What's the difference between mahogany and wood?

Mahogany


Definition:

  • (n.) A large tree of the genus Swietenia (S. Mahogoni), found in tropical America.
  • (n.) The wood of the Swietenia Mahogoni. It is of a reddish brown color, beautifully veined, very hard, and susceptible of a fine polish. It is used in the manufacture of furniture.
  • (n.) A table made of mahogany wood.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In the first of two experiments, four wether lambs (BW = 26.8 kg) and four wether Angora goats (BW = 31.7 kg) were used in two simultaneous 4 x 4 Latin squares to study the influence of condensed tannins (CT) on nutrient usage and concentrations of serum urea N, somatotropin (GH), and insulin (INS) when the animals were fed low-quality diets containing mountain mahogany (MM; Cercocarpus montanus) leaves.
  • (2) This excellent 19th-century boozer has private mahogany snugs, with etched-glass partitions, so you can hide from the shoppers and enjoy a quiet pint (or cheeky gin, a house speciality).
  • (3) The first object confronting the modern visitor is a towering mahogany and brass collection box with a brutally frank inscription: “Pray remember the poor lunatics.” It dates from the days of the harsh Georgian regime depicted in William Hogarth’s Rake’s Progress, when beating in the original Bedlam was regarded as a therapeutic shock for the mentally ill. Curator Victoria Northwood said she felt it was important to tackle the hospital’s history head on.
  • (4) The "hinging" property of the Haberdasher's Puzzle, which Dudeney had made out of mahogany and bronze, has fascinated and delighted mathematicians for more than a century.
  • (5) Other items on sale include Gulfstream jets, space-age pianos, and mahogany-panelled yachts, which might appeal to Peter Mandelson.
  • (6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photos on a wall at Casa-Museo Gabriel Miró A mahogany staircase leads to the first floor, where black-and-white portraits of the writer, taken by writer and photographer Juan Guerrero Ruiz, hang on the wall.
  • (7) In the first experiment, lambs were fed wheat (W) and mountain mahogany (MM) (Cercocarpus montanus) from 50 to 110 d of age.
  • (8) An 8-year-old boy developed a sudden mahogany discoloration of his skin after exposure to defensive secretions of a millipede.
  • (9) The logs, usually mahogany-like species such as jatobá, ipé, garapa and maçaranduba, came from state-owned parts of the rainforest, where no logging permits have been issued.
  • (10) The quality of the wood we get is often extraordinary, including hard woods such as mahogany in large pieces that burn slowly.
  • (11) Also claimed £119 for a Corby trouser press, finished in mahogany, from John Lewis.
  • (12) A patient is described in whom orange-brown discoloration occurred following occupational exposure to mahogany wood.
  • (13) The woods were: white mangrove (Avicennia nitida), red mangrove (Rhizophora racemosa), mahogany Khaya sp.
  • (14) With one hand propped on her hip like a starlet posing on a red carpet, Miller purringly extols the plane’s luxuries: seat belts plated in 24-carat gold, head rests on which the Trump family’s spurious crest is embroidered, silk-clad walls for the boss’s bedroom, Ultrasuede ceiling panels, mahogany cabinets, a shower cubicle.
  • (15) He manoeuvres the other with surprising ease: he's a small but compact man, around 5ft 7in, sinewy, with a light mahogany tan; and although there is some grey amid the glossy black curls, it's very easy to forget that he is 70.
  • (16) "If we want it to sound like a Gibson we use mahogany and if we want a [Fender] Strat or Telecaster sound we use maple."
  • (17) So if you don't want to look like you're doing a homage to 80s Madonna, or like you have mahogany boobs, give up the dream of the white blouse, the beige blouse and pretty much any blouse, and embrace instead the navy blouse.
  • (18) After exposure to W and MM, lambs preferred (P less than .05) W when offered with barley (B) but did not prefer (P greater than .05) MM when offered with serviceberry (SB) (Amelanchier alnifolia), probably because lambs were reluctant to eat mountain mahogany during exposure.
  • (19) More likely, a sense that the worst of the government's austerity measures and the eurozone crisis are behind us has made bank managers relax a little when requests for credit cross their mahogany desks.
  • (20) Of the four rooms, the Terrace Room is probably the prettiest, with a mahogany double bed and a large balcony overlooking the garden.

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.