different between lumber vs glide
lumber
English
Etymology
Exact origin unknown. The earliest recorded reference was to heavy, useless objects such as old, discarded furniture. Perhaps from the verb lumber in reference to meaning "awkward to move". Possibly influenced by Lumbar, an obsolete variant of Lombard, the Italian immigrant class known for being pawnbrokers and money-lenders in early England.
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: l?m?b? IPA(key): /?l?m.b?/
- (US) enPR: l?m?b?r IPA(key): /?l?m.b?/
- Rhymes: -?mb?(r)
Noun
lumber (usually uncountable, plural lumbers)
- (now rare) Old furniture or other items that take up room, or are stored away. [from 16th c.]
- 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, vol. III, ch. 88:
- I was visited by the duke of L—, a friend of my lord, who found me sitting upon a trunk, in a poor little dining-room filled with lumber, and lighted with two bits of tallow-candle, which had been left over night.
- 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, vol. III, ch. 88:
- (figuratively) Useless or cumbrous material. [from 17th c.]
- 1711, Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism:
- The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, / With loads of learned lumber in his head, […]
- 1711, Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism:
- (obsolete) A pawnbroker's shop, or room for storing articles put in pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn. [17th–18th c.]
- a. 1746, Lady Grisell Baillie Murray, Memoirs of the Lives and Characters of the Right Honourable George Baillie
- They put all the little plate they had […] in the lumber, which is pawning it, till the ships came.
- a. 1746, Lady Grisell Baillie Murray, Memoirs of the Lives and Characters of the Right Honourable George Baillie
- (Canada, US) Wood sawn into planks or otherwise prepared for sale or use, especially as a building material. [from 17th c.]
- 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 […] .
- 1883, Chester A. Arthur, Third State of the Union Address, 4 December:
- The resources of Alaska, especially in fur, mines, and lumber, are considerable in extent and capable of large development, while its geographical situation is one of political and commercial importance.;
- 1782, H. de Crèvecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer:
- (baseball, slang) A baseball bat.
Synonyms
- timber
- wood
Translations
Verb
lumber (third-person singular simple present lumbers, present participle lumbering, simple past and past participle lumbered)
- (intransitive) To move clumsily and heavily; to move slowly.
- 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.
- 2002, Russell Allen, "Incantations of the Apprentice", on Symphony X, The Odyssey.
- 1816, Sir Walter Scott, The Antiquary
- (transitive, with with) To load down with things, to fill, to encumber, to impose an unwanted burden on
- To heap together in disorder.
- 1677, Thomas Rymer, The Tragedies of the Last Age Consider'd
- so much stuff lumberd together
- 1677, Thomas Rymer, The Tragedies of the Last Age Consider'd
- To fill or encumber with lumber.
Related terms
- lumbering
- lumberingness
Translations
Anagrams
- Blumer, Bulmer, Rumble, rumble, umbrel
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glide
English
Etymology
From Middle English gliden, from Old English gl?dan, from Proto-West Germanic *gl?dan, from Proto-Germanic *gl?dan?, from Proto-Indo-European *??leyd?-.
Cognate with West Frisian glide, glydzje, Low German glieden, Dutch glijden, German gleiten, Norwegian Nynorsk gli, Danish glide, Swedish glida.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??la?d/
- Rhymes: -a?d
Verb
glide (third-person singular simple present glides, present participle gliding, simple past glided or glid or (archaic) glode, past participle glided or glid or glidden or (archaic) glode)
- (intransitive) To move softly, smoothly, or effortlessly.
- 1807, William Wordsworth, Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802, in Poems, in Two Volumes (Sonnet 14):
- The river glideth at his own sweet will:
- 1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life Chapter VI:
- The water over which the boats glided was black and smooth, rising into huge foamless billows, the more terrible because they were silent.
- 1807, William Wordsworth, Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802, in Poems, in Two Volumes (Sonnet 14):
- (intransitive) To fly unpowered, as of an aircraft. Also relates to gliding birds and flying fish.
- (transitive) To cause to glide.
- (phonetics) To pass with a glide, as the voice.
Synonyms
- (to move effortlessly): coast, slide
Translations
Noun
glide (plural glides)
- The act of gliding.
- (phonology) A transitional sound, especially a semivowel.
- Synonyms: semivowel, semiconsonant
- (fencing) An attack or preparatory movement made by sliding down the opponent’s blade, keeping it in constant contact.
- A bird, the glede or kite.
- A kind of cap affixed to the base of the legs of furniture to prevent it from damaging the floor.
- The joining of two sounds without a break.
- A smooth and sliding step in dancing the waltz.
Related terms
- glider
- gliding
- offglide, off-glide
- onglide, on-glide
Translations
Anagrams
- gelid, lidge, liged
Norwegian Nynorsk
Alternative forms
- glida (a infinitive)
- gli (short form)
Etymology
From Middle Low German gliden
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /²?li??/
Verb
glide (present tense glid, past tense gleid, past participle glidd or glitt or glide, present participle glidande, imperative glid)
- to slip (to lose one's traction on a slippery surface)
- to glide (to move effortlessly)
References
- “glide” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Volapük
Noun
glide
- dative singular of glid
West Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian gl?da, from Proto-West Germanic *gl?dan, from Proto-Germanic *gl?dan?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??lid?/, /??li?d?/
Verb
glide
- to glide, to slide
Inflection
Further reading
- “glide”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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