What's the difference between lumber and trudge?

Lumber


Definition:

  • (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.

Trudge


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To walk or march with labor; to jog along; to move wearily.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It was a moment’s relief in what is becoming an endless trudge on the road to recovery.
  • (2) 7:23pm: Out trudge the players, looking tense - perhaps because of the stakes of the match, or maybe because of all the formalities Fifa make them endure before kick-off.
  • (3) Then they trudged through heavy, deep snow and climbed up to another ridge.
  • (4) Some of these measures appeared to be lifted over the weekend, but as thousands trudged or bussed their way towards Austria and then Germany, the dismal scenes in Hungary will stain one administration’s human rights record – and perhaps the reputation of a nation.
  • (5) Crunching their way gingerly along pavements scattered with de-icing salt, they hurried from shop to shop – young mothers wheeling pushchairs, older women leaning heavily on shopping trolleys, men trudging alongside their partners, laden with carrier bags.
  • (6) Blood gutters brightly against his green gown, yet the man doesn't shudder or stagger or sink but trudges towards them on those tree-trunk legs and rummages around, reaches at their feet and cops hold of his head and hoists it high, and strides to his steed, snatches the bridle, steps into the stirrup and swings into the saddle still gripping his head by a handful of hair.
  • (7) The rest of us may be baffled that the slowest trudge out of recession in history has been followed by the fastest growth of any advanced economy.
  • (8) They come to us alive with intentionality, describing themselves in movement, waltzing through the ballroom, trudging through the marsh after wildfowl, racing horses, cutting hay.
  • (9) Two days later, with the snow falling hard, I trudge across town to Nymphomaniac's base camp.
  • (10) There was a something of an installation art mystery tonight after the sudden closure of the Tate Modern's Turbine Hall , where visitors have been enjoyably trudging through and relaxing on the artist Ai Weiwei's vast grey field of 100m sunflower seeds.
  • (11) After consoling a dejected Johnson-Thompson, who finished her heptathlon with a slow trudge round the 800m, Ennis-Hill refocused for a javelin competition that she knew could all but secure victory.
  • (12) Visitors to their new European home will soon be able to observe the pair in captivity, while rangers in their homeland are trudging through forests, collecting DNA samples and logging droppings and paw prints.
  • (13) On what was to become a hot and nearly cloudless day Canadians trudged towards the site, most wearing the national colours, many carrying maple leaf flags in their hair or on their baseball caps or T-shirts.
  • (14) Delegates trudge past youth protesters doing street theatre or interpretive dance with barely a glance.
  • (15) At first, they simply trudged across the rolling landscapes, randomly attacking the sheep, cows and ducks that graze each Minecraft world.
  • (16) Lessons learned ... Feminism is dead Over the 476 minutes of vampires, wolves and long, lingering looks, Bella's life (much like life after 30) is a depressing trudge towards marriage and babies.
  • (17) I trudged for hours on footpaths without seeing anyone.
  • (18) Ordinary citizens trudge in from work, there's a warm murmur of chat, they sing the first few notes of A Little Respect, and we step from the grey of the outside streets into a sunnier, brighter world.
  • (19) So, I will have to continue trudging down to one or other of the local hospitals for treatment, and get the snuffles, or worse, on the way.
  • (20) As we left the intimate cocoon of the pub, my bouncy excitement became more of a trudge as, heart in mouth, I babbled and swore, and panicked that I couldn't do it, terrified that stage fright and nerves would overtake me, and that my tentative voice would abandon me altogether.