Bunch
[bʌn(t)ʃ] or [bʌntʃ]
Definition
(noun.) any collection in its entirety; 'she bought the whole caboodle'.
(noun.) a grouping of a number of similar things; 'a bunch of trees'; 'a cluster of admirers'.
(verb.) gather or cause to gather into a cluster; 'She bunched her fingers into a fist'.
Inputed by Evelyn--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump; a hump.
(n.) A collection, cluster, or tuft, properly of things of the same kind, growing or fastened together; as, a bunch of grapes; a bunch of keys.
(n.) A small isolated mass of ore, as distinguished from a continuous vein.
(v. i.) To swell out into a bunch or protuberance; to be protuberant or round.
(v. t.) To form into a bunch or bunches.
Typist: Loretta
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Protuberance, hunch, knob, lump.[2]. Cluster (as of grapes).[3]. Batch, assortment, lot, set, parcel, collection.[4]. Tuft, knot.
Typist: Murray
Definition
n. a number of things tied together or growing together: a definite quantity fastened together as of linen yarn (180 000 yards) &c.: a cluster: something in the form of a tuft or knot.—v.i. to swell out in a bunch.—v.t. to make a bunch of to concentrate.—adjs. Bunch′-backed (Shak.) having a bunch on the back crook-backed; Bunched humped protuberant.—ns. Bunch′-grass a name applied to several West American grasses growing in clumps; Bunch′iness the quality of being bunchy: state of growing in bunches.—adj. Bunch′y growing in bunches or like a bunch bulging.—Bunch of fives the fist with the five fingers clenched.
Typed by Audrey
Examples
- The large bunch is the housekeeping, and the little bunch is the cellars, miss. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He had no weapon, excepting a poniard at his belt, which served to counterbalance the weight of the bunch of rusty keys that hung at his right side. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- And she produced from her pocket a most housewifely bunch of keys, and delivered them to the servant. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Then a machine was needed and invented to wind the corn-brush with the cord or wire and tie it in a round bunch, preparatory to flattening and sewing it. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Twas in the Bunch of Grapes, where, indeed, you have a delight to sit, have you not? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It seemed like a bunch of sun-sparks, tiny and orange in the midst of the snow-darkness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Among the pioneers was one which received the round bunch between two compressing jaws, and pressed it flat. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Afterwards a number of maidens, with vine-leaf-decorated amphoras of wine, baskets of figs, and bunches of grapes. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Instead of massing them in big bunches as our head-gardener does, she had scattered them about loosely, here and there . Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Instead of standing up straight and separated to be cut the wheat would more often come in great bunches, twisting about the sickles and getting tangled in the machinery. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Brown, soft-eyed children ran out from the quaint stone hovels to offer nosegays, or bunches of oranges still on the bough. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Oh, my love, we went to the vineyards, And there beheld bunches of purple wine fruit, Full of the milk of earth our mother. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- The grapes are most excellent to this day, but the bunches are not as large as those in the pictures. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I was surprised and hurt when I saw them, because those colossal bunches of grapes were one of my most cherished juvenile traditions. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- There sat the canary in a corner, bunched and fluffed up for sleep. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- His enormous shoulders were bunched and rounded with huge muscles. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- The wire is one-eighth size; 278 single wires are grouped into a rope, and 19 ropes bunched to form a cable. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The mother sat bunched up in silence, her beautiful white hands, that had no rings whatsoever, clasping the pommels of her arm-chair. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
Inputed by Bella