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hardwood
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Word definitions for hardwood in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
hardwood \hard"wood`\ adj. Made of the hard-to-cut wood of a broad-leaved tree, as e.g. oak; consisting of a hardwood; as, hardwood floors; -- of wood and wooden objects.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1560s, from hard + wood . From deciduous trees, distinguished from that of pines and firs.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Hardwood is wood from dicot angiosperm trees . The term may also be used for the trees from which the wood is derived; these are usually broad-leaved temperate and tropical forests . In temperate and boreal latitudes they are mostly deciduous , but in tropics ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE tropical ▪ A wooden disc box from Supplier Action: not a greenhouse gas producer and not made from tropical hardwood . ▪ It already is against the law to use tropical hardwoods in city projects. ▪ Junkers has come ...
Usage examples of hardwood.
She led Andi through a tasteful living room with dark hardwood floors, low tables with large, colorful porcelain vases decorated with dragons and gilded phoenixes.
Then there is a narrow belt of scrubby hardwood, moss-grown, and then large balsams, which crown the mountain.
Indiantown Gap was snow-dusted hills carpeted with the gray, leafless hardwood forest a pine-sniffing Coloradan seldom saw.
Chinamen and women of position and standing could sometimes be found, lounging on hardwood benches, smoking thick-rolled cigars and sipping Tennessee whisky or Kentuck bourbon.
It was an old Norski saying, and while few in Hardwood still spoke Norski, a few phrases circulated in collective usage.
Bob Aarsted prided himself on being a phlegmatic Norski, although the Aarsteds had been in Hardwood for at least four generations before him, and not one of them had been known to set foot back in the old country.
Footjoys and blue sweat socks, drawing the long tapered steel wand of his Lynx Predator driver from the bag, he feels tall again, tall the way he used to on a hardwood basketball floor when after those first minutes his growing momentum and lengthening bounds and leaps reduced the court to childlike dimensions, to the size of a tennis court and then a Ping-Pong table, his legs unthinkingly eating the distances up, back and forth, and the hoop with its dainty skirtlike net dipping down to be there on the layups.
Finish carpenters will write on the subfloor before they lay the hardwood parquet or the carpet pad.
After it penetrated the surface hardwood and the subflooring, little of the nail would remain to grip a joist.
The canopy of trees closed over him, tall bottom-land hardwoods -- oaks, cypress, and sweetgum trees, an occasional elderberry and sugarberry tree.
The stout hardwood of the gate was still there, now dark and immovable, tied close with creepers and debris.
The tall Carolina pines were like umbrellas that filtered light onto the hardwoods that grew beneath them.
To my left, the tall, vertical stacks of cut hardwoods leaned against the wall, seeping fragrance.
Pines and the smaller hardwoods like dogwood and hornbeam had managed to lodge their roots in the thin soil.
Gleaming sterile floors instead of ancient hardwood, minimalistic cubicles instead of scarred wooden desks.