timber

Nghĩa (Tiếng Anh)

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.

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tim‧ber

Phát âm là (IPA)

/ˈtɪmbə/

Từ nguyên (Tiếng Anh)

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).