(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.
Tone
Definition:
(n.) Sound, or the character of a sound, or a sound considered as of this or that character; as, a low, high, loud, grave, acute, sweet, or harsh tone.
(n.) Accent, or inflection or modulation of the voice, as adapted to express emotion or passion.
(n.) A whining style of speaking; a kind of mournful or artificial strain of voice; an affected speaking with a measured rhythm ahd a regular rise and fall of the voice; as, children often read with a tone.
(n.) A sound considered as to pitch; as, the seven tones of the octave; she has good high tones.
(n.) The larger kind of interval between contiguous sounds in the diatonic scale, the smaller being called a semitone as, a whole tone too flat; raise it a tone.
(n.) The peculiar quality of sound in any voice or instrument; as, a rich tone, a reedy tone.
(n.) A mode or tune or plain chant; as, the Gregorian tones.
(n.) That state of a body, or of any of its organs or parts, in which the animal functions are healthy and performed with due vigor.
(n.) Tonicity; as, arterial tone.
(n.) State of mind; temper; mood.
(n.) Tenor; character; spirit; drift; as, the tone of his remarks was commendatory.
(n.) General or prevailing character or style, as of morals, manners, or sentiment, in reference to a scale of high and low; as, a low tone of morals; a tone of elevated sentiment; a courtly tone of manners.
(n.) The general effect of a picture produced by the combination of light and shade, together with color in the case of a painting; -- commonly used in a favorable sense; as, this picture has tone.
(v. t.) To utter with an affected tone.
(v. t.) To give tone, or a particular tone, to; to tune. See Tune, v. t.
(v. t.) To bring, as a print, to a certain required shade of color, as by chemical treatment.
Example Sentences:
(1) The vascular endothelium is capable of regulating tissue perfusion by the release of endothelium-derived relaxing factor to modulate vasomotor tone of the resistance vasculature.
(2) In summary, GABAergic tone did not effect basal acid secretion in anesthetized rats.
(3) After midazolam infusion, there was a 50% decrease in amplitude of P3 in response to target tones (P less than 0.006), whereas N3 latency increased by 40 ms (P less than 0.05).
(4) All of this in the same tones of weary nonchalance you might use to stop the dog nosing around in the bin.
(5) More disturbing than his ideas was Malema's style and tone.
(6) Noradrenaline decreased the phasic contraction amplitude of the circular muscle and exerted a stimulant effect on the tone which suggested an existence of two alpha 1-adrenoceptor subtypes.
(7) Histamine (10(-6)-10(-4) M) induced concentration-dependent increases in tone and Ca2+i, but these responses were not sustained.
(8) Masking experiments are demonstrated for electrical frequency-modulated tone bursts from 1,000 to 10,000 cps and from 10,000 to 1,000 cps with superimposed clicks.
(9) The stimuli were two simple tones in experiment 1 and two tonal complexes in both experiments 2 and 3.
(10) Isolated outer hair cells from the organ of Corti of the guinea pig have been shown to change length in response to a mechanical stimulus in the form of a tone burst at a fixed frequency of 200 Hz (Canlon et al., 1988).
(11) Complex tones containing the first 20 harmonics of 50, 100, or 200 Hz, all at equal amplitude, were used.
(12) An attempt to eliminate the age effect by adjusting for age differences in monaural shadowing errors, fluid intelligence, and pure-tone hearing loss did not succeed.
(13) Inhibition of the production or action of these substances will allow for vasodilatation, and it is probable that perinatal pulmonary vascular tone reflects a balance between local prostaglandin and leukotriene production.
(14) Subject evaluations in accordance with the intensity levels of tones, i.e.
(15) Maximum expiratory flow on partial flow-volume curve at 25% forced vital capacity (PEF25) was measured as an index showing basal bronchomotor tone.
(16) Twenty-four hours later, a stimulus generalization test was conducted in the absence of drug; during this session, tones that varied in frequency around 4.5 KHz were presented while the animals were responding under the VI schedule.
(17) Auditory sensory perception was operationalized as number of tones heard on audiometric examination.
(18) Later, Lucas, also a former party leader, strongly defended Bennett, saying it was a “bad day for Natalie” but there was also “kind of a gloating tone that strikes one as having something to do with her being a woman in there too”.
(19) From a set of tones that varied only in intensity, it was possible to calculate the growth of loudness with intensity for the budgerigar.
(20) Two hundred forty-six fetuses had at least one abnormal biophysical profile variable with the risk of bad outcome, for a single abnormal variable, ranging from 8% (body movements) to 100% (tone) and increasing from 14% (any variable abnormal) to 63% (all variables abnormal).