Wood vs. Would — What's the Difference?
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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.
Would
Past of will, in various senses
The windows would not close
He said he would be away for a couple of days
She wouldn't leave
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
Would
(expressing the conditional mood) indicating the consequence of an imagined event or situation
He would lose his job if he were identified
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
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Would
Expressing a desire or inclination
I would love to work in America
Would you like some water?
Wood
The secondary xylem of trees and shrubs, lying beneath the bark and consisting largely of cellulose and lignin.
Would
Expressing a polite request
Would you pour the wine, please?
Wood
This tissue when cut and dried, used especially for building material and fuel.
Would
Expressing a conjecture, opinion, or hope
I would imagine that they're home by now
I guess some people would consider it brutal
I would have to agree
Wood
A growth of trees and other plants usually covering a smaller area than a forest.
Would
Used to make a comment about behaviour that is typical
They would say that, wouldn't they?
Wood
A forest.
Would
Expressing a wish or regret
Would that he had lived to finish it
Wood
(Music) A woodwind.
Would
Past tense of will; usually followed by a bare infinitive.
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.
Would
Used to form the "anterior future", or "future in the past", indicating a futurity relative to a past time.
On my first day at University, I met the woman who would become my wife.
Wood
To fuel with wood.
Would
Used to; was or were habitually accustomed to; indicating an action in the past that happened repeatedly or commonly.
When we were younger, we would cycle out to the beach most summer Sundays.
Wood
To cover with trees; forest.
Would
Was or were determined to; indicating someone's insistence upon doing something.
I asked her to stay in with me, but she would go out.
Wood
To gather or be supplied with wood.
Would
Could naturally have been expected to (given the tendencies of someone's character etc.).
He denied it, but then he would, wouldn't he?
Wood
Made or consisting of wood; wooden.
Would
(archaic) Wanted to.
Wood
Used or suitable for cutting, storing, or working with wood.
Would
(archaic) Used with ellipsis of the infinitive verb, or postponement to a relative clause, in various senses.
Wood
Woods Living, growing, or present in forests
Woods animals.
A woods path.
Would
(obsolete) Wished, desired (something).
Wood
Mentally deranged.
Would
A modal verb, the subjunctive of will; usually followed by a bare infinitive.
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.
Would
Used as the auxiliary of the simple conditional modality, indicating a state or action that is conditional on another.
If I won the lottery, I would give half the money to charity.
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.
Would
Without explicit condition, or with loose or vague implied condition, indicating a hypothetical or imagined state or action.
I would love to come and visit.
Look at that yummy cake! I would eat that all up!
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.
Would
Suggesting conditionality or potentiality in order to express a sense of politeness, tentativeness, indirectness, hesitancy, uncertainty, etc.
I would ask you all to sit down.
I would imagine that they have already left.
Wood
Firewood.
We need more wood for the fire.
Would
Used to express what the speaker would do in another person's situation, as a means of giving a suggestion or recommendation.
It's disgraceful the way that they've treated you. I would write and complain.
Wood
A type of golf club, the head of which was traditionally made of wood.
Would
Used to express the speaker's belief or assumption.
He's very security-conscious, so he would have remembered to lock the door.
They would be arriving in London round about now.
Wood
(music) A woodwind instrument.
Would
Used interrogatively to express a polite request; are (you) willing to …?
Would you pass the salt, please?
Wood
An erection of the penis.
That girl at the strip club gave me wood.
Would
Might wish (+ verb in past subjunctive); often used in the first person (with or without that) in the sense of "if only".
Wood
Chess pieces.
Would
Might desire; wish (something).
Wood
A peckerwood.
Would
Something that would happen, or would be the case, under different circumstances; a potentiality.
Wood
(transitive) To cover or plant with trees.
Would
Commonly used as an auxiliary verb, either in the past tense or in the conditional or optative present. See 2d & 3d Will.
Right as our Lord hath would.
Wood
To hide behind trees.
Would
See 2d Weld.
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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