softwood – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
softwood
n.
any wood that is light and easy to cut; tree having soft wood
SoftWood
SoftWood, Inc. (founded as
SoftWood Company in
Santa Barbara, California) was a
computer systems
software company defunct in 2008 and based in
Phoenix, AZ. Known products are:
- GSFile (Apple II)
- MiAmiga File, File II
- Pen Pal
- Proper Grammar II
- Electric Thesaurus
- Final Copy II (support for PostScript Type 1 Fonts and standard Amiga Compugraphic fonts)
- SoftFaces Vol. 1, 2, 3, 4 (Nimbus Q from Digital Typeface Corp. and Generic typefaces from URW, GmbH)
- SoftClips Vol. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
- Final Calc
- Final Data
- Final Writer (AmigaOS, Windows)
- SWdownload (converts Nimbus Q to PFA)
Softwood
Softwood is
wood from
gymnosperm trees such as
conifers. Softwood is the source of about 80% of the world's production of
timber, with traditional centres of production being the
Baltic region (including
Scandinavia and
Russia),
North America and China. The term is opposed to
hardwood, which is the wood from
angiosperm trees. Softwoods are not necessarily softer than hardwoods. In both groups there is an enormous variation in actual wood hardness, with the range in density in hardwoods completely including that of softwoods; some hardwoods (e.g.
balsa) are softer than most softwoods, while the hardest hardwoods are much harder than any softwood. The woods of
longleaf pine,
douglas fir, and
yew are much harder in the mechanical sense than several
hardwoods.
softwood
Noun
1. wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir)
(synonym) deal
(hypernym) wood
(hyponym) pulpwood
Adjective
1. made of the easy-to-cut wood of a coniferous tree, as e.g. pine; "softwood lumber"
(antonym) hardwood
softwood
n.
měkké dřevo
softwood
Synonyms and related words:
arborary, arboreal, arboreous, arborescent, arboresque, arborical, arboriform, beam, billet, board, boarding, bushlike, bushy, citrous, clapboard, coniferous, cord, cordwood, deal, deciduous, dendriform, dendritic, dendroid, driftwood, evergreen, firewood, hardwood, lath, lathing, lathwork, log, lumber, nondeciduous, panelboard, paneling, panelwork, piny, plank, planking, plyboard, plywood, pole, post, puncheon, scrubbly, scrubby, scrublike, shake, sheathing, sheathing board, sheeting, shingle, shrubby, shrublike, sideboard, siding, slab, slat, splat, stave, stick, stick of wood, stovewood, three-by-four, timber, timbering, timberwork, treelike, two-by-four, weatherboard, wood
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
