What's the difference between limbered and lumbered?
Limbered
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Limber
Example Sentences:
(1) Carriers of the other defect genes have no advantage for milk production, are scored lower for pelvic angle, and limber leg carriers have more desirable udders.
(2) The New York Times opened a report from London thus: "While the world's athletes limber up in the Olympic Park, Londoners are practising some of their own favourite sports: complaining, expecting the worst and cursing the authorities."
(3) Of the two schedules the first one (without a preliminary "limbering" rotation) was more favourable.
(4) Left to its own devices, the world is still planning to spend the next decade or two mostly limbering up, engaging in the kind of impressive-looking stretching that runners enjoy at the start line.
(5) There are rumours that this production of Company is limbering up to transfer to the West End.
(6) LIVE ON BIG WEBSITE LATER Transfer-deadline-day-short-straw-puller Rob Bagchi is limbering up as we type, with – and we kid you not – a computer keyboard and computer mouse in front of him.
(7) In a centrifuge with a 1 m radius 18 animals got ventro-dorsal gravitation stress according to schedule N 1 (with limberung-up) and 18 animals according to schedule N 2 got gravitation stress without limbering-up.
(8) Proteinase K, the extracellular serine endopeptidase (E.C.3.4.21.14) from the fungus Tritirachium album limber, is homologous to the bacterial subtilisin proteases.
(9) The team looked flat and strangely subdued and the crowd longed for Ronaldo's arrival, howling his name and enthusiastically rising to their feet when he appeared on the touchline to limber up.
(10) Now the candidates for the position of chancellor after the election will be limbering up for Monday's debate .
(11) A number of proteinases are induced and secreted into the culture medium of Tritirachium album Limber when the nitrogen source is limited to exogenous proteins.
(12) The program must be tailored to the patient, starting with relaxation and gentle limbering exercises and proceeding ultimately to vigorous muscle-stretching exercises.
(13) British bookmakers remain among the favourites to triumph in the World Cup – they'll take up to £600m online according to a new report by Regulus Insights and Sporting Index – and one of our teams, Betfair , will limber up for the big event this week by unveiling its annual results.
(14) This was not a great way for Tottenham to limber up for the new Premier League season, which kicks off for them at Manchester United at lunchtime on Saturday, as they were convincingly beaten by Real Madrid .
(15) Therefore, routine limbering-up is recommended before sports activities.
(16) Schedule N2 (18 rotations without a preliminary limbering-up) proved to be more effective.
(17) Proteinase K (EC 3.4.21.14) from the fungus Tritirachium album Limber is the most active known serine endopeptidase.
(18) We have isolated the genomic and cDNA clones encoding a novel proteinase from the fungus Tritirachium album Limber, named proteinase T, synthesis of which is induced in skim milk medium.
(19) The cDNA and the chromosomal gene encoding proteinase K from Tritirachium album Limber have been cloned in Escherichia coli and the entire nucleotide sequences of the coding region, as well as 5'- and 3'-flanking regions have been determined.
(20) Otherwise the Premier League champions in waiting did not move outside the Midlands and seemed more than content to limber up for the campaign with friendlies at Lincoln, Mansfield, Burton and Birmingham.
Lumbered
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Lumber
Example Sentences:
(1) Consider the open joke that was the repeated European bank stress tests ; the foot-dragging of the central bankers to quell financial panic; the IMF report last week showing that even if Greece took the troika’s medicine it would still be lumbered with “unsustainable” debt .
(2) Why, then, lumber quality papers that already believe in compliance with the enhanced cost of monitoring the Star and Express ?
(3) The ability to use cyclitols as a sole source of carbon can explain the high cell densities of Klebsielleae in redwood water reservoirs and in redwood lumber.
(4) If the Spaniard’s bad luck in hitting a post was expected, the sight of Stambouli, a lumbering figure in the first 45 minutes, confidently sweeping home the rebound certainly prompted a double take.
(5) A gritty town battered by the decline of its lumber industry, it is mocked as hicksville by its rival, snootier neighbour, the university city Eugene, which Groening renamed Shelbyville.
(6) This study addresses 27 patients who had undergone their first lumber discoidectomy and never had any contact with psychiatry.
(7) At times the two had fun simply passing to each other, making jokes about Carsten Jancker as the huge striker lumbered after the ball.
(8) Across this relatively peaceful corner of the Horn of Africa, where black-headed sheep scamper among the thorn bushes, dainty gerenuk balance on their hind legs to nibble from hardy shrubs, and skinny camels wearing rough-hewn bells lumber over rocky slopes, people long accustomed to a harsh environment find they cannot cope after years of below-average rainfall.
(9) The thinktank claims that independence would allow Scotland to radically overhaul and improve on the UK's lumbering and inefficient tax system, but it would face tough choices on how to balance its books.
(10) All were localized in or below the apical vertebra in the lumber or the lower thoracic spine.
(11) While Jackie, 43, titivates her fleet of irritable lapdogs, David, 74, lumbers around like an elderly labrador in beige utility shorts, barking about third parties and negative equity into his mobile headset, one ear forever scanning the distance for the elusive squawk of an incremental loan agreement.
(12) It enables the flow of CSF in response to pressure pulses to be measured whilst allowing the simultaneous measurement of pressure through a lumber puncture needle.
(13) The literatures of spinal epidural hematoma located in the thoraco-lumber region were reviewed.
(14) For males, positive associations were observed for chewing pine products and for employment in the lumber and textile industries.
(15) I took a lot of pictures of him and there's one where he's wearing my lumber jacket and I just knew he was going to make it.
(16) Design and technology is struggling to shake off a dreary image and is lumbered with a perception that it is secondary to so-called academic subjects.
(17) "I've had a lot more fun watching and arguing about the Twilight movies than I ever had with the Star Wars saga, that lumbering, narratively hobbled space opera," he blasphemed recently .
(18) Until there is a complete clearout, I think that this company will lumber from one quarter to the next and present no real vision about how it becomes a proper technology company again."
(19) The centre of gravity in the global economy has moved from Europe , which looks old-fashioned and lumbering in a world of rapid innovation and loose networks.
(20) One fraction from the aqueous extract of the lumber induced a positive skin test, Prausnitz-Kustner test and the inhalation test.