Lumber vs Hurry - 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.
Rushed action.
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Urgency.
(sports) In American football, an incidence of a defensive player forcing the quarterback to act faster than the quarterback was prepared to, resulting in a failed offensive play.
(label) To do things quickly.
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*:There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.Stewards, carrying cabin trunks, swarm in the corridors. Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry , with futile energy, from place to place.
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=19 (label) Often with (up), to speed up the rate of doing something.
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(label) To cause to be done quickly.
(label) To hasten; to impel to greater speed; to urge on.
*(Robert South) (1634–1716)
*:Impetuous lust hurries him on.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:They hurried him aboard a bark.
(label) To impel to precipitate or thoughtless action; to urge to confused or irregular activity.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:And wild amazement hurries up and down / The little number of your doubtful friends.
Lumber is a related term of hurry.
As nouns the difference between lumber and hurry
is that lumber is (uncountable) wood intended as a building material while hurry is rushed action.As verbs the difference between lumber and hurry
is that lumber is to move clumsily while hurry is (label) to do things quickly.lumber
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(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 etymologieshurry
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Derived terms
* in a hurryVerb
(en-verb)citation, passage=When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. He had him gripped firmly by the arm, since he felt it was not safe to let him loose, and he had no immediate idea what to do with him.}}
