different between lump vs sac

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)

1. 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

2. A group, set, or unit.

   The money arrived all at once as one big lump sum payment.

3. A small, shaped mass of sugar, typically about a teaspoonful.

   Do you want one lump or two with your coffee?

4. A dull or lazy person.

   Don't just sit there like a lump.

5. (informal, as plural) A beating or verbal abuse.

   He's taken his lumps over the years.
6. A projection beneath the breech end of a gun barrel.
7. A kind of fish, the lumpsucker.
8. (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? […] ”

Hyponyms

• nubble

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

lump (third-person singular simple present lumps, present participle lumping, simple past and past participle lumped)

1. (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).
2. (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.
3. (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.

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

1. 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)

1. 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)

1. 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)

1. (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

1. (colloquial, derogatory) ne'er-do-well

Declension

Noun

lump m inan

1. (Pozna?) clothing
2. (colloquial) Clipping of lumpeks.

Further reading

• lump in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Translingual

Etymology

From the three first letters of one of the English names for the language, viz. Sac and Fox.

Proper noun

sac

1. the ISO 639-3 code for the Fox language

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sæk/
• Rhymes: -æk
• Homophone: sack

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French sac. Doublet of sack.

Noun

sac (plural sacs)

1. A bag or pouch inside a plant or animal that typically contains a fluid.

Derived terms

• saccate
• sacless
• vocal sac

Etymology 2

Clipping of sacrifice.

Verb

sac (third-person singular simple present sacs, present participle sacking or saccing, simple past and past participle sacked or sacced)

2. (transitive, informal, games) To sacrifice.

   Kasparov sacked his queen early on in the game to gain a positional advantage against Kramnik.

   I kept saccing monsters at the altar until I was rewarded with a new weapon.

Noun

sac (plural sacs)

2. (transitive, informal, games) A sacrifice.

   Kasparov's queen sac early in the game gained him a positional advantage against Kramnik.

Etymology 3

See sake, soc.

Noun

sac

1. (Britain, law, obsolete) The privilege, formerly enjoyed by the lord of a manor, of holding courts, trying causes, and imposing fines.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Cowell to this entry?)

Anagrams

• A/Cs, ACS, ACs, ASC, CAS, CSA, Cas, Cas., SCA, a/cs, acs, cas, cas'

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• sacu

Etymology

From Latin saccus. Compare Romanian sac.

Noun

sac m (plural sats) or n (plural sacuri)

1. sack, bag

Derived terms

• nsac

Related terms

• sãculj

Azerbaijani

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *si??.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [s?d??], [s?d?z]

Noun

sac (definite accusative sac?, plural saclar)

1. an iron disk on which thin bread cakes are baked

Declension

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin saccus.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?sak/

Noun

sac m (plural sacs)

1. sack, bag
2. sackcloth, smock (rough garment of coarse cloth)
3. sack, pillage
4. (obsolete) rectum

Derived terms

• sac de cops
• sac de dormir
• sac de gemecs
• saca

Related terms

• saquejar

Further reading

• “sac” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sak/
• Rhymes: -ak

Etymology 1

From Old French sac, from Latin saccus, from Ancient Greek ?????? (sákkos, “sack, bag; sackcloth”), ultimately from Semitic.

Noun

sac m (plural sacs)

1. bag, sack
2. (dated slang) ten French francs

   Coordinate term: brique

Derived terms

Related terms

• saccule
• sacoche

Descendants

• Haitian Creole: sak
• ? English: sac
• ? Moroccan Arabic: ????
• ? Persian: ???? (sâk)

Etymology 2

Old Norse saka (compare English ransack).

Noun

sac m (plural sacs)

1. plunder, loot

See also

• saccage
• saccager
• pillage
• mettre à sac

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• ASC, cas

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin saccus.

Noun

sac m (plural sacs)

1. sack, bag

Related terms

• sachere
• sacut

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch sac, from late Proto-Germanic *sakkuz, borrowed from Latin saccus.

Noun

sac m

1. sack

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: zak
  • Afrikaans: sak
  • ? Indonesian: sak
  • ? Indonesian: saku
• Limburgish: zak

Further reading

• “sac”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “sac”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ???? (sac, “sheet iron”), compare Turkish sac (“sheet metal, baking plate”).

Noun

sac ?

1. baking pan

Old French

Etymology

From Latin saccus.

Noun

sac m (oblique plural sas, nominative singular sas, nominative plural sac)

1. bag; sack

Synonyms

• poque

Descendants

• French: sac
  • Haitian Creole: sak
  • ? English: sac
  • ? Moroccan Arabic: ????
  • ? Persian: ???? (sâk)

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin saccus, from Ancient Greek ?????? (sákkos, “sack, bag; sackcloth”), ultimately of Semitic origin.

Noun

sac m (plural saci)

1. sack, bag

Declension

Derived terms

• s?car
• sac de dormit
• s?cule?

Related terms

• s?cui

See also

• pung?

Somali

Etymology

From Proto-Cushitic *?aac-. Compare Afar saga.

Noun

sac m

1. cow

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ???? (sac, “sheet iron”), from Proto-Turkic *si?? (“white copper, tin, pan”). Cognate with Chuvash ????? (š?v??, “tin, tin-plate”), Karakhanid ????? (s??, “pan”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?d??/

Noun

sac (definite accusative sac?, plural saclar)

1. a tin metal baking plate
2. sheet metal
3. tin, tin plate

Declension