bundle
A group of objects held together by wrapping or tying.
Noun
- A group of objects held together by wrapping or tying.
- a bundle of straw or of paper
- a bundle of noodles
- a bundle of old clothes
- A package wrapped or tied up for carrying.
- A group of products or services sold together as a unit.
- This software bundle includes a wordprocessor, a spreadsheet, and two games.
- A large amount, especially of money.
- The inventor of that gizmo must have made a bundle.
- I mean it's nothing for him to go to the races, do a bundle, and come home laughing and joking like nothing's happened. - 1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 134:
Synonyms: mint pile small fortune
- A cluster of closely bound muscle or nerve fibres.
- A sequence of two or more words that occur in language with high frequency but are not idiomatic; a chunk, cluster, or lexical bundle.
- A directory containing related resources such as source code; application bundle.
- A quantity of paper equal to two reams (1000 sheets).
- A court bundle, the assemblage of documentation prepared for, and referred to during, a court case.
- Topological space composed of a base space and fibers projected to the base space.
Meronyms: stalk space
Origin
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 *bundą (“bundle”). Compare also bindle, Dutch bundel, German Bündel.
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Derived
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Verb
- To tie or wrap together into a bundle.
- To hustle; to dispatch something or someone quickly.
- They unmercifully bundled me and my gallant second into our own hackney coach. - 1835, Theodore Hook, Gilbert Gurney:
- To prepare for departure; to set off in a hurry or without ceremony; used with away, off, out.
- To dress someone warmly.
- To dress warmly. Usually bundle up
- To sell hardware and software as a single product.
- To hurry.
- Synonym of dogpile: to form a pile of people upon a victim.
Synonyms: dogpile
- To hastily or clumsily push, put, carry or otherwise send something into a particular place.
- At the other end, Essien thought he had bundled the ball over the line in between Bolton's final two substitutions but the flag had already gone up. - 2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC:
- Yes, there is death in this business of whaling—a speechlessly quick chaotic bundling of a man into Eternity. - 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 7”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New...
- Why, I didn't know that she meant that, until the Captain gave me an explanation, because I was dull of comprehension ; for he bundled me out of the house. - 1859, Terence, Comedies of Terence:
- 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. - 1809, Diedrich Knickerbocker [pseudonym; Washington Irving], A History of New...
- 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...