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anglais > français
wood
1. n. Bois (matière).
2. n. (Dénombrable) Bois (d'une espèce donnée).
Teak is much used for outdoor benches, but a number of other woods are also suitable, such as ipé, redwood, etc.
3. n. (Sylv) Bois (2) (souvent utilisé au pluriel).
He got lost in the woods beyond Seattle.
4. n. Bois de chauffage.
5. n. (Dénombrable) (Golf) Bois.
6. n. (Musique) Instrument à vent.
7. n. (Argot) Érection.
8. adj. En bois.
9. adj. (Archaïque) Fou.
10. v. Boiser.
anglais > anglais
wood
1. n. 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.
2. n. 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.
3. n. A forested or wooded area.
He got lost in the woods beyond Seattle.
4. n. Firewood.
We need more wood for the fire.
5. n. (golf) A type of golf club, the head of which was traditionally made of wood.
6. n. (music) A woodwind instrument.
7. n. (slang) An erection of the penis.
That girl at the strip club gave me wood.
8. n. (chess, slang) Chess pieces.
9. v. To cover or plant with trees.
10. v. (reflexive, intransitive) To hide behind trees.
11. v. To supply with wood, or get supplies of wood for.
to wood a steamboat or a locomotive
12. v. (intransitive) To take or get a supply of wood.
13. adj. (obsolete) Mad, insane, crazed.
14. n. (US, sometimes offensive chiefly prison slang) A peckerwood.
français > anglais
bois
1. n-m. wood (substance making up the central part of the trunk and branches of a tree)
2. n-m. wood (wood of a particular species of tree)
3. n-m. wood, woodland (forested or wooded area)
4. n-m. antler (branching and bony structure on the head of deer, moose and elk, normally in pairs)
5. n-m. (music) woodwind instrument, woodwind
6. v. singular present indicative of boire

Exemples de phrases

He took the wood and sawed it using the saw.      Il prit le bois et le scia à l'aide de la scie. After a hundred years the son of the King then reigning, who was of another family from that of the sleeping Princess, was a-hunting on that side of the country, and he asked what those towers were which he saw in the middle of a great thick wood.      Au bout de cent ans, le fils du roi qui régnait alors, et qui était d’une autre famille que la princesse endormie, étant allé à la chasse de ce côté-là, demanda ce que c’était que des tours qu’il voyait au-dessus d’un grand bois fort épais. I made a desk of wood.      J'ai fabriqué un bureau en bois. It was carved from a piece of pine wood, cut and sanded into the shape of a heart.      C'était taillé dans un morceau de bois de pin, sculpté et poncé en forme de cœur. The wood was very dark, and she could not help trembling from fear.      Le bois était très sombre et elle ne pouvait s'empêcher de trembler de peur.

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