timber

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. Trees in a forest regarded as a source of wood.
2. Wood that has been pre-cut and is ready for use in construction.
3. A heavy wooden beam, generally a whole log that has been squared off and used to provide heavy support for something such as a roof.
4. Material for any structure.
5. (informal) The wooden stock of a rifle or shotgun.
6. A certain quantity of fur skins (as of martens, ermines, sables, etc.) packed between boards; in some cases forty skins, in others one hundred and twenty. Also timmer, timbre.

Intj

1. Used by loggers to warn others that a tree being felled is falling.
2. By extension, a cry used when anything is falling over.

Verb

1. To fit with timbers.
2. (obsolete) To construct, frame, build.
3. To light or land on a tree.
4. (obsolete) To make a nest.
5. To surmount as a timber does.

Concepts

bois

bois de charpente

poutre

madrier

ton

bois de construction

bois d’oeuvre

arbre

arbres

bois industriel

bille de bois

grume

son de synthétiseur

timbre de voix

qualité

teinte

timbre

forêt

timberland

membrure

bois de menuiserie

attention

gare

lignine

Coupé comme

tim‧ber

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈtɪmbə/

Étymologie (Anglais)

From Middle English tymber, from Old English timber, from Proto-West Germanic *timr, from Proto-Germanic *timrą, from Proto-Indo-European *dem- (“build, house”) (see Proto-Indo-European *dṓm).
Cognates include Dutch timmer, Old High German zimbar (German Zimmer), Norwegian tømmer, Old Norse timbr, Gothic 𐍄𐌹𐌼𐍂𐌾𐌰𐌽 (timrjan, “to build”), Latin domus and Ancient Greek δόμος (dómos).