bundle

[ buhn-dl ]

/ ˈbʌn dl /

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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), bun·dled, bun·dling.

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), bun·dled, bun·dling.

to leave hurriedly or unceremoniously (usually followed byoff, 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 Phrases

bundle up, to dress warmly or snugly: A blizzard was raging but the children were all bundled up.

SYNONYMS FOR bundle

2 parcel, pac, packet.

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the matter that settles to the bottom of a liquid.

the state of being isolated, kept apart, or withdrawn into solitude.

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Idioms for bundle

drop one's bundle, Australian and New Zealand Slang. to lose confidence or hope.

Origin of bundle

1350–1400; Middle English bundel<Middle Dutch bundel, bondel; akin to bind

synonym study for bundle

1. Bundle, bunch refer to a number of things or an amount of something fastened or bound together. Bundle implies a close binding or grouping together, and often refers to a wrapped package: a bundle of laundry, of dry goods. A bunch is a number of things, usually all of the same kind, fastened together: a bunch of roses, of keys.

OTHER WORDS FROM bundle

bundler, noun

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Example sentences from the Web for bundle

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There’s also the option to buy all three products in a bundle set.
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It’s begun to acquire libraries like “Fraggle Rock” and is including the streamer alongside Apple Music and Apple Arcade in its Apple One bundle.
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That bundle of compromises says that no compact can be agreed upon between states without the consent of Congress.
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Although the bundles offer some savings, Apple is betting customers will spend more overall by signing up for the bundles.
Apple starts selling its Apple One subscription bundles. Here’s how much they cost|Aaron Pressman|October 30, 2020|Fortune
The adviser fears that moving the prisoners east means “they are thinking of bundling them across the border into Iraq.”
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Barack Obama and John McCain also proved adept at developing a bundling system.
Mitt Romney Should Disclose Big Campaign Donors|Peter Schweizer|April 17, 2012|DAILY BEAST
We soon began to see women and girls at work in the fields, digging potatoes alone, or bundling up the grain which the men cut.
Excursions and Poems|Henry David Thoreau
Bundling them all in a bunch, she proffered them to Conan, who handed them to the astonished Devi.
The People of the Black Circle|Robert E. Howard
There is a great outcry just now about the paper on bundling which was in the last Yankee.
Bundling; Its Origin, Progress and Decline in America|Henry Reed Stiles
He says that they are a Greek custom and he connects them with bundling.
Folkways|William Graham Sumner
Bundling the sufferers below as gently as the exigency permitted, the boats were cleared and swung out ready for launching.
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British Dictionary definitions for bundle

bundle

/ (ˈbʌndəl) /

noun

a number of things or a quantity of material gathered or loosely bound togethera 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

verb

(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 unceremoniouslywe bundled him out of the house

(tr usually foll by into) to push or throw, esp quickly and untidilyto 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 businessseveral 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 of bundle

bundler, noun

Word Origin for bundle

C14: probably from Middle Dutch bundel; related to Old English bindele bandage; see bind, bond

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Medical definitions for bundle

bundle

[ bŭn′dl ]

n.

A structure composed of a group of fibers, such as a fasciculus.

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bundle

In addition to the idiom beginning with bundle

bundle of nerves

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make a bundle

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