(n.) A pawnbroker's shop, or room for storing articles put in pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn.
(n.) Old or refuse household stuff; things cumbrous, or bulky and useless, or of small value.
(n.) Timber sawed or split into the form of beams, joists, boards, planks, staves, hoops, etc.; esp., that which is smaller than heavy timber.
(b. t.) To heap together in disorder.
(b. t.) To fill or encumber with lumber; as, to lumber up a room.
(v. i.) To move heavily, as if burdened.
(v. i.) To make a sound as if moving heavily or clumsily; to rumble.
(v. i.) To cut logs in the forest, or prepare timber for market.
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.
Sticker
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, sticks; as, a bill sticker.
(n.) That which causes one to stick; that which puzzles or poses.
(n.) In the organ, a small wooden rod which connects (in part) a key and a pallet, so as to communicate motion by pushing.
(n.) Same as Paster, 2.
Example Sentences:
(1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A sticker worn on the shirt an attendee at a New York City landmarks commission meeting.
(2) But all that has changed since I discovered the sheer joy of hunting down items with “reduced” stickers at my local Waitrose.
(3) A silent protester cries while wearing a sticker over her mouth signifying the loss in wages from the right-to-work law in Lansing, Michigan, on 12 December 2012.
(4) Following that, they were given a sticker and told that a bigger selection was on its way.
(5) Here, you pass cars with large stickers pronouncing “Real Men Shoot Wolves” to show support for six local poachers who were imprisoned for illegal hunting last year .
(6) Their antennae, which purported to detect explosives, and in other cases narcotics, were not connected to anything, they had no power source and one of the devices was simply the golf ball finder with a different sticker on it.
(7) Various methods of capturing charges for supplies stocked on nursing units have been devised, such as stickers and charge slips attached to the items.
(8) Today, under ice and snow and behind the crowds of shoppers and tourists, little evidence remains of the terror – though on a metal railing on the pavement outside the Forum, a sticker shows a yellow and blue ribbon – the colors of the marathon finish line – and the post-attack slogan “ Boston Strong ”.
(9) Living well with dementia means more than signs and stickers and a memory clinic,” Ward says.
(10) Numerous educational materials were developed including training manuals, counseling booklets, tippee cups, posters, and bumper stickers.
(11) This study assessed the effects of dashboard stickers and signature sheets on safety belt use among occupants of state-owned vehicles in three Florida agencies.
(12) The album comes with a starter pack of 31 stickers, but I usually top it up straight away with an extra five or six packs to stop it looking too empty.
(13) Stickers and posters then began to appear around the New York suburb of Astoria before the organisation opened a branch there.
(14) They have decorated a box with stickers of sunflowers and, as part of Islam’s therapy, they are placing their mother’s possessions in it.
(15) In the meantime other icons of the Confederacy – flags, monuments, markers, license plates and bumper stickers on automobiles – are increasingly drawing petitions around the country.
(16) Others break up bits of old computers and DVD players for recycling, fitting together U-bends, applying stickers on radiator caps, and building bird tables, bug hotels and hedgehog boxes for sale.
(17) That campaign started spontaneously when five Surbiton secretaries volunteered to work an extra half an hour each day without pay in order to boost productivity, and urged the rest of the country to follow their initiative, prompting "I'm backing Britain" stickers and badges across the country in a post World Cup wave of patriotism.
(18) BITS AND BOBS A Colombian teacher has been accused of pilfering stickers from pupils to complete his own Panini World Cup album.
(19) Open 10am-11pm, but closed for refurbishment until July 2012 Purikura no Mecca Photograph: Alamy Having first appeared in the mid-1990s, sticker photo machines, aka purikura or "print club", are now a cultural mainstay – whether on a date or with friends, Japanese teens have become obsessed with posing for snaps in these increasingly ubiquitous booths.
(20) Someone has already put a sticker on the road sign at the entrance of the village celebrating it as Mladic's last home before he was found.