different between bundle vs quantity

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 quantite, from Old French quantité, from Latin quantit?s (“quantity”), from quantus (“how much”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?kw?n.t?.ti/
• (General American) enPR: kw?n?(t)?t?, IPA^(key): /?kw?n(t)?ti/, [?k?w?n(?)??i], [?k?w?n(t?)?t?i]
  • Note: This is with a relaxed middle T, and is only used in colloquial contexts by many speakers.
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /?kw?nd?di/, /?kw?n???i/
• (obsolete) IPA^(key): /?kwæn.t?.ti/

Noun

quantity (countable and uncountable, plural quantities)

1. A fundamental, generic term used when referring to the measurement (count, amount) of a scalar, vector, number of items or to some other way of denominating the value of a collection or group of items.

2. An indefinite amount of something.

   Some soap making oils are best as base oils, used in a larger quantity in the soap, while other oils are best added in a small quantity.

3. A specific measured amount.

4. A considerable measure or amount.

5. (metrology) Property of a phenomenon, body, or substance, where the property has a magnitude that can be expressed as number and a reference.
6. (mathematics) Indicates that the entire preceding expression is henceforth considered a single object.
   • 2006, Jerome E. Kaufmann and Karen Schwitters, Elementary and Intermediate Algebra: A Combined Approach, p 89

     For problems 58-67, translate each word phrase into an algebraic expression. […] 65. x plus 9, the quantity squared

   • 2005, R. Mark Sirkin, Statistics For The Social Sciences, p137

     The second, ${\displaystyle (\sum x)^{2}}$, read "summation of x, quantity squared," tells us to first add up all the xs to get ${\displaystyle \sum x}$ and then square ${\displaystyle \sum x}$ to get ${\displaystyle (\sum x)^{2}}$.

   • 1985, Serge Lang, Math!: Encounters with High School Students, p54

     ANN. ${\displaystyle ra}$ quantity cubed.

     SERGE LANG. That's right, ${\displaystyle (ra)^{3}}$.

Usage notes

• In mathematics, used to unambiguously orate mathematical equations; it is extremely rare in print, since there is no need for it there.

Synonyms

• Qty

Derived terms

• unknown quantity

Related terms

Translations

See also

• measure
• unit

Further reading

• quantity in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• quantity in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• quantity at OneLook Dictionary Search