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bunch
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)
- A group of similar things, either growing together, or in a cluster or clump, usually fastened together.
- (cycling) The peloton; the main group of riders formed during a race.
- 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—!"
- (US, informal) A considerable amount.
- (informal) An unmentioned amount; a number.
- (forestry) A group of logs tied together for skidding.
- (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
- 1874, David Page, Economic Geology: Or, Geology in Its Relations to the Arts and Manufactures
- (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.
- An unfinished cigar, before the wrapper leaf is added.
- 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)
- (transitive) To gather into a bunch.
- (transitive) To gather fabric into folds.
- (intransitive) To form a bunch.
- (intransitive) To be gathered together in folds
- (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.
- 1728, John Woodward, An Attempt towards a Natural History of the Fossils of England
Synonyms
- (form a bunch): cluster, group
Derived terms
- bunch up
Translations
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congregate
English
Etymology
From Latin congregatus, past participle of congregare (“to congregate”), from con- (“with, together”) + gregare (“to collect into a flock”), from grex (“flock, herd”). See gregarious.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?k??.???.?e?t/
Adjective
congregate (comparative more congregate, superlative most congregate)
- (rare) Collective; assembled; compact.
- 1605, Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning, Book II, Chapter IX:
- With this reservation, therefore, we proceed to human philosophy or humanity, which hath two parts: the one considereth man segregate or distributively, the other congregate or in society; so as human philosophy is either simple and particular, or conjugate and civil.
- 1605, Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning, Book II, Chapter IX:
Verb
congregate (third-person singular simple present congregates, present participle congregating, simple past and past participle congregated)
- (transitive) To collect into an assembly or assemblage; to bring into one place, or into a united body
- Synonyms: amass, assemble, compact, bring together, gather, mass; see also Thesaurus:round up
- 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie
- Any multitude of Christian men congregated may be termed by the name of a church.
- 1825, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Aids to Reflection
- Cold congregates all bodies.
- (intransitive) To come together; to assemble; to meet.
- Synonyms: assemble, begather, forgather; see also Thesaurus:assemble
Related terms
- congregation
Translations
Italian
Verb
congregate
- second-person plural present indicative of congregare
- second-person plural imperative of congregare
- feminine plural of congregato
Anagrams
- conteggerà
Latin
Verb
congreg?te
- second-person plural present active imperative of congreg?
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