Plank vs. Softwood
Difference Between Plank and Softwood
Plank➦
A piece of lumber cut thicker than a board.
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Softwood➦
Softwood is wood from gymnosperm trees such as conifers. The term is opposed to hardwood, which is the wood from angiosperm trees.
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Plank➦
Such pieces of lumber considered as a group; planking.
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Softwood➦
The wood of a coniferous tree.
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Plank➦
A foundation; a support.
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Softwood➦
A coniferous tree.
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Plank➦
One of the articles of a political platform.
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Softwood➦
The wood from any gymnosperm, without regard to how soft this wood is.
SYP is a softwood, but it is harder than many hardwoods.
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Plank➦
To furnish or cover with planks
plank a muddy pathway.
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Softwood➦
Wood of this kind, but limited to those that are commercial timbers.
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Plank➦
To bake or broil and serve (fish or meat) on a plank
"Boards specially made for planking food have grooves ... to hold juices" (Michael Stern).
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Softwood➦
The tree or tree species that yields this wood.
This softwood has been planted extensively throughout Scotland.
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Plank➦
To put or set down emphatically or with force.
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Softwood➦
(uncountable) Any commercial timber.
You should have used softwood for the frame of this shed, instead of overbuilding it like this.
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Plank➦
A long, broad and thick piece of timber, as opposed to a board which is less thick.
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Softwood➦
wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir)
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Plank➦
(figurative) A political issue that is of concern to a faction or a party of the people and the political position that is taken on that issue.
Germanization was a central plank of German conservative thinking in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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Softwood➦
made of the easy-to-cut wood of a coniferous tree, as e.g. pine;
softwood lumber
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Plank➦
Physical exercise in which one holds a pushup position for a measured length of time.
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Plank➦
A stupid person, idiot.
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Plank➦
That which supports or upholds.
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Plank➦
(transitive) To cover something with planking.
to plank a floor or a ship
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Plank➦
(transitive) To bake (fish, etc.) on a piece of cedar lumber.
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Plank➦
To lay down, as on a plank or table; to stake or pay cash.
to plank money in a wager
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Plank➦
(transitive) To harden, as hat bodies, by felting.
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Plank➦
To splice together the ends of slivers of wool, for subsequent drawing.
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Plank➦
(intransitive) To pose for a photograph while lying rigid, face down, arms at side, in an unusual place.
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Plank➦
A broad piece of sawed timber, differing from a board only in being thicker. See Board.
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Plank➦
Fig.: That which supports or upholds, as a board does a swimmer.
His charity is a better plank than the faith of an intolerant and bitter-minded bigot.
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Plank➦
One of the separate articles in a declaration of the principles of a party or cause; as, a plank in the national platform.
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Plank➦
To cover or lay with planks; as, to plank a floor or a ship.
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Plank➦
To lay down, as on a plank or table; to stake or pay cash; as, to plank money in a wager.
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Plank➦
To harden, as hat bodies, by felting.
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Plank➦
To splice together the ends of slivers of wool, for subsequent drawing.
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Plank➦
a stout length of sawn timber; made in a wide variety of sizes and used for many purposes
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Plank➦
an endorsed policy in the platform of a political party
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Plank➦
cover with planks;
The streets were planked
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Plank➦
set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise;
He planked the money on the table
He planked himself into the sofa
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Plank➦
cook and serve on a plank;
Planked vegetable
Planked shad
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