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Noun (5 meanings)

1. the wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material.

timber is a type of:

building material (noun) - material used for constructing buildings

types of timber:

board, plank (noun) - a stout length of sawn timber
planking (noun) - planks collectively
stock (noun) - lumber used in the construction of something
strip (noun) - thin piece of wood or metal

timber is made from:

wood (noun) - the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees

timber is derivationally related to:

to log, lumber (verb) - cut lumber, as in woods and forests

2. a beam made of wood.

timber is a type of:

beam (noun) - long thick piece of wood or metal or concrete, etc., used in construction

types of timber:

coulisse (noun) - a timber member grooved to take a sliding panel
sternpost (noun) - (nautical) the principal upright timber at the stern of a vessel
stringer (noun) - a long horizontal timber to connect uprights
two-by-four (noun) - a timber measuring (slightly under) 2 inches by 4 inches in cross section

3. a post made of wood.

timber is a type of:

post (noun) - an upright consisting of a piece of timber or metal fixed firmly in an upright position

4. land that is covered with trees and shrubs.

forest, woodland, timberland, timber

timber is a type of:

biome (noun) - a major biotic community characterized by the dominant forms of plant life and the prevailing climate
land, dry land, earth, ground, solid ground, terra firma (noun) - the solid part of the earth's surface

types of timber:

greenwood (noun) - woodlands in full leaf
riparian forest (noun) - woodlands along the banks of stream or river
silva, sylva (noun) - the forest trees growing in a country or region
tree farm (noun) - a forest (or part of a forest) where trees are grown for commercial use

instances of timber:

Black Forest, Schwarzwald (noun) - a hilly forest region in southwestern Germany
Sherwood Forest (noun) - an ancient forest in central England
Wilderness (noun) - a wooded region in northeastern Virginia near Spotsylvania where bloody but inconclusive battles were fought in the American Civil War

timber is derivationally related to:

to afforest, forest (verb) - establish a forest on previously unforested land

5. (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound).

timbre, timber, quality, tone

Examples:

“the timbre of her soprano was rich and lovely”,
“the muffled tones of the broken bell summoned them to meet”

timber is a type of:

sound property (noun) - an attribute of sound

types of timber:

color, colour, coloration, colouration (noun) - the timbre of a musical sound
harmonic (noun) - any of a series of musical tones whose frequencies are integral multiples of the frequency of a fundamental
nasality (noun) - a quality of the voice that is produced by nasal resonators
plangency, resonance, reverberance, ringing, sonorousness, sonority, vibrancy (noun) - having the character of a loud deep sound
register (noun) - (music) the timbre that is characteristic of a certain range and manner of production of the human voice or of different pipe organ stops or of different musical instruments

resonance (noun) - the quality imparted to voiced speech sounds by the action of the resonating chambers of the throat and mouth and nasal cavities
shrillness, stridence, stridency (noun) - having the timbre of a loud high-pitched sound

timber is derivationally related to:

tonal (adjective) - having tonality
to tone, inflect, modulate (verb) - vary the pitch of one's speech

Domain of synset - TOPIC:

music (noun) - an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner