Dictionary entry

Lumber

Pronunciation: /ˈlʌmbə/

Pronunciation

/ˈlʌmbə/

Myanmar Meaning

(n) အသုံးမလိုသော ပရဘောဂအဟောင်းအမြင်း။ (v) အိပဲ့အိပဲ့နှင့်သွားသည်။

Definition

lumber 1 / 'lʌmbǝ(r) / n [U] ၁။ ( esp Brit ) အသံုးမလိုေသာ ပရိေဘာဂအေဟာင္းအျမင္း။ The lumber room is full of old chairs we’ll never use. ၂။ ( esp US ) = TIMBER ၁ v (က) ~ sb (with sb/sth ) (usu passive) သူတစ္ပါး ခါထုတ္သမွ် ကိုယ့္ေခါင္းေပၚက်လာသည္။ I got lumbered with the job of buying all the tickets. ❍ It looks as though we’re going to be lumbered with Uncle Bill for the whole weekend. (ခ) ~ sth (with sth) ( esp passive ) ဝန္ထုပ္ဝန္ပိုး ျဖစ္သည္။ I don’t want to be lumbered with too many books. lumber 2 / 'lʌmbǝ(r) / v အိပဲ့အိပဲ့ႏွင့္သြားသည္။ A huge lorry lumbered by/past. ❍ He lumbered out of bed and into the bathroom. ❍ the animal’s slow lumbering walk.

Examples

  1. [lumber someone with] : I’m sorry you’ve been lumbered with all the dirty jobs.