bundle
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See also: bündle
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English bundel, from Middle Dutch bondel or Old English byndele, byndelle (“a binding; tying; fastening with bands”); both from Proto-Germanic *bundil-, derivative of *bundą (“bundle”). Compare also bindle, Dutch bundel, German Bündel.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]bundle (plural bundles)
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- A group of objects held together by wrapping or tying.
- a bundle of straw or of paper
- a bundle of old clothes
- 1760, Oliver Goldsmith, On National Concord:
- The fable of the rods, which, when united in a bundle, no strength could bend.
- A package wrapped or tied up for carrying.
- A group of products or services sold together as a unit.
- This software bundle includes a wordprocessor, a spreadsheet, and two games.
- (informal) A large amount, especially of money.
- Synonyms: (informal) mint, (slang) pile, (colloquial) small fortune
- The inventor of that gizmo must have made a bundle.
- (biology) A cluster of closely bound muscle or nerve fibres.
- (linguistics, education) A sequence of two or more words that occur in language with high frequency but are not idiomatic; a chunk, cluster, or lexical bundle.
- (computing, Mac OS X) A directory containing related resources such as source code; application bundle.
- A quantity of paper equal to two reams (1000 sheets).
- (law) A court bundle, the assemblage of documentation prepared for, and referred to during, a court case.
- (mathematics) Topological space composed of a base space and fibers projected to the base space.
- Meronym: stalk space
Hyponyms
[edit]- (computing): native bundle
Coordinate terms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]- a stick in a bundle cannot be broken
- a stick in a bundle is unbreakable
- atrioventricular bundle
- a twig in a bundle cannot be broken
- a twig in a bundle can't be broken
- a twig in a bundle is unbreakable
- AV bundle
- Bachmann's bundle
- bibundle
- bindle
- bundle adjustment
- bundle branch
- bundle branch block
- bundle buggy
- bundleman
- bundle of energy
- bundle of His
- bundle of joy
- bundle of Kent
- bundle of laughs
- bundle of nerves
- bundle pillar
- bundlesome
- bundlet
- bundleware
- debundle
- drop one's bundle
- fiber bundle
- fibre bundle
- get one's undies in a bundle
- go a bundle on
- grundle
- hair bundle
- hexabundle
- His bundle
- interbundle
- microbundle
- myobundle
- one cannot break a stick in a bundle
- one cannot break a twig in a bundle
- one can't break a stick in a bundle
- one can't break a twig in a bundle
- one can't break sticks in a bundle
- rebundle
- sacred bundle
- sticks in a bundle are unbreakable
- sticks in a bundle cannot be broken
- sticks in a bundle can't be broken
- subbundle
- tangent bundle
- vascular bundle
- vector bundle
- you cannot break a stick in a bundle
- you cannot break a twig in a bundle
- you cannot break sticks in a bundle
- you can't break a stick in a bundle
- you can't break a twig in a bundle
- you can't break sticks in a bundle
Translations
[edit]group of objects held together by wrapping or tying
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package wrapped or tied up for carrying
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colloquial: large amount, especially of money
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biology: cluster of closely bound muscle or nerve fibres
1000 sheets of paper
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See also
[edit]- Units of paper quantity on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References
[edit]Verb
[edit]bundle (third-person singular simple present bundles, present participle bundling, simple past and past participle bundled)
- (transitive) To tie or wrap together into a bundle.
- (transitive) To hustle; to dispatch something or someone quickly.
- 1835, Theodore Hook, Gilbert Gurney:
- They unmercifully bundled me and my gallant second into our own hackney coach.
- (intransitive) To prepare for departure; to set off in a hurry or without ceremony; used with away, off, out.
- (transitive) To dress someone warmly.
- (intransitive) To dress warmly. Usually bundle up
- (computing) To sell hardware and software as a single product.
- (intransitive) To hurry.
- (slang) Synonym of dogpile: to form a pile of people upon a victim.
- (transitive) To hastily or clumsily push, put, carry or otherwise send something into a particular place.
- 2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC[1]:
- At the other end, Essien thought he had bundled the ball over the line in between Bolton's final two substitutions but the flag had already gone up.
- 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 7”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
- Yes, there is death in this business of whaling—a speechlessly quick chaotic bundling of a man into Eternity.
- 1859, Terence, Comedies of Terence:
- Why, I didn't know that she meant that, until the Captain gave me an explanation, because I was dull of comprehension ; for he bundled me out of the house.
- (dated, intransitive) To sleep on the same bed without undressing.
- 1809, Diedrich Knickerbocker [pseudonym; Washington Irving], A History of New York, from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), New York, N.Y.: Inskeep & Bradford, […], →OCLC:
- Van Corlear […] [stopped] occasionally in the villages to eat pumpkin pies, dance at country frolics, and bundle with the Yankee lasses.
- 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things:
- They were on the couch for nearly an hour, then in the shower for she didn't know how long — until the hot water started to fail and drove them out, anyway. Then she took him into her bed, where she lay too exhausted and too content to do anything but bundle.
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]to tie or wrap together
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to hustle, dispatch quickly
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to dress someone warmly
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intransitive: to dress warmly
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computing: to sell hardware and software as single product
intransitive: to hurry
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Anagrams
[edit]Malay
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]bundle
- (colloquial) clothes sold in the thrift store
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