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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.
- 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
/ ˈbʌndəl /
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; 60 000 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
- ˈbundler, noun
Other Words From
- bundler noun
Word History and Origins
Word 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
Apple also unveiled Apple One, a bundle of its subscription services.
That matches earlier rumors that Apple would make its music app the centerpiece of a bundle or choice of bundles that would include various services at prices offering a modest savings to consumers.
I brought a few bags of groceries, a pair of rubber boots, and a bundle of older clothes that I didn’t mind destroying.
He also helped handle the development of Apple’s upgraded TV app last year and is leading the charge on Apple’s push into services bundles.
Egyptian animal mummies can look like little more than bundles of cloth.
Ultimately, the big news in the saga of the cable bundle are the effects of the new lower priced tiers evolving.
The larger transactions, say, for several street bags or an entire bundle of ten ($250) were paid for through Western Union.
Now it is true that this bundle of blunders and errors does not constitute “participation”in genocide.
Mingma also stepped back and let Arnot bundle the bleeding man into a tent.
He is quite a bundle of stimulus and reflex, with no reflection.
Strathland would bundle me out in ten minutes if anything happened to Jack.
He swerved as he passed it, and, looking, saw that it was a bundle wrapped in a striped blanket.
On breaking the seal, a letter at the top of a bundle of papers presented itself.
Across his shoulder he carried a bundle knotted into an old red handkerchief with a polka spot.
He spurned the bundle with his foot, while the stranger stopped suddenly, as if a blow had been struck him.
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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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