wood Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees
  2. noun the trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area
    woods; forest.
  3. noun United States film actress (1938-1981)
    Natalie Wood.
  4. noun English conductor (1869-1944)
    Sir Henry Wood; Sir Henry Joseph Wood.
  5. noun English writer of novels about murders and thefts and forgeries (1814-1887)
    Mrs. Henry Wood; Ellen Price Wood.
  6. noun United States painter noted for works based on life in the Midwest (1892-1942)
    Grant Wood.
  7. noun any wind instrument other than the brass instruments
    woodwind instrument; woodwind.
  8. noun a golf club with a long shaft used to hit long shots; originally made with a wooden head
    • metal woods are now standard

WordNet

Wood adjective
Etymology
OE. wod, AS. wd; akin to OHG. wuot, Icel. r, Goth. wds, D. woede madness, G. wuth, wut, also to AS. w song, Icel. r, L. vates a seer, a poet. Cf. Wednesday.
Definitions
  1. Mad; insane; possessed; rabid; furious; frantic. Obs. Written also wode.
    Our hoste gan to swear as [if] he were wood. Chaucer.
Wood intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. To grow mad; to act like a madman; to mad. Chaucer.
Wood noun
Etymology
OE. wode, wude, AS. wudu, wiodu; akin to OHG. witu, Icel. vir, Dan. & Sw. ved wood, and probably to Ir. & Gael. fiodh, W. gwydd trees, shrubs.
Definitions
  1. A large and thick collection of trees; a forest or grove; -- frequently used in the plural.
    Light thickens, and the crow Makes wing to the rooky wood. Shak.
  2. 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. "To worship their own work in wood and stone for gods." Milton.
  3. (Bot.) 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 consists chiefly of the carbohydrates cellulose and lignin, which are isomeric with starch.
  4. Trees cut or sawed for the fire or other uses.
Wood transitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Wooded; present participle & verbal noun Wooding
Definitions
  1. To supply with wood, or get supplies of wood for; as, to wood a steamboat or a locomotive.
Wood intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. To take or get a supply of wood.

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