bundle
several objects or a quantity of material gathered or bound together: a bundle of hay.
an item, group, or quantity wrapped for carrying; package.
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.
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.
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.
bundle up, to dress warmly or snugly: A blizzard was raging but the children were all bundled up.
Idioms about bundle
drop one's bundle, Australian and New Zealand Slang. to lose confidence or hope.
Origin of bundle
1synonym study For bundle
Other words for bundle
Other words from bundle
- bundler, noun
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How to use bundle in a sentence
But many others will be happy just to get a hot shower before bundling up in their icy apartments.
Several Democratic campaigns also disclosed bundling by political action committees affiliated with ideological groups that lobby.
Senate Democrats Snag Campaign Cash From Lobbyist-Bundlers | Michael Beckel | June 16, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST[People] voluntarily leaving the workforce once they are able to get health insurance shows how bad the previous bundling was.
Is Crowdsourced Labor the Future of Middle Class Employment? | Sarah Kunst | March 26, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe adviser fears that moving the prisoners east means “they are thinking of bundling them across the border into Iraq.”
Where Is Al Qaeda Holding Its Western Hostages In Syria? | Jamie Dettmer | January 22, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTMore shuffling, another number was called and the cops began bundling the little man out.
The Sedition Files: How an Indian Cartoonist Becomes a Criminal | Dilip D’Souza | September 21, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
Were this rule suddenly put in practice, what a bundling out of rubbish would ensue.
The Library of Work and Play: Housekeeping | Elizabeth Hale Gilman"The false beard," cried Walter, holding it out from the stretcher on which they were bundling him.
The Incendiary | W. A. (William Augustine) LeahyThe 24 mill-hanks are then slipped off the end of the reel, and the hanks taken to the bundling stool or frame.
The Jute Industry: From Seed to Finished Cloth | T. Woodhouse and P. KilgourGet me that white lambs-wool sacque, though I hate bundling up like an old woman!
Helen Grant's Schooldays | Amanda M. DouglasShe dressed hurriedly and warmly, bundling her hair under a velours hat and ramming a pin through both.
The Pagan Madonna | Harold MacGrath
British Dictionary definitions for bundle
/ (ˈbʌndəl) /
a number of things or a quantity of material gathered or loosely bound together: a bundle of sticks Related adjective: fascicular
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; 60 000 yards of linen yarn; 5 or 10 pounds of cotton hanks
drop one's bundle
Australian and NZ slang to panic or give up hope
NZ slang to give birth
(tr often foll by up) to make into a bundle
(foll by out, off, into etc) to go or cause to go, esp roughly or unceremoniously: we bundled him out of the house
(tr usually foll by into) 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
Origin of bundle
1Derived forms of bundle
- bundler, noun
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Other Idioms and Phrases with bundle
In addition to the idiom beginning with bundle
- bundle of nerves
also see:
- make a bundle
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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