Lumber vs. Walk — 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.

Move at a regular pace by lifting and setting down each foot in turn, never having both feet off the ground at once

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

Guide, accompany, or escort (someone) on foot

Something useless or cumbersome.

(of a thing) go missing or be stolen

Chiefly British Miscellaneous stored articles.

Abandon or suddenly withdraw from a job or commitment

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

(of a batsman) leave the field without waiting to be given out by the umpire.

To cut down the timber of.

Reach first base automatically after not hitting at four balls pitched outside the strike zone.

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

(of a ghost) be visible; appear

To cut and prepare timber for marketing.

Live or behave in a particular way

To walk or move clumsily or heavily.

An act of travelling or an outing on foot

To move with a rumbling noise.

A route recommended or marked out for recreational walking

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

An unhurried rate of movement on foot

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

A part of a forest under one keeper.

(figurative) Useless or cumbrous material.

A farm where a hound puppy is trained.

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

An instance of reaching first base automatically after not hitting at four balls pitched outside the strike zone.

A baseball bat.

A flock of snipe.

An erect penis.

To move over a surface by taking steps with the feet at a pace slower than a run

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

To go or travel on foot

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

To go on foot for pleasure or exercise; stroll

To heap together in disorder.

To move in a manner suggestive of walking

To fill or encumber with lumber.

To conduct oneself or behave in a particular manner; live

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

To appear as a supernatural being

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

To go out on strike.

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

To resign from one's job abruptly; quit.

To heap together in disorder.

To be acquitted

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

(Baseball) To go to first base after the pitcher has thrown four pitches ruled as balls.

To move heavily, as if burdened.

(Basketball) To move illegally while holding the ball; travel.

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

(Obsolete) To be in constant motion.

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

To go or pass over, on, or through by walking

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

To bring to a specified condition by walking

An implement used in baseball by the batter

To cause to walk or proceed at a walk

Move heavily or clumsily;

To accompany in walking; escort on foot

Cut lumber, as in woods and forests

To traverse on foot in order to survey or measure; pace off

To move (a heavy or cumbersome object) in a manner suggestive of walking

To allow (a batter) to go to first base by throwing four pitches ruled as balls.

To cause (a run) to score by walking a batter. Often used with in.

The gait of a human or other biped in which the feet are lifted alternately with one part of a foot always on the ground.

The gait of a quadruped in which at least two feet are always touching the ground, especially the gait of a horse in which the feet touch the ground in the four-beat sequence of near hind foot, near forefoot, off hind foot, off forefoot.

The self-controlled extravehicular movement in space of an astronaut.

The act or an instance of walking, especially a stroll for pleasure or exercise.

The rate at which one walks; a walking pace.

The characteristic way in which one walks.

The distance covered or to be covered in walking.

A place, such as a sidewalk or promenade, on which one may walk.

A route or circuit particularly suitable for walking

(Baseball) A base on balls.

(Basketball) The act or an instance of moving illegally with the ball; traveling.

A track event in which contestants compete in walking a specified distance.

Racewalking.

An enclosed area designated for the exercise or pasture of livestock.

An arrangement of trees or shrubs planted in widely spaced rows.

The space between such rows.

(intransitive) To move on the feet by alternately setting each foot (or pair or group of feet, in the case of animals with four or more feet) forward, with at least one foot on the ground at all times. Compare run.

To "walk free", i.e. to win, or avoid, a criminal court case, particularly when actually guilty.

Of an object, to go missing or be stolen.

To walk off the field, as if given out, after the fielding side appeals and before the umpire has ruled; done as a matter of sportsmanship when the batsman believes he is out.

(transitive) To travel (a distance) by walking.

(transitive) To take for a walk or accompany on a walk.

To allow a batter to reach base by pitching four balls.

(transitive) To move something by shifting between two positions, as if it were walking.

(transitive) To full; to beat cloth to give it the consistency of felt.

(transitive) To traverse by walking (or analogous gradual movement).

To operate the left and right throttles of (an aircraft) in alternation.

To leave, resign.

(transitive) To push (a vehicle) alongside oneself as one walks.

To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct oneself.

To be stirring; to be abroad; to go restlessly about; said of things or persons expected to remain quiet, such as a sleeping person, or the spirit of a dead person.

(obsolete) To be in motion; to act; to move.

To put, keep, or train (a puppy) in a walk, or training area for dogfighting.

To move a guest to another hotel if their confirmed reservation is not available on day of check-in.

A trip made by walking.

A distance walked.

(sports) An Olympic Games track event requiring that the heel of the leading foot touch the ground before the toe of the trailing foot leaves the ground.

A manner of walking; a person's style of walking.

A path, sidewalk/pavement or other maintained place on which to walk.

(figurative) A person's conduct or course in life.

(poker) A situation where all players fold to the big blind, as their first action (instead of calling or raising), once they get their cards.

(baseball) An award of first base to a batter following four balls being thrown by the pitcher; known in the rules as a "base on balls".

In coffee, coconut, and other plantations, the space between them.

An area of an estate planted with fruit-bearing trees.

(historical) A place for keeping and training puppies for dogfighting.

(historical) An enclosed area in which a gamecock is confined to prepare him for fighting.

(graph theory) A sequence of alternating vertices and edges, where each edge's endpoints are the preceding and following vertices in the sequence.

(colloquial) Something very easily accomplished; a walk in the park.

A cheque drawn on a bank that was not a member of the London Clearing and whose sort code was allocated on a one-off basis; they had to be "walked" (hand-delivered by messengers).

To move along on foot; to advance by steps; to go on at a moderate pace; specifically, of two-legged creatures, to proceed at a slower or faster rate, but without running, or lifting one foot entirely before the other touches the ground.

To move or go on the feet for exercise or amusement; to take one's exercise; to ramble.

To be stirring; to be abroad; to go restlessly about; - said of things or persons expected to remain quiet, as a sleeping person, or the spirit of a dead person; to go about as a somnambulist or a specter.

To be in motion; to act; to move; to wag.

To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct one's self.

To move off; to depart.

To pass through, over, or upon; to traverse; to perambulate; as, to walk the streets.

To cause to walk; to lead, drive, or ride with a slow pace; as, to walk one's horses; to walk the dog.

To subject, as cloth or yarn, to the fulling process; to full.

To put or keep (a puppy) in a walk; to train (puppies) in a walk.

To move in a manner likened to walking.

The act of walking, or moving on the feet with a slow pace; advance without running or leaping.

The act of walking for recreation or exercise; as, a morning walk; an evening walk.

Manner of walking; gait; step; as, we often know a person at a distance by his walk.

That in or through which one walks; place or distance walked over; a place for walking; a path or avenue prepared for foot passengers, or for taking air and exercise; way; road; hence, a place or region in which animals may graze; place of wandering; range; as, a sheep walk.

A frequented track; habitual place of action; sphere; as, the walk of the historian.

Conduct; course of action; behavior.

The route or district regularly served by a vender; as, a milkman's walk.

In coffee, coconut, and other plantations, the space between them.

A place for keeping and training puppies.

The act of traveling by foot;

(baseball) an advance to first base by a batter who receives four balls;

Manner of walking;

The act of walking somewhere;

A path set aside for walking;

A slow gait of a horse in which two feet are always on the ground

Careers in general;

Use one's feet to advance; advance by steps;

Traverse or cover by walking;

Accompany or escort;

Obtain a base on balls

Live or behave in a specified manner;

Take a walk; go for a walk; walk for pleasure;

Give a base on balls to

Be or act in association with;

Make walk;

Walk at a pace;