different between bunch vs converge

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 convergere, from con- (“together”) + vergere (“to bend”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?n.?v??d?/
• Rhymes: -??(r)d?

Verb

converge (third-person singular simple present converges, present participle converging, simple past and past participle converged)

1. (intransitive) Of two or more entities, to approach each other; to get closer and closer.
   • 1785, Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia

     The mountains converge into a single ridge.

2. (intransitive, mathematics) Of a sequence, to have a limit.
3. (intransitive, computing) Of an iterative process, to reach a stable end point.

Antonyms

• diverge

Derived terms

• convergence
• convergent

Related terms

• divergence

Translations

Anagrams

• Congreve

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??.v???/

Verb

converge

1. first-person singular present indicative of converger
2. third-person singular present indicative of converger
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of converger
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of converger
5. second-person singular imperative of converger

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?rd?e

Verb

converge

1. third-person singular present indicative of convergere

Latin

Verb

converge

1. second-person singular present active imperative of converg?

Romanian

Etymology

From French converger, from Latin convergere.

Verb

a converge (third-person singular present converge, past participle [please provide]) 3rd conj.

1. to converge

Conjugation

Spanish

Verb

converge

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of convergir.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of convergir.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of convergir.