See timber-tree.
- In British law, the kind of tree which a tenant for life may not cut; in general, oak, ash, and elm of the age of twenty years and upward, unless so old as not to have a reasonable quantity of useful wood in them, the limit being, according to some authorities, enough to make a good post.
- Fig.: Material for any structure.
- A single piece of wood, either suitable for use in some construction or already in such use; a beam, either by itself or forming a member of any structure: as, the timbers of a house or of a bridge.
- Nautical, one of the curving pieces of wood branching upward from the keel of a vessel, forming the ribs.
- The wooden part of something, as the beam or handle of a spear.
- The stocks.
- The crest on a coat of arms.
- A certain quantity of fur skins, as of martens, ermines, sables, etc., packed between boards; being in some cases forty skins, in others one hundred and twenty; -- called also timmer.
- Stuff; material.
FOREST vs TIMBER: ADJECTIVE
- A tree of the forest, especially a timber tree, as distinguished from a fruit tree.
- Laws for the protection of game, preservation of timber, etc., in forests.
- A grassy space in a forest.
- Of or pertaining to a forest; sylvan.
- A fly of the genus Hippobosca, esp. H. equina. See Horse tick.
- N/A
FOREST vs TIMBER: VERB
- To cover an area with trees.
- Establish a forest on previously unforested land
- N/A
FOREST vs TIMBER: INTRANSITIVE VERB
- N/A
- To make a nest.
- To light on a tree.
FOREST vs TIMBER: TRANSITIVE VERB
- To cover with trees or wood.
- To plant trees on or cover with trees.
- To support or frame with timbers.
- To surmount as a timber does.
- To furnish with timber; -- chiefly used in the past participle.
FOREST vs TIMBER: INTERJECTION
- N/A
- Used by one cutting down a tree to warn those around that the tree is about to fall.
FOREST vs TIMBER: OTHER WORD TYPES
- To cover with trees or wood; afforest.
- Pertaining or relating to forests; sylvan: as, forest law.
- To furnish (a tunnel, drift, gallery, or other excavation) with braced frames of logs or squared timbers which support the roof and resist the caving in or crushing at the sides.
- To build; make a nest.
- To furnish with timber. See timbered.
- To surmount and decorate, as a crest does a coat of arms.
- Constructed of timber; made of wood.
FOREST vs TIMBER: RELATED WORDS
- Understory, Silviculture, Deforestation, Forester, Wilderness, Foresters, Rainforest, Woodlands, Forestry, Afforest, Wood, Woods, Timberland, Timber, Woodland
- Hardwood, Foresters, Logging, Firewood, Softwood, Stumpage, Forestry, Wood, Quality, Tone, Timbre, Woodland, Timberland, Forest, Lumber
FOREST vs TIMBER: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Understory, Silviculture, Deforestation, Forester, Wilderness, Foresters, Rainforest, Woodlands, Forestry, Afforest, Wood, Woods, Timberland, Timber, Woodland
- Logs, Forester, Plywood, Hardwood, Foresters, Softwood, Forestry, Wood, Quality, Tone, Timbre, Woodland, Timberland, Forest, Lumber
FOREST vs TIMBER: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- Forest Commission is empowered to employ forest warden, clerk, inspectors, et al.
- The Impact of Forest and Forest Management on Neighboring Property Values.
- Forest fires are wildfires which take place in a forest.
- Forest, Science and Sustainability: The Bulungan Model Forest.
- The name Forest Reserve was changed to National Forest.
- Ecology; Forest Resource Measurements; forest Resource Management, including silviculture and timber harvesting; and, Forest Resource Policy and Administration.
- The policy suggests that restrictions should be imposed on the diversion of forest land and due application of forest land for non forest uses.
- The USGS Gap Analysis Program characterizes the forest at Bendabout Farmas predominantlysouthern ridge and valley dry calcareous forest and south central interior mesophytic forest.
- The use of a pesticide in a forest, forest nursery or forest seed producing area.
- We note that Forest Service currently approves its own forest plans for the state forest.
- Range of timber available cut to your size Planed All Round Timber.
- Each timber dining table is made from a single slab of timber.
- Timber Works is an Ohio based logging company and timber buyer.
- Conduct a timber inventory and estimate the value of your timber.
- We are buyers of standing timber, timber land and trees.
- Forest Timber Contracting Officer and District Timber Sale project personnel.
- Timber stocking and lyme timber easement is intended to purchase.
- Any person who sells or harvests standing timber and any purchaser of standing timber should file a report of timber sale or harvest.
- Vermont Timber Works custom designs and fabricates beautiful timber frame homes, post and beam barns, heavy timber churches, cathedral ceilings and more.
- Find new timber markets, timber customers and timber suppliers.
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