Cambers vs Cumbers - What's the difference?
cambers | cumbers |
(camber)
A slight convexity, arching or curvature of a surface of a road, a beam, roof deck, ship's deck etc., so that liquids will flow off the sides.
The slope of a curved road created to minimize the effect of centrifugal force.
(architecture) An upward concavity in the underside of a beam, girder, or lintel; also, a slight upward concavity in a straight arch.
(automotive) A vertical alignment of the wheels of a road vehicle with positive camber signifying that the wheels are closer together at the bottom than at the top.
The curvature of an airfoil.
(nautical) A small enclosed dock in which timber for masts (etc.) is kept to weather.
To curve upwards in the middle.
To adjust the camber of the wheels of a vehicle.
(cumber)
(dated) To slow down, to hinder, to burden.
* Dryden
* John Locke
* 1886 , Sir Walter Scott, The Fortunes of Nigel . Pub.: Adams & Charles Black, Edinburgh; page 321:
As verbs the difference between cambers and cumbers
is that cambers is third-person singular of camber while cumbers is third-person singular of cumber.cambers
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Verb
(head)camber
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Alternative forms
* cambre (chiefly obsolete)Noun
(-)Verb
- Because he cambered the tires too much, he had less control on the turns.
cumbers
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Verb
(head)Anagrams
*cumber
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Alternative forms
* cumbre (archaic)Verb
(en verb)- Why asks he what avails him not in fight, / And would but cumber and retard his flight?
- The multiplying variety of arguments, especially frivolous ones, but cumbers the memory.
- the base villain who murdered this poor defenceless old man, when he had not, by the course of nature, a twelvemonth's life in him, shall not cumber the earth long after him.