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A solid wood floor is a floor laid with planks or battens created from a single piece of timber, usually a hardwood. Since wood is hydroscopic (it acquires and loses moisture from the ambient conditions around it) this potential instability effectively limits the length and width of the boards.
Wooden language is language that uses vague, ambiguous, abstract or pompous words in order to divert attention from the salient issues. [1] The French scholar Françoise Thom identified four characteristics of wooden language: abstraction and the avoidance of the concrete, tautologies, bad metaphors, and Manichaeism that divides the world into good and evil. [2]
This is a list of Latin words with derivatives in English language. Ancient orthography did not distinguish between i and j or between u and v. [1] Many modern works distinguish u from v but not i from j. In this article, both distinctions are shown as they are helpful when tracing the origin of English words. See also Latin phonology and ...
The tendency for wood that is being cut to direct the saw parallel to its grain. lath. Also called a slat. A thin, narrow strip of straight-grained wood, typically arranged side-by-side with others and used to support roof shingles or tiles, as a backing material for plaster or stucco in walls and ceilings, or in lattice and trellis frameworks ...
The Oxford English Dictionary Supplement of 1972 has two definitions for bodger, one is a local dialect word from Buckinghamshire, for chair leg turner. The other is Australian slang for bad workmanship. [ 1 ]
Wood, who plays Gretchen Wieners in the 2024 movie musical adaptation of "Mean Girls," says Fey was her "first scene partner," dating all the back to when she was 10 years old and appeared in a ...
Wood (festival), an annual folk and roots music festival, and environmental gathering; Wood (golf), a type of club used in golf; Wood (Wu Xing), one of the five Chinese elements; Woodland or wood, or woods, a small forest; Wood, the trading name of John Wood Group, a multinational energy services company
Use of the term, an inversion of woodpecker, dates to the early 19th century. The Oxford English Dictionary traces the earliest printed use to an Alabama newspaper in 1835. [2] Peckerwood was in use in reference to white people by 1859; it often suggested a white person who was rustic or poor.