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I rarely ever put my head above the rampart and see where this big lumbering behemoth called 'global literature' is going.
David Mitchell

Meaning of "lumbering" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF LUMBERING

lumbering  [ˈlʌmbərɪŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF LUMBERING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Lumbering is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES LUMBERING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

lumbering

Logging

Logging is the cutting, skidding, on-site processing, and loading of trees or logs onto trucks or skeleton cars. In forestry, the term logging is sometimes used in a narrow sense concerning the logistics of moving wood from the stump to somewhere outside the forest, usually a sawmill or a lumber yard. However, in common usage, the term may be used to indicate a range of forestry or silviculture activities. Illegal logging refers to what in forestry might be called timber theft by the timber mafia. It can also refer to the harvest, transportation, purchase or sale of timber in violation of laws. The harvesting procedure itself may be illegal, including using corrupt means to gain access to forests; extraction without permission or from a protected area; the cutting of protected species; or the extraction of timber in excess of agreed limits. Clearcut logging is not necessarily considered a type of logging but a harvest or silviculture method and is simply called clearcutting or block cutting. In the forest products industry logging companies may be referred to as logging contractors, with the smaller, non-union crews referred to as "gyppo loggers.

Definition of lumbering in the English dictionary

The definition of lumbering in the dictionary is the business or trade of cutting, transporting, preparing, or selling timber.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH LUMBERING


bearing
ˈbɛərɪŋ
catering
ˈkeɪtərɪŋ
considering
kənˈsɪdərɪŋ
during
ˈdjʊərɪŋ
engineering
ˌɛndʒɪˈnɪərɪŋ
half-timbering
ˌhɑːfˈtɪmbərɪŋ
jabbering
ˈdʒæbərɪŋ
labouring
ˈleɪbərɪŋ
manufacturing
ˌmænjʊˈfæktʃərɪŋ
monitoring
ˈmɒnɪtərɪŋ
neighboring
ˈneɪbərɪŋ
neighbouring
ˈneɪbərɪŋ
numbering
ˈnʌmbərɪŋ
offering
ˈɒfərɪŋ
slumbering
ˈslʌmbərɪŋ
sobering
ˈsəʊbərɪŋ
timbering
ˈtɪmbərɪŋ
unremembering
ˌʌnrɪˈmembərɪŋ
unslumbering
ʌnˈslʌmbərɪŋ
wearing
ˈwɛərɪŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE LUMBERING

lumbaginous
lumbago
lumbang
lumbar
lumbar puncture
lumber
lumber mill
lumber room
lumberer
lumberingly
lumberingness
lumberjack
lumberjack shirt
lumberjacket
lumberly
lumberman
lumbermen
lumbersome
lumberyard
lumbosacral

WORDS THAT END LIKE LUMBERING

bring
civil engineering
electrical engineering
empowering
fingering
flattering
flowering
gathering
hovering
lettering
lowering
mechanical engineering
ordering
pioneering
recovering
rendering
steering
suffering
wandering
watering
wondering

Synonyms and antonyms of lumbering in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «LUMBERING»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «lumbering» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of lumbering

Translation of «lumbering» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF LUMBERING

Find out the translation of lumbering to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of lumbering from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «lumbering» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

伐木
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

lumbering
570 millions of speakers

English

lumbering
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

लकड़ी काटने के काम
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

التثاقل
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

лесопиления
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

serração de madeira
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

জগদ্দল
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

exploitation forestière
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Lumbering
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Holzfällerei
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

製材業
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

육중
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Lumbering
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nặng nề
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

lumbering
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कामावर लाळ लावणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

hantal
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

lumbering
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

niezdarny
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

лісопиляння
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

forestieră
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

υλοτομία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

voortsjokkend
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

lufsande
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

tømmerhogst
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of lumbering

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «LUMBERING»

The term «lumbering» is regularly used and occupies the 83.924 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «LUMBERING» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «lumbering» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «lumbering» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about lumbering

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QUOTES WITH «LUMBERING»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word lumbering.
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David Mitchell
I rarely ever put my head above the rampart and see where this big lumbering behemoth called 'global literature' is going.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LUMBERING»

Discover the use of lumbering in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to lumbering and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Mississippi Harvest: Lumbering in the Longleaf Pine Belt, ...
In this classic work of Mississippi history, Nollie W. Hickman relates the felling of great. forests of longleaf pine in a southern state where lumbering became a mighty industry.
Nollie Hickman, 2009
2
Lumbering: Webster's Quotations, Facts and Phrases
Familiar Quotations Lumbering ndash; AwkwardI must say, I don't feel very qualified to be a pop star.
‎2008
3
Logging and Lumbering in Maine
Logging and Lumbering in Maine traces these developments in the industry, taking a close look at the people, places, forests, and machines that made them possible.
Donald A. Wilson, 2001
4
Lumbering Community Gr. 3-4
-D» -» -» -DI' -I> -II' -D' -» -Div -D -» A LUMBERING COMMUNITY I TEACHER INPUT IDEAS i. introduce the topic "A Lumbering Community" with a good film on trees, timber, lumbering or making paper. e.g. Ti-Jean Goes Lumbering Let's Visit  ...
Ruth Solski, 1987
5
Longman Geography 7
j Case Study 8 Lumberjacks of Canada • Learning Focus • What is lumbering? • What are the products obtained from lumbering? • Who are lumberjacks? • What sort of life do the lumberjacks lead? • What are the different stages involved in ...
Mukherjee Anuradha, 2008
6
Longman Geography ICSE 9
Snap Recap <p Lumbering is the process of cutting and preparing forest timber to be transported for sale. The people who carry out lumbering are called lumberjacks. • Sixty per cent of Canada is covered by coniferous or boreal forests that ...
Duggal, Duggal Gita
7
Odd jobs in lumbering
Describes various jobs in the lumbering industry, explaining the origins of their picturesque names which have been handed down from the early generations of loggers, such as the whistle punk, bucker, fernhopper, or peeler picker.
Alma Deane MacConomy, 1968
8
Lumbering in the Sugar and Yellow Pine Region of California
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
Swift Berry, 2012
9
Discover Geography Class - 7 (revised)
The Lumberjacks of Canada Lumbering means the cutting down of soft wooded trees and changing them into useful products. Some of the soft wooded trees are spruce, fir, pine, larch and cedar. The products that they give are:- a. Different ...
Jaya Balagopal, 2006
10
Lumber Kings and Shantymen: Logging and Lumbering in the ...
The most obvious choice would be to move into lumbering. Like timbering, the lumber trade was also subject to boom-and-bust cycles, but it had several advantages. First, by sawing trees into boards and planks, the lumberman wasted far less ...
David Lee, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LUMBERING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term lumbering is used in the context of the following news items.
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How a man with a sousaphone ruined a KKK march - 9news.com.au
Mr Buck took out his sousaphone - an instrument very similar to a marching tuba - and began playing a comical, lumbering tune to make them ... «9news.com.au, Jul 15»
2
Rapid Reaction: Atlanta Braves 7, Los Angeles Dodgers 5 - Los …
... of that in the eighth inning. With nobody out, Gonzalez tried lumbering home from second on Scott Van Slyke's ground-ball single to left field. «ESPN, Jul 15»
3
Folly at PennDOT: The state should eliminate license plate stickers …
The aged, lumbering beast that is the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation has proposed a shockingly modern idea: ending the ... «Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Jul 15»
4
Lakers' 2015-16 roster has high number of questions, low expectations
The lumbering Hibbert can concentrate on blocking shots and working on his 44.6% accuracy from the field last season, perilously low for a ... «Los Angeles Times, Jul 15»
5
Why Your Team Sucks 2015: Tampa Bay Buccaneers - Deadspin
Don't try to sell me on this lumbering turnover machine before I've seen his fat ass play a single down. Fuck you for openly trying to polish that ... «Deadspin, Jul 15»
6
'True Detective' is not a good show - Business Insider
At its core, though, "True Detective" is just as lumbering and dull as it has always been, and we should've known all along. I mean, it's called ... «Business Insider, Jul 15»
7
2015 NHL off-season's 10 best hirings of coaches, GMs - NHL - SI.com
Of course, Arizona also picked up lumbering winger John Scott, who is best known for slinging his fists. We'll see how those moves, and the ... «SI.com, Jul 15»
8
Cultivating Home Amidst a Large, Lush West Village Garden …
"This sleigh chair is kind of nutty," she says of the lumbering leather-bound piece positioned under the window in her living room, "I'm not even ... «Curbed NY, Jul 15»
9
For NHTSA's Mark Rosekind, automakers need to be more proactive …
But Rosekind, who has been viewed as a proactive reformer of an otherwise lumbering organization, said the agency had already outlined 45 ... «MLive.com, Jul 15»
10
Author Stephen Witt searches for pirates in How Music Got Free …
Well, not quite: only the big groups, with big money (and big sponsorships) to support their lumbering infrastructure, rake in the big bucks. «Montreal Gazette, Jul 15»

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