lumbering

• صفة تصف شخصًا أو شيئًا يتحرك ببطء وثقل وعدم رشاقة. وتُستخدم أيضًا لوصف الشيء الضخم الثقيل الذي يصعب تحريكه أو التعامل معه.

Describes a person or thing that moves in a slow, heavy, and awkward way.

1. Slow and heavyB2formal

   Moving in a slow, heavy, and awkward way, typically due to large size or weight.

   بطيء وثقيل

   • The lumbering elephant made its way through the jungle.
   • A lumbering truck slowly climbed the steep hill.
   • His lumbering gait made him easy to spot in a crowd.

   المرادفاتawkwardclumsycumbersomeheavyheavy-footedlaboredlumpishponderousslow-movingungainly

   الأضدادagilegracefullightnimblequickswift

• صناعة أو تجارة قطع الأشجار وتجهيز الأخشاب ونشرها وبيعها.

The trade or business of cutting, preparing, and selling timber.

غير معدود

1. Timber tradeB2formal

   The business or activity of cutting, preparing, and selling timber.

   تجارة الأخشاب

   • Lumbering is a major industry in the Pacific Northwest.
   • He worked in lumbering for over twenty years.
   • The region's economy relies heavily on lumbering.

   المرادفاتlogging

• فعل يدل على الحركة ببطء وثقل وعدم رشاقة، أو على إثقال كاهل شخص بشيء غير مرغوب فيه.

A verb used to indicate the act of moving in a slow, heavy, and awkward way, or to burden someone with something unwanted.

1. Move heavily and clumsilyB2formal

   To move in a slow, heavy, and awkward way.

   التحرك بثقل وترهّل

   • The bear lumbered through the forest.
   • He lumbered up the stairs, exhausted.
   • The old truck lumbered down the dirt road.

   المرادفاتclumpgalumphlurchplodshamblestaggerstumptrudgewaddle

   الأضدادboundglideskipsprint

2. Cut and prepare timberB2formal

   To cut down trees and prepare them for use as wood.

   قطع الأخشاب وتجهيزها

   • They lumbered the forest for construction materials.
   • The company has been lumbering in this region for decades.
   • Workers lumbered the pine trees for export.

   المرادفاتfellhewlogsaw