timber
n. 木材, 木料 vt. 用木材建造
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教材释义与例句
木材;木料
释义与例句
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1.
Trees in a forest regarded as a source of wood.
木材
不可数 可数collect timber
cut down timber
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2.
Wood that has been pre-cut and is ready for use in construction.
木料
木材
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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.
可数 不可数the timbers of a ship
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Material for any structure.
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The wooden stock of a rifle or shotgun.
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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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The stumps.
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To fit with timbers.
及物timbering a roof
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To construct, frame, build.
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To light or land on a tree.
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To make a nest.
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To surmount as a timber does.
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Used by loggers to warn others that a tree being felled is falling.
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By extension, a cry used when anything is falling over.
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From Middle English tymber, from Old English timber, from Proto-West Germanic *timr, from Proto-Germanic *timrą, from Proto-Indo-European *dem- (“build, house”) (see Proto-Indo-European *dṓm). Cognates include Dutch timmer, Old High German zimbar (German Zimmer), Norwegian tømmer, Old Norse timbr, Gothic 𐍄𐌹𐌼𐍂𐌾𐌰𐌽 (timrjan, “to build”), Latin domus and Ancient Greek δόμος (dómos).
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