BUNDLE

bundle, sheaf

(noun) a package of several things tied together for carrying or storing

package, bundle, packet, parcel

(noun) a collection of things wrapped or boxed together

pile, bundle, big bucks, megabucks, big money

(noun) a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit); “she made a bundle selling real estate”; “they sank megabucks into their new house”

bundle, practice bundling

(verb) sleep fully clothed in the same bed with one’s betrothed

pack, bundle, wad, compact

(verb) compress into a wad; “wad paper into the box”

bunch, bundle, cluster, clump

(verb) gather or cause to gather into a cluster; “She bunched her fingers into a fist”

bundle, bundle up, roll up

(verb) make into a bundle; “he bundled up his few possessions”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

bundle (plural bundles)

A group of objects held together by wrapping or tying.

A package wrapped or tied up for carrying.

A group of products or services sold together as a unit.

(informal) A large amount, especially of money.

(biology) A cluster of closely bound muscle or nerve fibres.

(linguistics, education) A sequence of two or more words that occur in language with high frequency but are not idiomatic; a chunk, cluster, or lexical bundle.

(computing, Mac OS X) A directory containing related resources such as source code; application bundle.

A quantity of paper equal to two reams (1000 sheets).

(law) A court bundle, the assemblage of documentation prepared for, and referred to during, a court case.

(mathematics) Topological space composed of a base space and fibers projected to the base space.

Meronym: stalk space

Hyponyms

• (computing): native bundle

Coordinate terms

• (quantity of paper): bale, quire, ream

Verb

bundle (third-person singular simple present bundles, present participle bundling, simple past and past participle bundled)

(transitive) To tie or wrap together into a bundle.

(transitive) To hustle; to dispatch something or someone quickly.

(intransitive) To prepare for departure; to set off in a hurry or without ceremony; used with away, off, out.

(transitive) To dress someone warmly.

(intransitive) To dress warmly. Usually bundle up

(computing) To sell hardware and software as a single product.

(intransitive) To hurry.

(slang) synonym of dogpile: to form a pile of people upon a victim.

(transitive) To hastily or clumsily push, put, carry or otherwise send something into a particular place.

(dated, intransitive) To sleep on the same bed without undressing.

Anagrams

• unbled

Source: Wiktionary


Bun"dle, n. Etym: [OE. bundel, AS. byndel; akin to D. bondel, bundel, G. bĂĽndel, dim. of bund bundle, fr. the root of E. bind. See Bind.]

Definition: A number of things bound together, as by a cord or envelope, into a mass or package convenient for handling or conveyance; a loose package; a roll; as, a bundle of straw or of paper; a bundle of old clothes. The fable of the rods, which, when united in a bundle, no strength could bend. Goldsmith. Bundle pillar (Arch.), a column or pier, with others of small dimensions attached to it. Weale.

Bun"dle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bundled (p. pr. & vb.n. Bundling (.]

1. To tie or bind in a bundle or roll.

2. To send off abruptly or without ceremony. They unmercifully bundled me and my gallant second into our own hackney coach. T. Hook. To bundle off, to send off in a hurry, or without ceremony.

– To bundle one's self up, to wrap one's self up warmly or cumbrously.

Bun"dle, v. i.

1. To prepare for departure; to set off in a hurry or without ceremony.

2. To sleep on the same bed without undressing; -- applied to the custom of a man and woman, especially lovers, thus sleeping. Bartlett. Van Corlear stopped occasionally in the villages to eat pumpkin pies, dance at country frolics, and bundle with the Yankee lasses. W. Irving.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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