Wood vs. Lumber: Know the Difference

The secondary xylem of trees and shrubs, lying beneath the bark and consisting largely of cellulose and lignin.

Timber sawed into boards, planks, or other structural members of standard or specified length.

This tissue when cut and dried, used especially for building material and fuel.

Something useless or cumbersome.

A growth of trees and other plants usually covering a smaller area than a forest.

Chiefly British Miscellaneous stored articles.

A forest.

To cut down (trees) and prepare as marketable timber.

(Music) A woodwind.

To cut down the timber of.

(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.

Chiefly British To clutter with or as if with unused articles.

To fuel with wood.

To cut and prepare timber for marketing.

To cover with trees; forest.

To walk or move clumsily or heavily.

To gather or be supplied with wood.

To move with a rumbling noise.

Made or consisting of wood; wooden.

(North America) Wood sawn into planks or otherwise prepared for sale or use, especially as a building material.

Used or suitable for cutting, storing, or working with wood.

Old furniture or other items that take up room, or are stored away.

Woods Living, growing, or present in forests

(figurative) Useless or cumbrous material.

Mentally deranged.

(obsolete) A pawnbroker's shop, or room for storing articles put in pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn.

(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.

A baseball bat.

(countable) The wood of a particular species of tree.

An erect penis.

A forested or wooded area.

(intransitive) To move clumsily and heavily; to move slowly.

Firewood.

To load down with things, to fill, to encumber, to impose an unwanted burden on.

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

To heap together in disorder.

(music) A woodwind instrument.

To fill or encumber with lumber.

An erection of the penis.

A pawnbroker's shop, or room for storing articles put in pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn.

Chess pieces.

Old or refuse household stuff; things cumbrous, or bulky and useless, or of small value.

A peckerwood.

Timber sawed or split into the form of beams, joists, boards, planks, staves, hoops, etc.; esp., that which is smaller than heavy timber.

(transitive) To cover or plant with trees.

To heap together in disorder.

To hide behind trees.

To fill or encumber with lumber; as, to lumber up a room.

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

To move heavily, as if burdened.

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

To make a sound as if moving heavily or clumsily; to rumble.

(obsolete) Mad, insane, crazed.

To cut logs in the forest, or prepare timber for market.

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

The wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material

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

An implement used in baseball by the batter

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

Move heavily or clumsily;

To take or get a supply of wood.

Cut lumber, as in woods and forests

A large and thick collection of trees; a forest or grove; - frequently used in the plural.

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.

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.

Trees cut or sawed for the fire or other uses.

The hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees

The trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area

United States film actress (1938-1981)

English conductor (1869-1944)

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

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

Any wind instrument other than the brass instruments

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