noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a coal/wood/log fire
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There was a coal fire in the sitting room.
dead wood
dense forest/wood/woodland/jungle
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Their helicopter could not land because of the dense jungle.
plank of wood
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a long plank of wood
solid wood/pine/oak etc
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a chest made of solid oak
wood pulp (= used for making paper )
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timber grown for wood pulp
wood pulp
wood smoke
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I love the scent of wood smoke.
wood/metal/print etc shop
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One auto shop class is run just for girls.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
dark
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Money in the drapes, and in the pottery that had a shelf to itself by the wide, dark wood staircase.
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The walls were paneled throughout in a dark wood .
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Stairs of dark wood curved up from the hall, and the old treads creaked under their combined weight.
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The dark wood shone like glass.
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Augmenting the club-like atmosphere are the carefully chosen dark wood paneling, beveled stained glass and forest-green carpets.
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The place was fitted out in dark , polished wood in the style of the twenties.
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Atmosphere: Dim lights and dark wood .
dead
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Cut out the dead wood so that the young new wood can grow and develop.
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Check for dead wood by scratching the bark with your fingernail.
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Basically we looked at dead wood !
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And the potential for catastrophic wildfires is very high because of so much dead wood on the forest floor.
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He was working in a thicket of briar, elder and dead wood from a fallen tree.
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In his frustration, Doug picked up a piece of dead wood and flung it as far as he could.
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There's definitely a case for decriminalising the removal of dead wood .
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These would originally have been topped with a fence of dead wood or a live hedge to keep the animals out.
hard
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Something resembling hard wood floors is just visible beneath a veil of potting soil and foam rubber confetti.
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He was lifted out of the water and dumped with a smack on hard wood .
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His muscles were hard as wood , locked in a pain of waiting, waiting for a touch to release them.
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She felt the hard wood press against her back and buttocks, as she was forced to stand against it.
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This left any harder wood in place.
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Its hard wood helps it resist cold winters, and its thick-skinned grapes are almost impervious to rain, disease and insects.
old
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It was just these bits of old wood nailed together.
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We are sinewy, old wood , old trunks with fading limbs and few leaves!
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From where he stood he could see the interior was crammed with old logs, wood planking, and some rusted machinery.
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Under my bed is an old wood box with my doll in it.
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She hoped not. Old wood settling in changing temperature?
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The Oxford was wearing its signature fragrance of floor wax, lemon oil, old wood , and worn leather.
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I boosted, increasing speed as the jagged line of dead seaweed and old wood and cans and bottles skittered by me.
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Problem: Thirdfloor rear walls in old rowhouses often are masonry supported only by an old wood beam at the level below.
polished
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Fake sunbeams played on tables of polished black wood .
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The place was fitted out in dark, polished wood in the style of the twenties.
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There was a large table in the centre of the room, made of dark polished wood .
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It is in walnut polished wood , bow fronted with bow legs.
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Small antique tables in polished dark woods beside each bed, stacked with belongings.
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There were polished dark wood floors and green blinds.
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The floor was of plain polished wood with islands of Bokhara carpets.
small
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They did this by developing game crops, game spinneys, small woods , and unsprayed or carefully sprayed headlands.
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He walks beside me through the small woods between our subdivision and the Nearing village green.
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You then need a small piece of wood to do the scribing.
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Road bends right then left, then passes small pine wood .
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He met his friends in the small wood outside the village.
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We were staying overnight at Blackburn bothy, which is set in a small wood with a stream wending through it.
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Below the green Victorian wallpaper decorating the small den were wood paneling and shelving loaded down with books and videotapes.
soft
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Brush liberally on to the exposed wood until the soft wood fibres are saturated.
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A rough hinged wire door had been fashioned in cheap soft wood , only eighteen inches square.
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During this operation the housing joints were filled in flush with soft wood blocks to make an uninterrupted inside curve.
solid
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A solid wood stem and mahogany floors and stiffeners complete the basic construction which has been particularly cleanly executed by West Custom.
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What grub had chewed galleries in solid maple wood ?
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All the tables and chairs are of solid dark wood to match the dark stained original wooden beams of the mill.
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Occasionally, some one would use butcher block, solid wood , copper, stainless steel, marble or some other exotic surface.
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Passing discreetly through the solid wood of the garage door he slid right into the skulking Omally.
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It's a straight-ahead good solid piece of wood , with a good pickup and four strings.
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Do you have room to store oil or solid fuel or wood ?
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The earliest glazing bars were quite thick, as they were hand cut from solid wood .
■ NOUN
pine
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Lights were already beginning to diamond out of the shadowed pine woods on the lower slopes.
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Maggie and Nevil walked hand-in-hand through a pine wood .
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Road bends right then left, then passes small pine wood .
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None of them allowed their eyes to turn towards the pine wood .
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Set amidst lush shrubs and pine woods , everywhere you turn you find unexpected vistas of the shimmering bay.
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One witness then saw the aircraft travelling over his garden and a nearby pine wood at 200 to 300 feet.
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The bedrooms are fairly spacious with balcony overlooking the sea or the pine woods which surround the building.
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How could it be otherwise, since this was Wyvis Hall and the pine wood and the animal cemetery?
■ VERB
cut
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The earliest glazing bars were quite thick, as they were hand cut from solid wood .
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Finally, Simpleton was allowed to go into the forest to cut wood .
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Since this left them without fuel, they began to cut wood from the ancient forests.
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Dale, his logger, had cut two truckloads of wood for me, and that was it for now.
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Tony and I cut wood while Odd-Knut erects a wood-burning stove in the tent.
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Two-story buildings every-where, and walkways made of perfectly cut slats of wood .
make
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At first boats were made of wood which was available in large quantities.
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About 65 percent of paper bags are made from wood , primarily wood waste such as sawdust and lumber scraps.
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In order to make use of the wood , the trust has revived some of the old woodland skills in an innovative way.
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Thoreau had made the Maine woods , along with Walden, a symbol of freedom from the cares of city life.
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Pre-soaking will help to make wood sink - or it can be leaded.
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The containers are made of peat and wood fiber laced with soluble fertilizer and peat pellets that expand when watered.
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Few readers will wish to make wood blades and even fewer to fit an ebony edge.
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Unlike traditional playgrounds that are made of metal and wood , these are made of foam-padded tubular steel and plastic.
run
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Suddenly, guns were fired again, and a group of pirates ran from the woods and on to the stockade.
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He turned one last time and ran into the woods .
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They had run for the woods in what they stood up in.
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She turned finally and ran through the woods to the stream.
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Continue forward on path running just inside the wood , leading to Lippetts Farm.
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I scrambled to my feet and ran panicked through the woods , calling out for them.
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They run wild into the woods , filthy, skeletal and naked.
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Be sure not to permit water to run on the wood and hence into the tank.
use
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The 1986 census in New Zealand reported that 10 % of houses used wood as a heating fuel.
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I used the wood from some old ammo crates.
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Environmental impacts have been minimised by using local woods and grasses to build the huts and the comfortable lounge and bar area.
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He was using scented woods: white cedar, resinous palm.
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Endill was using both wood and metal in his plane but he didn't dare tell either Mr Welt or Mr Walpit.
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It can be used on wood and metal, and needs no primer or undercoat.
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The possibility of using wood to generate electricity should also be explored.
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He says that last year he saw people using the woods as a toilet, and jumping over back gardens.
walk
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Here I alighted and began to walk into the wood in search of something.
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If Bambi walked out of the woods , he might not swerve to miss her.
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The shrieks continued at irregular intervals as the creature walked the woods .
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We walked through the woods to our cars, and I loved every step I took.
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It is a warm and gentle day as I walk towards the wood that beckons me, cool and friendly.
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I like to go walking in the woods just to breathe the air.
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Many happy hours were spent walking in the woods , chasing elusive rabbits and splashing through the muddiest water.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
babe in the woods
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Stop worrying about Lucia - she's no babe in the woods anymore.
gilt-framed/wood-framed etc
in this/sb's neck of the woods
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We don't get much snow in our neck of the woods.
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What are you doing in this neck of the woods?
knock on wood
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I haven't had a cold all winter, knock on wood.
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Always ready to knock on wood, throw salt over my shoulder, bite my tongue, cross my fingers.
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Hopefully, knock on wood, Lieby is going to be in there most of the time.
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KineHUHre is used as a verbal device similar to knocking on wood to ward off evil forces.
not see the wood for the trees
petrified wood/trees etc
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Books and posters, shirts and sweatshirts and pounds of petrified wood spilled from the storage areas.
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It may be more similar to the way that petrified wood is created.
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It moved aside the earth and found the petrified wood that was the heart in the forest.
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Their L-shaped living rooms were graced by open fireplaces, with the latest shapes in petrified wood adorning the mantelpieces.
wood-fired/gas-fired/coal-fired
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I'm going out to get some wood for the fire.
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The blocks are made of wood .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After 100yds go left through a wood to a road.
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But the agency is not out of the woods yet.
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Finally we heard a faint sound in the distance and scrambled into the woods.
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I thought about the woman who had left the child in the woods.
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Normal wood substance containing lignin does not do either of these things.
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The flames licked around the wood , around the corpse.
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To their left was the long forbidding wood with its tangle of trees and stubborn defenders.
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To walk in the woods and not recognize the songs is to not hear them.