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Meaning: [wood in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/wood/). - Ce jouet est en **bois**. That toy is made of **wood**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Zifre · checked, community translation · [\#68727](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/68727) [\#453768](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/453768)) - --S'il faut fendre du **bois**, je suis là, moi! “If there’s any **wood** to be split, I’m there!” ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 17444) - Nous buvons notre eau à prix d’argent, Nous payons notre **bois**. We must pay for water to drink. Our **wood** is sold to us. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LAM 5:4) - Sans la sylviculture, il n'y a pas d'industrie du **bois**. Without forestry there can be no **wood** industry. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 146797) - Morceaux de **bois** de chêne Pieces of oak **wood** ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 4962142) ## timber Used about 9 484 times in the texts (literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 9 · parliamentary ≈ 367 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 091 · UN documents ≈ 8 016). Meaning: [timber in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/timber/). - Ce promeneur, s'il se risquait au delà des quatre murs caducs de ce Marché-aux-Chevaux, s'il consentait même à dépasser la rue du Petit-Banquier, après avoir laissé à sa droite un courtil gardé par de hautes murailles, puis un pré où se dressaient des meules de tan pareilles à des huttes de castors gigantesques, puis un enclos encombré de **bois** de charpente avec des tas de souches, de sciures et de copeaux en haut desquels aboyait un gros chien, puis un long mur bas tout en ruine, avec une petite porte noire et en deuil, chargé de mousses qui s'emplissaient de fleurs au printemps, puis, au plus désert, une affreuse bâtisse décrépite sur laquelle on lisait en grosses lettres: DEFENSE D'AFFICHER, ce promeneur hasardeux atteignait l'angle de la rue des Vignes-Saint-Marcel, latitudes peu connues. The rambler, if he risked himself outside the four decrepit walls of this Marché-aux-Chevaux; if he consented even to pass beyond the Rue du Petit-Banquier, after leaving on his right a garden protected by high walls; then a field in which tan-bark mills rose like gigantic beaver huts; then an enclosure encumbered with **timber**, with a heap of stumps, sawdust, and shavings, on which stood a large dog, barking; then a long, low, utterly dilapidated wall, with a little black door in mourning, laden with mosses, which were covered with flowers in the spring; then, in the most deserted spot, a frightful and decrepit building, on which ran the inscription in large letters: POST NO BILLS,—this daring rambler would have reached little known latitudes at the corner of the Rue des Vignes-Saint-Marcel. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 9309) - Que l’on me prépare du **bois** en abondance, car la maison que je vais bâtir sera grande et magnifique. even to prepare **timber** in abundance for me; for the house which I am about to build will be great and wonderful. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2CH 2:9) - La possession et la vente de ce **bois** ne sont même pas reconnues directement comme des délits. Even the possession and sale of this **timber** are not recognised directly as criminal offences. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1146395) - Documents de transport des grumes ou du **bois** Log or **timber** transport documents ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 120229) - Comité du **bois** 60e session ECE/TIM/99 **Timber** Committee 60th session ECE/TIM/99 ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 10605484) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Il vit tout seul dans les **bois**. He lives in the woods all by himself. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by TRANG and shanghainese · checked, community translation · [\#292902](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/292902) [\#339574](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/339574)) - Oh que j'aime cette vie des **bois**, s'écria tout à coup Tom après un long silence, en se prélassant sur sa couverture. Oh, I love life in the woods, declared Tom suddenly after a long silence, while he was relaxing on his blanket. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#1930541](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1930541) [\#1928302](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1928302)) - Je ne **bois** pas de bière. I don't drink beer. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#1312848](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1312848) [\#1313163](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1313163)) ## Grammar Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-fr/) · [translating into English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-en/). ## About these examples Translations are found by how often the two words stand in the same sentence pairs, and the highlighted words are matched automatically: both are approximate. Counts are estimated from a sample of each source. 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