(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!
(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.
Woodward
Definition:
(n.) An officer of the forest, whose duty it was to guard the woods.
Example Sentences:
(1) Washington takes the role made famous by Edward Woodward in the 1980s US TV series that inspired the modern remake.
(2) Most of the directors had lost faith in Moyes in February and Woodward's opinion was that he could have been sacked, justifiably, any time over the last two months.
(3) Woodward maintained that it would be simple to thrash out a "straightforward commercial settlement".
(4) All the bridge-building exercises in the world will not help Woodward if he fails in his most pressing task: to find the right replacement for Moyes and deliver the players the new incumbent requires.
(5) Manchester United's Ed Woodward faces unavoidable question: is it time to sack Van Gaal?
(6) The sentiment is shared by Ed Woodward, the executive vice-chairman, who had not envisaged quite how poorly United would fare.
(7) Woodward says: “I am sure we will return to the Bird’s Nest” while City have sold a £265m stake in the City Football Group to a Chinese consortium .
(8) Ed Woodward, United's chief executive, has been made aware that Cavani might be available and is also tempted to look again at Cesc Fábregas's position at Barcelona , despite the unsatisfactory way it turned out when they tried to sign him last summer.
(9) Woodward said: "I remain hopeful we can come through this; but a very steady hand is now required to maintain confidence in all the institutions.
(10) Woodward, who will outline the plan at the Royal Television Society Cambridge Convention tomorrow, said: "The media landscape has changed dramatically and it is vital that we innovate, enhance and expand our vision.
(11) If the stakes were high a year ago, when rookie vice-chairman Ed Woodward said Moyes was "cut from the same cloth as the Old Trafford greats who go before him", now they are that much higher still.
(12) This requires the common efforts of both sides.” Asked if that meant the special relationship was over, Lu said: “You can put my answers today together.” ‘I have already said what I can say’ Asked if he had been surprised by the Queen’s comments, he laughed and said: “I have already said what I can say.” Speaking ahead of Xi’s arrival, Woodward, a China specialist who has worked in the UK foreign office for more than two decades, predicted a bright future for ties between the two nations.
(13) Should Louis van Gaal request it, then Ed Woodward would certainly explore any possibility of landing the 25-year-old and United’s executive vice-chairman is aware of the particular political machinations at work at Real.
(14) "It's possible, but the chance of that is absolutely minuscule," says Dr Stephen Woodward of the University of Aberdeen, who has been studying forest pathology for 30 years.
(15) His dependence on Tory-defector Shaun Woodward was emphasised as the Northern Ireland secretary sat beside him at Wednesday's prime minister's questions.
(16) It often fell to Woodward to defend the model publicly, insisting transfer funds were available and that the tide of cash from an ever expanding roster of sponsors would comfortably service the debt and leave money to spare.
(17) On Saturday the Internazionale director Bedy Moratti suggested Mourinho had already agreed a deal to move to Manchester , with Ed Woodward, United’s executive vice-chairman, continuing to deliberate over Van Gaal’s future.
(18) He said: “While we recognise that the 2014-15 fiscal year financial results will reflect our absence from the Champions League, we signed the largest kit sponsorship deal in the history of sport in the first quarter and, with that concluded, we are excited to focus our efforts on the meaningful growth opportunities in sponsorship, digital media and retail and merchandising.” Woodward focused on social media and the club’s youth policy in the conference call arranged to discuss the results.
(19) Warnock, now the Cardiff City manager, said he shared Woodward’s belief many others might have been targeted given Bennell’s long-standing involvement with Crewe in the 1980s and ’90s and his close association in the past with Stoke City and Manchester City, as well as junior teams in Derbyshire, Staffordshire, Cheshire and Greater Manchester.
(20) In a newly published book Vinyl: The Analogue Record in the Digital Age , by Dominik Bartmanski and Ian Woodward, Berlin-based mastering engineer Andreas Lubich traces vinyl’s supposed warmth to “the flaws of the analogue in comparison with the digital … It’s about distortion, and in the best case, harmonic distortion.” Another explanation centres on the fact that analogue technology captures a greater range of sound than most comparatively crude digital equipment, a point made down the years by Neil Young – who once damned the music industry’s approach to recorded sound as follows: “We don’t really need to see the sky in all its detail – just paint that in blue … No one will know.” If there is any certainty on this subject, it probably lies somewhere in the middle of these two theories.