Pronunciations (2)
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/ˈbʌn.dl̩/
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ˈbʌnd(ə)l
Noun
A group of objects held together by wrapping or tying.
Usage- collective
- Countable
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a bundle of straw or of paper
a bundle of noodles
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a bundle of old clothes
The fable of the rods, which, when united in a bundle, no strength could bend.
A package wrapped or tied up for carrying.
Usage- Countable
A group of products or services sold together as a unit.
Usage- collective
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This software bundle includes a wordprocessor, a spreadsheet, and two games.
A large amount, especially of money.
Usage- Informal
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The inventor of that gizmo must have made a bundle.
I mean it's nothing for him to go to the races, do a bundle, and come home laughing and joking like nothing's happened.
A cluster of closely bound muscle or nerve fibres.
A sequence of two or more words that occur in language with high frequency but are not idiomatic; a chunk, cluster, or lexical bundle.
A directory containing related resources such as source code; application bundle.
A quantity of paper equal to two reams (1000 sheets).
A court bundle, the assemblage of documentation prepared for, and referred to during, a court case.
Usage- Countable
Topological space composed of a base space and fibers projected to the base space.
Verb
To tie or wrap together into a bundle.
Usage- Transitive
To hustle; to dispatch something or someone quickly.
Usage- Transitive
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They unmercifully bundled me and my gallant second into our own hackney coach.
To prepare for departure; to set off in a hurry or without ceremony; used with away, off, out.
Usage- Intransitive
To dress someone warmly.
Usage- Transitive
To dress warmly. Usually bundle up
Usage- Intransitive
To sell hardware and software as a single product.
To hurry.
Usage- Intransitive
Synonym of dogpile: to form a pile of people upon a victim.
Usage- Slang
To hastily or clumsily push, put, carry or otherwise send something into a particular place.
Usage- Transitive
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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.
Yes, there is death in this business of whaling—a speechlessly quick chaotic bundling of a man into Eternity.
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Why, I didn't know that she meant that, until the Captain gave me an explanation, because I was dull of comprehension ; for he bundled me out of the house.
To sleep on the same bed without undressing.
Usage- Dated
- Intransitive
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Van Corlear […][stopped] occasionally in the villages to eat pumpkin pies, dance at country frolics, and bundle with the Yankee lasses.
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They were on the couch for nearly an hour, then in the shower for she didn't know how long — until the hot water started to fail and drove them out, anyway. Then she took him into her bed, where she lay too exhausted and too content to do anything but bundle.
Noun
a collection of things wrapped or boxed together
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a package of several things tied together for carrying or storing
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a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit)
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she made a bundle selling real estate
they sank megabucks into their new house
Verb
make into a bundle
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he bundled up his few possessions
gather or cause to gather into a cluster
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She bunched her fingers into a fist
compress into a wad
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wad paper into the box
sleep fully clothed in the same bed with one's betrothed
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