Lumber vs. Slumber — What's the Difference?

Lumber, also known as timber, is wood that has been processed into beams and planks, a stage in the process of wood production. Lumber is mainly used for structural purposes but has many other uses as well.

To sleep.

Timber sawed into boards, planks, or other structural members of standard or specified length.

To be dormant or quiescent.

Something useless or cumbersome.

To pass (time) in sleep

Chiefly British Miscellaneous stored articles.

Sleep.

To cut down (trees) and prepare as marketable timber.

A state of inactivity or dormancy.

To cut down the timber of.

A very light state of sleep, almost awake.

Chiefly British To clutter with or as if with unused articles.

(figurative) A state of ignorance or inaction.

To cut and prepare timber for marketing.

The snooze button on an alarm clock.

To walk or move clumsily or heavily.

(intransitive) To be in a very light state of sleep, almost awake.

To move with a rumbling noise.

(intransitive) To be inactive or negligent.

(North America) Wood sawn into planks or otherwise prepared for sale or use, especially as a building material.

To lay to sleep.

Old furniture or other items that take up room, or are stored away.

To stun; to stupefy.

(figurative) Useless or cumbrous material.

To sleep; especially, to sleep lightly; to doze.

(obsolete) A pawnbroker's shop, or room for storing articles put in pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn.

To be in a state of negligence, sloth, supineness, or inactivity.

A baseball bat.

To lay to sleep.

An erect penis.

To stun; to stupefy.

(intransitive) To move clumsily and heavily; to move slowly.

Sleep; especially, light sleep; sleep that is not deep or sound; repose.

To load down with things, to fill, to encumber, to impose an unwanted burden on.

A natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended;

To heap together in disorder.

A dormant or quiescent state

To fill or encumber with lumber.

Be asleep

A pawnbroker's shop, or room for storing articles put in pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn.

Old or refuse household stuff; things cumbrous, or bulky and useless, or of small value.

Timber sawed or split into the form of beams, joists, boards, planks, staves, hoops, etc.; esp., that which is smaller than heavy timber.

To heap together in disorder.

To fill or encumber with lumber; as, to lumber up a room.

To move heavily, as if burdened.

To make a sound as if moving heavily or clumsily; to rumble.

To cut logs in the forest, or prepare timber for market.

The wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material

An implement used in baseball by the batter

Move heavily or clumsily;

Cut lumber, as in woods and forests