bundle

From Middle English bundel, from Middle Dutch bondel or Old English byndele, byndelle (“a binding; tying; fastening with bands”); both from Proto-Germanic *bundil-, derivative of *bundą (“bundle”). Compare also English bindle.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʌnd(ə)l/

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• Hyphenation: bun‧dle
• Rhymes: -ʌndəl

bundle (plural bundles)

1. A group of objects held together by wrapping or tying.

   a bundle of straw or of paper; a bundle of old clothes

   • Goldsmith

     The fable of the rods, which, when united in a bundle, no strength could bend.

2. A package wrapped or tied up for carrying.
3. (informal) A large amount, especially of money.

   The inventor of that gizmo must have made a bundle.

4. (biology) A cluster of closely bound muscle or nerve fibres.
5. (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.

   examples of bundles would include "in accordance with", "the results of" and "so far"

6. (computing, Mac OS X) A directory containing related resources such as source code; application bundle.
7. A quantity of paper equal to 2 reams (1000 sheets).
8. (law) A court bundle, the assemblage of documentation prepared for, and referred to during, a court case.
9. (mathematics) Topological space composed of a base space and fibers projected to the base space.

• (computing): native bundle

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

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

1. (transitive) To tie or wrap together into a bundle.
2. (transitive) To hustle; to dispatch something or someone quickly.
   • T. Hook

     They unmercifully bundled me and my gallant second into our own hackney coach.

3. (intransitive) To prepare for departure; to set off in a hurry or without ceremony; used with away, off, out.
4. (transitive) To dress someone warmly.
5. (intransitive) To dress warmly. Usually bundle up
6. (computing) To sell hardware and software as a single product.
7. (intransitive) To hurry.
8. (slang) Synonym of dogpile: to form a pile of people upon a victim.
9. (transitive) To hastily or clumsily push, put, carry or otherwise send something into a particular place.
   • 2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC‎:

     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.

   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 7

     Yes, there is death in this business of whaling—a speechlessly quick chaotic bundling of a man into Eternity.

   • 1859, Terence, Comedies of Terence

     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.

10. (dated, intransitive) To sleep on the same bed without undressing.
    • Washington Irving

      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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