two-by-four
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3.1
- noun
- /ˈtuːbaɪˈfɔːr/
- Specialized
:
dos por cuatro
- Those tracks you see in the distance, extending out of the town, are nothing more than two-by-fours stacked one after another in a row.
- nail a two-by-four
- cut a two-by-four
- two-by-four frame
But we spent all day building this thing out of two by fours.
- But we spent all day building this thing out of two by fours.
- This is really simple, easy couple of two by fours, trim them up and, and just get that angle going.
- I got battered with every from baseball bats to two by fours cricket bats.
- When you see these, these two by fours, this is like, that's what my brain thinks of as the ER Lego, the ER Lego brick, the ER Lego brick.
Examples
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The minute the trees get big enough for timber, you'll just cut them down to make two-by-fours.
Fiction book (2002) -
There's some two-by-fours in the closet.
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I want you to cut off all the ends of all these two-by-fours.
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A ladder made from two-by-fours led up to it.
Fiction book (2002) -
The sweet fragrance of the milk drew it forward across the wooden two-by-fours of the bedroom floor.
Fiction book (1995) -
No, we use two by fours as the braces of this thing and like nailed them together.
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The back wall, the one made of plywood and two-by-fours, looked impressive, even intimidating, from this side.
Fiction book (1992) -
I'm using a reciprocating saw on these two-by-fours, it doesn't seem to work.
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He'd laid down two-by-fours and bolted them to the cement floor.
Fiction book (1993) -
To build the frame, we used several two-by-fours cut to the desired lengths.
Synonyms
274
1.0
A long flat piece of wood used for building or making furniture
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1.7
A long flat piece of wood used in building, like a floor or step
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Two-by-four comes from its simple size: two, by, four, meaning 'two inches by four inches', so the name tells you the common size of the wood used to build frames and walls.