What's the difference between dudgeon and wood?

Dudgeon


Definition:

  • (n.) The root of the box tree, of which hafts for daggers were made.
  • (n.) The haft of a dagger.
  • (n.) A dudgeon-hafted dagger; a dagger.
  • (n.) Resentment; ill will; anger; displeasure.
  • (a.) Homely; rude; coarse.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) And when they do that in high dudgeon, they invite iconoclasm – something fashion has proved adept at for just as long.
  • (2) Dudgeon, who appeared alongside Caroline Quentin in the BBC comedy Life of Riley, will play a cousin of Nettles' character Tom Barnaby, John Barnaby, who also works in the police force.
  • (3) The cast will also include Art Malik , John Lynch , Jack Shepherd and Neil Dudgeon .
  • (4) Dudgeon will make his first appearance in tomorrow night's episode of Midsomer Murders and then take over when the 14th series of the long-running drama begins shooting at the end of July.
  • (5) Out Corry Evans (Hull, loan), Federico Macheda (Sampdoria, loan), James Chester (Hull, £300,000), Ritchie De Laet (Portsmouth, loan), Ben Amos (Oldham, loan), Joe Dudgeon (Carlisle, loan), Danny Drinkwater (Watford, loan).
  • (6) Life of Riley actor Neil Dudgeon is to replace John Nettles in ITV1 hit drama Midsomer Murders, MediaGuardian.co.uk can reveal.
  • (7) Dudgeon revealed that, in fact, the author was issued with two traffic tickets, one for driving under the influence and one for driving without a licence, and received a misdemeanour criminal summons for having an open bottle of beer in his vehicle.
  • (8) The test case for European law was Jeff Dudgeon v the United Kingdom in 1981, when the activist brought a case against the British government for the fact that criminalisation was still in force in Northern Ireland.
  • (9) This is about cheating, still the killer word in sport, despite one revelation after another over decades de-sensitising our dudgeon.
  • (10) It makes sense to utilise our project-management skills from oil and gas to offshore wind which is why we are operating Sheringham Shoals and Dudgeon Sands off the UK.
  • (11) This is the Coalition that routinely attacked then-treasury secretary Ken Henry as a partisan figure, but then feigns high dudgeon at the Martyrdom of St Angus.
  • (12) He will be replaced in the leading role by Neil Dudgeon playing John Barnaby, the cousin of Nettles' original inspector Tom Barnaby.
  • (13) Dudgeon's other credits include BBC1's Survivors and forensic drama Silent Witness.
  • (14) It told how the site's reporters had contacted the police department in Licking County, Ohio, and questioned Sergeant Dave Dudgeon about Frey's arrest in October 1992.
  • (15) Gay sex was still criminalised until Jeff Dudgeon won a landmark case in 1981 at the European court of human rights in Strasbourg, overturning that law and forcing the direct-rule British government to legalise homosexual relations in Northern Ireland.

Wood


Definition:

  • (a.) Mad; insane; possessed; rabid; furious; frantic.
  • (v. i.) To grow mad; to act like a madman; to mad.
  • (n.) A large and thick collection of trees; a forest or grove; -- frequently used in the plural.
  • (n.) The substance of trees and the like; the hard fibrous substance which composes the body of a tree and its branches, and which is covered by the bark; timber.
  • (n.) The fibrous material which makes up the greater part of the stems and branches of trees and shrubby plants, and is found to a less extent in herbaceous stems. It consists of elongated tubular or needle-shaped cells of various kinds, usually interwoven with the shinning bands called silver grain.
  • (n.) Trees cut or sawed for the fire or other uses.
  • (v. t.) To supply with wood, or get supplies of wood for; as, to wood a steamboat or a locomotive.
  • (v. i.) To take or get a supply of wood.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A modification of the manual glucose oxidase-gum guaiacum method of Shipton, B., Wood, P.J.
  • (2) Undaunted by the sickening swell of the ocean and wrapped up against the chilly wind, Straneo, of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, one of the world's leading oceanographic research centres, continues to take measurements from the waters as the long Arctic dusk falls.
  • (3) Wood tells clients: Carney said an interest rate hike: “could happen sooner than markets currently expect”.
  • (4) Also, isotypes to HCHO-HSA resulted from the exposure and no other sources, such as smoking, mobile home residency, and use of wood stoves.
  • (5) It reveals just how China's appetite for wood has grown in the past decades as a result of consumption by the new middle classes, as well as an export-driven wood industry facing growing demand from major foreign furniture and construction companies.
  • (6) Wood will play Brinnin, an American poet and literary scenester who was friends with Thomas as well as Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams.
  • (7) The streets of Jiegu are now littered with concrete remnants of modern structures and the flattened mud and painted wood of traditional Tibetan buildings.
  • (8) Her unclothed remains were found six months later by mushroom pickers at Yateley Heath Woods, near Fleet, Hampshire, 25 miles away.
  • (9) Bloody odd combination but those Orange Foam Headphones would blast those magnificent records into my developing brain over and over again" chernypyos – Björk's Human Behavior and Sinead O'Connor's Fire On Babylon: "bjork's 'human behavior' and sinead o'connor's "fire on babylon" oddly stick in my head from that one evening walking in the woods, breathing the damp air, and feeling pleasantly invisible" Pyromancer – REM – Automatic for the People Blood Sugar Sex Magic Pearl Jam - Vs RATM's first album Portishead Maxinquaye by Tricky Manic Street Preachers – Gold Against the Soul Smashing Pumpkins, Siamese Dream "I used to go to the local library and take out a CD (50p for 3 weeks!
  • (10) Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett on Leanne Wood Facebook Twitter Pinterest Leanne Wood.
  • (11) Even if you're being generous, Wood's vision of an alternative can feel like a utopian work in progress.
  • (12) Erythema gyratum repens is a cutaneous eruption with a unique morphology resembling a wood grain pattern.
  • (13) We discuss the tasks and present data on financial planning, on putting financial plans into operation, and on monitoring progress toward financial independence for a set of ten demonstration projects sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
  • (14) Campbell, Ann E. (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Mass.
  • (15) The paper has expanded its distribution to stations including St John's Wood and Putney.
  • (16) And what the hell do bears get up to in those woods?
  • (17) I am being prayed for in the woods of northern California!
  • (18) The contract envisaged freeing up staff time by moving to a ‘self-service’ model where, for example, residents send their own faxes and book their own visits.” The report also discloses that the kiosks are being used by detainees to order their food and can be used in the languages most commonly spoken at Yarl’s Wood.
  • (19) But we will need the nurseries as they are going to be very important in restocking woods" if varieties that are resistant to ash dieback become available.
  • (20) Grid reference: 54.5763, -2.8734 Photograph: www.wildswimming.com Lower Ddwli Falls, Waterfall Woods, Brecon Beacons In the south-west hills of the Brecon Beacons , near Ystradfellte, you'll find some of the most amazing waterfall plunge pools in Britain.

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