English-Thai Dictionary

cumber

VT ขัดขวาง  กีดขวาง  hamper hinder kad-kwang

 

cumbersome

ADJ ยุ่งยาก  ซึ่ง ทำให้ ลำบาก  yung-yak

 

cumbersome

ADJ อุ้ยอ้าย  เทอะทะ  burdensome unwieldy heavy aui-ai

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CUMBER

v.t.[G., to arrest, to concern, to trouble, to grieve. ] 1. To load; to crowd.
A variety of frivolous arguments cumbers the memory to no purpose.
2. To check, stop or retard, as by a load or weight; to make motion difficult; to obstruct.
Why asks he what avails him not in fight, and would but cumber and retard his flight.
3. To perplex or embarrass; to distract or trouble.
Martha was cumbered about much serving. Luke 1 :4 .
4. To trouble; to be troublesome to; to cause trouble or obstruction in, as any thing useless. Thus, brambles cumber a garden or field. [See Encumber, which is more generally used. ]

 

CUMBER

n.Hindrance; obstruction; burdensomeness; embarrassment; disturbance; distress. Thus fade thy helps, and thus thy cumbers spring. [This word is now scarcely used. ]

 

CUMBERSOME

a. 1. Troublesome; burdensome; embarrassing; vexatious; as cumbersome obedience.
2. Unwieldy; unmanageable not easily borne or managed; as a cumbersome load; a cumbersome machine.

 

CUMBERSOMELY

adv. In a manner to encumber.

 

CUMBERSOMENESS

n.Burdensomeness; the quality of being cumbersome and troublesome.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

CUMBER

Cum "ber (km "br ), v. t. [imp. & p.p. Cumbered (-brd ); p. pr. & vb. n.Cumbering.] Etym: [OE. combren, cumbren,OF. combrer to hinder, from LL. cumbrus a heap, fr. L. cumulus; cf. Skr. to increase, grow strong. Cf. Cumulate. ]

 

Defn: To rest upon as a troublesome or useless weight or load; to be burdensome or oppressive to; to hinder or embarrass in attaining an object, to obstruct or occupy uselessly; to embarrass; to trouble. Why asks he what avails him not in fight, And would but cumber and retard his flight Dryden. Martha was cumbered about much serving. Luke x. 4 . Cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground Luke xiii. 7. The multiplying variety of arguments, especially frivolous ones, ... but cumbers the memory. Locke.

 

CUMBER

Cum "ber (km "br ), n. Etym: [Cf. encombre hindrance, impediment. See Cuber,v.]

 

Defn: Trouble; embarrassment; distress. [Obs. ] [Written also comber. ] A place of much distraction and cumber. Sir H. Wotton. Sage counsel in cumber. Sir W. Scott.

 

CUMBERSOME

CUMBERSOME Cum "ber *some (k, a.

 

1. Burdensome or hindering, as a weight or drag; embarrassing; vexatious; cumbrous. To perform a cumbersome obedience. Sir. P. Sidney.

 

2. Not easily managed; as, a cumbersome contrivance or machine. He holds them in utter contempt, as lumbering, cumbersome, circuitous. I. Taylor. -- Cum "ber *some *ly, adv. -- Cum "ber *some *ness, n.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

cumber

cum ber |ˈkəmbər ˈkəmbər | ▶verb [ with obj. ] dated hamper or hinder (someone or something ): they were cumbered with greatcoats and swords. • obstruct (a path or space ): the road was clean and dry and not still cumbered by slush. ▶noun archaic a hindrance, obstruction, or burden: a cumber of limestone rocks. ORIGIN Middle English (in the sense ‘overthrow, destroy ’): probably from encumber .

 

Cumberland

Cumberland |ˈkʌmbələnd | a former county of NW England. In 1974 it was united with Westmorland and part of Lancashire to form Cumbria.

 

Cumberland

Cum ber land |ˈkəmbərlənd ˈkəmbərlənd | 1 a city in northwestern Maryland, on the northern banks of the Potomac River; pop. 20,495 (est. 2008 ). 2 a city in northeastern Rhode Island, north of Providence; pop. 34,209 (est. 2008 ).

 

Cumberland, Duke of

Cum ¦ber |land |ˈkʌmbələnd | (1721 –65 ), English military commander, third son of George II; born William Augustus. He gained great notoriety (and his nickname ‘the Butcher ’) for the severity of his suppression of the Jacobite clans in the aftermath of his victory at the Battle of Culloden (1746 ).

 

Cumberland Gap

Cum ber land Gap |ˈkəmbərlənd ˌkəmbərlənd ˈɡæp | a historic pass through the Appalachian Mountains, from southwestern Virginia into southeastern Kentucky.

 

Cumberland River

Cum ber land Riv er a river that flows for 690 miles (1,110 km ) from the Cumberland Plateau in southeastern Kentucky across northern Tennessee and back into Kentucky, where it joins the Ohio River near Paducah.

 

Cumberland sauce

Cum ber land sauce ▶noun a piquant sauce served as a relish with game and cold meats. It is typically made from red currant jelly flavored with orange, mustard, and port.

 

Cumberland sausage

Cum ¦ber |land saus |age |kʌmbələndˈsɒsɪʤ | ▶noun [ mass noun ] Brit. a type of coarse sausage traditionally made in a continuous strip and cooked and served as a spiral.

 

Cumbernauld

Cumbernauld |ˌkʌmbəˈnɔːld | a town in central Scotland, in North Lanarkshire; pop. 54,000 (est. 2009 ). It was built as a new town in 1955.

 

cumbersome

cum ber some |ˈkəmbərsəm ˈkəmbərsəm | ▶adjective large or heavy and therefore difficult to carry or use; unwieldy: cumbersome diving suits. • slow or complicated and therefore inefficient: organizations with cumbersome hierarchical structures. DERIVATIVES cum ber some ly adverb, cum ber some ness noun ORIGIN late Middle English (in the sense ‘difficult to get through ’): from cumber + -some 1 .

 

Oxford Dictionary

cumber

cumber |ˈkʌmbə | ▶verb [ with obj. ] dated hamper or hinder: they were cumbered with greatcoats and swords. • obstruct (a path or space ): the road was clean and dry and not still cumbered by slush. ▶noun archaic a hindrance, obstruction, or burden: a cumber of limestone rocks. ORIGIN Middle English (in the sense ‘overthrow, destroy ’): probably from encumber .

 

Cumberland

Cum ber land |ˈkəmbərlənd ˈkəmbərlənd | 1 a city in northwestern Maryland, on the northern banks of the Potomac River; pop. 20,495 (est. 2008 ). 2 a city in northeastern Rhode Island, north of Providence; pop. 34,209 (est. 2008 ).

 

Cumberland

Cumberland |ˈkʌmbələnd | a former county of NW England. In 1974 it was united with Westmorland and part of Lancashire to form Cumbria.

 

Cumberland, Duke of

Cum ¦ber |land |ˈkʌmbələnd | (1721 –65 ), English military commander, third son of George II; born William Augustus. He gained great notoriety (and his nickname ‘the Butcher ’) for the severity of his suppression of the Jacobite clans in the aftermath of his victory at the Battle of Culloden (1746 ).

 

Cumberland Gap

Cum ber land Gap |ˈkəmbərlənd ˌkəmbərlənd ˈɡæp | a historic pass through the Appalachian Mountains, from southwestern Virginia into southeastern Kentucky.

 

Cumberland River

Cum ber land Riv er a river that flows for 690 miles (1,110 km ) from the Cumberland Plateau in southeastern Kentucky across northern Tennessee and back into Kentucky, where it joins the Ohio River near Paducah.

 

Cumberland sauce

Cum ¦ber |land sauce ▶noun [ mass noun ] a piquant sauce served as a relish with game and cold meats. It is typically made from redcurrant jelly flavoured with orange, mustard, and port.

 

Cumberland sausage

Cum ¦ber |land saus |age |kʌmbələndˈsɒsɪʤ | ▶noun [ mass noun ] Brit. a type of coarse sausage traditionally made in a continuous strip and cooked and served as a spiral.

 

Cumbernauld

Cumbernauld |ˌkʌmbəˈnɔːld | a town in central Scotland, in North Lanarkshire; pop. 54,000 (est. 2009 ). It was built as a new town in 1955.

 

cumbersome

cum ¦ber |some |ˈkʌmbəs (ə )m | ▶adjective large or heavy and therefore difficult to carry or use; unwieldy: cumbersome diving suits. • slow or complicated and therefore inefficient: organizations with cumbersome hierarchical structures. DERIVATIVES cumbersomely adverb, cumbersomeness noun ORIGIN late Middle English (in the sense ‘difficult to get through ’): from cumber + -some 1 .

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

cumbersome

cumbersome adjective 1 a cumbersome diving suit: unwieldy, unmanageable, awkward, clumsy, inconvenient, incommodious; bulky, large, heavy, hefty, weighty, burdensome; informal hulking, clunky. ANTONYMS manageable. 2 cumbersome procedures: complicated, complex, involved, inefficient, unwieldy, slow. ANTONYMS straightforward.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

cumbersome

cumbersome adjective 1 a cumbersome rubberized diving suit: unwieldy, unmanageable, awkward, clumsy, ungainly, inconvenient, incommodious; bulky, large, heavy, hefty, weighty, burdensome; informal hulking, clunky; rare cumbrous, unhandy, lumbersome. ANTONYMS manageable, convenient. 2 cumbersome procedures: complicated, complex, involved, inefficient, badly organized, wasteful, unwieldy, slow, slow-moving. ANTONYMS straightforward, efficient.

 

Duden Dictionary

Cumberlandsoße

Cum ber land so ße , Cum ber land sau ce Substantiv, feminin Kochkunst , die Cumberlandsauce |ˈkambɐlɛnd … ˈkambɐlɛnd …|die Cumberlandsoße; Genitiv: der Cumberlandsoße, Plural: die Cumberlandsoßen die Cumberlandsauce; Genitiv: der Cumberlandsauce, Plural: die Cumberlandsaucen nach der englischen Grafschaft Cumberland pikante kalte Soße aus Johannisbeergelee, Madeira, Senf und anderen Zutaten

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

cumbersome

cum ber some /kʌ́mbə r s (ə )m /形容詞 1 〈方式 過程 組織などが 〉複雑で能率の悪い .2 〈物が 〉大きくて [重くて ]運びにくい [扱いにくい ]; 〈衣服などが 〉重くて着づらい ; 〈言葉 文などが 〉長くて複雑な .