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mound
English
Etymology
From earlier meaning "hedge, fence", from Middle English mound, mund (“protection, boundary, raised earthen rampart”), from Old English mund (“hand, hand of protection, protector, guardianship”), from Proto-Germanic *mund? (“hand”), *munduz (“protection, patron”), from Proto-Indo-European *mh?-nt-éh? (“the beckoning one”), from *men-, *man-, *mar- (“hand”). Cognate with Old Frisian mund (“guardianship”), Old High German munt (“hand, protection”) (German Mündel (“ward”), Vormund (“a guardian”)), Old Norse mund (“hand”) (Icelandic mund), Middle Dutch mond (“protection”), Latin manus (“hand”), Ancient Greek ???? (már?, “hand”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ma?nd/
- Rhymes: -a?nd
Noun
mound (plural mounds)
- An artificial hill or elevation of earth; a raised bank; an embankment thrown up for defense
- Synonyms: bulwark, rampart
- A natural elevation appearing as if thrown up artificially; a regular and isolated hill, hillock, or knoll.
- (baseball) Elevated area of dirt upon which the pitcher stands to pitch.
- A ball or globe forming part of the regalia of an emperor or other sovereign. It is encircled with bands, enriched with precious stones, and surmounted with a cross.
- (US, vulgar, slang) The mons veneris.
- (obsolete, anatomy, measurement, figuratively) A hand.
- (obsolete) A protection; restraint; curb.
- (obsolete) A helmet.
- (obsolete) Might; size.
Synonyms
- (part of regalia): globus cruciger, globe, orb
Derived terms
- shaftmound
Translations
Verb
mound (third-person singular simple present mounds, present participle mounding, simple past and past participle mounded)
- (transitive) To fortify with a mound; add a barrier, rampart, etc. to.
- (transitive) To force or pile into a mound or mounds.
Synonyms
- (fortify with a mound): bank, bank up, bulwark, rampart
- (pile into mounds): heap up, pile; see also Thesaurus:pile up
Derived terms
- amound
Translations
See also
- mound on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Mound in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
Anagrams
- Mudon, Mundo
Middle English
Noun
mound
- Alternative form of mund
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bundle
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)
- 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.
- 1760, Oliver Goldsmith, On National Concord
- A package wrapped or tied up for carrying.
- A group of products or services sold together as a unit.
- (informal) A large amount, especially of money.
- Synonyms: (informal) mint, (slang) pile, (colloquial) small fortune
- (biology) A cluster of closely bound muscle or nerve fibres.
- (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.
- (computing, Mac OS X) A directory containing related resources such as source code; application bundle.
- A quantity of paper equal to two reams (1000 sheets).
- (law) A court bundle, the assemblage of documentation prepared for, and referred to during, a court case.
- (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)
- (transitive) To tie or wrap together into a bundle.
- (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.
- 1835, Theodore Hook, Gilbert Gurney
- (intransitive) To prepare for departure; to set off in a hurry or without ceremony; used with away, off, out.
- (transitive) To dress someone warmly.
- (intransitive) To dress warmly. Usually bundle up
- (computing) To sell hardware and software as a single product.
- (intransitive) To hurry.
- (slang) Synonym of dogpile: to form a pile of people upon a victim.
- (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.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 7
- (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
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