noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
tropical
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A wooden disc box from Supplier Action: not a greenhouse gas producer and not made from tropical hardwood .
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It already is against the law to use tropical hardwoods in city projects.
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Junkers has come up with an ecological alternative to worktops made from tropical hardwoods .
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Pledge five: forests I pledge not to buy any products made from tropical hardwoods .
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I he trade in tropical hardwoods has already peaked and stocks in some countries are rapidly running down.
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Before you buy furniture, make sure it isn't made from tropical hardwoods , unless from a sustainable source.
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Eighty percent of tropical hardwoods are made into furniture.
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He urged wealthy nations to plant tropical hardwoods in desert lands, thereby tripling the area under tropical timber within a century.
■ NOUN
floor
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I rang the bell and heard steps on a hardwood floor .
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Bamboo flooring is gaining popularity as an alternative to hardwood floors.
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The only character with more depth than a hardwood floor is Shorty, played by Fredro Starr of the rap group Onyx.
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They could see their reflections in the polished hardwood floors .
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Edna said, with a blinding smile, the echo of her clacking heels loud on the hardwood floor of our hallway.
forest
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One hundred years later the land is almost completely owned by a typical northern hardwood forest .
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I walked through hardwood forest of very thick sugar maples and yellow birches.
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She said she knew of five acres of hardwood forest on a lake way out in the country.
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So will the sugar maple seedlings, for a while, forming a yellow carpet in the hardwood forest .
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In the mixed hardwood forest , I come across a number of hairy and downy woodpeckers.
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Further up, they came on hardwood forest and the angle of the slope grew gentler.
■ VERB
make
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A wooden disc box from Supplier Action: not a greenhouse gas producer and not made from tropical hardwood .
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Before you buy furniture, make sure it isn't made from tropical hardwoods , unless from a sustainable source.
use
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To polish the edge, use a piece of hardwood with a few drops of oil on it.
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It already is against the law to use tropical hardwoods in city projects.
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If it is to be painted there is no advantage in using a hardwood and many of these are unsuitable for painting.
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If you used a hardwood sill, you could fix draught-strip to it instead of the door.
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The prime materials used are solid hardwoods and solid brass.
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I propose to use a fairly dark hardwood , or even stained oak depending on the cost. 2.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And the, you know, the hardwood floor gets a paint job.
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Bamboo flooring is gaining popularity as an alternative to hardwood floors.
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Branches of timber merchants, such as W H Newson, stock a range of hardwood mouldings for you to put up yourself.
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I rang the bell and heard steps on a hardwood floor.
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It's an immense price to pay for hardwood doors, windows, coffins and plywood.
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Made from solid cedar wood with hardwood sills, the Colonial is double glazed with a polycarbonate roof.
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The only character with more depth than a hardwood floor is Shorty, played by Fredro Starr of the rap group Onyx.
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You can see them on the hardwood ridges, but only if you sit down and wait patiently.