(n.) A tree of East Indies (Tectona grandis) which furnishes an extremely strong and durable timber highly valued for shipbuilding and other purposes; also, the timber of the tree.
Example Sentences:
(1) The teak-coloured wooden garages will be open for business from Monday for drive-in customers in a country where prostitution has been legal since 1942 on the outskirts of the Swiss city.
(2) A block north of the waterfront on Merchant Road, workmen up ladders are carefully painting corinthian capitals with yellow limewash and adjusting teak window frames, putting the finishing touches to a restoration project that offers a different model for saving heritage structures, while training local builders in the process.
(3) The decks are made from untreated teak, a legacy from the days of sail and as labour-intensive as floors come.
(4) Reports from Leeds this weekend said that Elland Road, sold by the financially stricken club's previous board in November 2004 to Manchester businessman Jacob Adler, had been sold for a second time in as many years to latest owners Teak Trading Corporation, based in the British Virgin Islands.
(5) On my visit, pieces included a Keralan teak canoe upended to form a bookcase, and a Rajput palace window frame with a mirror inserted.
(6) Leeds are currently paying high rent costs on the stadium, which is owned by Teak Trading Corporation of the British Virgin Islands, while Thorp Arch is owned by the Manchester businessman Jacob Adler.
(7) Okoye, 21-stone heavy and 6ft 6in tall, runs the 100m in under 11 seconds, and has a physique that could have been carved out of teak.
(8) At a certain point in the exhibition, oak appears – a cheaper resource “discovered” in Poland after teak became too expensive.
(9) We passed giant bamboo rafts; a local guide later told us that illegally logged teak was often hidden beneath them.
(10) Everything here stays true to the 1950s and 1960s look, including the cocktail glasses, the upstairs lounge with its teak furniture, the soft jazz in the background, and even Gustaf’s vintage outfit.
(11) After about 20 minutes, the Day Nurse had kicked in too much and I found I had written down these words, which I then discounted and wound back on to the kitchen roll: sinking mud, a lady in a wetsuit, puffin, asthma, teak.
(12) Desoxylapachol, sensitizer from teak wood, and lapachenole, sensitizer from perobawood proved to be the most effective ones.
(13) The influence of protein, isolated from teak (Tectona grandis) seed upon albino rats with respect to some of their serum, liver and intestinal enzymes and liver lipids has been studied.
(14) It is the world's biggest exporter of teak , a principal source of precious stones, has fertile soil and significant offshore oil and gas deposits but the majority of its people live in abject poverty .
(15) The millionaire who rescues migrants at sea - Podcast Read more Catrambone and Regina, along with Regina’s teenage daughter Maria Luisa, set off from their home on the Mediterranean island of Malta , aboard a glistening white 24-metre chartered motor yacht with Burmese teak decking and varnished Tanganyika walnut joinery.
(16) Open daily for lunch and dinner Restaurant Playtime On a small street next to the market, this stylish, retro bistro is decorated in 1950s Scandinavian style with Eames chairs and teak tables.
(17) Sun-loungers are set out on the teak transom, towels rolled in tight cylinders.
(18) Teak made the town wealthy in the 19th century, and there was a large European population at the time.
(19) Azzam, which cost a rumoured £400m, took 1.5 million working hours to build and its teak decks are big enough to cover half a football pitch.
(20) In the Alcatraz commissary, on two simple teak racks, Ai has provided pre-addressed postcards for the 5,000 tourists a day who traipse through the prison, inviting them to write to the crusaders languishing in jails like this one, or the one he found himself in just three years ago.