- things made of wood in a building or room, such as doors and stairs
- The woodwork needs painting.
- There were cracks in the woodwork.
- elaborately/intricately carved woodwork
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- exterior
- interior
- carved
- …
- paint
- varnish
- in the woodwork
- (British English) (also woodworking North American English, British English)the activity or skill of making things from woodTopics Hobbiesc2
Idioms
See woodwork in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionaryblend/fade into the woodwork
- (informal) to behave in a way that does not attract any attention; to disappear or hide
come/crawl out of the woodwork
- (informal, disapproving) if you say that somebody comes/crawls out of the woodwork, you mean that they have suddenly appeared in order to express an opinion or to take advantage of a situation
- When he won the lottery, all sorts of distant relatives came out of the woodwork.
hit/strike the woodwork
- (British English, informal) to hit the wooden frame of the goal in the game of football (soccer), instead of scoring a goal
- She hit the woodwork twice before scoring.
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