lumber

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İnşaat veya eşya yapımı için tahta ya da başka parçalar halinde kesilmiş ahşap.

Basit İngilizce açıklama: Wood cut into boards or other pieces for building or making things.

• We need lumber for the new shed.
• The truck delivered lumber to the building site.
• Lumber prices rose again this year.

Eş anlamlılar: timber

Sık kullanılan kalıplar: lumber yard, lumber prices, pine lumber

hantalca yürümek, ağır ağır ilerlemek

Bedeni ağırmış gibi yavaş ve hantal biçimde hareket etmek.

Basit İngilizce açıklama: To move slowly and awkwardly, as if your body is heavy.

• The bear lumbered through the forest.
• He lumbered up the stairs with his bags.
• A huge truck was lumbering along the narrow road.

Nasıl kullanılır: lumber along/across/into somewhere (The bear lumbered across the road.)

Eş anlamlılar: trudge, plod

Sık kullanılan kalıplar: lumber along, lumber toward someone, lumber up stairs

yüklemek, başına sarmak

Birine istemediği, uğraşması zor bir iş, sorun veya sorumluluk yüklemek.

Basit İngilizce açıklama: To give someone an unwanted job, problem, or responsibility that is difficult to deal with.

• They lumbered me with the extra work.
• She was lumbered with debts after the business failed.
• Why am I always lumbered with organizing everything?

Nasıl kullanılır: lumber someone with something (They lumbered me with all the cleaning.); be lumbered with something (We were lumbered with a huge bill.)

Eş anlamlılar: burden, saddle

Sık kullanılan kalıplar: lumber someone with something, lumber someone with paperwork

ıvır zıvırla doldurmak

Bir yeri istenmeyen mobilya veya başka eşyalarla doldurup sıkışık hale getirmek.

Basit İngilizce açıklama: To fill a place with unwanted furniture or other things so that it becomes crowded.

• Old furniture lumbered the narrow hall.
• They lumbered up the attic with broken chairs.
• The spare room was lumbered with boxes.

Nasıl kullanılır: lumber something up with something (They lumbered the room up with old chairs.)

Eş anlamlılar: clutter, encumber

Sık kullanılan kalıplar: lumber up something, lumber a room