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slump
English
Etymology
Probably of North Germanic origin: compare Danish slumpe (“to stumble upon by chance”), Norwegian slumpe (“happen by chance”), Swedish slumpa (“to sell off”). Compare also German schlumpen (“to trail; draggle; be sloppy”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sl?mp/
- Rhymes: -?mp
Verb
slump (third-person singular simple present slumps, present participle slumping, simple past and past participle slumped)
- (intransitive) To collapse heavily or helplessly.
- “Heavens!” exclaimed Nina, “the blue-stocking and the fogy!—and yours are pale blue, Eileen!—you’re about as self-conscious as Drina—slumping there with your hair tumbling à la Mérode! Oh, it's very picturesque, of course, but a straight spine and good grooming is better. […]”
- (intransitive) To decline or fall off in activity or performance.
- (intransitive) To slouch or droop.
- (transitive) To lump; to throw together messily.
- These different groups […] are exclusively slumped together under that sense.
- To fall or sink suddenly through or in, when walking on a surface, as on thawing snow or ice, a bog, etc.
- a. 1677, Isaac Barrow, The Danger and Mischief of Delaying Repentance (sermon)
- The latter walk on a bottomless quag, into which unawares they may slump.
- a. 1677, Isaac Barrow, The Danger and Mischief of Delaying Repentance (sermon)
- (slang) (transitive) To cause to collapse; to hit hard; to render unsconscious; to kill.
Translations
Noun
slump (plural slumps)
- A heavy or helpless collapse; a slouching or drooping posture; a period of poor activity or performance, especially an extended period.
- (slang by extension) A period when a person goes without the expected amount of sex or dating.
- 2004, Jonathan Tolins, The Last Sunday in June
- TOM. We haven't had sex with each other in five months.
- MICHAEL. We're in a slump, I know that."
- 2004, Jonathan Tolins, The Last Sunday in June
- (slang by extension) A period when a person goes without the expected amount of sex or dating.
- A measure of the fluidity of freshly mixed concrete, based on how much the concrete formed in a standard slump cone sags when the cone is removed.
- (Britain, dialect) A boggy place.
- (Scotland) The noise made by anything falling into a hole, or into a soft, miry place.
- (Scotland) The gross amount; the mass; the lump.
Derived terms
- slumplike
Translations
Anagrams
- Plums, lumps, plums
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From the verb slumpa.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sl?mp/
Noun
slump m (definite singular slumpen, indefinite plural slumpar, definite plural slumpane)
- random event, chance, happenstance
- Eg valde han ut på slump.
- I picked it randomly.
- Eg valde han ut på slump.
- a good amount, quite a bit
- Eg vann ein god slump pengar i går.
- I won quite a bit of money yesterday.
- Eg vann ein god slump pengar i går.
Verb
slump
- imperative of slumpa
Further reading
- “slump” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Spanish
Noun
slump m (plural slumps)
- slump (decline)
Swedish
Pronunciation
Noun
slump c
- chance, happenstance
Declension
Derived terms
- slumpartikel
Related terms
- slumpvariabel
- slumpa
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bound
English
Alternative forms
- bownd (archaic)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ba?nd/
- Rhymes: -a?nd
Etymology 1
From Middle English bound, bund (preterite) and bounden, bunden, ibunden, ?ebunden (past participle), from Old English bund- and bunden, ?ebunden respectively. See bind.
Verb
bound
- simple past tense and past participle of bind
- I bound the splint to my leg.
- I had bound the splint with duct tape.
Adjective
bound (not comparable)
- (with infinitive) Obliged (to).
- (linguistics, of a morpheme) That cannot stand alone as a free word.
- (mathematics, logic, of a variable) Constrained by a quantifier.
- (dated) Constipated; costive.
- Confined or restricted to a certain place; e.g. railbound.
- Unable to move in certain conditions; e.g. snowbound.
Antonyms
- (logic: constrained by a quantifier): free
Hyponyms
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English bound, bownde, alternation (with -d partly for euphonic effect and partly by association with Etymology 1 above) of Middle English boun, from Old Norse búinn, past participle of búa (“to prepare”).
Adjective
bound (comparative more bound, superlative most bound)
- (obsolete) Ready, prepared.
- Ready to start or go (to); moving in the direction (of).
- Which way are you bound?
- Is that message bound for me?
- (with infinitive) Very likely (to), certain to
Derived terms
Related terms
- bound to
- I'll be bound
Translations
Etymology 3
From Middle English bounde, from Old French bunne, from Medieval Latin bodina, earlier butina (“a bound, limit”)
Noun
bound (plural bounds)
- (often used in plural) A boundary, the border which one must cross in order to enter or leave a territory.
- I reached the northern bound of my property, took a deep breath and walked on.
- Somewhere within these bounds you may find a buried treasure.
- (mathematics) A value which is known to be greater or smaller than a given set of values.
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 4
From Middle English bounden, from the noun (see above).
Verb
bound (third-person singular simple present bounds, present participle bounding, simple past and past participle bounded)
- To surround a territory or other geographical entity.
- (mathematics) To be the boundary of.
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 5
From Middle English *bounden (attested as bounten), from French bondir (“leap", "bound", originally "make a loud resounding noise”); perhaps from Late Latin bombit?re, present active infinitive of bombit? (“hum, buzz”), frequentative verb, from Latin bombus (“a humming or buzzing”).
Noun
bound (plural bounds)
- A sizeable jump, great leap.
- The deer crossed the stream in a single bound.
- A spring from one foot to the other in dancing.
- (dated) A bounce; a rebound.
- the bound of a ball
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Johnson to this entry?)
Derived terms
- by leaps and bounds
Translations
Verb
bound (third-person singular simple present bounds, present participle bounding, simple past and past participle bounded)
- (intransitive) To leap, move by jumping.
- The rabbit bounded down the lane.
- (transitive) To cause to leap.
- to bound a horse
- , Act V, Scene II, page 93:
- […] Or if I might buffet for my Loue, or bound my Hor?e for her fauours, I could lay on like a Butcher, and fit like a Iack an Apes, neuer off.
- (intransitive, dated) To rebound; to bounce.
- a rubber ball bounds on the floor
- (transitive, dated) To cause to rebound; to throw so that it will rebound; to bounce.
- to bound a ball on the floor
Derived terms
- rebound
Translations
Anagrams
- Dubon
Middle English
Noun
bound
- Alternative form of band
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