2018年4月13日 · Generally, timber yards are locations where raw logs and other wood or forest products are processed and stored. The terms "lumber yard" and "timber yard" are sometimes used interchangeably, and timber yards may include additional aspects that lumber yards encompass, and vice versa.

2021年2月21日 · The "outdoors" smells like a lot of things! I can think of a words referring to various specific scents that recall being out in nature: earthy, woodsy / woody, mossy, mildewed, moldy, pine, loamy, flowery, fresh. And more of a stretch: crisp, musky, animalic, sweet, heady (like 'the thick smell of nectar') I mean, there is that something where you breathe "some fresh air" and just feel good ...

Just to throw a mild spanner/curiosity into the mix - what about if a chair was made from bits of wood, or when a sculpture is being made from nuts and bolts? The specific things aren't being transformed in the processes, except in a weird meta-type sense, but in both cases 'from' sounds better to my ears. Basically, I think the transformation thing is right, but I'm not sure if it's purely ...

What is the etymology of the word beaver as it relates to a woman's vagina?

2016年1月12日 · Here is the entry for "knock on wood" in Robert Hendrickson, The Facts on File Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins, fourth edition (2008): knock on wood. Why do we say knock on wood and tap wood or our heads after declaring that some calamity has never happened to us? The superstition is an old one and has many possible explanations, none sure. It may be of pagan origin, deriving from the ...

2012年8月13日 · I am writing an article and would like to attribute the phrase correctly.

2020年6月23日 · I've come across this analogous question for the opposite case Idioms/Phrase for Obvious No but couldn't find one for mine. I'm looking for phrases like "Does the Pope pray?" or "Doe...

2023年5月1日 · These expanded areas contain compartmentalizations zones in the wood which function to keep decay from penetrating into the tree. If the branch collars are wounded or removed along with the branch to make a flush cut at the trunk then the tree loses its strongest area of protection and weaker compartmentalizing zones will need to control decay ...

Bark is the abrupt, harsh, explosive cry of a dog. Clatter is the sound made by two or more hard objects hitting each other. Splash is the sound of something falling into a liquid, normally water.

Merriam-Webster lists both ˈrüt and ˈrau̇t as possible pronunciations for route but only ˈrau̇-tər for router. Is it really wrong to pronounce router as 'rüter ?