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Lug vs Lumber - What's the difference?

lug | lumber |

As an initialism lug

is (computing) (linux) user group.

As a noun lumber is

(uncountable) wood intended as a building material.

As a verb lumber is

to move clumsily.

lug

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of hauling or dragging.
  • a hard lug
  • That which is hauled or dragged.
  • The pack is a heavy lug .
  • Anything that moves slowly.
  • (Ascham)
  • A lug nut.
  • (electricity) A device for terminating an electrical conductor to facilitate the mechanical connection; to the conductor it may be crimped to form a cold weld, soldered or have pressure from a screw.
  • A part of something which sticks out, used as a handle or support.
  • A fool, a large man.
  • (UK) An ear or ear lobe.
  • A wood box used for transporting fruit or vegetables.
  • (slang) A request for money, as for political purposes.
  • They put the lug on him at the courthouse.
  • (UK, dialect) A rod or pole.
  • (Wright)
  • (UK, dialect) A measure of length equal to 16½ feet.
  • * Spenser
  • Eight lugs of ground.
  • (nautical) A lugsail.
  • (harness) The leather loop or ear by which a shaft is held up.
  • A lugworm.
  • Derived terms

    * (lug nut) lug nut * (large man) big lug * (protruding support) launch lug

    Verb

  • To haul or drag along (especially something heavy); to carry.
  • Why do you always lug around so many books?
  • * Collier
  • They must divide the image among them, and so lug off every one his share.
  • To run at too slow a speed.
  • When driving up a hill, choose a lower gear so you don't lug the engine.
  • (nautical) To carry an excessive amount of sail for the conditions prevailing.
  • Derived terms

    * luggage

    References

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    lumber

    English

    (wikipedia lumber)

    Noun

    (-)
  • (uncountable) Wood intended as a building material.
  • * 1782, H. de Crèvecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer
  • Here they live by fishing on the most plentiful coasts in the world; there they fell trees, by the sides of large rivers, for masts and lumber ;
  • Useless things that are stored away
  • * 1711, Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism
  • The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, / With loads of learned lumber in his head,
  • A pawnbroker's shop, or room for storing articles put in pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn.
  • * Lady Murray
  • They put all the little plate they had in the lumber , which is pawning it, till the ships came.

    Synonyms

    * timber * wood

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to move clumsily
  • * 1816, Sir Walter Scott, The Antiquary
  • ...he was only apprized of the arrival of the Monkbarns division by the gee-hupping of the postilion, as the post-chaise lumbered up behind him.
  • to load down with things, to fill, to encumber
  • * 1822, Sir Walter Scott, Peveril of the Peak
  • The mean utensils, pewter measures, empty cans and casks, with which this room was lumbered , proclaimed it that of the host, who slept surrounded by his professional implements of hospitality and stock-in-trade.
  • To heap together in disorder.
  • * Rymer
  • stuff lumbered together
  • To fill or encumber with lumber.
  • to lumber up a room