different between cumbersome vs erg

English

Etymology

cumber (“hindrance”) +? -some.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?k?mb?s?m/

Adjective

cumbersome (comparative more cumbersome, superlative most cumbersome)

1. Burdensome or hindering, as a weight or drag; vexatious
2. Not easily managed or handled; awkward; clumsy.

   Cumbersome machines can endanger operators and slow down production.

3. Hard, difficult, demanding to handle or get around with.

   A slaves' work was as cumbersome as toiling on the fields, or in the mines.

4. Inert, lumbering, slow in movement

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:difficult

Derived terms

• cumbersomely
• cumbersomeness

Synonyms

• cumbrous
• unwieldy

Translations

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??/
• Rhymes: -??(r)?

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek ????? (érgon, “work”).

Noun

erg (plural ergs)

1. The unit of work or energy, being the amount of work done by a force of one dyne applied through a distance of one centimeter. Equal to 10^?7 joules.

Derived terms

• foe (unit of energy)

Translations

Etymology 2

From French erg, from Algerian Arabic ?????? (?erg), corresponding to Modern Standard Arabic ?????? (?irq).

Noun

erg (plural ergs or areg)

1. (geomorphology) A large desert region of sand dunes with little or no vegetation, especially in the Sahara.

Etymology 3

Shortening.

Noun

erg (plural ergs)

1. (rowing, slang) An ergometer.

Verb

erg (third-person singular simple present ergs, present participle erging, simple past and past participle erged)

1. (rowing, slang, transitive, intransitive) To use an ergometer.

Further reading

• Erg (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• EGR, GER, GRE, Ger, Ger., Ger??, Reg, ger, gre, reg

Catalan

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek ????? (érgon).

Noun

erg m (plural ergs)

1. erg (the unit of work or energy)

Etymology 2

From French erg.

Noun

erg m (plural ergs)

1. erg (large desert region)

Further reading

• “erg” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch arch, erch, from Old Dutch *arg, from Proto-Germanic *argaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?rx/, /??.r?x/
• Hyphenation: erg
• Rhymes: -?rx

Adjective

erg (comparative erger, superlative ergst)

1. serious, considerable, severe
2. awful, terrible

Inflection

Adverb

erg

1. very

   Het appartement was erg klein.

   The apartment was very small.

2. much; very much

   Ik haat het zo erg.

   I hate it so much.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???/

Etymology 1

From Algerian Arabic ?????? (?erg), corresponding to Modern Standard Arabic ?????? (?irq).

Noun

erg m (plural ergs)

1. erg (desert region)

Etymology 2

From Ancient Greek ????? (érgon, “work”).

Noun

erg m (plural ergs)

1. erg (unit of work done)

Anagrams

• gré

Further reading

• “erg” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Old Norse

Etymology

Borrowed from an Old Irish word.

Noun

erg n

1. a word of not entirely certain meaning, roughly shepherd's cottage or hill-pasture

Romanian

Etymology

From French erg

Noun

erg m (plural ergi)

1. erg

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From English erg.

Noun

erg m (plural ergs)

1. (geology, geography) erg