different between bundle vs mob

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: m?b, IPA^(key): /m?b/
• (General American) enPR: m?b, IPA^(key): /m?b/
• Rhymes: -?b

Etymology 1

From Middle English mob, short for mobile, from Latin m?bile (vulgus) (“fickle (crowd)”). The video-gaming sense originates from English mobile, used by Richard Bartle for objects capable of movement in an early MUD.

Noun

mob (plural mobs)

1. A large or disorderly group of people; especially one bent on riotous or destructive action.
   • February 13, 1788, James Madison, Jr., Federalist No. 55

     Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.

2. (collective noun) A group of animals such as horses or cattle.
3. A flock of emus.
4. The Mafia, or a similar group that engages in organized crime (preceded by the).

   • The Bat—they called him the Bat. […]. He'd never been in stir, the bulls had never mugged him, he didn't run with a mob, he played a lone hand, and fenced his stuff so that even the fence couldn't swear he knew his face.

   • 1986, Paul Chadwick, Concrete: Under the Desert Stars, Dark Horse Books

     What if it is a mob killing? They can’t hurt me, but …

5. (video games) A non-player character, especially one that exists to be fought or killed to further the progression of the story or game.
   • 2002, "Wolfie", Re: Whoa - massive changes due in next patch (on newsgroup alt.games.everquest)

     You can't win with small, balanced groups. You have to zerg the mob with a high number of players.

6. (archaic) The lower classes of a community; the rabble.
7. (Australian Aboriginal) A group of Aboriginal people associated with an extended family group, clan group or wider community group, from a particular place or country.
   • 2011 March 10, Allan Clarke, W.A. through Noongar eyes

     There’s nothing like local knowledge and after thousands of years living here the Noongar mob understand this land better than anyone, so it makes sense for them to tap into the lucrative tourism industry.

Synonyms

• (mafia): mafia, Mafia

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

mob (third-person singular simple present mobs, present participle mobbing, simple past and past participle mobbed)

1. (transitive) To crowd around (someone), sometimes with hostility.

   The fans mobbed a well-dressed couple who resembled their idols.
2. (transitive) To crowd into or around a place.

   The shoppers mobbed the store on the first day of the sale.

Translations

Etymology 2

Alteration of mab.

Noun

mob (plural mobs)

1. (obsolete) A promiscuous woman; a harlot or wench; a prostitute. [17th-18th c.]
2. A mob cap.
   • c. 1773-1774, Oliver Goldsmith, letter to Mrs Bunbury

     cover their faces with mobs

Derived terms

• mob cap

Verb

mob (third-person singular simple present mobs, present participle mobbing, simple past and past participle mobbed)

1. (transitive) To wrap up in, or cover with, a cowl.

Etymology 3

Abbreviation of mobile phone.

Noun

mob (plural mobs)

1. mobile phone

Usage notes

• This is most often used in signwriting to match with the other three-letter abbreviations tel (“telephone”) and fax (“facsimile”).

Further reading

• Mob in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

References

Anagrams

• BMO, BOM, BoM, MBO, OMB

Danish

Verb

mob

1. imperative of mobbe

French

Etymology

Abbreviated form of mobylette.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?b/

Noun

mob f (plural mobs)

1. (colloquial) scooter, moped

Further reading

• “mob” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Volapük

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mob/

Noun

mob (nominative plural mobs)

1. suggestion

Declension

Derived terms

• mobön

White Hmong

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??/

Etymology

From Proto-Hmong-Mien *?mun (“illness, pain”). Cognate with Iu Mien mun.

Verb

mob

1. to be ill/sick; to hurt; to be unwell

References

• Ernest E. Heimbach, White Hmong - English Dictionary (1979, SEAP Publications)