different between timber vs nimber

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

Blend of nim +? number

Noun

nimber (plural nimbers)

1. Any of a set of number-like objects used in combinatorial game theory.

Synonyms

• Grundy number

French

Etymology

nimbe +? -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n??.be/

Verb

nimber

1. (transitive) to surround with a halo or nimbus
   • 1976, Bernard Clavel, La saison des loups, 1985, page 105

     Le ciel était clair et la lune à peine nimbée

Conjugation

Further reading

• “nimber” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).