Definitions for Wood

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Wood wood

Spelling: [woo d]

IPA: /wʊd/

Wood is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 18 anagrams from letters in Wood (doow).

Definitions for Wood

noun

1. the hard, fibrous substance composing most of the stem and branches of a tree or shrub, and lying beneath the bark; the xylem.
2. the trunks or main stems of trees as suitable for architectural and other purposes; timber or lumber.
3. firewood.
4. the cask, barrel, or keg, as distinguished from the bottle:
5. woodblock (def 1).
6. Music. a woodwind instrument. the section of a band or orchestra composed of woodwinds.
7. Often, woods. (used with a singular or plural verb) a large and thick collection of growing trees; a grove or forest:
8. Golf. a club with a wooden head, as a driver, brassie, spoon, or baffy for hitting long shots. Compare iron (def 5).
9. Grant, 1892–1942, U.S. painter.
10. Leonard, 1860–1927, U.S. military doctor and political administrator.

Idioms

1. have the wood on, Australian Slang. to have an advantage over or have information that can be used against.
2. knock on wood, (used when knocking on something wooden to assure continued good luck): Also, especially British, touch wood.
3. out of the woods, out of a dangerous, perplexing, or difficult situation; secure; safe. no longer in precarious health or critical condition; out of danger and recovering.

adjective

1. made of wood; wooden.
2. used to store, work, or carry wood:
3. dwelling or growing in woods:
4. wild, as with rage or excitement.
5. mad; insane.

verb (used with object)

1. to cover or plant with trees.
2. to supply with wood; get supplies of wood for.

verb (used without object)

1. to take in or get supplies of wood (often followed by up):

Origin of Wood

before 900; Middle English; Old English wudu, earlier widu; cognate with Old Norse vithr, Old High German witu, Old Irish fid

Examples for Wood

Such is the story of the hole which you have marked, and of the smudge upon the wood.

It left three deep dents in the wood, and the door was kicked open again.

I dismounted, and went forward to strike it with a piece of wood.

A worn couch sitting squarely before a wood veneer wall, accented by the head of a deer.

A party of fugitives were to meet her in a wood, that she might conduct them North.

You can practically smell the sugar maples and wood violets.

Conestoga wood Specialties Corporation A Pennsylvania-based wood cabinet and specialty products manufacturer.

But is there no gate because we find none on the edge of the wood where it seemed to lie?

Therefore in our view we need to talk about our wood management before any other factor in the maturation of The Macallan.

Upstairs, in the living room, splintered logs of hemlock cackled and spat from inside the wood stove.