Plank (wood)
Encyclopedia
A plank is a piece of timber
, flat, elongated and rectangular, with parallel faces, higher or longer than wide, used in the construction of ship
s, house
s, bridge
s, etc...
Usually from sawn timber, more than 38 mm thick, and generally wider than 63 mm. If the width is less than 63 mm and the thickness less than 38 mm is called board
.
It also receives the name of board a panel of wood or other material (composed of one piece of board or more) which is normally hung on a wall with announcements to be read by a certain audience (for example a bulletin). From these words derives the term for the digital bulletin board Bulletin board System
s, walkway
s, ship
s or house
s, including flooring, coverings and furniture
. They also served as a support to form a shelf or table (for storing food
, object
s, etc...). It originates in the habitat of the Neolithic
house, the shepherd used them to cure the cheese
(let them dry on long planks).
The plank has been in the past, the basis of maritime transport. The planks of wood float on the water
, and they are easy to be machined, so, during many centuries, they were used as the "primary material" in ship
building, until they have been replaced by other materials (steel
, aluminium
, fiberglass
, etc..) in modern times.
, flat, elongated and rectangular, with parallel faces, higher or longer than wide, used in the construction of ship
s, house
s, bridge
s, etc...
Usually from sawn timber, more than 38 mm thick, and generally wider than 63 mm. If the width is less than 63 mm and the thickness less than 38 mm is called board
.
It also receives the name of board a panel of wood or other material (composed of one piece of board or more) which is normally hung on a wall with announcements to be read by a certain audience (for example a bulletin). From these words derives the term for the digital bulletin board Bulletin board System
s, walkway
s, ship
s or house
s, including flooring, coverings and furniture
. They also served as a support to form a shelf or table (for storing food
, object
s, etc...). It originates in the habitat of the Neolithic
house, the shepherd used them to cure the cheese
(let them dry on long planks).
The plank has been in the past, the basis of maritime transport. The planks of wood float on the water
, and they are easy to be machined, so, during many centuries, they were used as the "primary material" in ship
building, until they have been replaced by other materials (steel
, aluminium
, fiberglass
, etc..) in modern times.
, flat, elongated and rectangular, with parallel faces, higher or longer than wide, used in the construction of ship
s, house
s, bridge
s, etc...
Usually from sawn timber, more than 38 mm thick, and generally wider than 63 mm. If the width is less than 63 mm and the thickness less than 38 mm is called board
.
It also receives the name of board a panel of wood or other material (composed of one piece of board or more) which is normally hung on a wall with announcements to be read by a certain audience (for example a bulletin). From these words derives the term for the digital bulletin board Bulletin board System
s, walkway
s, ship
s or house
s, including flooring, coverings and furniture
. They also served as a support to form a shelf or table (for storing food
, object
s, etc...). It originates in the habitat of the Neolithic
house, the shepherd used them to cure the cheese
(let them dry on long planks).
The plank has been in the past, the basis of maritime transport. The planks of wood float on the water
, and they are easy to be machined, so, during many centuries, they were used as the "primary material" in ship
building, until they have been replaced by other materials (steel
, aluminium
, fiberglass
, etc..) in modern times.
Image: The 'Single Plank' Bridge - geograph.org.uk - 258321.jpg|Bridge made with two planks
Image: Plank bridge - geograph.org.uk - 96485.jpg|One plank Bridge
Image: Plank Bridge - geograph.org.uk - 209703.jpg|Bridge made with several planks
Image: Two-plank footbridge to stairs across water.jpg|Bridge made with several planks
Timber
Timber may refer to:* Timber, a term common in the United Kingdom and Australia for wood materials * Timber, Oregon, an unincorporated community in the U.S...
, flat, elongated and rectangular, with parallel faces, higher or longer than wide, used in the construction of ship
Ship
Since the end of the age of sail a ship has been any large buoyant marine vessel. Ships are generally distinguished from boats based on size and cargo or passenger capacity. Ships are used on lakes, seas, and rivers for a variety of activities, such as the transport of people or goods, fishing,...
s, house
House
A house is a building or structure that has the ability to be occupied for dwelling by human beings or other creatures. The term house includes many kinds of different dwellings ranging from rudimentary huts of nomadic tribes to free standing individual structures...
s, bridge
Bridge
A bridge is a structure built to span physical obstacles such as a body of water, valley, or road, for the purpose of providing passage over the obstacle...
s, etc...
Usually from sawn timber, more than 38 mm thick, and generally wider than 63 mm. If the width is less than 63 mm and the thickness less than 38 mm is called board
Lumber
Lumber or timber is wood in any of its stages from felling through readiness for use as structural material for construction, or wood pulp for paper production....
.
It also receives the name of board a panel of wood or other material (composed of one piece of board or more) which is normally hung on a wall with announcements to be read by a certain audience (for example a bulletin). From these words derives the term for the digital bulletin board Bulletin board System
BBS
-Technologies:* Bulletin Board System, a computer that allows users to dial into the system over a phone line or telnet connection* BIOS Boot Specification, a system firmware specification related initial program load...
Usage
Since ancient times planks sawn from logs were used to build bridgeBridge
A bridge is a structure built to span physical obstacles such as a body of water, valley, or road, for the purpose of providing passage over the obstacle...
s, walkway
Walkway
In US English, a walkway is a composite or umbrella term for all engineered surfaces or structures which support the use of trails. These include sidewalks, footbridges, stiles, stairs, ramps, paseos or tunnels...
s, ship
Ship
Since the end of the age of sail a ship has been any large buoyant marine vessel. Ships are generally distinguished from boats based on size and cargo or passenger capacity. Ships are used on lakes, seas, and rivers for a variety of activities, such as the transport of people or goods, fishing,...
s or house
House
A house is a building or structure that has the ability to be occupied for dwelling by human beings or other creatures. The term house includes many kinds of different dwellings ranging from rudimentary huts of nomadic tribes to free standing individual structures...
s, including flooring, coverings and furniture
Furniture
Furniture is the mass noun for the movable objects intended to support various human activities such as seating and sleeping in beds, to hold objects at a convenient height for work using horizontal surfaces above the ground, or to store things...
. They also served as a support to form a shelf or table (for storing food
Food
Food is any substance consumed to provide nutritional support for the body. It is usually of plant or animal origin, and contains essential nutrients, such as carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, or minerals...
, object
Object
Object may refer to:* Object , a thing, being or concept** Entity, something that is tangible and within the grasp of the senses* As used in object relations theories of psychoanalysis, that to which a subject relates....
s, etc...). It originates in the habitat of the Neolithic
Neolithic
The Neolithic Age, Era, or Period, or New Stone Age, was a period in the development of human technology, beginning about 9500 BC in some parts of the Middle East, and later in other parts of the world. It is traditionally considered as the last part of the Stone Age...
house, the shepherd used them to cure the cheese
Cheese
Cheese is a generic term for a diverse group of milk-based food products. Cheese is produced throughout the world in wide-ranging flavors, textures, and forms....
(let them dry on long planks).
The plank has been in the past, the basis of maritime transport. The planks of wood float on the water
Water
Water is a chemical substance with the chemical formula H2O. A water molecule contains one oxygen and two hydrogen atoms connected by covalent bonds. Water is a liquid at ambient conditions, but it often co-exists on Earth with its solid state, ice, and gaseous state . Water also exists in a...
, and they are easy to be machined, so, during many centuries, they were used as the "primary material" in ship
Ship
Since the end of the age of sail a ship has been any large buoyant marine vessel. Ships are generally distinguished from boats based on size and cargo or passenger capacity. Ships are used on lakes, seas, and rivers for a variety of activities, such as the transport of people or goods, fishing,...
building, until they have been replaced by other materials (steel
Steel
Steel is an alloy that consists mostly of iron and has a carbon content between 0.2% and 2.1% by weight, depending on the grade. Carbon is the most common alloying material for iron, but various other alloying elements are used, such as manganese, chromium, vanadium, and tungsten...
, aluminium
Aluminium
Aluminium or aluminum is a silvery white member of the boron group of chemical elements. It has the symbol Al, and its atomic number is 13. It is not soluble in water under normal circumstances....
, fiberglass
Fiberglass
Glass fiber is a material consisting of numerous extremely fine fibers of glass.Glassmakers throughout history have experimented with glass fibers, but mass manufacture of glass fiber was only made possible with the invention of finer machine tooling...
, etc..) in modern times.
Examples
A plank is a piece of timberTimber
Timber may refer to:* Timber, a term common in the United Kingdom and Australia for wood materials * Timber, Oregon, an unincorporated community in the U.S...
, flat, elongated and rectangular, with parallel faces, higher or longer than wide, used in the construction of ship
Ship
Since the end of the age of sail a ship has been any large buoyant marine vessel. Ships are generally distinguished from boats based on size and cargo or passenger capacity. Ships are used on lakes, seas, and rivers for a variety of activities, such as the transport of people or goods, fishing,...
s, house
House
A house is a building or structure that has the ability to be occupied for dwelling by human beings or other creatures. The term house includes many kinds of different dwellings ranging from rudimentary huts of nomadic tribes to free standing individual structures...
s, bridge
Bridge
A bridge is a structure built to span physical obstacles such as a body of water, valley, or road, for the purpose of providing passage over the obstacle...
s, etc...
Usually from sawn timber, more than 38 mm thick, and generally wider than 63 mm. If the width is less than 63 mm and the thickness less than 38 mm is called board
Lumber
Lumber or timber is wood in any of its stages from felling through readiness for use as structural material for construction, or wood pulp for paper production....
.
It also receives the name of board a panel of wood or other material (composed of one piece of board or more) which is normally hung on a wall with announcements to be read by a certain audience (for example a bulletin). From these words derives the term for the digital bulletin board Bulletin board System
BBS
-Technologies:* Bulletin Board System, a computer that allows users to dial into the system over a phone line or telnet connection* BIOS Boot Specification, a system firmware specification related initial program load...
Usage
Since ancient times planks sawn from logs were used to build bridgeBridge
A bridge is a structure built to span physical obstacles such as a body of water, valley, or road, for the purpose of providing passage over the obstacle...
s, walkway
Walkway
In US English, a walkway is a composite or umbrella term for all engineered surfaces or structures which support the use of trails. These include sidewalks, footbridges, stiles, stairs, ramps, paseos or tunnels...
s, ship
Ship
Since the end of the age of sail a ship has been any large buoyant marine vessel. Ships are generally distinguished from boats based on size and cargo or passenger capacity. Ships are used on lakes, seas, and rivers for a variety of activities, such as the transport of people or goods, fishing,...
s or house
House
A house is a building or structure that has the ability to be occupied for dwelling by human beings or other creatures. The term house includes many kinds of different dwellings ranging from rudimentary huts of nomadic tribes to free standing individual structures...
s, including flooring, coverings and furniture
Furniture
Furniture is the mass noun for the movable objects intended to support various human activities such as seating and sleeping in beds, to hold objects at a convenient height for work using horizontal surfaces above the ground, or to store things...
. They also served as a support to form a shelf or table (for storing food
Food
Food is any substance consumed to provide nutritional support for the body. It is usually of plant or animal origin, and contains essential nutrients, such as carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, or minerals...
, object
Object
Object may refer to:* Object , a thing, being or concept** Entity, something that is tangible and within the grasp of the senses* As used in object relations theories of psychoanalysis, that to which a subject relates....
s, etc...). It originates in the habitat of the Neolithic
Neolithic
The Neolithic Age, Era, or Period, or New Stone Age, was a period in the development of human technology, beginning about 9500 BC in some parts of the Middle East, and later in other parts of the world. It is traditionally considered as the last part of the Stone Age...
house, the shepherd used them to cure the cheese
Cheese
Cheese is a generic term for a diverse group of milk-based food products. Cheese is produced throughout the world in wide-ranging flavors, textures, and forms....
(let them dry on long planks).
The plank has been in the past, the basis of maritime transport. The planks of wood float on the water
Water
Water is a chemical substance with the chemical formula H2O. A water molecule contains one oxygen and two hydrogen atoms connected by covalent bonds. Water is a liquid at ambient conditions, but it often co-exists on Earth with its solid state, ice, and gaseous state . Water also exists in a...
, and they are easy to be machined, so, during many centuries, they were used as the "primary material" in ship
Ship
Since the end of the age of sail a ship has been any large buoyant marine vessel. Ships are generally distinguished from boats based on size and cargo or passenger capacity. Ships are used on lakes, seas, and rivers for a variety of activities, such as the transport of people or goods, fishing,...
building, until they have been replaced by other materials (steel
Steel
Steel is an alloy that consists mostly of iron and has a carbon content between 0.2% and 2.1% by weight, depending on the grade. Carbon is the most common alloying material for iron, but various other alloying elements are used, such as manganese, chromium, vanadium, and tungsten...
, aluminium
Aluminium
Aluminium or aluminum is a silvery white member of the boron group of chemical elements. It has the symbol Al, and its atomic number is 13. It is not soluble in water under normal circumstances....
, fiberglass
Fiberglass
Glass fiber is a material consisting of numerous extremely fine fibers of glass.Glassmakers throughout history have experimented with glass fibers, but mass manufacture of glass fiber was only made possible with the invention of finer machine tooling...
, etc..) in modern times.
Examples
A plank is a piece of timberTimber
Timber may refer to:* Timber, a term common in the United Kingdom and Australia for wood materials * Timber, Oregon, an unincorporated community in the U.S...
, flat, elongated and rectangular, with parallel faces, higher or longer than wide, used in the construction of ship
Ship
Since the end of the age of sail a ship has been any large buoyant marine vessel. Ships are generally distinguished from boats based on size and cargo or passenger capacity. Ships are used on lakes, seas, and rivers for a variety of activities, such as the transport of people or goods, fishing,...
s, house
House
A house is a building or structure that has the ability to be occupied for dwelling by human beings or other creatures. The term house includes many kinds of different dwellings ranging from rudimentary huts of nomadic tribes to free standing individual structures...
s, bridge
Bridge
A bridge is a structure built to span physical obstacles such as a body of water, valley, or road, for the purpose of providing passage over the obstacle...
s, etc...
Usually from sawn timber, more than 38 mm thick, and generally wider than 63 mm. If the width is less than 63 mm and the thickness less than 38 mm is called board
Lumber
Lumber or timber is wood in any of its stages from felling through readiness for use as structural material for construction, or wood pulp for paper production....
.
It also receives the name of board a panel of wood or other material (composed of one piece of board or more) which is normally hung on a wall with announcements to be read by a certain audience (for example a bulletin). From these words derives the term for the digital bulletin board Bulletin board System
BBS
-Technologies:* Bulletin Board System, a computer that allows users to dial into the system over a phone line or telnet connection* BIOS Boot Specification, a system firmware specification related initial program load...
Usage
Since ancient times planks sawn from logs were used to build bridgeBridge
A bridge is a structure built to span physical obstacles such as a body of water, valley, or road, for the purpose of providing passage over the obstacle...
s, walkway
Walkway
In US English, a walkway is a composite or umbrella term for all engineered surfaces or structures which support the use of trails. These include sidewalks, footbridges, stiles, stairs, ramps, paseos or tunnels...
s, ship
Ship
Since the end of the age of sail a ship has been any large buoyant marine vessel. Ships are generally distinguished from boats based on size and cargo or passenger capacity. Ships are used on lakes, seas, and rivers for a variety of activities, such as the transport of people or goods, fishing,...
s or house
House
A house is a building or structure that has the ability to be occupied for dwelling by human beings or other creatures. The term house includes many kinds of different dwellings ranging from rudimentary huts of nomadic tribes to free standing individual structures...
s, including flooring, coverings and furniture
Furniture
Furniture is the mass noun for the movable objects intended to support various human activities such as seating and sleeping in beds, to hold objects at a convenient height for work using horizontal surfaces above the ground, or to store things...
. They also served as a support to form a shelf or table (for storing food
Food
Food is any substance consumed to provide nutritional support for the body. It is usually of plant or animal origin, and contains essential nutrients, such as carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, or minerals...
, object
Object
Object may refer to:* Object , a thing, being or concept** Entity, something that is tangible and within the grasp of the senses* As used in object relations theories of psychoanalysis, that to which a subject relates....
s, etc...). It originates in the habitat of the Neolithic
Neolithic
The Neolithic Age, Era, or Period, or New Stone Age, was a period in the development of human technology, beginning about 9500 BC in some parts of the Middle East, and later in other parts of the world. It is traditionally considered as the last part of the Stone Age...
house, the shepherd used them to cure the cheese
Cheese
Cheese is a generic term for a diverse group of milk-based food products. Cheese is produced throughout the world in wide-ranging flavors, textures, and forms....
(let them dry on long planks).
The plank has been in the past, the basis of maritime transport. The planks of wood float on the water
Water
Water is a chemical substance with the chemical formula H2O. A water molecule contains one oxygen and two hydrogen atoms connected by covalent bonds. Water is a liquid at ambient conditions, but it often co-exists on Earth with its solid state, ice, and gaseous state . Water also exists in a...
, and they are easy to be machined, so, during many centuries, they were used as the "primary material" in ship
Ship
Since the end of the age of sail a ship has been any large buoyant marine vessel. Ships are generally distinguished from boats based on size and cargo or passenger capacity. Ships are used on lakes, seas, and rivers for a variety of activities, such as the transport of people or goods, fishing,...
building, until they have been replaced by other materials (steel
Steel
Steel is an alloy that consists mostly of iron and has a carbon content between 0.2% and 2.1% by weight, depending on the grade. Carbon is the most common alloying material for iron, but various other alloying elements are used, such as manganese, chromium, vanadium, and tungsten...
, aluminium
Aluminium
Aluminium or aluminum is a silvery white member of the boron group of chemical elements. It has the symbol Al, and its atomic number is 13. It is not soluble in water under normal circumstances....
, fiberglass
Fiberglass
Glass fiber is a material consisting of numerous extremely fine fibers of glass.Glassmakers throughout history have experimented with glass fibers, but mass manufacture of glass fiber was only made possible with the invention of finer machine tooling...
, etc..) in modern times.
Examples
Image: The 'Single Plank' Bridge - geograph.org.uk - 258321.jpg|Bridge made with two planks
Image: Plank bridge - geograph.org.uk - 96485.jpg|One plank Bridge
Image: Plank Bridge - geograph.org.uk - 209703.jpg|Bridge made with several planks
Image: Two-plank footbridge to stairs across water.jpg|Bridge made with several planks