bundle
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
computing
education
engineering
human-sciences
law
linguistics
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: 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.
Inflected forms:
form: bundles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bundles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bundling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bundled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bundled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A group of objects held together by wrapping or tying.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: a bundle of straw or of paper
a bundle of noodles
a bundle of old clothes
The fable of the rods, which, when united in a bundle, no strength could bend.
gloss: A package wrapped or tied up for carrying.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A group of products or services sold together as a unit.
pos: noun
examples: This software bundle includes a wordprocessor, a spreadsheet, and two games.
gloss: A large amount, especially of money.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: The inventor of that gizmo must have made a bundle.
I mean it's nothing for him to go to the races, do a bundle, and come home laughing and joking like nothing's happened.
gloss: A cluster of closely bound muscle or nerve fibres.
pos: noun
gloss: A sequence of two or more words that occur in language with high frequency but are not idiomatic; a chunk, cluster, or lexical bundle.
pos: noun
gloss: A directory containing related resources such as source code; application bundle.
pos: noun
gloss: A quantity of paper equal to two reams (1000 sheets).
pos: noun
gloss: A court bundle, the assemblage of documentation prepared for, and referred to during, a court case.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: Topological space composed of a base space and fibers projected to the base space.
pos: noun
gloss: To tie or wrap together into a bundle.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To hustle; to dispatch something or someone quickly.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: They unmercifully bundled me and my gallant second into our own hackney coach.
gloss: To prepare for departure; to set off in a hurry or without ceremony; used with away, off, out.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To dress someone warmly.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To dress warmly. Usually bundle up
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To sell hardware and software as a single product.
pos: verb
gloss: To hurry.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: Synonym of dogpile: to form a pile of people upon a victim.
pos: verb
tags: slang
gloss: To hastily or clumsily push, put, carry or otherwise send something into a particular place.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
Yes, there is death in this business of whaling—a speechlessly quick chaotic bundling of a man into Eternity.
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.
gloss: To sleep on the same bed without undressing.
pos: verb
tags: dated
intransitive
examples: Van Corlear […][stopped] occasionally in the villages to eat pumpkin pies, dance at country frolics, and bundle with the Yankee lasses.
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.
Related words: bundle off
bundle up
Derived words: 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 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 Monakow
bundle of nerves
bundle pillar
bundlesome
bundlet
bundleware
conjoint bundle
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
bundler
bundle together
resource-bundle
unbundle
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: feix
lang: Finnish
word: kaksi riisiä
lang: Polish
word: ryza austriacka