Bundle

//ˈbʌn.dl̩// noun, verb, slang

noun, verb, slang ·Very common ·Middle school level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A group of objects held together by wrapping or tying. countable

    "a bundle of straw or of paper"

  2. 2
    a package of several things tied together for carrying or storing wordnet
  3. 3
    A package wrapped or tied up for carrying. countable
  4. 4
    a collection of things wrapped or boxed together wordnet
  5. 5
    A group of products or services sold together as a unit.

    "This software bundle includes a wordprocessor, a spreadsheet, and two games."

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  1. 6
    a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit) wordnet
  2. 7
    A large amount, especially of money. informal

    "The inventor of that gizmo must have made a bundle."

  3. 8
    A cluster of closely bound muscle or nerve fibres.
  4. 9
    A sequence of two or more words that occur in language with high frequency but are not idiomatic; a chunk, cluster, or lexical bundle.
  5. 10
    A directory containing related resources such as source code; application bundle.
  6. 11
    A quantity of paper equal to two reams (1000 sheets).
  7. 12
    A court bundle, the assemblage of documentation prepared for, and referred to during, a court case. countable
  8. 13
    Topological space composed of a base space and fibers projected to the base space.
Verb
  1. 1
    To tie or wrap together into a bundle. transitive
  2. 2
    sleep fully clothed in the same bed with one's betrothed wordnet
  3. 3
    To hustle; to dispatch something or someone quickly. transitive

    "They unmercifully bundled me and my gallant second into our own hackney coach."

  4. 4
    compress into a wad wordnet
  5. 5
    To prepare for departure; to set off in a hurry or without ceremony; used with away, off, out. intransitive
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  1. 6
    gather or cause to gather into a cluster wordnet
  2. 7
    To dress someone warmly. transitive
  3. 8
    make into a bundle wordnet
  4. 9
    To dress warmly. Usually bundle up intransitive
  5. 10
    To sell hardware and software as a single product.
  6. 11
    To hurry. intransitive
  7. 12
    Synonym of dogpile: to form a pile of people upon a victim. slang
  8. 13
    To hastily or clumsily push, put, carry or otherwise send something into a particular place. transitive

    "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."

  9. 14
    To sleep on the same bed without undressing. dated, intransitive

    "Van Corlear […][stopped] occasionally in the villages to eat pumpkin pies, dance at country frolics, and bundle with the Yankee lasses."

Synonyms

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packagebalebunchpackparcelpile

Example

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"It's a bundle of contradictions."

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 *bundą (“bundle”). Compare also bindle, Dutch bundel, German Bündel.

Related phrases

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