Wood vs Weed - What's the difference?

In countable terms the difference between wood and weed

is that wood is a forested or wooded area while weed is a species of plant considered harmful to the environment or regarded as a nuisance.

In uncountable slang terms the difference between wood and weed

is that wood is an erection while weed is marijuana.

As nouns the difference between wood and weed

is that wood is the substance making up the central part of the trunk and branches of a tree. Used as a material for construction, to manufacture various items, etc. or as fuel while weed is a plant.

As verbs the difference between wood and weed

is that wood is to cover or plant with trees while weed is to remove unwanted vegetation from a cultivated area.

As an adjective wood

is made of or with wood.

As a proper noun Wood

is an English topographic surname for someone who lived in or near a wood.

wood

English

(wikipedia wood)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) wode, from (etyl) wudu, (Danish and Swedish ved) .

Noun

(uncountable) The substance making up the central part of the trunk and branches of a tree. Used as a material for construction, to manufacture various items, etc. or as fuel.

* (John Milton)

to worship their own work in wood and stone for gods

(countable) The wood of a particular species of tree.

(countable) A forested or wooded area.

* (William Shakespeare), The Tragedy of (Macbeth)

Macbeth shall never vanquish'd be until / Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill / Shall come against him.

Firewood.

* , chapter=8

, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=We toted in the wood and got the fire going nice and comfortable. Lord James still set in one of the chairs and Applegate had cabbaged the other and was hugging the stove.}}

* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author=(Henry Petroski)

, title= Geothermal Energy , volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame.}}

(countable, golf) A type of golf club, the head of which was traditionally made of wood.

(music) A woodwind instrument.

(uncountable, slang) An erection.

(chess, uncountable, slang) Chess pieces.

* 1971 , Chess Life & Review (volume 26, page 309)

White has nothing but a lot of frozen wood on the board while Black operates on the Q-side.

Usage notes

In the sense of "a forested area", the singular generally refers to a discrete area of forest, while the plural is often used when a more vaguely defined area is meant.

Synonyms

* timber

Derived terms

* bentwood * driftwood * greasewood * hardwood * heartwood * kingwood * knock on wood * ironwood * olivewood * out of the woods * purplewood * saw wood * softwood * whitewood * woodchopper * woodcock * wooded * wooden * woodpecker * woody

Adjective

(-)

(rfv-sense) Made of or with wood .

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)

, title=(The China Governess) , chapter=Foreword citation , passage=He stood transfixed before the unaccustomed view of London at night time, a vast panorama which reminded him […] of some wood engravings far off and magical, in a printshop in his childhood.}}

Synonyms

* wooden

Verb

(en verb)

To cover or plant with trees.

To supply with wood, or get supplies of wood for.

to wood a steamboat or a locomotive

To take or get a supply of wood.

Etymology 2

(etyl), from (etyl) . See the full etymology at wode .

Alternative forms

* wode

Adjective

(er)

(obsolete) Mad, insane, crazed.

Derived terms

* wood-wroth * woodness

Etymology 3

Noun

(en noun)

A peckerwood.

* 2009 , Brendan Joel Kelly, " Pride vs. Power", The Phoenix New Times :

Other than shout-outs to fellow "woods ," I found no references on their record to racism, and after getting to know the members, I think Woodpile's message is the opposite of what the L.A. Times construed it to be — they want to bring hardcore white guys to rap music, rather than alienating anyone of any race.

* 2011 , Christian Workman, Black Boxed: Coming of Age Behind Prison Walls :

The only thing is, even though there are ways to remain neutral, to just be a wood and not get caught up in the white supremacist gang stuff, you do have to take a side if things get bad.

Statistics

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weed

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

A plant.

# (label) Any plant growing in cultivated ground to the injury of the crop or desired vegetation, or to the disfigurement of the place; an unsightly, useless, or injurious plant.

#*{{quote-book, year=1944, author=(w)

, title= The Three Corpse Trick, chapter=5 , passage=The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds . Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.}}

# (label) A species of plant considered harmful to the environment or regarded as a nuisance.

# Short for duckweed.

# Underbrush; low shrubs.

#* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)

one rushing forth out of the thickest weed

#* (1809-1892)

A wild and wanton pard/ Crouched fawning in the weed .

A drug or the like made from the leaves of a plant.

# Marijuana.

# Tobacco.

# A cigar.

A horse unfit to breed from.

A puny person; one who has with little physical strength.

A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which attacks women in childbed.

Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.

Synonyms

* See also

Derived terms

* goutweed * hawkweed * horseweed * in the weeds * knapweed * knotweed * milkweed * pigweed * ragweed * tumbleweed

Etymology 2

From (etyl) .

Verb

(en verb)

To remove unwanted vegetation from a cultivated area.

I weeded my flower bed.

Etymology 3

From (etyl) , from which also wad, wadmal. Cognate to Dutch lijnwaad, gewaad, German Wat.

Noun

(en noun)

(archaic) A garment or piece of clothing.

(archaic) Clothing collectively; clothes, dress.

* 1599 ,

DON PEDRO. Come, let us hence, and put on other weeds ;

And then to Leonato's we will go.

CLAUDIO. And Hymen now with luckier issue speed's,

Than this for whom we rend'red up this woe!

* 1819 , Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

These two dignified persons were followed by their respective attendants, and at a more humble distance by their guide, whose figure had nothing more remarkable than it derived from the usual weeds of a pilgrim.

(archaic) An article of dress worn in token of grief; a mourning garment or badge.

He wore a weed on his hat.

(archaic) widow's weeds : female mourning apparel

* Milton

In a mourning weed , with ashes upon her head, and tears abundantly flowing.

Etymology 4

From the verb wee.

Verb

(head)

(wee)

References

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