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wood

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Definitionen

Englisch > Deutsch
wood
1. Substantiv:
2. [1] Wald
3. [2] Holz
[1] The woods around their house were very dense.
Die Wälder um ihr Haus herum waren sehr dicht.
[2] "The season was cold and rainy, and in the evenings we crowded around a blazing wood fire, and occasionally amused ourselves with some German stories of ghosts, which happened to fall into our hands."
Englisch > Englisch
wood
1. subst. 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. subst. 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. subst. A forested or wooded area.
He got lost in the woods beyond Seattle.
4. subst. Firewood.
We need more wood for the fire.
5. subst. (golf) A type of golf club, the head of which was traditionally made of wood.
6. subst. (music) A woodwind instrument.
7. subst. (slang) An erection of the penis.
That girl at the strip club gave me wood.
8. subst. (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. subst. (US, sometimes offensive chiefly prison slang) A peckerwood.
Deutsch > Englisch
Holz
1. subst. wood (material)
2. subst. a particular kind of wood
3. subst. a piece of wood, usually small
4. subst. (literary) grove; woods; small forest

Aussprache

Beispielsätze

The wood was very dark, and she could not help trembling from fear.

Der Wald war sehr dunkel und sie konnte nicht umhin, aus Furcht zu zittern.
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.

Nach hundert Jahren befand sich der Sohn des nun regierenden Königs, der stammte aus einer anderen Familie als die schlafende Prinzessin, in jenem Teile des Landes auf der Jagd und fragte, was das für Türme seien, die er inmitten eines großen, dichten Wal
Is it made of wood or metal?

Ist es aus Holz oder aus Metall angefertigt?
Will you give me a piece of wood?

Würdest du mir ein Stück Holz geben?
The piano was made of beautiful, dark brown wood.

Das Klavier war aus schönem, dunkelbraunem Holz.