timber
Noun
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is a type of: building material - material used for constructing buildingssubtypes:substance holonym: wood - the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of treessame as: lumber
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is a type of: beam - long thick piece of wood or metal or concrete, etc., used in constructionsubtypes:
- 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
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is a type of: post - an upright consisting of a piece of timber or metal fixed firmly in an upright position
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is a type of:
- biome - a major biotic community characterized by the dominant forms of plant life and the prevailing climate
- dry land, earth, ground, land, solid ground, terra firma - the solid part of the earth's surface
subtypes:- greenwood - woodlands in full leaf
- 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
specific instances:- black forest, schwarzwald - a hilly forest region in southwestern Germany
- sherwood forest - an ancient forest in central England; formerly a royal hunting ground; said to be the home of Robin Hood and his merry band
- wilderness - a wooded region in northeastern Virginia near Spotsylvania where bloody but inconclusive battles were fought in the American Civil War
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referred to in: music - an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manneris a type of: sound property - an attribute of soundsubtypes:
- 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
- color, coloration, colour, colouration - the timbre of a musical sound
- nasality - a quality of the voice that is produced by nasal resonators
- plangency, resonance, reverberance, ringing, sonority, sonorousness, vibrancy - having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant
- shrillness, stridence, stridency - 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
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