Borax vs Timber - What's the difference?
borax | timber |
A white or gray/grey crystalline salt, with a slight alkaline taste, used as a flux, in soldering metals, making enamels, fixing colors/colours on porcelain, and as a soap, etc.
(chemistry) The sodium salt of boric acid, Na2B4O7, either anhydrous or with 5 or 10 molecules of water of crystallisation; sodium tetraborate.
Cheap or tawdry, referring to furniture or other works of industrial design.
(uncountable) Trees in a forest regarded as a source of wood.
(British, uncountable) Wood that has been pre-cut and is ready for use in construction.
(countable) A heavy wooden beam, generally a whole log that has been squared off and used to provide heavy support for something such as a roof. Historically also used in the plural, as in "ship's timbers".
(archaic) A certain quantity of fur skins (as of martens, ermines, sables, etc.) packed between boards; in some cases forty skins, in others one hundred and twenty. Also timmer'', ''timbre .
(firearms, informal) The wooden stock of a rifle or shotgun.
Used by loggers to warn others that a tree being felled is falling.
To fit with timbers.
(falconry) To light or land on a tree.
(obsolete) To make a nest.
To surmount as a timber does.
(Webster 1913)
As nouns the difference between borax and timber
is that borax is borax while timber is postage stamp.borax
English
(wikipedia borax)Noun
(-)Synonyms
* when used as a preservativeDerived terms
* borax bead test * boracic * borise, borize * boronAdjective
(-)References
*boraxat the Free Dictionary
timber
English
Noun
(wikipedia timber) (en noun)Synonyms
* (trees considered as a source of wood) timberland, forest * (wood that has been cut ready for construction) lumber (US), wood * (beam used to support a roof) beam, rafterDerived terms
* half-timbered * shiver me timbers * timbered * timberland * timberline * timber wolf * timberyardInterjection
timber!Verb
(en verb)- timbering a roof