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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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tribe
English
Etymology
From Middle English tribe, tribu, from Old French tribu, from Latin tribus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t?a?b/
- Rhymes: -a?b
Noun
tribe (plural tribes)
- A socially, ethnically, or politically cohesive group of people.
- (anthropology) A society larger than a band but smaller than a state.
- (zoology) A group of apes who live and work together.
- (taxonomy) A hierarchal rank between family and genus.
- The collective noun for various animals.
- (stock breeding) A family of animals descended from some particular female progenitor, through the female line.
Derived terms
- tribal
- tribally
- tribelet
Translations
Verb
tribe (third-person singular simple present tribes, present participle tribing, simple past and past participle tribed)
- (transitive) To distribute into tribes or classes; to categorize.
- 1696-1699, William Nicolson, English Historical Library
- Our fowl, fish, and quadruped are well tribed.
- 1696-1699, William Nicolson, English Historical Library
See also
- ethnic
- Appendix:English collective nouns
Anagrams
- Berti, Breit, Tiber, biter, rebit
Middle English
Alternative forms
- trybe, tribu
Etymology
From Old French tribu, from Latin tribus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?tri?b(?)/, /?tri?bu/
Noun
tribe (plural tribus)
- One of the twelve tribes of Israel.
- (rare) Any tribe or kin group.
- (rare) A league or grouping.
Descendants
- English: tribe
References
- “tr?be, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-03.
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