Lumber vs Bound - What's the difference?
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(uncountable) Wood intended as a building material.
* 1782, H. de Crèvecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer
Useless things that are stored away
* 1711, Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism
A pawnbroker's shop, or room for storing articles put in pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn.
* Lady Murray
to move clumsily
* 1816, Sir Walter Scott, The Antiquary
to load down with things, to fill, to encumber
* 1822, Sir Walter Scott, Peveril of the Peak
To heap together in disorder.
* Rymer
To fill or encumber with lumber.
(bind)
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, chapter=1 (with infinitive) Obliged (to).
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, chapter=5 (with infinitive) Very likely (to).
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(mathematics, logic, of a variable) Constrained by a quantifier.
(dated) constipated; costive
(often, used in plural) A boundary, the border which one must cross in order to enter or leave a territory.
(mathematics) a value which is known to be greater or smaller than a given set of values
To surround a territory or other geographical entity.
(mathematics) To be the boundary of.
A sizeable jump, great leap.
A spring from one foot to the other in dancing.
(dated) A bounce; a rebound.
To leap, move by jumping.
To cause to leap.
(dated) To rebound; to bounce.
(dated) To cause to rebound; to throw so that it will rebound; to bounce.
(obsolete) ready, prepared.
ready, able to start or go (to); moving in the direction (of).
Lumber is a related term of bound.
In lang=en terms the difference between lumber and bound
is that lumber is to load down with things, to fill, to encumber while bound is to cause to leap.As nouns the difference between lumber and bound
is that lumber is (uncountable) wood intended as a building material while bound is (often|used in plural) a boundary, the border which one must cross in order to enter or leave a territory or bound can be a sizeable jump, great leap.As verbs the difference between lumber and bound
is that lumber is to move clumsily while bound is (bind) or bound can be to surround a territory or other geographical entity or bound can be to leap, move by jumping.As an adjective bound is
(with infinitive) obliged (to) or bound can be (obsolete) ready, prepared.lumber
English
(wikipedia lumber)Noun
(-)- 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 ;
- The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, / With loads of learned lumber in his head,
- They put all the little plate they had in the lumber , which is pawning it, till the ships came.
Synonyms
* timber * woodVerb
(en verb)- ...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.
- 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.
- stuff lumbered together
- to lumber up a room
Anagrams
* * English terms with unknown etymologiesbound
English
Alternative forms
* bownd (archaic)Etymology 1
See bindVerb
(head)citation, passage=“[…] Captain Markam had been found lying half-insensible, gagged and bound , on the floor of the sitting-room, his hands and feet tightly pinioned, and a woollen comforter wound closely round his mouth and neck?; whilst Mrs. Markham's jewel-case, containing valuable jewellery and the secret plans of Port Arthur, had disappeared. […]”}}
- ''I bound the splint to my leg.
- ''I had bound the splint with duct tape.
Adjective
(-)citation, passage=Then I had a good think on the subject of the hocussing of Cigarette, and I was reluctantly bound to admit that once again the man in the corner had found the only possible solution to the mystery.}}
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.}}
Antonyms
* freeDerived terms
* bound to * I'll be boundEtymology 2
From (etyl) bounde, from (etyl) bunne, fromNoun
(en noun)- I reached the northern bound of my property, took a deep breath and walked on.
- Somewhere within these bounds you may find a buried treasure.
Derived terms
* boundary * boundless * harmonic bounding * least upper bound * lower bound * metes and bounds * out of bounds * upper bound * within boundsVerb
(en verb)- ''France, Portugal, Gibraltar and Andorra bound Spain.
- ''Kansas is bounded by Nebraska on the north, Missouri on the east, Oklahoma on the south and Colorado on the west.
Derived terms
* unbound * unboundedEtymology 3
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- ''The deer crossed the stream in a single bound .
- the bound of a ball
- (Johnson)
Derived terms
* by leaps and boundsVerb
(en verb)- ''The rabbit bounded down the lane.
- to bound a horse
- (Shakespeare)
- a rubber ball bounds on the floor
- to bound a ball on the floor
Derived terms
* reboundEtymology 4
Alteration of boun , with -d partly for euphonic effect and partly by association with Etymology 1, above.Adjective
(en adjective)- ''Which way are you bound ?
- ''Is that message bound for me?
