what is the difference between wood and timber?

Answer 1

IF YOU can't see the 'wood' for the 'trees' then you should be back at school!

Answer 2

Different names. Let's see...Wood=wood, Timber=timber. There! That's high-level thinking!

Answer 3

The difference is their spelling and pronunciation. Joke!!!Timber is a growing tree or wooded land while Wood is a substance of trees or a fuel/building material. Some things that are so related are sometimes thought to be one.

Answer 4

Wood is what the tree is made of. Wood is used to make lumber or to burn in a fireplace.

Timber is a tree or stand of trees. We manage timber for wood production.

Answer 5

WOOD
Wood is a solid material derived from woody plants, notably trees but also shrubs. Wood from the latter is only produced in small sizes, reducing the diversity of uses.

In its most common meaning, "wood" is the secondary xylem of a woody plant, but this is an approximation only: in the wider sense, wood may refer to other materials and tissues with comparable properties. Wood is a heterogeneous, hygroscopic, cellular and anisotropic material. Wood is composed of fibers of cellulose (40%–50%) and hemicellulose (15%–25%) held together by lignin (15%–30%)
TIMBER
Lumber or Timber is a term used to describe wood, either standing or that has been processed for use—from the time trees are felled, to its end product as a material suitable for industrial use—as structural material for construction or wood pulp for paper production. In the U.K. and Australia, "timber" is a term also used for sawn wood products (that is, boards), whereas generally in the United States and Canada, the product of timber cut into boards is referred to as lumber. In the United States and Canada sawn wood products of five inches diameter or greater (4½″ nominal size) are sometimes called "timbers".


Mountain ash logs at a sawmill in Australia
Wood cut from Victorian Mountain AshLumber is supplied either rough or finished. Rough lumber is the raw material for furniture making and other items requiring additional cutting and shaping. It is available in many species, usually hardwoods. Finished lumber is supplied in standard sizes, mostly for the construction industry, and is primarily one of a few coniferous (needle-bearing) species such as pine, cedar, hemlock, fir or spruce.

Answer 6

Wood is the substance/material.
Timber is wood suitable for building.
Lumber is timber made suitable for use in building.

Timber
1. the wood of growing trees suitable for building or for carpentry.
2. growing trees themselves.
3. wooded land.
4. wood, esp. when suitable or adapted for various building purposes.
5. a single piece of wood forming part of a structure or the like:

Wood
1. the hard, fibrous substance composing most of the stem and branches of a tree or shrub, and lying beneath the bark; the xylem.
2. the trunks or main stems of trees as suitable for architectural and other purposes; timber or lumber.

Lumber
Timber or logs especially when sawed or split into planks, boards, etc.

Answer 7

Timber:

Trees or wooded land considered as a source of wood.
Wood used as a building material; lumber.

Wood:

The secondary xylem of trees and shrubs, lying beneath the bark and consisting largely of cellulose and lignin.
This tissue, often cut and dried especially for use as building material and fuel.

So you see, a stand of trees still standing intended to be used as lumber can be called timber and it is still in tree form; whereas wood is not in tree form it is in board or plank form, based on that information.

Answer 8

Timber usually means wood that can be used commercially eg for construction, paper etc.
Wood is just the basic raw material.

Answer 9

timber is a wood bar using for construction purpose mainly.

Answer 10

wood is generally assumed to mean unprocessed raw material
(or a stand of trees) timber is processed by sawing into various sizes & shapes.

Answer 11

Essentially nothing, but the term timber is used more often to refer to prepared (i.e. cut) wood.