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bundle
[ buhn-dl ]
noun
- several objects or a quantity of material gathered or bound together:
a bundle of hay.
- an item, group, or quantity wrapped for carrying; package.
Synonyms: , ,
- a number of things considered together:
a bundle of ideas.
- Slang. a great deal of money:
He made a bundle in the market.
- Botany. an aggregation of strands of specialized conductive and mechanical tissues.
- Also called bundle of isoglosses. Dialect Geography. a group of close isoglosses running in approximately the same direction, especially when taken as evidence of an important dialect division.
- Anatomy, Zoology. an aggregation of fibers, as of nerves or muscles.
verb (used with object)
- to tie together or wrap in a bundle:
Bundle the newspapers for the trash man.
- to send away hurriedly or unceremoniously (usually followed by off, out, etc.):
They bundled her off to the country.
- to offer or supply (related products or services) in a single transaction at one all-inclusive price.
verb (used without object)
- to leave hurriedly or unceremoniously (usually followed by off, out, etc.):
They indignantly bundled out of the meeting.
- (especially of sweethearts during courtship in early New England) to lie in the same bed while fully clothed, as for privacy and warmth in a house where an entire family shared one room with a fireplace.
verb phrase
- to dress warmly or snugly:
A blizzard was raging but the children were all bundled up.
bundle
/ ˈ²úÊŒ²Ô»åÉ™±ô /
noun
- a number of things or a quantity of material gathered or loosely bound together fascicular
a bundle of sticks
- something wrapped or tied for carrying; package
- slang.a large sum of money
- go a bundle on slang.to be extremely fond of
- biology a collection of strands of specialized tissue such as nerve fibres
- botany short for vascular bundle
- textiles a measure of yarn or cloth; 60Â 000 yards of linen yarn; 5 or 10 pounds of cotton hanks
- drop one's bundle
- to panic or give up hope
- to give birth
verb
- troften foll byup to make into a bundle
- foll byout, off, into etc to go or cause to go, esp roughly or unceremoniously
we bundled him out of the house
- trusually foll byinto to push or throw, esp quickly and untidily
to bundle shirts into a drawer
- tr to sell (computer hardware and software) as one indivisible package
- tr to give away (a relatively cheap product) when selling an expensive one to attract business
several free CDs are often bundled with music centres
- intr to sleep or lie in one's clothes on the same bed as one's betrothed: formerly a custom in New England, Wales, and elsewhere
Derived Forms
- ˈ²ú³Ü²Ô»å±ô±ð°ù, noun
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ²ú³Ü²Ôd±ô±ð°ù noun
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of bundle1
Idioms and Phrases
- drop one's bundle, Australian and New Zealand Slang. to lose confidence or hope.
More idioms and phrases containing bundle
In addition to the idiom beginning with bundle , also see make a bundle .Synonym Study
Example Sentences
Showed bundles of promise when winning the Supreme Novices' Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival four years ago but much of that has been unfulfilled.
The man opens the envelope to show a slim bundle of cash.
But in North Macedonia on Tuesday night, when Wales bundled in an added-time equaliser after a conclusion of stupefying drama, that cool veneer disappeared in an instant.
The team monitors the CFPB’s consumer complaint database “very closely,†Fasano said, tracking similar complaints filed against the same institution, monitoring trends and eventually bundling those complaints into an examination or investigation.
So, if you wanted to watch the Dodgers, the only way to do so was to buy a Spectrum television bundle that included SportsNet LA.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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