different between bundle vs crush

English

Etymology

From Middle English bundel, from Middle Dutch bondel or Old English byndele, byndelle (“a binding; tying; fastening with bands”); both from Proto-Germanic *bundil-, derivative of *bund? (“bundle”). Compare also English bindle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?nd(?)l/
• Hyphenation: bun?dle
• Rhymes: -?nd?l

Noun

bundle (plural bundles)

1. A group of objects held together by wrapping or tying.
   • 1760, Oliver Goldsmith, On National Concord

     The fable of the rods, which, when united in a bundle, no strength could bend.

2. A package wrapped or tied up for carrying.
3. A group of products or services sold together as a unit.

5. (informal) A large amount, especially of money.

   Synonyms: (informal) mint, (slang) pile, (colloquial) small fortune

6. (biology) A cluster of closely bound muscle or nerve fibres.
7. (linguistics, education) A sequence of two or more words that occur in language with high frequency but are not idiomatic; a chunk, cluster, or lexical bundle.

8. (computing, Mac OS X) A directory containing related resources such as source code; application bundle.
9. A quantity of paper equal to two reams (1000 sheets).
10. (law) A court bundle, the assemblage of documentation prepared for, and referred to during, a court case.
11. (mathematics) Topological space composed of a base space and fibers projected to the base space.

    Meronym: stalk space

Hyponyms

• (computing): native bundle

Coordinate terms

• (quantity of paper): bale, quire, ream

Derived terms

Descendants

• bindle

Translations

See also

• Units of paper quantity on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• bundle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

bundle (third-person singular simple present bundles, present participle bundling, simple past and past participle bundled)

1. (transitive) To tie or wrap together into a bundle.
2. (transitive) To hustle; to dispatch something or someone quickly.
   • 1835, Theodore Hook, Gilbert Gurney

     They unmercifully bundled me and my gallant second into our own hackney coach.

3. (intransitive) To prepare for departure; to set off in a hurry or without ceremony; used with away, off, out.
4. (transitive) To dress someone warmly.
5. (intransitive) To dress warmly. Usually bundle up
6. (computing) To sell hardware and software as a single product.
7. (intransitive) To hurry.
8. (slang) Synonym of dogpile: to form a pile of people upon a victim.
9. (transitive) To hastily or clumsily push, put, carry or otherwise send something into a particular place.
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 7

     Yes, there is death in this business of whaling—a speechlessly quick chaotic bundling of a man into Eternity.
10. (dated, intransitive) To sleep on the same bed without undressing.

    • Van Corlear […] [stopped] occasionally in the villages to eat pumpkin pies, dance at country frolics, and bundle with the Yankee lasses.

    • 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things

      They were on the couch for nearly an hour, then in the shower for she didn't know how long — until the hot water started to fail and drove them out, anyway. Then she took him into her bed, where she lay too exhausted and too content to do anything but bundle.

Derived terms

Related terms

• bundle off
• bundle up

Translations

Anagrams

• unbled

English

Etymology

From Middle English cruschen (“to crush, smash, squeeze, squash”), from Old French croissir (“to crush”), from Late Latin *cruscio (“to brush”), from Frankish *krostjan (“to crush, squeeze, squash”). Akin to Gothic ???????????????????????????????? (kriustan, “to gnash”), Old Swedish krusa (“to crush”), Middle Low German krossen (“to break”), Swedish krysta (“to squeeze”), Danish kryste (“to squash”), Icelandic kreista (“to squeeze, squash”), Faroese kroysta (“to squeeze”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k???/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

crush (countable and uncountable, plural crushes)

1. A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.
2. Violent pressure, as of a moving crowd.
3. A crowd that produces uncomfortable pressure.

   a crush at a reception

4. A violent crowding.
5. A crowd control barrier.
6. A drink made by squeezing the juice out of fruit.
7. (informal) An infatuation with somebody one is not dating.

   I've had a huge crush on her since we met many years ago.

   1. (informal, by extension) The human object of such infatuation or affection.
   • 2004, Chris Wallace, Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage

     It had taken nine years from the evening that Truman first showed up with a pie plate at her mother's door, but his dogged perseverance eventually won him the hand of his boyhood Sunday school crush.

8. A standing stock or cage with movable sides used to restrain livestock for safe handling.
9. (dated) A party or festive function.
   • 1890, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray chapter 1

     Two months ago I went to a crush at Lady Brandon's.

10. (Australia) The process of crushing cane to remove the raw sugar, or the season when this process takes place.
11. (television, uncountable) The situation where certain colors are so similar as to be hard to distinguish, either as a deliberate effect or as a limitation of a display.

    black crush; white crush

Hyponyms

• (infatuation): squish

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

crush (third-person singular simple present crushes, present participle crushing, simple past and past participle crushed)

1. To press between two hard objects; to squeeze so as to alter the natural shape or integrity of it, or to force together into a mass.

   to crush grapes

   • 1769, Benjamin Blayney, King James Bible : Leviticus 22:24

     Ye shall not offer unto the Lord that which is bruised, or crushed, or broken, or cut

2. To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding

   Synonym: comminute

   to crush quartz

   • 1912, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, Chapter 1

     With a wild scream he was upon her, tearing a great piece from her side with his mighty teeth, and striking her viciously upon her head and shoulders with a broken tree limb until her skull was crushed to a jelly.

3. (figuratively) To overwhelm by pressure or weight.

   After the corruption scandal, the opposition crushed the ruling party in the elections

4. (figuratively, colloquial) To do impressively well at (sports events; performances; interviews; etc.).

   They had a gig recently at Madison Square—totally crushed it!

5. To oppress or grievously burden.
7. To overcome completely; to subdue totally.

   The sultan's black guard crushed every resistance bloodily.
8. (intransitive) To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller compass, by external weight or force

   an eggshell crushes easily

9. (intransitive) To feel infatuation or unrequited love.

   She's crushing on him.
10. (film, television) To give a compressed or foreshortened appearance to.
    • 2003, Michel Chion, The Films of Jacques Tati (page 78)

      He frames his subject in distant close-ups (we feel the distance, due mostly to the crushed perspective brought about by the telephoto lens).

    • 2010, Birgit Bräuchler, John Postill, Theorising Media and Practice (page 319)

      They realise that trajectories, space expansion and crushing are different with different lenses, whether wide angle or telephoto, and that actors' eyelines will be altered.

11. (transitive, television) To make certain colors so similar as to be hard to distinguish, either as a deliberate effect or as a limitation of a display.

    My old TV set crushes the blacks when the brightness is lowered.

Derived terms

Synonyms

• (trans, to squeeze into a permanent new shape) squash
• (to pound or grind into fine particles) pulverize, pulverise
• (to overwhelm) overtake
• (to impress at) ace; slay at, kill

Translations

References

• crush in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• Rusch, Schur, churs

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English crush.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?k???/, /?k???/

Noun

crush m or m f (in variation) (plural crushes or crush)

1. (colloquial) crush (a love interest)