Lump
[lʌmp]
Definition
(verb.) put together indiscriminately; 'lump together all the applicants'.
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Definition
(n.) A small mass of matter of irregular shape; an irregular or shapeless mass; as, a lump of coal; a lump of iron ore.
(n.) A mass or aggregation of things.
(n.) A projection beneath the breech end of a gun barrel.
(v. i.) To throw into a mass; to unite in a body or sum without distinction of particulars.
(v. i.) To take in the gross; to speak of collectively.
(v. i.) To get along with as one can, although displeased; as, if he does n't like it, he can lump it.
Edited by Cheryl
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Shapeless mass.[2]. Whole, gross, aggregate.
v. a. Throw into an aggregate, take in the gross.
Editor: Pierre
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Mass, hunk, hunch, slice
Checker: Marsha
Definition
n. a small shapeless mass: a protuberance: swelling: the whole together: the gross.—v.t. to throw into a confused mass: to take in the gross.—ns. Lump′er a labourer employed in the lading or unlading of ships: (prov.) a militiaman; Lump′fish a clumsy sea-fish with a short deep and thick body and head and a ridge on its back also called Lump′sucker from the power of its sucker.—adjs. Lump′ing in a lump: heavy: bulky; Lump′ish like a lump: heavy: gross: dull.—adv. Lump′ishly.—ns. Lump′ishness; Lump′-sug′ar loaf-sugar in small pieces.—adj. Lump′y full of lumps.—In the lump in gross.
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Examples
- The old parsons is worth the whole lump of college lads; they know what belongs to good manners, and is kind to high and low. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- If a lump of melting ice is placed in the vessel of hot water and then removed, the ice will not be warmer than before, but there will be less of it. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- What Causes a Lump in a Person’s Throat? Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- This flabby lump of mortality that we work so hard at with such patient perseverance, yields no sign of you. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- There is a kind of professional reconciler of opposites who likes to lump all the prominent rebels together and refer to them affectionately as us radicals. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Here we may lump them together not so much as a family as a miscellany. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Human natur', taking it i' th' lump, is nought but selfishness. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The steam-shovel did not discriminate, but picked up handily single pieces weighing five or six tons and loaded them on the skips with quantities of smaller lumps. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Run the articles through a number of times and free from all lumps. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- But the gentleman with the lumpy forehead having for the time delivered himself of all that he found behind his lumps, spake for the time no more. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Warm, my dear young friend, with three lumps of sugar to the tumbler. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- In work of this nature it had been customary, as above stated, to depend upon a high explosive, such as dynamite, to shatter and break the ore to lumps of one hundred pounds or less. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In the manufacture of shoes the finest quality of rubber is received in wooden boxes 4 × 2 × 1? feet, containing about 350 pounds in lumps of 1 to 75 pounds. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Dissolve the glue in 3/4 quart of warm water, put in the lampblack and emery, stir till there are no lumps, then apply to the board with a woolen rag smoothly rolled. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- He was the precursor of that large and various school of collectivist thinkers in the nineteenth century who are lumped together as Socialists. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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