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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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ligament
English
Etymology
From Middle English ligament, from Latin lig?mentum, from lig? (“tie, bind”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?l???m?nt/
Noun
ligament (plural ligaments)
- (anatomy) A band of strong tissue that connects bones to other bones.
- (figuratively) That which binds or acts as a ligament.
- Paraphrase of Daniel Webster, from his oration on Justice Joseph Story
- Justice is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.
- Paraphrase of Daniel Webster, from his oration on Justice Joseph Story
Derived terms
- ligamental
- ligamentary
- ligamentous
Translations
See also
- sinew
- tendon
Anagrams
- tegminal
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin lig?mentum, from lig? (“tie, bind”). Cf. also liement, possibly an inherited doublet.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /li.?a.m??/
Noun
ligament m (plural ligaments)
- ligament
Related terms
- lier
Further reading
- “ligament” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Middle English
Alternative forms
- lygament
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin lig?mentum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /li??a?m?nt/, /?li?am?nt/
Noun
ligament (plural ligamentes)
- A ligament or similar connecting tissue (e.g. a tendon)
- (rare) That which binds.
Descendants
- English: ligament
References
- “lig??ment, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French ligament, itself a borrowing from Latin lig?mentum, from lig? (“tie, bind”). Compare leg?mânt, an inherited doublet.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [li.?a?ment]
Noun
ligament n (plural ligamente)
- ligament
Declension
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- what ligament is on the outside of the knee
- what ligament is on the medial side of the ankle
- what ligament prevents hyperextension of the knee
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