What is the difference between timber and rung?
timber | rung |
(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)
A crosspiece forming a step of a ladder; a round.
A crosspiece between legs of a chair.
(nautical, dated) A floor timber in a ship.
(dated) One of the stakes of a cart; a spar; a heavy staff.
(engineering, dated) One of the radial handles projecting from the rim of a steering wheel.
(engineering, dated) One of the pins or trundles of a lantern wheel.
(only in senses related to a bell — etymology 2)
(chiefly, dialectal) (ring)
*1723 , Charles Walker, Memoirs of Sally Salisbury , VI:
*:With ecchoing Shouts the vaulted Chamber rung , / Belle Chuck'' was now the ''TOAST of ev'ry Tongue.
* {{quote-journal, journals=Report of State Officers, Board and Committees to the General ..., page=229,
books.google.com/books?id=YHYbAQAAIAAJ, South Carolina. General Assembly, year=1906, passage=Mr. Seibels, in his testimony, said I rung' him up to see about labels. He is very much mistaken. I ' rung him up to see about bottles.}}
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As nouns the difference between timber and rung
is that timber is (uncountable) trees in a forest regarded as a source of wood while rung is a crosspiece forming a step of a ladder; a round.As verbs the difference between timber and rung
is that timber is to fit with timbers while rung is (only in senses related to a bell — etymology 2) .As a interjection timber
is used by loggers to warn others that a tree being felled is falling.timber
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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