What's the difference between shipmate and timber?

Shipmate


Definition:

  • (n.) One who serves on board of the same ship with another; a fellow sailor.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As the boat pulls in, a few of the shipmates are looking a little the worse for wear but that doesn't stop them soldiering on to the next party.
  • (2) Rising star Jack O'Connell (Starred Up, United, This is England) plays Zamperini, Domhnall Gleeson and Garrett Hedlund are his shipmates in an adventure scripted by the Coen brothers.
  • (3) It does collect and drop from the roof in one or two places, but nothing in comparison with what is common in other ships, and if we lighted the stove it would disappear altogether.” His shipmates, he said, were “extraordinary fellows for standing the cold – with the thermometer at 22° below Bentzen goes up in his shirt and trousers to read the thermometer on deck”.
  • (4) He described how a shipmate routinely used a blue bank card to get past security into his base after losing his Royal Navy identity card on a night out.
  • (5) It was reminiscent of Spock at the end of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, where he asked to be judged alongside his shipmates for their desertion despite the fact that he was bodily dead at the time and only existed as a quasi-soul in McCoy's mind.
  • (6) Bryson, who was also based at Faslane for two years before he left the service in 2013, said a shipmate routinely used a blue bank card to get past security into base after losing his Royal Navy identity card on a night out.
  • (7) Yet, we must be sensitive to the needs of our shipmates.
  • (8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Force Awakens reunited shipmates Chewbacca (Peter Mayhew) and Han Solo (Harrison Ford).

Timber


Definition:

  • (n.) A certain quantity of fur skins, as of martens, ermines, sables, etc., packed between boards; being in some cases forty skins, in others one hundred and twenty; -- called also timmer.
  • (n.) The crest on a coat of arms.
  • (v. t.) To surmount as a timber does.
  • (n.) That sort of wood which is proper for buildings or for tools, utensils, furniture, carriages, fences, ships, and the like; -- usually said of felled trees, but sometimes of those standing. Cf. Lumber, 3.
  • (n.) The body, stem, or trunk of a tree.
  • (n.) Fig.: Material for any structure.
  • (n.) A single piece or squared stick of wood intended for building, or already framed; collectively, the larger pieces or sticks of wood, forming the framework of a house, ship, or other structure, in distinction from the covering or boarding.
  • (n.) Woods or forest; wooden land.
  • (n.) A rib, or a curving piece of wood, branching outward from the keel and bending upward in a vertical direction. One timber is composed of several pieces united.
  • (v. t.) To furnish with timber; -- chiefly used in the past participle.
  • (v. i.) To light on a tree.
  • (v. i.) To make a nest.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A grassed roof, solar panels to provide hot water, a small lake to catch rainwater which is then recycled, timber cladding for insulation ... even the pitch and floodlights are "deliberately positioned below the level of the surrounding terrain in order to reduce noise and light pollution for the neighbouring population".
  • (2) Navalny, represented by two defence lawyers, will argue that he did not lead a criminal group to embezzle 16m roubles (£333,000) from Kirovles, a state-run timber firm, while advising the region's liberal governor, Nikita Belykh.
  • (3) As the houses are lightweight and timber-framed, they don’t need foundations.
  • (4) RSL trying to get their own flowing passing game going now, but the Timbers looking tenacious in midfield to break it up.
  • (5) Kitchens will be installed, along with new carpets or timber floors.
  • (6) Sophie Jackson, of Museum of London Archaeology , said: "The waterlogged conditions left by the Walbrook stream have given us layer upon layer of Roman timber buildings, fences and yards, all beautifully preserved and containing amazing personal items, clothes and even documents – all of which will transform our understanding of the people of Roman London."
  • (7) An undulating lightweight roof is supported by 211 narrow steel columns, sheltering a glass box holding the cafe and shop, and a chestnut timber-covered box holding the displays.
  • (8) Along the way he also reached the final of the US Open Cup, and in the MLS Cup dispatched the holders LA Galaxy in the conference semi-finals, before beating Porter’s Timbers in both the home and road legs of the Western final (his team had beaten Portland in the US Open Cup semis too).
  • (9) While BoKlok houses have a limited choice of colour and cladding types, Persimmon's Space4 arm has come up with more than 1,000 different CAD-designed timber-frame house types.
  • (10) This station, with its quarter-mile, 300kph trains, a huge cocktail bar, a branch of Foyles stocked with 20,000 titles, a smart Searcy's restaurant and brasserie, independent coffee bars, floors covered in timber and stone rather than sticky British airport-style carpet, new gothic carvings, newly cast gothic door handles, and a nine-metre-high sculpture of lovers meeting under the station clock?
  • (11) Big names and timber were bracketed under Margaret Thatcher's government in the late 1980s, when private investment was encouraged to promote planting.
  • (12) Timber revenues funded Charles Taylor’s regime during Liberia’s brutal civil war.
  • (13) It's up to us to take advantage of it when soccer has inspired our country.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Seattle Sounders' Clint Dempsey leaps in the air after scoring against the Portland Timbers.
  • (14) Here's what happened the last time these two sides played here in mid-October: Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close 3.27am GMT Preamble Hello, and welcome to the Western Conference semi-final second leg between Portland Timbers and Seattle Sounders , in which Portland try to defend a slim lead and Seattle continue their annual quest to make a second leg playoff comeback actually count.
  • (15) Colbeck told the Australian the protected listing was a “sham” because it locked up areas of plantation timber, as well as pristine old-growth forest.
  • (16) These factors are often interlinked – trees are cut down for timber and the cleared land can be used for grazing cattle.
  • (17) He is the Princess Di of the political world …" Or of Margaret Thatcher 's trusty bulldog Bernard Ingham: "Brick-red of face, beetling of brow, seemingly built to withstand hurricanes, Sir Bernard resembled a half-timbered bomb shelter."
  • (18) At the present time, this timber constitutes the most frequently commercially exported African wood.
  • (19) It's mainly down to the pink phenolic foam insulation that is injected into the timber-house frame and combined with a thin membrane, while wood is a good natural insulator in itself.
  • (20) In the past, he explains, 'encroachers' failed to respect the park's boundaries, sneaking into the forest to gather firewood and fell trees for timber.

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