Wooden vs. Wood
Wooden and Wood Definitions
Wooden
Made or consisting of wood.
Wood
The secondary xylem of trees and shrubs, lying beneath the bark and consisting largely of cellulose and lignin.
Wooden
Stiff and unnatural; without spirit
A wooden performance.
A wooden smile.
Wood
This tissue when cut and dried, used especially for building material and fuel.
Wooden
Clumsy and awkward; ungainly.
Wood
A growth of trees and other plants usually covering a smaller area than a forest.
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Wooden
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.
In such a case, you can make a very good case for wooden cases.
Wood
A forest.
Wooden
(figuratively) As if made of wood; moving awkwardly, or speaking with dull lack of emotion.
Wooden acting
Wood
(Music) A woodwind.
Wooden
Made or consisting of wood; pertaining to, or resembling, wood; as, a wooden box; a wooden leg; a wooden wedding.
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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Wooden
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.
Wood
To fuel with wood.
Wooden
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
Wood
To cover with trees; forest.
Wooden
Lacking ease or grace;
The actor's performance was wooden
A wooden smile
Wood
To gather or be supplied with wood.
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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.
Wood
Chess pieces.
Wood
A peckerwood.
Wood
(transitive) To cover or plant with trees.
Wood
To hide behind trees.
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
