Timber vs. Hardwood

Timbernoun

(uncountable) Trees in a forest regarded as a source of wood.

Timbernoun

Wood that has been pre-cut and is ready for use in construction.

Timbernoun

(countable) 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.

Timbernoun

The wooden stock of a rifle or shotgun.

Timbernoun

(archaic) 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.

Timberinterjection

Used by loggers to warn others that a tree being felled is falling.

Timberverb

(transitive) To fit with timbers.

Timberverb

To construct, frame, build.

Timberverb

To light or land on a tree.

Timberverb

(obsolete) To make a nest.

Timberverb

(transitive) To surmount as a timber does.

Timbernoun

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.

Timbernoun

The crest on a coat of arms.

Timbernoun

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.

Timbernoun

The body, stem, or trunk of a tree.

Timbernoun

Fig.: Material for any structure.

Timbernoun

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.

Timbernoun

Woods or forest; wooden land.

Timbernoun

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.

Timberverb

To surmount as a timber does.

Timberverb

To furnish with timber; - chiefly used in the past participle.

Timberverb

To light on a tree.

Timberverb

To make a nest.

Timbernoun

the wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material

Timbernoun

a beam made of wood

Timbernoun

a post made of wood

Timbernoun

land that is covered with trees and shrubs

Timbernoun

(music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound);

Hardwoodnoun

The wood from any dicotyledonous tree, without regard to its hardness.

Hardwoodnoun

(countable) (in more general use) As the preceding but limited to those that are commercial timbers, and are at least average in hardness.

Hardwoodnoun

The tree or tree species that yields the preceding.

Hardwoodnoun

(uncountable) A joint term for the commercial timbers, without distinguishing which.

Hardwoodnoun

The sport of basketball, in particular, an indoor basketball court; so named because the floor of an indoor basketball court is normally made of hardwood.

Hardwoodadjective

Of a floor: made of interlocking hardwood boards.

Hardwoodnoun

The wood of broad-leaved dicotyledonous trees (as distinguished from the wood of conifers); also items made from such wood; as, decorative hardwood.

Hardwood

Made of the hard-to-cut wood of a broad-leaved tree, as e.g. oak; consisting of a hardwood; as, hardwood floors; - of wood and wooden objects.

Hardwoodnoun

the wood of broad-leaved dicotyledonous trees (as distinguished from the wood of conifers)

Hardwoodadjective

made of the hard-to-cut wood of a broad-leaved tree, as e.g. oak;

Hardwood

Hardwood is wood from dicot trees. These are usually found in broad-leaved temperate and tropical forests.