Teak vs. Timber — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Teak and Timber
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Teak
Teak (Tectona grandis) is a tropical hardwood tree species in the family Lamiaceae. It is a large, deciduous tree that occurs in mixed hardwood forests.
Timber
Trees or wooded land considered as a source of wood.
Teak
A large deciduous tree (Tectona grandis) in the mint family, native to tropical South and Southeast Asia, having hard, heavy, durable yellowish-brown wood.
Timber
Wood used as a building material; lumber.
Teak
The wood of this tree, used especially for furniture and in shipbuilding.
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Timber
A dressed piece of wood, especially a beam in a structure.
Teak
A grayish yellowish brown or grayish to moderate brown.
Timber
(Nautical) A rib in a ship's frame.
Teak
An extremely durable timber highly valued for shipbuilding and other purposes, yielded by Tectona grandis (and Tectona spp.).
Timber
A person considered to have qualities suited for a particular activity
That trainee is executive timber.
Teak
(countable) A tree of the species in the genus Tectona
Timber
To support or frame with timbers
Timber a mine shaft.
Teak
(uncountable) A yellowish brown colour, like that of teak wood.
Timber
Used by one cutting down a tree to warn those around that the tree is about to fall.
Teak
Of a yellowish brown colour, like that of teak wood.
Timber
(uncountable) Trees in a forest regarded as a source of wood.
Collect timber
Cut down timber
Teak
A tree of East Indies (Tectona grandis) which furnishes an extremely strong and durable timber highly valued for shipbuilding and other purposes; also, the timber of the tree.
Timber
Wood that has been pre-cut and is ready for use in construction.
Teak
Hard strong durable yellowish-brown wood of teak trees; resistant to insects and to warping; used for furniture and in shipbuilding
Timber
(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.
The timbers of a ship
Teak
Tall East Indian timber tree now planted in western Africa and tropical America for its hard durable wood
Timber
Material for any structure.
Timber
The wooden stock of a rifle or shotgun.
Timber
(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.
Timber
Used by loggers to warn others that a tree being felled is falling.
Timber
(transitive) To fit with timbers.
Timbering a roof
Timber
To construct, frame, build.
Timber
To light or land on a tree.
Timber
(obsolete) To make a nest.
Timber
(transitive) To surmount as a timber does.
Timber
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.
Timber
The crest on a coat of arms.
Timber
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.
And ta'en my fiddle to the gate, . . . And fiddled in the timber!
Timber
The body, stem, or trunk of a tree.
Timber
Fig.: Material for any structure.
Such dispositions are the very errors of human nature; and yet they are the fittest timber to make politics of.
Timber
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.
So they prepared timber . . . to build the house.
Many of the timbers were decayed.
Timber
Woods or forest; wooden land.
Timber
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.
Timber
To surmount as a timber does.
Timber
To furnish with timber; - chiefly used in the past participle.
His bark is stoutly timbered.
Timber
To light on a tree.
Timber
To make a nest.
Timber
The wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material
Timber
A beam made of wood
Timber
A post made of wood
Timber
Land that is covered with trees and shrubs
Timber
(music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound);
The timbre of her soprano was rich and lovely
The muffled tones of the broken bell summoned them to meet
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