Noun timber has 5 senses
  1. lumber, timber - the wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material
    --1 is a kind of building material
    --1 has substances: wood
    --1 has particulars: stock; strip; board, plank; planking
  2. timber - a beam made of wood
    --2 is a kind of
    beam
    --2 has particulars: coulisse; sternpost; stringer; two-by-four
  3. timber - a post made of wood
    --3 is a kind of
    post
  4. forest, woodland, timberland, timber - land that is covered with trees and shrubs
    --4 is a kind of land, dry land, earth, ground, solid ground, terra firma; biome
    --4 has particulars:
     Black Forest, Schwarzwald; greenwood; jungle; rain forest, rainforest; riparian forest; Sherwood Forest; silva, sylva; tree farm
  5. timbre, timber, quality, tone - (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound); "the timbre of her soprano was rich and lovely"; "the muffled tones of the broken bell summoned them to meet"
    --5 is a kind of sound property
    --5 has particulars:
     resonance; color, colour, coloration, colouration; harshness, roughness; fullness, mellowness, richness; nasality; plangency, resonance, reverberance, ringing, sonorousness, sonority, vibrancy; shrillness, stridence, stridency; register
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