Wooden vs. Wood

Woodenadjective

Made of wood.

‘a wooden boat’; ‘On a recent windy day, hundreds of visitors climbed wooden stairs to take pictures in front of the glacier.’;

Woodnoun

(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.’;

Woodenadjective

(figuratively) As if made of wood; moving awkwardly, or speaking with dull lack of emotion.

‘wooden acting’;

Woodnoun

(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.’;

Woodenadjective

Made or consisting of wood; pertaining to, or resembling, wood; as, a wooden box; a wooden leg; a wooden wedding.

Woodnoun

(countable) A forested or wooded area.

‘He got lost in the woods beyond Seattle.’;

Woodenadjective

Clumsy; awkward; ungainly; stiff; spiritless.

‘When a bold man is out of countenance, he makes a very wooden figure on it.’; ‘His singing was, I confess, a little wooden.’;

Woodnoun

Firewood.

‘We need more wood for the fire.’;

Woodenadjective

made or consisting of (entirely or in part) or employing wood;

‘a wooden box’; ‘an ancient cart with wooden wheels’; ‘wood houses’; ‘a wood fire’;

Woodnoun

A type of golf club, the head of which was traditionally made of wood.

Woodenadjective

lacking ease or grace;

‘the actor's performance was wooden’; ‘a wooden smile’;

Woodnoun

(music) A woodwind instrument.

Woodenadjective

made of wood

‘a wooden toy’; ‘she closed the heavy wooden door’;

Woodnoun

An erection of the penis.

‘That girl at the strip club gave me wood.’;

Woodenadjective

like or characteristic of wood

‘a kind of dull wooden sound’;

Woodnoun

Chess pieces.

Woodenadjective

stiff and awkward in movement or manner

‘she is one of the most wooden actresses of all time’;

Woodnoun

A peckerwood.

Woodverb

(transitive) To cover or plant with trees.

Woodverb

To hide behind trees.

Woodverb

(transitive) To supply with wood, or get supplies of wood for.

‘to wood a steamboat or a locomotive’;

Woodverb

(intransitive) To take or get a supply of wood.

Woodadjective

(obsolete) Mad, insane, crazed.

Woodadjective

Mad; insane; possessed; rabid; furious; frantic.

‘Our hoste gan to swear as [if] he were wood.’;

Woodverb

To grow mad; to act like a madman; to mad.

Woodverb

To supply with wood, or get supplies of wood for; as, to wood a steamboat or a locomotive.

Woodverb

To take or get a supply of wood.

Woodnoun

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.’;

Woodnoun

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.

Woodnoun

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.

Woodnoun

Trees cut or sawed for the fire or other uses.

‘We cast the lots . . . for the wood offering.’;

Woodnoun

the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees

Woodnoun

the trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area

Woodnoun

United States film actress (1938-1981)

Woodnoun

English conductor (1869-1944)

Woodnoun

English writer of novels about murders and thefts and forgeries (1814-1887)

Woodnoun

United States painter noted for works based on life in the Midwest (1892-1942)

Woodnoun

any wind instrument other than the brass instruments

Woodnoun

a golf club with a long shaft used to hit long shots; originally made with a wooden head; metal woods are now available

Woodnoun

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’;

Woodnoun

wooden barrels used for storing alcoholic drinks

‘wines from the wood’;

Woodnoun

a golf club with a wooden or other head that is relatively broad from face to back (often with a numeral indicating the degree to which the face is angled to loft the ball)

‘he hit the ball with a three-wood’;

Woodnoun

a shot made with a wood

‘he's hitting a wood for his second shot’;

Woodnoun

another term for bowl (sense 1 of the noun)

Woodnoun

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’;

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.