English > timber: 5 senses > noun 4, object| Meaning | Land that is covered with trees and shrubs. |
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| Synonyms | forest, woodland, timberland |
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| Instances | Black Forest, Schwarzwald | A hilly forest / forest region in southwestern Germany |
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| Sherwood Forest | An ancient forest / forest in central England |
| Wilderness | A wooded region in northeastern Virginia near Spotsylvania where bloody but inconclusive battles were fought in the American Civil War |
| Narrower | greenwood | woodlands in full leaf |
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| riparian forest | woodlands along the banks of stream or river |
| silva, sylva | The forest / forest trees growing in a country or region |
| tree farm | A forest / forest (or part of a forest / forest) where trees are grown for commercial use |
| Broader | biome | A major biotic community characterized by the dominant forms of plant life and the prevailing climate |
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| land, dry land, earth, ground, solid ground, terra firma | The solid part of the earth's surface |
| Spanish | arbolado, arboleda, boscaje, bosque, floresta, foresta, selva, timberland |
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| Catalan | arboreda, arbreda, bosc, selva, timberland |
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English > timber: 5 senses > noun 5, attribute| Meaning | (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound). |
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| Synonyms | timbre, quality, tone |
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| Category | music | An artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner |
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| Narrower | color, colour, coloration, colouration | The timbre of a musical sound |
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| harmonic | Any of a series of musical tones whose frequencies are integral multiples of the frequency of a fundamental |
| nasality | A quality of the voice that is produced by nasal resonators |
| plangency, resonance, reverberance, ringing, sonorousness, sonority, vibrancy | Having the character of a loud deep sound |
| register | (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 | 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 | Having the timbre of a loud high-pitched sound |
| Broader | sound property | An attribute of sound |
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| Spanish | cualidad, timbre |
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| Catalan | qualitat, timbre |
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