different between timber vs cutover

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English tymber, from Old English timber, from Proto-Germanic *timr?, from Proto-Indo-European *dem- (“build, house”) (see Proto-Indo-European *d?m). Cognates include Dutch timmer, Old High German zimbar (German Zimmer), Norwegian tømmer, Old Norse timbr, Gothic ???????????????????????????? (timrjan, “to build”), Latin domus and Ancient Greek ????? (dómos).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?t?mb?/, (interjecting) IPA^(key): [?t??m?b??]
• (General American) enPR: t?m?b?r, IPA^(key): /?t?mb?/, (interjecting) IPA^(key): [?t??m?b??]
• Rhymes: -?mb?(?)
• Homophone: timbre (for one US pronunciation)
• Hyphenation: tim?ber

Noun

timber (countable and uncountable, plural timbers)

1. (uncountable) Trees in a forest regarded as a source of wood.
2. (outside Canada, US, uncountable) Wood that has been pre-cut and is ready for use in construction.
3. (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.

   the timbers of a ship

4. Material for any structure.
5. (firearms, informal) The wooden stock of a rifle or shotgun.
6. (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.

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, rafter

Hyponyms

• (wooden beam used to provide support): crosstree

Derived terms

Translations

Interjection

timber!

1. Used by loggers to warn others that a tree being felled is falling.

Translations

Verb

timber (third-person singular simple present timbers, present participle timbering, simple past and past participle timbered)

1. (transitive) To fit with timbers.

   timbering a roof

2. (transitive, obsolete) To construct, frame, build.
   • 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, London: Edw. Dod & Nath. Ekins, 1650, Book I, Chapter 5, p. 14,^[1]

     For many heads that undertake [learning], were never squared nor timbred for it.

3. (falconry, intransitive) To light or land on a tree.
4. (obsolete) To make a nest.
5. (transitive) To surmount as a timber does.

Etymology 2

Noun

timber

1. Misspelling of timbre.

Anagrams

• betrim, biterm, timbre

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

timber n (definite singular timberet, uncountable)

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 1938; superseded by tømmer

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *timr?, from Proto-Indo-European *dem- (“build, house”) (see Proto-Indo-European *d?m). Cognates include Old Saxon timbar, Old High German zimbar (German Zimmer), Old Norse timbr, Gothic ???????????????????????????? (timrjan, “to build”), and Latin domus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tim.ber/

Noun

timber n

1. timber
2. a building
3. the act of building

Descendants

• Middle English: timber
  • English: timber
  • Scots: timmer, tymmer, tymer

Old Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse timbr, from Proto-Germanic *timr?.

Noun

timber n

1. timber; wood used for building

Declension

Descendants

• Swedish: timmer

English

Etymology

cut +? over

Adjective

cutover (not comparable)

1. Having been cleared of valuable timber.

Noun

cutover (countable and uncountable, plural cutovers)

1. An area of cutover land.
2. The discontinuity that occurs when switching from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar.
3. The process of quickly replacing a telephone switchboard, in which the connections are duplicated to the new machine and the original connections are then suddenly disconnected.
   • 1913: Bell Telephone News, vol. 2, no. 7, page 18

     After the heat coils were pulled on the old main frame, the remaining step was merely to pull the wooden plugs on the new switchboard by the strings attached to them (which are bunched together) upon a signal given from the old terminal room, indicating the removal of the heat coils above mentioned. By this means the cut-over was accomplished almost momentarily, the process occupying not over two seconds’ time.

4. (by extension) Any process of quickly replacing a machine so as to minimize downtime.

Anagrams

• couvert, overcut