Knurl vs. Wood — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Knurl and Wood
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Knurl
A knob, knot, or other small protuberance.
Wood
Wood is a porous and fibrous structural tissue found in the stems and roots of trees and other woody plants. It is an organic material – a natural composite of cellulose fibers that are strong in tension and embedded in a matrix of lignin that resists compression.
Knurl
One of a series of small ridges or grooves on the surface or edge of a metal object, such as a thumbscrew, to aid in gripping.
Wood
The hard fibrous material that forms the main substance of the trunk or branches of a tree or shrub, used for fuel or timber
A block of wood
Best quality woods were used for joinery
Knurl
To provide with knurls; mill.
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Wood
An area of land, smaller than a forest, that is covered with growing trees
A thick hedge divided the wood from the field
A long walk in the woods
Knurl
A contorted knot in wood.
Wood
The secondary xylem of trees and shrubs, lying beneath the bark and consisting largely of cellulose and lignin.
Knurl
A crossgrained protuberance; a nodule; a boss or projection.
Wood
This tissue when cut and dried, used especially for building material and fuel.
Knurl
A lined or crossgrained pattern of ridges or indentations rolled or pressed into a part for grip.
Wood
A growth of trees and other plants usually covering a smaller area than a forest.
Knurl
To roll or press a pattern of ridges or indentations into a part for grip.
Wood
A forest.
Knurl
A contorted knot in wood; a crossgrained protuberance; a nodule; a boss or projection.
Wood
(Music) A woodwind.
Knurl
One who, or that which, is crossgrained.
Wood
(Sports) Any of a series of golf clubs used to hit long shots, having a bulbous head made of wood, metal, or graphite, and numbered one to five in order of increasing loft.
Knurl
To provide with ridges, to assist the grasp, as in the edge of a flat knob, or coin; to mill.
Wood
To fuel with wood.
Wood
To cover with trees; forest.
Wood
To gather or be supplied with wood.
Wood
Made or consisting of wood; wooden.
Wood
Used or suitable for cutting, storing, or working with wood.
Wood
Woods Living, growing, or present in forests
Woods animals.
A woods path.
Wood
Mentally deranged.
Wood
(uncountable) The substance making up the central part of the trunk and branches of a tree. Used as a material for construction, to manufacture various items, etc. or as fuel.
This table is made of wood.
There was lots of wood on the beach.
Wood
(countable) The wood of a particular species of tree.
Teak is much used for outdoor benches, but a number of other woods are also suitable, such as ipé, redwood, etc.
Wood
A forested or wooded area.
A wood beyond this moor was viewed as a border area in the seventeenth century.
He got lost in the woods beyond Seattle.
Wood
Firewood.
We need more wood for the fire.
Wood
A type of golf club, the head of which was traditionally made of wood.
Wood
(music) A woodwind instrument.
Wood
An erection of the penis.
That girl at the strip club gave me wood.
Wood
Chess pieces.
Wood
A peckerwood.
Wood
(transitive) To cover or plant with trees.
Wood
To hide behind trees.
Wood
(transitive) To supply with wood, or get supplies of wood for.
To wood a steamboat or a locomotive
Wood
(intransitive) To take or get a supply of wood.
Wood
(obsolete) Mad, insane, crazed.
Wood
Mad; insane; possessed; rabid; furious; frantic.
Our hoste gan to swear as [if] he were wood.
Wood
To grow mad; to act like a madman; to mad.
Wood
To supply with wood, or get supplies of wood for; as, to wood a steamboat or a locomotive.
Wood
To take or get a supply of wood.
Wood
A large and thick collection of trees; a forest or grove; - frequently used in the plural.
Light thickens, and the crowMakes wing to the rooky wood.
Wood
The substance of trees and the like; the hard fibrous substance which composes the body of a tree and its branches, and which is covered by the bark; timber.
Wood
The fibrous material which makes up the greater part of the stems and branches of trees and shrubby plants, and is found to a less extent in herbaceous stems. It consists of elongated tubular or needle-shaped cells of various kinds, usually interwoven with the shinning bands called silver grain.
Wood
Trees cut or sawed for the fire or other uses.
We cast the lots . . . for the wood offering.
Wood
The hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees
Wood
The trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area
Wood
United States film actress (1938-1981)
Wood
English conductor (1869-1944)
Wood
English writer of novels about murders and thefts and forgeries (1814-1887)
Wood
United States painter noted for works based on life in the Midwest (1892-1942)
Wood
Any wind instrument other than the brass instruments
Wood
A golf club with a long shaft used to hit long shots; originally made with a wooden head; metal woods are now available
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