adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a brick/stone/wooden building
▪ The farmhouse is a long stone building about a century old.
a cardboard/wooden/plastic box
▪ We packed all our things into big cardboard boxes.
a stone/wooden/iron bridge
▪ The iron bridge was built in 1811.
a wooden floor
▪ The hut had a muddy wooden floor.
a wooden/china/glass etc bowl
▪ I broke a china bowl.
a wooden/iron/wrought-iron gate
▪ Their way was barred by huge wrought-iron gates.
a wooden/mahogany/rosewood etc desk
▪ He sat at a plain wooden desk.
a wooden/plastic/leather etc chair
▪ In the kitchen was a table with six wooden chairs around it.
steel/iron/wooden etc rod
▪ The walls are reinforced with steel rods.
wooden spoon
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
beam
▪ The roofs are flat, fully exposed to the rain, made by packing mud on wooden reeds resting on wooden beams.
▪ Before the coarse brown fabric hung an austere gibbet, constructed of two weathered wooden beams.
▪ All the tables and chairs are of solid dark wood to match the dark stained original wooden beams of the mill.
▪ It was made of corrugated metal and wooden beams and had scores of windows that could be broken but not shattered.
▪ The wooden beams and ceiling were crackling in the extreme heat.
▪ The warehouses are built of stone and have wooden beam hoists on the gable walls.
▪ Beam fire: A wooden beam in a chimney caught fire at a house in Darlington Road, Northallerton.
▪ Their nest is in the wooden beams, some 15 feet above the floor.
bench
▪ And as the camera glides, it passes a couple sitting on a single, simple wooden bench overlooking the garden.
▪ We crossed Main Street and went into a little park, sat on a wooden bench under a huge scraggly tree.
▪ The approach to the bar's terrace was guarded by two old women taking the sun on a wooden bench.
▪ In the meantime I enclose a selection of wooden bench designs.
▪ The sides are lined with narrow wooden benches.
▪ There was a long wooden bench under the window, littered with instruments and jars.
▪ Because the wooden benches were filled with sleeping soldiers returning from war.
block
▪ In it, there are three wooden blocks labelled A, B and C, and a table.
▪ Two, which hold wooden blocks, are on rolling coasters, and they are permanently available.
▪ Lay out the small, smooth wooden blocks or small boxes where the living compartments for the ants are to be.
▪ Tripped on the wooden blocks painted to look like ice, the doll careening away from her down between the blocks.
▪ Teacher: Mark, go and get the heaviest wooden block that you can find.
▪ Straight in at Number 12, it consists of a tower of wooden blocks.
▪ This one had electric lights on either side of the mirror and two on a wooden block along the top.
▪ They put the catapult into position and placed wooden blocks in front of the wheels to stop it rolling into the sea.
box
▪ There was an ironing-board, two kitchen chairs and a couple of broken wooden boxes snaked around the front room.
▪ Professor Marsh eventually took almost five hundred ton-sized wooden boxes of bones from the Como Bluff quarries.
▪ To the right a padlocked wooden box was fixed to the grille.
▪ She opened up a wooden box and took out a pair of crystal earrings.
▪ I didn't mind; it kept my thoughts off morbid fancies about Granny in her wooden box.
▪ There is another round wooden box on the shelf, though the wood is darker and the design more intricate.
▪ He said, well, they come in big cases and big wooden boxes and packing and so forth.
▪ For modern sculpture, galleries use a tall wooden box, stained or painted.
bridge
▪ The wooden bridge over the river was destroyed but shortly afterwards was replaced by a similar structure.
▪ Driving over the white wooden bridge that led to the farm, I found I was nursing an odd, melancholy excitement.
▪ That was the old wooden bridge.
▪ Moss gardens, straw-mat rooms, wooden bridges arching in the moonlight, paper lanterns with the fire glowing inside.
▪ In the wonderful autumn afternoons they walked by streams, crossing on little wooden bridges.
▪ A winter stream runs past and to enter the house, one has to cross a small wooden bridge.
▪ The river Limmat flows through Baden and is crossed by an old wooden bridge.
▪ I cross the wooden bridge to the windmill, the planks yielding under my feet.
building
▪ He took it up and flew to a stance on one of the wooden buildings round the Park.
▪ He disappeared between two tottering wooden buildings and was enclosed by lines of faded laundry.
▪ We drift around looking the place over for accommodation, eventually selecting a wooden building called Sand Dune Apartments.
▪ The wooden buildings badly needed paint.
▪ The farms were wooden buildings on stilts, with terracotta roofs that glowed peachy-orange against the forest greenery.
chair
▪ Chamber 3d holds a large dining table with 10 massive wooden chairs.
▪ He sat in the wooden chair before the desk and lit a cigarette.
▪ At their most basic, rush and cane seats provided more comfortable seating than the wooden chairs and stools that preceded them.
▪ There was one white wooden chair in the corner beneath wall cabinets.
▪ Those across the way claimed ringside seats on wooden chairs, each sitter shielded by a thick cotton-lace curtain.
▪ Then, in the center of the room facing the window, the wooden table with a single stiff-backed wooden chair.
▪ I leaned back in the wooden chair and stretched.
▪ Wu Tak Seng himself is sitting on a varnished wooden chair in his doorway, in singlet and baggy shorts.
chest
▪ Just occasionally, wooden chests were used as coffins, but only for very wealthy people.
▪ I leave her my two good leather suitcases in the wooden chest near the front door.
▪ There had been no attempts on the jewels, which remained unmolested in their wooden chest.
▪ They painted murals on the walls, foliage on the ceilings, and patterns on wooden chests.
▪ In a corner of Frankie's room stood a large wooden chest whose drawers were too stiff for him to open.
▪ They had a wooden chest for their clothes.
▪ He put them all away in the big wooden chest.
▪ A fine old wooden chest covered with intricate brass, nail-head designs was discovered, cleaned and placed in the hall.
crate
▪ I got to sit down after that, and I find a wooden crate.
▪ A pound and a quarter of C-4 explosive was tied with an explosive cord to wooden crates holding the rockets.
▪ This nanny worked in the big brewery down Manchester Road, capping the bottles and loading them into wooden crates.
▪ And much of the liquid used to simulate nerve gas at the test site was contained by the wooden crates.
▪ Maura sat on the wooden crate.
▪ The cabin is gouged open, spilling out wooden crates, twisted pieces of metal, a blown-up life raft.
▪ The second, lit by a single row of fluorescent lights, was stacked with large wooden crates from end to end.
▪ He looked around at all the cartons and wooden crates.
cross
▪ At the back of the raised platform at one end of the hall was a wooden cross, about six feet high.
▪ He buried the bodies in one grave with a single wooden cross as a marker; then notified the Commonwealth.
▪ There is a hand-painted wooden cross.
▪ A rough wooden cross rises from it.
▪ A plain wooden cross, about twelve feet tall, and six feet from arm to arm.
▪ His back was supported by a wooden cross, his feet against the clay, facing towards the enemy.
▪ The wooden cross had been dug up and a new large memorial stone had been erected in its place.
▪ The wooden crosses he said broke church regulations.
door
▪ The large wooden door swung on its hinges, banging into the wall, cracking the plastered stone.
▪ Two large wooden doors with windows.
▪ We reached the bungalow of Sheikha Grandmother, crossed the porch and pushed open the carved wooden doors of the dining room.
▪ The huge wooden doors shut snugly to create a haven safe from flying glass.
▪ Ian pressed on down the passage, down two steps, until he came to the small wooden door in the fabric.
▪ The heavy chocolate brown wooden door had been recently repainted.
▪ The entrance to the tunnel was a low wooden door.
▪ Through the fifteenth-century wooden door there is little to detain the visitor, just a few tantalizing traces of eleventh-century frescoes.
fence
▪ Follow a wooden fence to cross a stile and head to the waymarked gate downhill from the farm buildings on the left.
▪ He stayed at his side, directing him toward the wooden fence, then moving him back toward the gate.
▪ He ran, and came with the front rank to the perimeter path and the low wooden fence.
▪ They walked along the tall wooden fence that cut the construction site off from the avenue.
▪ His car had plunged down a motorway verge and into a wooden fence.
▪ Q: I planted nine tomatoes by a wooden fence and six close to the back wall of the house.
▪ At the bottom of the hill there was a wooden fence.
▪ Interesting place, a large wooden dwelling in Tuscan red with green shutters behind a high brown wooden fence.
floor
▪ The sound of footsteps on the wooden floor of the staging was faint but distinct.
▪ There were seven or eight people sitting on the wooden floor in the room.
▪ In the early hours of Thursday morning, the murderer skewered him to the wooden floor of a refreshment hut.
▪ Inside a yellow barn set in rolling green hills, 10 Sufis spin like synchronized tops across the wooden floor.
▪ She sprawled flat on the hard wooden floor, her cry abruptly silenced as all the air rushed out of her body.
▪ I blinked at the old wooden floor with misunderstanding.
▪ This scheme was suggested by the need to remove the partially rotten wooden floor, thus deepening the space available for subdivision.
frame
▪ After much midnight hammering, a large wooden frame, covered in chicken wire with a drop down door was constructed.
▪ They decorated the place with hanging plants and printed fabrics stretched over wooden frames.
▪ I feel under the edge of the mattress, above the wooden frame of the huge bed.
▪ The painting is small, about 8 by 12 inches in its carved wooden frame.
▪ He went back to find Tyson and Shaw asleep beneath their wooden frame.
▪ I moved over and peered out of one, catching a glimpse of backyard through screens rusted into the old wooden frames.
▪ In other instances a rectangular wooden frame was employed.
▪ I could see my father strumming the guitar, plucking our ancient, mournful history from the hollowness of its wooden frame.
gate
▪ A brief moon between clouds outside sharpened the lines of boxwood that led to the wooden gate.
▪ They led us through the narrow streets to the tall wooden gate of the ryokan.
▪ She paused to stare at a wooden gate swinging crazily on its hinges.
▪ Several women and a man stand before the open wooden gates of the courtyard of the church.
▪ Tom carefully opened a sagging wooden gate and went up a stone path that led around the side of the house.
▪ A few pointed inquiries brought me to an old wooden gate that was in need of repair.
▪ They pushed open the long wooden gate where he sat.
▪ A narrow weaving crazy path Leads to a wooden gate, While cats slink along the wall From dusk until I wake.
handle
▪ The knife in Dennis's paw was sharp and serrated, with a sturdy wooden handle.
▪ Explanation Put the hammer down on the table with the wooden handle touching the edge.
▪ In his right hand he's holding a curved knife with a short wooden handle.
▪ Now move the wooden handle of the hammer gradually over the edge of the table.
▪ Bob Grant Fixing handles Q Could you please tell me the best method of fixing turned wooden handles to cutlery blanks?
house
▪ We have passed other wooden houses, but they all appeared to be shut up and abandoned.
▪ For 10 days, many small apartment buildings and old wooden houses had no heat.
▪ They remind me of tiny wooden houses on a Monopoly board.
▪ Ruptured gas lines resulted in fires that gutted entire communities of wooden houses, leaving behind smoldering embers resembling a bomb site.
▪ She pushed it open; it was an old wooden house door drooping on one hinge.
▪ During the 70s we lived in a wooden house that had been treated with a then-popular protection varnish.
▪ Like a sheet of crepe paper, the wooden house burst into flames and burned to the ground in minutes.
hut
▪ There are also some wooden huts and everything is fenced in to keep out the wolves and curious locals.
▪ Inside there were some long wooden huts which occupied almost all the space.
▪ This is a direct transference to stone or brick building of the primitive wooden hut method mentioned earlier. 2.
▪ Above them, little wooden huts were perched in higher meadows.
▪ This was a wooden hut in which there was some old machinery that generated electricity for the house.
▪ He lives in a glorious wooden hut with several equally attractive out-buildings.
▪ I decided against looking into the tumbledown wooden hut that had once housed the coal hopper controls.
▪ It came from a wooden hut at the edge of a field.
leg
▪ He seized another wooden leg and smashed the glass in the nearest cases with it.
▪ Beyond the group of shirted enlisted men, I could see the wooden legs of a map tripod through the tent door.
▪ Check closely to see if the body has a wooden leg.
▪ Despite her wooden leg, she was able to fend him off easily.
▪ The man with the wooden leg.
▪ Gold claws at the end of twisted wooden legs.
▪ The bloke with the wooden leg made funny noises as he came up the stairs.
▪ As he moved along the rows of guns, his wooden leg sounded dull thuds.
plank
▪ Facing him across the bleached wooden plank, Melissa became aware of an extraordinary change in his manner.
▪ The water was above his ankles, flowing over the wooden plank he slept on.
▪ Stripped or new brick makes a good kitchen background, so does tongue-and-groove wood panelling or panelling of wide wooden planks.
▪ But the ceiling is made of rough wooden planks and the floor of mud.
▪ There were wooden planks beneath them which seemed to lie against their bones.
▪ Presently he was there, he had arrived at the wooden planks and the criss-crossed supports of the bridge.
▪ A stevedore negligently dropped a wooden plank into the hold of the ship.
▪ I revived as I felt myself go hurtling through the air and crashed down on to the wooden planks of the scaffold.
platform
▪ Above, on a wooden platform, are the mill stones, accompanied by one or two antique items of interest.
▪ Most of them had shingled awnings borne on prominent brackets projecting over their simple wooden platforms.
▪ When you die there they put you on a wooden platform below the sky and the vultures come and eat the body.
▪ Susan and Breeze seized their meagre luggage and stepped out on to the tiny wooden platform.
▪ For me, five hundred men built a special wooden platform with twenty-two wheels.
▪ By rail you could alight at the tiny wooden platform that has been used by servicemen for decades.
▪ The Charwighul people laid out their dead on a wooden platform and covered them with reed mats.
▪ Two feet in front of them was the catwalk, a bare narrow wooden platform angling away from a curtained entrance.
pole
▪ Nervously, I moved forward, fumbling round the battlements until I came to a protruding wooden pole.
▪ There are no telephones, no fire hydrants, only a scattering of street lights on lonely wooden poles.
▪ Endill noticed he was standing beside a thick wooden pole.
▪ In one corner of the grounds, a 13-year-old boy is busy sawing wooden poles in half.
▪ The floor was of bare earth, and a ring of wooden poles supported the roof.
▪ Windows are draped with matching curtains, simply suspended on plain wooden poles.
▪ The decline in the demand for wooden poles has been accelerated by the frequent use of metal poles.
post
▪ Talking to Rourke Deveraugh was like beating her head against a hard wooden post.
▪ This is especially troublesome in urban homes, where the animals have little access to wooden posts or trees.
▪ A high wide bed with a dark red cover Pillows banked at one end, and wooden posts.
▪ They forced their way on to adjoining land and cut through chain-link fencing and large wooden posts cemented into the ground.
▪ It is understood that he was beaten with a wooden post before he was stabbed.
▪ A line of wooden posts marks the rift.
▪ The snow was relatively unmarked here, packed high around a great wooden post with a beam jutting out like a scaffold.
rod
▪ There is also a matrix of wooden rods, metal pipes, and other objects in various configurations and depths.
▪ The hangers draped down in rows from horizontal wooden rods, the blooms pointing toward the floor.
▪ He hugged the banister, counting its bar-like wooden rods until he reached the turn where it met the wall.
seat
▪ The chief innovation however, were the 32 passengers who sat along wooden seats at each side.
▪ The boat ride to the park from the fishing village Labuan is seven hours on hard wooden seats.
▪ He passed the wooden seats, ducked under the willows, and the last they saw of him was his undulating shadow.
▪ The wooden seat, when she lifted herself on to it, was still warm.
▪ A maze of paths with unique wooden seats and bridges enables the weathered and moss-covered rocks to be seen at their best.
▪ Somehow, he had moved closer, and their thighs were pressed together on the wooden seat.
▪ At one side was the royal enclosure with row after row of wooden seats, all covered in purple or gold cloth.
▪ The 21-year-old skinhead sitting to my left began to squirm in his wooden seat.
shutter
▪ Otherwise use Venetian blinds in plastic or wood which can be easily wiped, or wooden shutters, or no covering at all.
▪ The wooden shutters of the market booths were closing now.
▪ Wishart rose and crossed the darkened chamber to secure one of the wooden shutters.
▪ She went back to her room, pulled the wooden shutters across the windows and lay on the bed.
▪ With the stairs enclosed by wooden shutters, they could operate in bad weather as single-deckers.
▪ I stepped into a cool, dark room, where heavy wooden shutters kept out most of the daylight.
slat
▪ Continental style bases have flexible wooden slats and are often contained within a traditional divan.
▪ The backs of the trucks are jammed with young men and teenagers pressed against wooden slats.
▪ The wooden slats had bleached grey.
▪ We were lifting metal girders on to a lorry and securing them in place with wooden slats which we nailed together.
▪ The wooden slats were already warm from the sun.
▪ There was no glass in the frame, just thin wooden slats to allow some passage of air.
▪ The three ruffians pummelled me, banging my head against the wooden slats.
▪ A legless beggar pulled himself along through the slush on wooden slats.
spoon
▪ Original fines had included one of £900 for a cracked wooden spoon.
▪ Deglaze pan with wine, stirring with a wooden spoon to loosen food particles.
▪ Add the flour, semolina and currants and stir into the batter with a wooden spoon.
▪ When all the cornmeal is added, begin stirring with a long-handled wooden spoon.
▪ Buying two wooden spoons can be more fun at this time than purchasing an expensive set of china in later years.
▪ With wooden spoon, cream butter and peanut butter until smooth, add sugar and cream well.
▪ Thérèse called out to the wooden spoon clotted with Dijon mustard.
▪ In the family trash they found the remnants of a broken wooden spoon wrapped in a bloody diaper.
stair
▪ The narrow wooden stairs echoed as they ran up.
▪ Hughes went up the wooden stairs first.
▪ The wooden stairs along the north wall lead directly upwards to location 53. 32.
▪ Hughes walked up a short set of wooden stairs.
▪ The lodge contained a large hall below and a banqueting room above, connected by a grand wooden stair.
▪ Quickly, he ducked through the unadorned side door of the building and began climbing the four flights of rickety wooden stairs.
▪ Access was gained via a flight of external wooden stairs.
▪ Catherine climbed worn wooden stairs, up five flights in all, until she reached the attic storey.
staircase
▪ Down the great wide wooden staircase and into the hall: I am sharp, she thought.
▪ The space age escalator and exposed metal piping of the foyer segued into a spiraling wooden staircase and crinkly old master prints.
▪ Baptiste was standing on the bottom step of the wooden staircase, affecting surprise at the sight of her.
▪ Standing on top of the wooden staircase she hurled herself to the ground, landing in a heap at the bottom.
▪ A china light-switch, finger-flicked, showed her a narrow wooden staircase.
▪ Ranulf scooped his dice into his leather wallet and they went down the spiral wooden staircase and into the hall.
▪ Chewing on her lower lip, she trundled after him along a flagged passageway and up an ornate wooden staircase.
▪ Some one clattered down a wooden staircase.
structure
▪ The convent garden harboured herbs and a yellow flowering vine flourishing over a falling wooden structure.
▪ The building itself was a bleached wooden structure that enclosed a single small room.
▪ He left from a mean wooden structure at Parel, near Government House.
▪ One was a simple wooden structure carved in the shape of the building.
▪ The building itself a glass, steel, concrete and wooden structure is anything but sepulchral.
▪ Long Bridge in those days was quite a rickety wooden structure, which shook as you walked across.
▪ She saw it almost immediately, the black wooden structure in sharp relief against the evening sky.
▪ Ryokan are typically wooden structures up to three stories.
table
▪ In the centre of the room was a large wooden table holding a stoneware jar of dried flowers.
▪ Topic Vibrations Materials A wooden table or desk Demonstration 1.
▪ It was empty apart from a round wooden table, a large golden picture frame on one wall and a cupboard.
▪ The kitchen was like a big utility room with a huge sink, a stone floor, and a large wooden table.
▪ They ordered gins, and sat on a wooden bench before a wooden table, while Karen admired the place.
▪ Inside, under flickering rushlight, on a long wooden table scrubbed to whiteness, were the first trays of crusty bread.
▪ They came upon a small crowd gathered around a long wooden table that had posters of Sophia Loren hanging along the front.
wall
▪ Sigus hung or painted right on to its wooden walls indicate an office, a clinic, a meeting room.
▪ Staying close to the wooden wall, he crept along between the shed and the hedge.
▪ Loosened birch-bark flapped from the roofs and sections of the wooden walls lay sprawled on the ground, flattened by gales.
▪ That's what Nelson meant, you know, when he talked about wooden walls.
▪ The wooden walls shook and the alien noise echoed around the small building, and for a while the noise stopped.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
win/collect/take etc the wooden spoon
▪ When he motioned for her to take the wooden spoon from him she did so, avoiding touching him at all costs.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a wooden box
▪ Dr. Harvey usually seems very wooden during his lectures.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After the sweet juice is extracted, they carry it in wooden buckets on their heads to the next stage.
▪ Beyond the group of shirted enlisted men, I could see the wooden legs of a map tripod through the tent door.
▪ He was indeed a carpenter, and spent his spare time carving small wooden toys for his children.
▪ One was normal except for some wooden dividers which had been set upon its surface.
▪ Original fines had included one of £900 for a cracked wooden spoon.
▪ The entrance to the tunnel was a low wooden door.
▪ The old bats included a plastic, an aluminum and a wooden one.
▪ There was an ironing-board, two kitchen chairs and a couple of broken wooden boxes snaked around the front room.