"woodwork" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: woodworks [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English woodewerk (“carpentry”), equivalent to wood + work. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|woodewerk|t=carpentry}} Middle English woodewerk (“carpentry”), {{compound|en|wood|work}} wood + work Head templates: {{en-noun|-|s}} woodwork (usually uncountable, plural woodworks)
  1. (uncountable, countable) Something made from wood, especially cabinets and trim (e.g., baseboards, doorframes) made from millwork. Tags: countable, uncountable, usually
    Sense id: en-woodwork-en-noun-ojimtNSO Categories (other): English links with manual fragments, English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -work Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 24 21 20 7 17 11 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -work: 16 24 15 3 12 29
  2. (uncountable) Working with wood. Tags: uncountable, usually Synonyms: woodworking Translations (handiwork of wood): дървени изделия (dǎrveni izdelija) [neuter, plural] (Bulgarian), puutyö (Finnish), puuesine (Finnish), Holzverarbeitung [feminine] (German), дрвена́рија (drvenárija) [feminine] (Macedonian), ağaç işi (Turkish) Translations (working with wood): træsløjd [common-gender] (Danish), puutyöt [plural] (Finnish), Tischlerei [feminine] (German), ξυλουργική (xylourgikí) [feminine] (Greek), adhmadóireacht [feminine] (Irish), obair adhmaid [feminine] (Irish), saoirseacht adhmaid [feminine] (Irish), дрво́делство (drvódelstvo) [neuter] (Macedonian), taratarai (Maori), trearbeid [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), trearbeid [neuter] (Norwegian Nynorsk), madeirame [masculine] (Portuguese), träslöjd [common-gender] (Swedish), slöjd [common-gender] (Swedish), doğramacılık (Turkish), marangozluk (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-woodwork-en-noun-pQVcVb8H Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -work Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 24 21 20 7 17 11 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -work: 16 24 15 3 12 29 Disambiguation of 'handiwork of wood': 33 46 19 1 1 Disambiguation of 'working with wood': 5 90 3 0 1
  3. (only in plural, often in proper names) A workshop or factory devoted to making wood products. Tags: plural, uncountable, usually Translations (a woodworking shop or factory): snikkeri [neuter] (Danish), puusepänliike (Finnish), charpenterie [feminine] (French), Schreinerei [feminine] (German), Tischlerei [feminine] (German), carpintería [feminine] (Spanish), marangozhane (Turkish) Translations (wood product): træarbejde [neuter] (Danish), puutuote (Finnish), Holzarbeit [feminine] (German), trearbeid [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), trearbeid [neuter] (Norwegian Nynorsk), Holtoabeit [feminine] (Plautdietsch), madeirame [masculine] (Portuguese), maderamen (Spanish), maderaje (Spanish), carpintería (Spanish), ağaç işi (Turkish), doğrama işi (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-woodwork-en-noun-7FLzulPG Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -work Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 24 21 20 7 17 11 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -work: 16 24 15 3 12 29 Disambiguation of 'a woodworking shop or factory': 9 23 66 1 1 Disambiguation of 'wood product': 21 28 51 0 0
  4. (figurative, by extension) A place of concealment or obscurity. Tags: broadly, figuratively, uncountable, usually
    Sense id: en-woodwork-en-noun-D5P9RxmI Categories (other): English terms with collocations
  5. (soccer, rugby) The frame of the goal, i.e. the goalpost or crossbar. Tags: uncountable, usually Categories (topical): Football (soccer), Rugby Translations (goalpost or crossbar): maalitolppa (Finnish), ylärima (Finnish), δοκάρι (dokári) [neuter] (Greek), målram [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-woodwork-en-noun-F8NRilpc Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -work Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 24 21 20 7 17 11 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -work: 16 24 15 3 12 29 Topics: ball-games, games, hobbies, lifestyle, rugby, soccer, sports Disambiguation of 'goalpost or crossbar': 4 4 3 1 88
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: come out of the woodwork

Verb

Forms: woodworks [present, singular, third-person], woodworking [participle, present], woodworked [participle, past], woodworked [past]
Etymology: From Middle English woodewerk (“carpentry”), equivalent to wood + work. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|woodewerk|t=carpentry}} Middle English woodewerk (“carpentry”), {{compound|en|wood|work}} wood + work Head templates: {{en-verb}} woodwork (third-person singular simple present woodworks, present participle woodworking, simple past and past participle woodworked)
  1. (LGBT, dated) To go completely stealth as a transgender person. (From the idea of fading or blending into the woodwork.) Tags: dated Categories (topical): LGBT, Transgender Related terms: closeted [adjective], out [adjective], out [transitive]
    Sense id: en-woodwork-en-verb-mEQgcMzm Disambiguation of Transgender: 12 9 9 1 8 60 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -work Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 24 21 20 7 17 11 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 18 18 18 9 13 24 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 17 17 17 10 13 26 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -work: 16 24 15 3 12 29 Topics: LGBT, lifestyle, sexuality

Inflected forms

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        "plural"
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      "sense": "handiwork of wood",
      "word": "puuesine"
    },
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      "sense": "handiwork of wood",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "Holzverarbeitung"
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      "tags": [
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      "word": "дрвена́рија"
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      "sense": "handiwork of wood",
      "word": "ağaç işi"
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      "word": "puutuote"
    },
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      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "wood product",
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      "word": "Holzarbeit"
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      "code": "es",
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      "word": "maderamen"
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      "code": "es",
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      "word": "maderaje"
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To go completely stealth as a transgender person. (From the idea of fading or blending into the woodwork.)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "LGBT",
          "LGBT"
        ],
        [
          "stealth",
          "stealth"
        ],
        [
          "transgender",
          "transgender"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(LGBT, dated) To go completely stealth as a transgender person. (From the idea of fading or blending into the woodwork.)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "LGBT",
        "lifestyle",
        "sexuality"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "woodwork"
}

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