different between lump vs move
lump
English
Etymology
From Middle English lumpe. Compare Dutch lomp (“rag”), German Low German Lump (“rag”), German Lumpen (“rag”) and Lump (“ragamuffin”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /l?mp/
- Rhymes: -?mp
Noun
lump (plural lumps)
- Something that protrudes, sticks out, or sticks together; a cluster or blob; a mound or mass of no particular shape.
- Stir the gravy until there are no more lumps.
- a lump of coal; a lump of clay; a lump of cheese
- A group, set, or unit.
- The money arrived all at once as one big lump sum payment.
- A small, shaped mass of sugar, typically about a teaspoonful.
- Do you want one lump or two with your coffee?
- A dull or lazy person.
- Don't just sit there like a lump.
- (informal, as plural) A beating or verbal abuse.
- He's taken his lumps over the years.
- A projection beneath the breech end of a gun barrel.
- A kind of fish, the lumpsucker.
- (obsolete, slang) Food given to a tramp to be eaten on the road.
- 1923, Arthur Preston Hankins, Cole of Spyglass Mountain, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, Chapter 12,[1]
- “A lump,” explained The Whimperer […] “is wot a kin’ lady slips youse w’en youse batter de back door. If she invites youse in and lets youse t’row yer feet unner de table, it’s a set-down. If she slips youse a lunch in a poiper bag, it’s a lump. See? […] ”
- 1923, Arthur Preston Hankins, Cole of Spyglass Mountain, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, Chapter 12,[1]
Hyponyms
- nubble
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
lump (third-person singular simple present lumps, present participle lumping, simple past and past participle lumped)
- (transitive) To treat as a single unit; to group together in a casual or chaotic manner (as if forming an ill-defined lump of the items).
- (transitive) To bear a heavy or awkward burden; to carry something unwieldy from one place to another.
- 1876, Belgravia (volume 30, page 131)
- Well, a male body was brought to a certain surgeon by a man he had often employed, and the pair lumped it down on the dissecting table, and then the vendor received his money and went.
- 1876, Belgravia (volume 30, page 131)
- (transitive, slang) To hit or strike (a person).
- 1962, Floyd Patterson, Victory Over Myself (page 63)
- If that's the only way you can fight, then you'd better be prepared to get lumped.
- 1962, Floyd Patterson, Victory Over Myself (page 63)
Derived terms
- lump together
Translations
See also
- take one’s lumps
- lump it
- like it or lump it
Further reading
- lump in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- lump in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- Plum, plum
Czech
Etymology
From German Lump.
Noun
lump m
- scoundrel, rascal
Synonyms
- See also darebák
Related terms
- ni?emný
Further reading
- lump in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
- lump in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
French
Etymology
From English lumpfish.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lœ?p/
Noun
lump m (plural lumps)
- lumpfish
References
- “lump” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Hungarian
Etymology
From German Lump.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?lump]
- Hyphenation: lump
- Rhymes: -ump
Adjective
lump (comparative lumpabb, superlative leglumpabb)
- rakish, dissolute, debauched (regularly engaging in late night drunken social gatherings)
- Synonyms: korhely, mulatós, kicsapongó, italos, részeges
Declension
Derived terms
- lumpol
Noun
lump (plural lumpok)
- (colloquial, derogatory, chiefly of a man) rascal, carouser, roisterer, raver, drunkard (a person who regularly attends late night drunken social gatherings)
Declension
References
Further reading
- lump in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
Polish
Etymology
From German Lump.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lump/
Noun
lump m pers
- (colloquial, derogatory) ne'er-do-well
Declension
Noun
lump m inan
- (Pozna?) clothing
- (colloquial) Clipping of lumpeks.
Further reading
- lump in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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move
English
Alternative forms
- meve (12th to 16th centuries)
- mieve, mooue, moove (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English moven, moeven, meven, borrowed from Old Northern French mover, moveir and Old French mouver, moveir (“to move”) (compare modern French mouvoir from Old French movoir), from Latin mov?re, present active infinitive of move? (“move; change, exchange, go in or out, quit”), from Proto-Indo-European *mew- (“to move, drive”). Cognate with Lithuanian mauti (“to push on, rush”), Sanskrit ????? (m??vati, “pushes, presses, moves”), Middle Dutch mouwe (“sleeve”). More at muff. Largely displaced native English stir, from Middle English stiren, sturien, from Old English styrian.
Pronunciation
- enPR: mo?ov, IPA(key): /mu?v/
- Rhymes: -u?v
Verb
move (third-person singular simple present moves, present participle moving, simple past and past participle moved)
- (intransitive) To change place or posture; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to another.
- Synonym: stir
- 1839, Denison Olmsted, A Compendium of Astronomy Page 95
- Secondly, When a body is once in motion it will continue to move forever, unless something stops it. When a ball is struck on the surface of the earth, the friction of the earth and the resistance of the air soon stop its motion.
- (intransitive) To act; to take action; to begin to act
- Synonyms: get moving, stir
- (intransitive) To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and live at another place. See also move out and move in.
- (intransitive, chess, and other games) To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of the game.
- (transitive, ergative) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another
- Synonyms: stir, impel
- (transitive, chess, and other games) To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the rules of the game
- (transitive) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion, or appeal; to influence.
- Seducer of the Peopie, not moved with the Piety of his Life
- No female arts his mind could move.
- (transitive) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion, to excite (for example, an emotion).
- Synonyms: affect, trouble
- (transitive, intransitive) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration and determination, in a deliberative assembly; to submit
- 1905, Livy, translated by Canon Roberts, From the Founding of the City Book 38
- Two days were thus wasted in the quarrel between the consuls. It was clear that while Faminius was present no decision could be arrived at. Owing to Flaminius' absence through illness, Aemilius seized the opportunity to move a resolution which the senate adopted. Its purport was that the Ambracians should have all their property restored to them; they should be free to live under their own laws; they should impose such harbour dues and other imposts by land and sea as they desired, provided that the Romans and their Italian allies were exempt.
- 1630, John Hayward, The Life and Raigne of King Edward the Sixth
- And therefore they are to be blamed alike, both who moue and who decline warre […]
- 1905, Livy, translated by Canon Roberts, From the Founding of the City Book 38
- (transitive, obsolete) To mention; to raise (a question); to suggest (a course of action); to lodge (a complaint).
- (transitive, obsolete) To incite, urge (someone to do something); to solicit (someone for or of an issue); to make a proposal to.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book VII:
- "Sir," seyde Sir Boys, "ye nede nat to meve me of such maters, for well ye wote I woll do what I may to please you."
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book VII:
- (transitive, obsolete) To apply to, as for aid.
- (law, transitive, intransitive) To request an action from the court.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To bow or salute upon meeting.
- (transitive, slang) To sell, to market (especially, but not exclusively, illegal products)
Conjugation
Synonyms
- actuate
- agitate
- impel
- incite
- incline
- induce
- influence
- instigate
- offer
- persuade
- prompt
- propose
- rouse
- stir
- transfer
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Noun
move (plural moves)
- The act of moving; a movement.
- An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
- A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand combat, etc.
- The event of changing one's residence.
- A change in strategy.
- A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
- 2013, Phil McNulty, "[3]", BBC Sport, 1 September 2013:
- Robin van Persie squandered United's best chance late on but otherwise it was a relatively comfortable afternoon for Liverpool's new goalkeeper Simon Mignolet, who has yet to concede a Premier League goal since his £9m summer move from Sunderland.
- 2013, Phil McNulty, "[3]", BBC Sport, 1 September 2013:
- (board games) The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules of the game.
- Synonym: play
Synonyms
- (act of moving): Thesaurus:movement
- (moving to another place): removal, relocation
Derived terms
Translations
References
- move in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Finnish
Etymology
A contraction of motivaatiovemppa.
Noun
move
- (military slang) A conscript who acquires or has acquired exemptions from physical education for falsified reasons of health, i.e. by feigning sick.
Declension
Derived terms
- verbs: movettaa
Galician
Verb
move
- third-person singular present indicative of mover
- second-person singular imperative of mover
Haitian Creole
Etymology
From French mauvais (“bad”)
Adjective
move
- bad
Interlingua
Verb
move
- present of mover
- imperative of mover
Latin
Verb
mov?
- second-person singular present active imperative of move?
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /?m?.vi/
- Rhymes: -?vi
Verb
move
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of mover
- second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of mover
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