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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.
Synonyms: , ,
- 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
/ ˈʌԻə /
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
- ˈܲԻ, noun
Other 51Թ Forms
- ܲd noun
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ 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
Southwest Airlines is unveiling new fare bundles as controversial changes to the airline’s policies are set to take effect in the coming months.
She clutches a bundle of documents - her family's ticket out of Renk.
"I appreciate the fact that I'm living my life with them, and I'm not just bundled off into a school in a different borough where I can't see them."
The only downer with “Welcome Tour,” which is primarily designed to show off the console’s capabilities, is that it doesn’t come bundled with the Switch 2.
Showed bundles of promise when winning the Supreme Novices' Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival four years ago but much of that has been unfulfilled.
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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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