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wooden
(mass) | wooden
- drevený |
wooden
(encz) | wooden,dřevěný adj: |
Wooden
(gcide) | Wooden \Wood"en\, a.
1. Made or consisting of wood; pertaining to, or resembling,
wood; as, a wooden box; a wooden leg; a wooden wedding.
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2. Clumsy; awkward; ungainly; stiff; spiritless.
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When a bold man is out of countenance, he makes a
very wooden figure on it. --Collier.
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His singing was, I confess, a little wooden. --G.
MacDonald.
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Wooden spoon.
(a) (Cambridge University, Eng.) The last junior optime
who takes a university degree, -- denoting one who is
only fit to stay at home and stir porridge. "We submit
that a wooden spoon of our day would not be justified
in calling Galileo and Napier blockheads because they
never heard of the differential calculus." --Macaulay.
(b) In some American colleges, the lowest appointee of the
junior year; sometimes, one especially popular in his
class, without reference to scholarship. Formerly, it
was a custom for classmates to present to this person
a wooden spoon with formal ceremonies.
Wooden ware, a general name for buckets, bowls, and other
articles of domestic use, made of wood.
Wooden wedding. See under Wedding.
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wooden
(wn) | wooden
adj 1: made or consisting of (entirely or in part) or employing
wood; "a wooden box"; "an ancient cart with wooden
wheels"
2: lacking ease or grace; "the actor's performance was wooden";
"a wooden smile" |
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wooden
(mass) | wooden
- drevený |
wooden
(encz) | wooden,dřevěný adj: |
wooden leg
(encz) | wooden leg, n: |
wooden shoe
(encz) | wooden shoe, n: |
wooden spoon
(encz) | wooden spoon, n: |
wooden-headed
(encz) | wooden-headed, adj: |
woodenly
(encz) | woodenly,dřevěně adv: Zdeněk Brož |
woodenness
(encz) | woodenness,dřevěnost n: Zdeněk Brož |
woodenware
(encz) | woodenware, n: |
wooden pear
(gcide) | Woody \Wood"y\, a.
1. Abounding with wood or woods; as, woody land. "The woody
wilderness." --Bryant.
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Secret shades
Of woody Ida's inmost grove. --Milton.
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2. Consisting of, or containing, wood or woody fiber;
ligneous; as, the woody parts of plants.
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3. Of or pertaining to woods; sylvan. [R.] "Woody nymphs,
fair Hamadryades." --Spenser.
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Woody fiber. (Bot.)
(a) Fiber or tissue consisting of slender, membranous
tubes tapering at each end.
(b) A single wood cell. See under Wood. --Goodale.
Woody nightshade. (Bot.). See Bittersweet, 3
(a) .
Woody pear (Bot.), the inedible, woody, pear-shaped fruit
of several Australian proteaceous trees of the genus
Xylomelum; -- called also wooden pear.
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Wooden spoon
(gcide) | Wooden \Wood"en\, a.
1. Made or consisting of wood; pertaining to, or resembling,
wood; as, a wooden box; a wooden leg; a wooden wedding.
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2. Clumsy; awkward; ungainly; stiff; spiritless.
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When a bold man is out of countenance, he makes a
very wooden figure on it. --Collier.
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His singing was, I confess, a little wooden. --G.
MacDonald.
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Wooden spoon.
(a) (Cambridge University, Eng.) The last junior optime
who takes a university degree, -- denoting one who is
only fit to stay at home and stir porridge. "We submit
that a wooden spoon of our day would not be justified
in calling Galileo and Napier blockheads because they
never heard of the differential calculus." --Macaulay.
(b) In some American colleges, the lowest appointee of the
junior year; sometimes, one especially popular in his
class, without reference to scholarship. Formerly, it
was a custom for classmates to present to this person
a wooden spoon with formal ceremonies.
Wooden ware, a general name for buckets, bowls, and other
articles of domestic use, made of wood.
Wooden wedding. See under Wedding.
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Wooden ware
(gcide) | Wooden \Wood"en\, a.
1. Made or consisting of wood; pertaining to, or resembling,
wood; as, a wooden box; a wooden leg; a wooden wedding.
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2. Clumsy; awkward; ungainly; stiff; spiritless.
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When a bold man is out of countenance, he makes a
very wooden figure on it. --Collier.
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His singing was, I confess, a little wooden. --G.
MacDonald.
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Wooden spoon.
(a) (Cambridge University, Eng.) The last junior optime
who takes a university degree, -- denoting one who is
only fit to stay at home and stir porridge. "We submit
that a wooden spoon of our day would not be justified
in calling Galileo and Napier blockheads because they
never heard of the differential calculus." --Macaulay.
(b) In some American colleges, the lowest appointee of the
junior year; sometimes, one especially popular in his
class, without reference to scholarship. Formerly, it
was a custom for classmates to present to this person
a wooden spoon with formal ceremonies.
Wooden ware, a general name for buckets, bowls, and other
articles of domestic use, made of wood.
Wooden wedding. See under Wedding.
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Wooden wedding
(gcide) | Wooden \Wood"en\, a.
1. Made or consisting of wood; pertaining to, or resembling,
wood; as, a wooden box; a wooden leg; a wooden wedding.
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2. Clumsy; awkward; ungainly; stiff; spiritless.
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When a bold man is out of countenance, he makes a
very wooden figure on it. --Collier.
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His singing was, I confess, a little wooden. --G.
MacDonald.
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Wooden spoon.
(a) (Cambridge University, Eng.) The last junior optime
who takes a university degree, -- denoting one who is
only fit to stay at home and stir porridge. "We submit
that a wooden spoon of our day would not be justified
in calling Galileo and Napier blockheads because they
never heard of the differential calculus." --Macaulay.
(b) In some American colleges, the lowest appointee of the
junior year; sometimes, one especially popular in his
class, without reference to scholarship. Formerly, it
was a custom for classmates to present to this person
a wooden spoon with formal ceremonies.
Wooden ware, a general name for buckets, bowls, and other
articles of domestic use, made of wood.
Wooden wedding. See under Wedding.
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Woodenly
(gcide) | Woodenly \Wood"en*ly\, adv.
Clumsily; stupidly; blockishly. --R. North.
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Woodenness
(gcide) | Woodenness \Wood"en*ness\, n.
Quality of being wooden; clumsiness; stupidity; blockishness.
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We set our faces against the woodenness which then
characterized German philology. --Sweet.
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wooden
(wn) | wooden
adj 1: made or consisting of (entirely or in part) or employing
wood; "a wooden box"; "an ancient cart with wooden
wheels"
2: lacking ease or grace; "the actor's performance was wooden";
"a wooden smile" |
wooden horse
(wn) | Wooden Horse
n 1: a large hollow wooden figure of a horse (filled with Greek
soldiers) left by the Greeks outside Troy during the Trojan
War [syn: Trojan Horse, Wooden Horse] |
wooden leg
(wn) | wooden leg
n 1: a prosthesis that replaces a missing leg [syn: peg,
wooden leg, leg, pegleg] |
wooden shoe
(wn) | wooden shoe
n 1: a shoe carved from a single block of wood [syn: sabot,
wooden shoe] |
wooden spoon
(wn) | wooden spoon
n 1: a booby prize consisting of a spoon made of wood
2: a spoon made of wood |
wooden-headed
(wn) | wooden-headed
adj 1: (used informally) stupid [syn: blockheaded,
boneheaded, duncical, duncish, fatheaded,
loggerheaded, thick, thickheaded, thick-skulled,
wooden-headed] |
woodenly
(wn) | woodenly
adv 1: without grace; rigidly; "they moved woodenly" [syn:
ungraciously, ungracefully, gracelessly,
woodenly] [ant: gracefully, graciously] |
woodenness
(wn) | woodenness
n 1: the quality of being wooden and awkward; "he criticized the
woodenness of the acting"; "there was a certain woodenness
in his replies" |
woodenware
(wn) | woodenware
n 1: ware for domestic use made of wood |
woodenman
(foldoc) | Woodenman
HOLWG, DoD, 1975. Second of the series of DoD requirements
that led to Ada. "Woodenman Set of Criteria and Needed
Characteristics for a Common DoD High Order Programming
Language", David A. Fisher, Inst for Def Anal Working Paper,
Aug 1975. (See Strawman, Tinman, Ironman, Steelman).
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