different between bunch vs association

English

Etymology

From Middle English bunche, bonche (“hump, swelling”), of uncertain origin.

Perhaps a variant of *bunge (compare dialectal bung (“heap, grape bunch”)), from Proto-Germanic *bunk?, *bunkô, *bung? (“heap, crowd”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?en??-, *b?éng??us (“thick, dense, fat”). Cognates include Saterland Frisian Bunke (“bone”), West Frisian bonke (“bone, lump, bump”), Dutch bonk (“lump, bone”), Low German Bunk (“bone”), German Bunge (“tuber”), Danish bunke (“heap, pile”), Faroese bunki (“heap, pile”); Hittite [Term?] (/panku/, “total, entire”), Tocharian B pkante (“volume, fatness”), Lithuanian búož? (“knob”), Ancient Greek ????? (pakhús, “thick”), Sanskrit ??? (bahú, “thick; much”)).

Alternatively, perhaps from a variant or diminutive of bump (compare hump/hunch, lump/lunch, etc.); or from dialectal Old French bonge (“bundle”) (compare French bongeau, bonjeau, bonjot), from West Flemish bondje, diminutive of West Flemish bond (“bundle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?nt?/
• Rhymes: -?nt?

Noun

bunch (plural bunches)

1. A group of similar things, either growing together, or in a cluster or clump, usually fastened together.
2. (cycling) The peloton; the main group of riders formed during a race.
3. An informal body of friends.

   • “I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, the gorged dowagers, […], the jewelled animals whose moral code is the code of the barnyard—!"

4. (US, informal) A considerable amount.

5. (informal) An unmentioned amount; a number.

6. (forestry) A group of logs tied together for skidding.
7. (geology, mining) An unusual concentration of ore in a lode or a small, discontinuous occurrence or patch of ore in the wallrock.
   • 1874, David Page, Economic Geology: Or, Geology in Its Relations to the Arts and Manufactures

     The ore may be disseminated throughout the matrix in minute particles, as gold in quartz; in parallel threads, strings, and plates, as with copper; in irregular pockets or bunches

8. (textiles) The reserve yarn on the filling bobbin to allow continuous weaving between the time of indication from the midget feeler until a new bobbin is put in the shuttle.
9. An unfinished cigar, before the wrapper leaf is added.

10. A protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump; a hump.

Synonyms

• (group of similar things): cluster, group
• (informal body of friends): pack, group, gang, circle
• (unusual concentration of ore): ore pocket, pocket, pocket of ore, kidney, nest, nest of ore, ore bunch, bunch of ore

Derived terms

• buncha (bunch of)

Translations

Verb

bunch (third-person singular simple present bunches, present participle bunching, simple past and past participle bunched)

1. (transitive) To gather into a bunch.
2. (transitive) To gather fabric into folds.
3. (intransitive) To form a bunch.
4. (intransitive) To be gathered together in folds
5. (intransitive) To protrude or swell
   • 1728, John Woodward, An Attempt towards a Natural History of the Fossils of England

     Bunching out into a large round knob at one end.

Synonyms

• (form a bunch): cluster, group

Derived terms

• bunch up

Translations

English

Etymology

From Latin associ?ti?, from associ? (perhaps via French association).Morphologically associate +? -ion

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??s???i?e???n/, /??s??si?e???n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??so??i?e???n/, /??so?si?e???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

association (countable and uncountable, plural associations)

1. The act of associating.
2. The state of being associated; a connection to or an affiliation with something.
3. (statistics) Any relationship between two measured quantities that renders them statistically dependent (but not necessarily causal or a correlation).
4. A group of persons associated for a common purpose; an organization; society.
5. (object-oriented programming) Relationship between classes of objects that allows one object instance to cause another to perform an action on its behalf.

Synonyms

• (state of being associated): connection; See also Thesaurus:relation
• ass'n (abbreviation)

Derived terms

• guilt by association

Related terms

Translations

See also

• alliance
• coalition
• league
• union

Danish

Noun

association c (singular definite associationen, plural indefinite associationer)

1. association
   • 2007, Drømmenes dimensioner, Gyldendal A/S (?ISBN), page 83

     Børn blokerer desuden ofte for associationer af angst for drømmeindholdet.

     Furthermore, children often block associations of anxiety for the dream content.

   • 2014, Klaus Kjøller, Sprogets Vej til Sindets Fred, 2. rev. vej, nu med Dit og Dat, KJOELLER.dk (?ISBN)

     I stedet for det dagligsproglige 'tilintetgørelse', som kan rumme negative associationer af ødelæggelse og brutalitet, benytter vi på Sprogets Vej det pluskorrigerede udtryk 'ophævelse'.

     Instead of the everyday word "annihilation", which may contain negative associations of destruction and brutality, we use, on the Way of Language, the plus-corrected [?] expression "cancellation".

   • 2002, Anne Ring Petersen, Storbyens billeder: fra industrialisme til informationsalder, Museum Tusculanum Press (?ISBN), page 113

     ... vil de, skriver Allouay, fortrinsvis vække associationer af urban karakter.

     ... they will, Allouay writes, predominantly arouse associations of an urban/urbane character.

   • 1999, Bogens verden

     ... hvert sted åbner der sig en verden af formrigdom, af mulige associationer, af historier og sammenhænge, som kan foldes ud af det banale.

     ... everywhere, a world of shape-wealth, of possible associations, of stories and connections that can be unfolded from banality opens.

2. group of persons united for some purpose

Declension

Further reading

• “association” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Etymology

From associer +? -tion.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.s?.sja.sj??/
• Homophone: associations

Noun

association f (plural associations)

1. association, society, group
2. (commerce, economics) partnership
3. association (of related terms, ideas etc.), combination
4. (object-oriented programming) association

Derived terms

• association libre

Descendants

• ? Romanian: asocia?ie

Further reading

• “association” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).