Wood vs. Woods — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Wood and Woods
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Definitions
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.
Woods➦
Plural of wood
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
Woods➦
A dense collection of trees, usually one covering a relatively small area; usually smaller than a forest.
These woods are part of the Campbell property.
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
Woods➦
For chemical behavior purposes, trees in full leaf (coniferous or medium-dense deciduous forests).
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Wood➦
The secondary xylem of trees and shrubs, lying beneath the bark and consisting largely of cellulose and lignin.
Woods➦
The trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area
Wood➦
This tissue when cut and dried, used especially for building material and fuel.
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A growth of trees and other plants usually covering a smaller area than a forest.
Wood➦
A forest.
Wood➦
(Music) A woodwind.
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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.
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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.
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Chess pieces.
Wood➦
A peckerwood.
Wood➦
(transitive) To cover or plant with trees.
Wood➦
To hide behind trees.
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(transitive) To supply with wood, or get supplies of wood for.
To wood a steamboat or a locomotive
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(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.
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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.
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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)
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English conductor (1869-1944)
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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
