Synonyms for timber
ˈtɪm bərtim·ber

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1. timbernoun

   Used by loggers to warn others that a tree being felled is falling.

   Synonyms:
   timberland, forest

2. timbernoun

   Wood that has been pre-cut and is ready for use in construction.

   Synonyms:
   wood, lumber

3. timbernoun

   Synonyms:
   rafter, beam

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:1.0 / 3 votes

1. lumber, timbernoun

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

   Synonyms:
   woodland, tone, quality, timbre, timberland, lumber, forest, baseball bat

2. timbernoun

   a beam made of wood

   Synonyms:
   woodland, lumber, tone, quality, timbre, forest, timberland

3. timbernoun

   a post made of wood

   Synonyms:
   woodland, lumber, tone, quality, timbre, forest, timberland

4. forest, woodland, timberland, timbernoun

   land that is covered with trees and shrubs

   Synonyms:
   woodland, tone, quality, wood, timbre, timberland, woods, lumber, forest

5. timbre, timber, quality, tonenoun

   (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound)

   "the timbre of her soprano was rich and lovely"; "the muffled tones of the broken bell summoned them to meet"

   Synonyms:
   note, shade, smell, tone of voice, caliber, tonicity, lineament, quality, feel, feeling, flavor, look, tint, lumber, tonus, flavour, spirit, whole step, tincture, timberland, pure tone, step, forest, whole tone, character, tone, woodland, timbre, calibre, musical note

Matched Categories

1. • Beam
   • Biome
   • Building Material
   • Land
   • Music
   • Post
   • Sound Property

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. timbernoun

   Synonyms:
   wood (for building)

2. timbernoun

   Synonyms:
   beam, stick, squared timber

3. timbernoun

   Synonyms:
   rib (of a ship's frame)

4. timbernoun

   Synonyms:
   [western, U. S.] woods, forest

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1. List of paraphrases for "timber":

   wood, lumber, wooden, madeira, timmer, bois, woods, drink, madera, hout, forest, firewood, forestry, woody, stumpage

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1. Martin Cheek:

   We very much appreciated the support Leo gave us in campaigning to protect Ebo last year so it seemed fitting to honour him in this way, naming a species unique only to Ebo Forest, after him, had the logging concession gone ahead, we would have likely lost this species to timber extraction and slash and burn agriculture that usually follows logging concessions.

2. Bob Katter:

   Mr Katter hit out at both the Liberal National and Labor parties. You destroyed the timber industry, the tobacco industry, the fishing industry, the dairy industry and half the sugar mills,he said. We can't farm here because of the Great Barrier Reef. Out west we can't shoot pigs because guns are bad. You can't remove trees, can't use the water out west, can't use the land or improve it. We're not standing still. We're not going forward, so we must be going backwards.

3. Ernest Schilliger:

   Transportation costs sometimes outweigh the value of the timber.

4. Jennifer Frame:

   The cladding was n’t the issue at all, it was the fact that it was a timber frame building, with a cavity between that and the cladding.

5. Don Shomette:

   Within a year we had a million men building ships, cutting the timber, mining the iron for them, building the machinery for them. At one point we became the greatest shipbuilding nation in the history of the world, we had to create from nothing a shipping industry that was going to build a thousand wooden ships in 18 months -- normally it would take a year and a half to build a wooden steam ship.