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# wood

«wood» in Mova's school dictionary: **the hard material that trees are made of, used for…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (wood, woods)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Wood is the hard material that trees are made of, used for building, furniture and fires. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wood/#m1)

2) A wood, or the woods, is a small forest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wood/#m2)

3) A piece of wood is a plank, stick or log. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wood/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In school maths: a material measured or cut (pieces of wood, logs, planks); material per item is a rate; a walk through the woods. In science: wood comes from trees, floats on water, is a natural material that burns and is a poor conductor of heat. In stories: a cottage in the woods, getting lost in the woods. Phrases: «made of wood», «a piece of wood», «in the woods», «touch wood», «not out of the woods yet» (not safe yet).

### examples

- He has a piece of wood 2 meters long. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wood/#x1)
- She cut the wood into 4 equal parts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wood/#x2)
- Each birdhouse needs 3 pieces of wood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wood/#x3)
- They walked 2 km through the woods. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wood/#x4)
- The table is made of wood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wood/#x5)
- Wood floats, but a stone sinks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wood/#x6)
- Little Red Riding Hood walked through the woods. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wood/#x7)
- We gathered dry wood for the campfire. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wood/#x8)
- They came to a great wood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wood/#x9)

### note

Material «wood» is uncountable («some wood», «a piece of wood»); a forest «a wood», «the woods» is countable. «Wooden» is the adjective: «a wooden spoon». Do not confuse with «would». Maths: material per item is a rate; cutting into equal parts divides. Safety: build a campfire only with a grown-up.

### In the corpora

- [Film sets are built to look real only from where the camera points; behind, they are often bare wood.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/22-how-films-are-made-script-crew-sets-editing/12/)
- [Woodpeckers hammer wood up to about 20 times a second to find grubs, dig nests and drum to claim a territory.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/35-birds-of-every-kind/14/)
- [The North American wood frog can freeze solid in winter, with its heart stopped, and thaw and hop away in spring.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/55-sleep-and-hibernation/12/)
- [African pygmy kingfishers are tiny kingfishers that mostly hunt insects in woods, not fish in rivers.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/160-the-congo-river/17/)
- [Most of a tree's weight comes from carbon dioxide in the air turned into wood, not from the soil.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/251-plants-deeper-leaves-and-sunlight-how-a-tree-is-made-of-air/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «wood» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wood/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.