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lumber

/luhm-ber/US // ˈlʌm bər //UK // (ˈlʌmbə) //

木材,木材类,木材业,木材加工

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : timber sawed or split into planks, boards, etc.
    • : miscellaneous useless articles that are stored away.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to cut timber and prepare it for market.
    • : to become useless or to be stored away as useless.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to convert into lumber: We lumbered more than a million acres last year.
    • : to heap together in disorder.
    • : to fill up or obstruct with miscellaneous useless articles; encumber.

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Examples

  • Around 40% of all lumber goes toward repairing and remodeling homes, Jalbert says.

  • Jalbert at Fastmarkets RISI says lumber supplies will be encumbered for months, but could begin to level off by the end of the year.

  • This is a severe lumber shortage…Demand is hot and continues to be strong.

  • Given California’s increasing housing needs and greenhouse gas emission goals, California has a direct interest in consuming ecologically sourced lumber.

  • Its design is adapted from Herman Miller’s 2008 task chair model, which pays close attention to supporting the full length of a sitter’s back, beyond the lumber region.

  • The NOPD fired Knight in 1973 for stealing lumber from a construction site as an off-duty cop.

  • The judges noted that he told one of the officers he had “copped some lumber.”

  • Our inner cities are stacks of dry leaves and lumber, waiting for a spark.

  • Today, ton-sized pieces of lumber lay rotting in the cool morning air.

  • But his 8-year-old company could choose from a handful of lumber kilns within hours of the city.

  • The road had been built for bringing down lumber, and for six miles it was at perilous angles.

  • Scattergood fairly licked his lips as he thought of the millions upon millions of feet of spruce to be sawed into lumber.

  • But they can't run the mill without the log yard and the yard to pile out their lumber.

  • Next opening the false back of the cupboard, he passed through to the lumber-room beyond, and partly closed the second door.

  • The Spaniard's boat was lashed so that no mortal could get her clear, and the little craft was used as a sort of lumber-closet.