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timber
wood, especially when suitable for building purposes: Stack the timber next to the house.Not to be confused with:
timbre – the characteristic quality of a sound: The timbre of his voice was unique.
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tim·ber
(tĭm′bər)n.1.a. Trees or wooded land considered as a source of wood.
2. a. A dressed piece of wood, especially a beam in a structure.
3. A person considered to have qualities suited for a particular activity: That trainee is executive timber.
tr.v.tim·bered, tim·ber·ing, tim·bers To support or frame with timbers: timber a mine shaft.
interj. Used by one cutting down a tree to warn those around that the tree is about to fall.
[Middle English, from Old English, building, trees for building; see dem- in Indo-European roots.]
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timber
(ˈtɪmbə) n1. (Forestry)a. wood, esp when regarded as a construction material. Usual US and Canadian word: lumber
2. (Forestry) b. chieflyUS woodland
3. (Building) a piece of wood used in a structure
4. (Nautical Terms) nautical a frame in a wooden vessel
5. potential material, for a post, rank, etc: he is managerial timber.
vb
interj (Forestry) a lumberjack's shouted warning when a tree is about to fall
[Old English; related to Old High German zimbar wood, Old Norse timbr timber, Latin domus house]
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014
tim•ber
(ˈtɪm bər)n.
1. the wood of growing trees suitable for construction purposes.
3. wooded land.
4. wood, esp. when adapted for various building purposes.
5. a single piece of wood forming part of a structure: A timber fell from the roof.
6. (in a ship's frame) one of the curved pieces of wood that spring upward and outward from the keel; rib.
7. a person regarded as having exceptional qualifications: He's presidential timber.
v.t. v.i. 9. to fell timber, esp. as an occupation.
interj. 10. (used as a lumberjack's call to warn others that a cut tree is about to fall.)
[before 900; Middle English, Old English: orig., house, building material, c. Old Frisian timber, Old Saxon timbar, Old High German zimbar, Old Norse timbr; akin to Gothic timrjan, Greek démein to build]
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Timber
furs or animal skins, especially 40 skins of martens, ermines, or sable, and 120 skins of other animals.Examples: timber of ermine skins, 1714; of marten skins, 1707; of mink skins, 1707; of sable skins, 1566.
Dictionary of Collective Nouns and Group Terms. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
timber
Past participle: timbered
Gerund: timbering
| Imperative |
|---|
| timber |
| timber |
| Present |
|---|
| I timber |
| you timber |
| he/she/it timbers |
| we timber |
| you timber |
| they timber |
| Preterite |
|---|
| I timbered |
| you timbered |
| he/she/it timbered |
| we timbered |
| you timbered |
| they timbered |
| Present Continuous |
|---|
| I am timbering |
| you are timbering |
| he/she/it is timbering |
| we are timbering |
| you are timbering |
| they are timbering |
| Present Perfect |
|---|
| I have timbered |
| you have timbered |
| he/she/it has timbered |
| we have timbered |
| you have timbered |
| they have timbered |
| Past Continuous |
|---|
| I was timbering |
| you were timbering |
| he/she/it was timbering |
| we were timbering |
| you were timbering |
| they were timbering |
| Past Perfect |
|---|
| I had timbered |
| you had timbered |
| he/she/it had timbered |
| we had timbered |
| you had timbered |
| they had timbered |
| Future |
|---|
| I will timber |
| you will timber |
| he/she/it will timber |
| we will timber |
| you will timber |
| they will timber |
| Future Perfect |
|---|
| I will have timbered |
| you will have timbered |
| he/she/it will have timbered |
| we will have timbered |
| you will have timbered |
| they will have timbered |
| Future Continuous |
|---|
| I will be timbering |
| you will be timbering |
| he/she/it will be timbering |
| we will be timbering |
| you will be timbering |
| they will be timbering |
| Present Perfect Continuous |
|---|
| I have been timbering |
| you have been timbering |
| he/she/it has been timbering |
| we have been timbering |
| you have been timbering |
| they have been timbering |
| Future Perfect Continuous |
|---|
| I will have been timbering |
| you will have been timbering |
| he/she/it will have been timbering |
| we will have been timbering |
| you will have been timbering |
| they will have been timbering |
| Past Perfect Continuous |
|---|
| I had been timbering |
| you had been timbering |
| he/she/it had been timbering |
| we had been timbering |
| you had been timbering |
| they had been timbering |
| Conditional |
|---|
| I would timber |
| you would timber |
| he/she/it would timber |
| we would timber |
| you would timber |
| they would timber |
| Past Conditional |
|---|
| I would have timbered |
| you would have timbered |
| he/she/it would have timbered |
| we would have timbered |
| you would have timbered |
| they would have timbered |
Collins English Verb Tables © HarperCollins Publishers 2011
| Noun | 1. | timber - the wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material stock - lumber used in the construction of something; 'they will cut round stock to 1-inch diameter' building material - material used for constructing buildings wood - the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees plank, board - a stout length of sawn timber; made in a wide variety of sizes and used for many purposes planking - planks collectively; a quantity of planks |
| 2. | timber - a beam made of wood beam - long thick piece of wood or metal or concrete, etc., used in construction coulisse - a timber member grooved to take a sliding panel sternpost - (nautical) the principal upright timber at the stern of a vessel stringer - a long horizontal timber to connect uprights two-by-four - a timber measuring (slightly under) 2 inches by 4 inches in cross section | |
| 3. | timber - a post made of wood post - an upright consisting of a piece of timber or metal fixed firmly in an upright position; 'he set a row of posts in the ground and strung barbwire between them' | |
| 4. | timber - land that is covered with trees and shrubs biome - a major biotic community characterized by the dominant forms of plant life and the prevailing climate greenwood - woodlands in full leaf; 'the greenwood was Robin Hood's home' dry land, ground, solid ground, terra firma, earth, land - the solid part of the earth's surface; 'the plane turned away from the sea and moved back over land'; 'the earth shook for several minutes'; 'he dropped the logs on the ground' riparian forest - woodlands along the banks of stream or river silva, sylva - the forest trees growing in a country or region tree farm - a forest (or part of a forest) where trees are grown for commercial use | |
| 5. | timber - (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound); 'the timbre of her soprano was rich and lovely'; 'the muffled tones of the broken bell summoned them to meet' sound property - an attribute of sound harmonic - any of a series of musical tones whose frequencies are integral multiples of the frequency of a fundamental resonance - the quality imparted to voiced speech sounds by the action of the resonating chambers of the throat and mouth and nasal cavities coloration, colouration, color, colour - the timbre of a musical sound; 'the recording fails to capture the true color of the original music' nasality - a quality of the voice that is produced by nasal resonators plangency, reverberance, sonority, sonorousness, vibrancy, ringing, resonance - having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant stridence, stridency, shrillness - having the timbre of a loud high-pitched sound register - (music) the timbre that is characteristic of a certain range and manner of production of the human voice or of different pipe organ stops or of different musical instruments music - an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner |
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timber
noun1.beams, boards, planksa bird nestling in the timbers of the roof
2.wood, logsThese forests have been exploited for timber since Saxon times.
Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002
timber
noun1. A large, oblong piece of wood or other material, used especially for construction:
2. The basic substance or essential elements of character that qualify a person for a specified role:
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خَشَبخَشَب للبِناءشَجَر لِخَشَب البِناءضِلْع أو عارِضَه في هَيْكَل السَّفينَه
tømmertræbjælke
árboles maderablesmaderamadera aserradamadera de construcciónviga
épületfa
목재
baļķisbūvkokskokmateriālikoks
stavebné drevo
virketimmerträ
kerestekerestelikkerestelik ağaçormantahta kiriş
timber
[ˈtɪmbəʳ]A.N (= wood) → maderaf; (= growing trees) → árbolesmpl (productores de madera); (= beam) → vigaf, maderom (Naut) → cuadernaf
timber! → ¡tronco va!
timber! → ¡tronco va!
B.CPDtimber merchantN (Brit) → madererom
timber wolfN → lobomgrisnorteamericano
timber yardN (Brit) → almacénmde madera
timber wolfN → lobomgrisnorteamericano
timber yardN (Brit) → almacénmde madera
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
timber
[ˈtɪmbər]n (= material) → boism
building timber → boism de construction
building timber → boism de construction
(= trees) → arbresmpltimber-framed timbered[ˈtɪmbərd]adj → à colombagestimber merchant n(British) → négociantmen boistimber yard n(British) → parcm à bois
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
timber
n→ Holznt; (for building) → (Bau)holznt; (= land planted with trees) → (Nutz)waldm; to put land under timber → Land mit Bäumenbepflanzen; standing timber → Nutzwaldm; timber! → Baumfällt!
(Hunt) → (Holz)zäune und -gatterpl
(US: = character) a man of that timber → ein Mann dieses Kalibers; a woman of presidential timber → eine Frau, die das ZeugzumPräsidenten hat
vt house → mit Fachwerkversehen; gallery (in mine) → abstützen, verzimmern
timber
:timber-framed
timber framing
timber
:timberland
timber line
timberman
timber mill
timber tree
timber wolf
timberworkn(= beams) → Gebälknt, → Balkenwerknt; (= timber framing) → Fachwerknt
timberyard
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
timber
[ˈtɪmbəʳ]1.n (material) → legnamem; (trees) → alberimpl da legname
timber! → cade!
timber! → cade!
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
timber
(ˈtimbə) noun1. wood, especially for building. This house is built of timber. hout خَشَب للبِناء дървен материал madeira stavební dříví das Bauholz træ ξυλείαmadera de construcción puit چوب puutavara bois de construction עֵץ לִבנִייָה इमारती लकडी़ drvo, drvena građa fa(anyag) kayu timbur legname 材木 삼림 mediena koks; kokmateriāli kayu houttømmer, trelastdrewno الوار، چارتراش، وېشه، بش: دودانۍ او تر كاڼۍ لرګى: دونو ځنګل: په لرګو پوښل madeira cherestea древесина stavebné drevo stavbni les drvo timmer, trä, virke ต้นไม้ที่เติบโตในป่า (โดยเฉพาะที่โตพอเหมาะที่จะตัดทำซุง) kereste 木材 лісоматеріал عمارت ميں استعمال کي لکڑي gỗ 木材
2. trees suitable for this. a hundred acres of good timber. hout شَجَر لِخَشَب البِناء дървета madeira kmen die Bäume (pl.) tømmer δένδρα για ξυλεία árboles maderables metsamaterjal درختان puu arbres, bois עֵצִים לִבנִייָה लकडी़ drvo, drveće épületfa pohon tré, skógur alberi 材木用樹林 목재 statybinis miškas, mediena būvkoks pokok kayu opgaand hout trær, tømmer drzewa przeznaczone na budulec ونی madeira cherestea строевой лес kmeň drevje za stavbni les drvna građa timmerskog ป่าไม้ kerestelik ağaç (可作木材的)樹木 будівельний ліс عمارتي لکڑيوں کے درخت cây lấy gỗ （可作木材的）树木
3. a wooden beam used in the building of a house, ship etc. hout ضِلْع أو عارِضَه في هَيْكَل السَّفينَه греда viga kláda, trám der Holzbalken bjælke δοκάριviga palk الوار؛ تیر parru poutre, madrierקורה लकड़ी के बिम्ब deblo gerenda balok bjálki, (burðar)biti trave はり (기둥 등의) 하나의 목재 sija baļķis rasuk, pelancar kayu balkbjelkebelka چارتراش viga grindă, căprior балка rezivo tram noseća greda bjälke ไม้ซุง tahta kiriş 棟樑 колода, брусок; балка لکڑي کي کڑي thanh gỗ 栋梁
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timber
→ خَشَب dřevo tømmerBauholzξυλείαmadera puutavarabois drvolegname 材木 목재Timber Merchants Derby
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EDWARD REYNOLDS The Rise and Fall of an African Merchant Class on the Gold Coast 1830-1874 It has been assumed that indigenous merchants on the Gold Coast1 enjoyed period of prosperity from the to the s.2 The reasons for this affluency were related to the expansion of the export trade the provision of steamship services and the supply of finance from European manufacturers While it is generally true that West African traders achieved economic success between the 1850 and iS detailed study of indigenous Gold Coast merchants reveals that although they had thrived between 1830 and 1850 their prosperity declined in the rose again briefly between 1870 and 1890 only to fall in the s.3 These vicissitudes coincide with periods of intense political activities in the country like those of the Fanti Confederation and the Gold Coast Aborigines Rights Protection Society The present article seeks to examine the rise and fall of the Gold Coast African merchant class and possible relationships with the political activism in the country in the late The abolition of the slave trade early in the nineteenth century brought about strong need to find substitutes for the slave trade and to encourage the export of old staples like gold and ivory as well as the production of agricultural goods for the overseas trade Despite efforts to foster the exports of natural produce of the country the disruption caused by local wars the lack of enthusiastic response from local people the half-hearted efforts of Europeans on the coast to establish and to cultivate plantations and the duties imposed on African produce made economic change difficult Nevertheless in spite of these impediments after 1830 progress was being made towards an economy based not on the sale of slaves but one based on the export of natural produce new era of trade and economic change in which indigenous African merchants were destined to play an important role began in 1830 under
The term Gold Coast used in this article corresponds to the area of present day Southern Ghana David KIMBLE Political History of Ghana 1850-1128 Oxford 1963 13-15 The starting point for the study of the rise of West African indigenous merchants who handled direct import and export commodities is still Allan The Economic Revolution in British West Africa 2nd ed. London 1971
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Cahiers tudes Africaines 54 XI V-2 pp 213-264