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Lumbering vs Walking - What's the difference?

lumbering | walking |

As nouns the difference between lumbering and walking

is that lumbering is the act of one who lumbers; heavy, clumsy movement while walking is .

As adjectives the difference between lumbering and walking

is that lumbering is clumsy or awkward while walking is as a human; living.

As a verb walking is

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lumbering

English

Noun

  • The act of one who lumbers; heavy, clumsy movement.
  • * 1887 , Hall Caine, The Deemster
  • Only the old harbor-master was there, singing out, as by duty bound, his lusty oaths at their lumberings .
  • (US) The business of felling trees for lumber.
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Clumsy or awkward.
  • Heavy, slow and laborious; ponderous.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Obama goes troll-hunting , passage=The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.}}

    walking

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • .
  • * 1878 , Anthony Trollope, Ayala's Angel
  • Mrs Dosett, aware that daintiness was no longer within the reach of her and hers, did assent to these walkings in Kensington Gardens.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author= Rob Dorit
  • , magazine=(American Scientist), title= These 'Bots Are Made for Walking , passage=Walking seems so simple: Just put one foot in front of the other. Yet every step you take is a precarious act. When you walk, your body’s center of mass is rarely located over one of your feet.}}

    Adjective

    (-)
  • as a human; living.
  • Elizabeth knows so many words that they call her the walking dictionary.
    Phil's mother is a walking miracle after surviving that accident.
  • Able to walk in spite of injury or sickness.
  • Characterized by or suitable for walking.
  • a walking tour
    good walking shoes

    Derived terms

    * walking bass * walking cane * walking carpet * walking cast * walking fern * walking frame * walking papers * walking patient * walking stick * walking wounded

    See also

    * shanks' pony