Timber and wood

A timber is a long piece of wood used for building, especially houses and ships.

broken heart I want know which diffrent between timber and wood.

"Timber" may also be unharvested trees which are thought of in terms of their future use as lumber, or possibly pulp for paper. "There was a stand of timber just across the river." "We owned several acres of timber."

While the countable "a timber" may be a large structural beam, it

Avangi"Wood" as a countable is sometimes used as a synonym for "forest."

Avangi:
I have heard "wood" in very old texts, but today I think modern usage is always "woods", as in the Robert Frost poem, "Stopping by woods on a snowy evening. It is always plural. "Forest" is singular and countable.

Whose woods these are

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and sorry I couldn't travel both and be one traveller, long I stood, and gazed down one as far as I could, to where it bent in the (bushes) I never can remember that damned word! Is it "uindergrowth"?

(This one's gotta be the second most favorite. I don't know which was written first, but I suspect this one is the more modern. Does that make "all

Hi Avangi:

Same poet, but he had a little woodsy poetic problem here. - Woods didn't rhyme, shucks! I think reversion to older language is a device which is approved under ye olde title VII of poetic license...