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lump
| lump sugar
| lump sum
| lump together
| lumpectomy
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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun lump has 4 senses
- lump(n = noun.group) ball, chunk, clod, clump, glob - a compact mass; "a ball of mud caught him on the shoulder" has particulars: clot, coagulum, gob, clew
- lump(n = noun.state) puffiness, swelling - an abnormal protuberance or localized enlargement; Array has particulars: spermatocele, bloat, bunion, dropsy, edema, hydrops, oedema, haematocele, haematocoele, hematocele, hematocoele, intumescence, intumescency, iridoncus, lymphogranuloma, oscheocele, oscheocoele, tumidity, tumidness
- lump(n = noun.person) clod, gawk, goon, lout, lubber, lummox, oaf, stumblebum - an awkward stupid person; Array is a kind of clumsy person
- lump(n = noun.object) hunk - a large piece of something without definite shape; "a hunk of bread"; "a lump of coal" has particulars: nodule, nugget
is a kind of agglomeration
Derived form adjective lumpy2
is a kind of symptom, enlargement
is a kind of part, piece
Derived forms verb lump2, verb lump1, adjective lumpy2, adjective lumpy1
Verb lump has 2 senses
- lump(v = verb.contact) chunk - put together indiscriminately; "lump together all the applicants" is one way to accumulate, amass, collect, compile, hoard, pile up, roll up
- lump(v = verb.cognition) chunk, collocate - group or chunk together in a certain order or place side by side; Array is one way to group
Derived form noun lump4
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something PP
Derived forms noun lump4, noun lumper2
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
CIDE DICTIONARY
lump, n. [Cf. OD. lompe piece, mass. Cf. Lunch.].
- A small mass of matter of irregular shape; an irregular or shapeless mass; as, a lump of coal; a lump of iron ore. Shak. [1913 Webster]
- A mass or aggregation of things. [1913 Webster]
- A projection beneath the breech end of a gun barrel. [1913 Webster]"They may buy them in the lump."
lump, v. i.
- To throw into a mass; to unite in a body or sum without distinction of particulars. [1913 Webster]"The expenses ought to be lumped together." [1913 Webster]
- To take in the gross; to speak of collectively. [1913 Webster]"Not forgetting all others, . . . whom for brevity, but out of no resentment to you, I lump all together." [1913 Webster]
- To get along with as one can, although displeased; as, if he doesn't like it, he can lump it. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
lump, n. & v.
--n.
1 a compact shapeless or unshapely mass.
2 sl. a quantity or heap.
3 a tumour, swelling, or bruise.
4 a heavy, dull, or ungainly person.
5 (prec. by the) Brit. casual workers in the building and other trades.
--v.
1 tr. (usu. foll. by together, with, in with, under, etc.) mass together or group indiscriminately.
2 tr. carry or throw carelessly (lumping crates round the yard).
3 intr. become lumpy.
4 intr. (usu. foll. by along) proceed heavily or awkwardly.
5 intr. (usu. foll. by down) sit down heavily.
--n.
1 a compact shapeless or unshapely mass.
2 sl. a quantity or heap.
3 a tumour, swelling, or bruise.
4 a heavy, dull, or ungainly person.
5 (prec. by the) Brit. casual workers in the building and other trades.
--v.
1 tr. (usu. foll. by together, with, in with, under, etc.) mass together or group indiscriminately.
2 tr. carry or throw carelessly (lumping crates round the yard).
3 intr. become lumpy.
4 intr. (usu. foll. by along) proceed heavily or awkwardly.
5 intr. (usu. foll. by down) sit down heavily.
Idiom
in the lump taking things as a whole; in a general manner. lump in the throat a feeling of pressure there, caused by emotion. lump sugar sugar shaped into lumps or cubes. lump sum
1 a sum covering a number of items.
2 money paid down at once (opp. INSTALMENT).
1 a sum covering a number of items.
2 money paid down at once (opp. INSTALMENT).
Derivative
lumper n. (in sense 2 of v.).
lump, v.tr. colloq. endure or suffer (a situation) ungraciously.
Idiom
like it or lump it put up with something whether one likes it or not.
Etymology
imit.: cf. dump, grump, etc.
THESAURUS
lump
abide, abide with, accumulation, acervation, agglomerate, agglomeration, aggregate, aggregation, allow, amassment, barrel, batch, bear, bear with, beard, bide, bilge, bit, blain, bleb, blend, blimp, blister, blob, block, body, boil, boss, bow, brave, brook, bubble, bulb, bulge, bulk, bulla, bump, bunch, bunion, burl, butt, butterfingers, button, cahot, cake, carbuncle, chine, chip, chunk, clabber, clip, clipping, clod, clot, clump, clumsy, cluster, coagulate, collect, collop, colophon, combine, comeuppance, concavity, concrete, concretion, condyle, congeal, congeries, conglobation, conglomerate, conglomeration, consolidate, convex, convexity, corn, crumb, cube, cumulation, curd, curdle, cut, cutting, cyst, dactylogram, dactylograph, dent, deserts, deserving, digest, dilatation, dilation, dint, distension, dollop, dowel, dub, due, duffer, ear, edema, embossment, end, endure, excrescence, fatty, fingerprint, flange, flap, footmark, footprint, footstep, foozler, fossil footprint, foul-up, fragment, fumble-fist, furuncle, gall, gathering, gawk, gel, gelatinate, gelatinize, glomeration, gnarl, gob, gobbet, goof, goofball, goofer, group, growth, handle, hang in, hang in there, hang tough, heap, heavy, heavyweight, hick, hill, hippo, hump, hunch, hunk, ichnite, ichnolite, impress, impression, imprint, incrassate, indent, indentation, indention, inspissate, intumescence, jell, jellify, jelly, jog, joggle, join, klutz, knob, knot, knur, knurl, lip, loaf, lobster, looby, loop, lopper, lot, lout, lubber, lummox, lump it, lump together, mass, merit, mix, modicum, moiety, mole, morsel, mountain, much, muff, muffer, nevus, node, nodule, nub, nubbin, nubble, nugget, oaf, pad, palooka, papilloma, paring, particle, pat, paw print, pawmark, peck, peg, persevere, piece, pile, pimple, pock, portion, potbelly, power, print, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, pug, pugmark, pustule, put together, put up with, quantity, rasher, rib, ridge, rights, ring, rising, roly-poly, rube, scoop, scrap, seal, sebaceous cyst, set, shard, shaving, shiver, shoulder, shred, sight, sigil, signet, slice, sliver, slob, smithereen, snack, snatch, snip, snippet, snowball, solid, solid body, spine, splinter, stamp, stand, stand for, step, stick, stitch, stockpile, stomach, stud, stumblebum, stumblebunny, stump, style, suffer, support, sustain, swagbelly, swallow, swell, swelling, swollenness, tab, take, take up with, tatter, thick, thicken, throw together, thumbmark, thumbprint, tolerate, tub, tub of lard, tubercle, tubercule, tumefaction, tumescence, tumidity, tumor, tun, turgescence, turgescency, turgidity, unite, verruca, vesicle, vestige, wad, wale, wart, wedge, welt, wenROGET THESAURUS
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Whole
N whole, totality, integrity, totalness, entirety, ensemble, collectiveness, unity, completeness, indivisibility, indiscerptibility, integration, embodiment, integer, all, the whole, total, aggregate, one and all, gross amount, sum, sum total, tout ensemble, length and breadth of, Alpha and Omega, be all and end all, complex, complexus, lock stock and barrel, bulk, mass, lump, tissue, staple, body, compages, trunk, torso, bole, hull, hulk, skeleton greater part, major part, best part, principal part, main part, essential part, lion's share, Benjamin's mess, the long and the short, nearly, all, almost all, whole, total, integral, entire, complete, one, individual, unbroken, intact, uncut, undivided, unsevered, unclipped, uncropped, unshorn, seamless, undiminished, undemolished, undissolved, undestroyed, unbruised, indivisible, indissoluble, indissolvable, indiscerptible, wholesale, sweeping, comprehensive, wholly, altogether, totally, entirely, all, all in all, as a whole, wholesale, in a body, collectively, all put together, in the aggregate, in the lump, in the mass, in the gross, in the main, in the long run, en masse, as a body, on the whole, bodily, en bloc, in extenso, throughout, every inch, substantially, tout bien ou rien.Part
N part, portion, dose, item, particular, aught, any, division, ward, subdivision, section, chapter, clause, count, paragraph, verse, article, passage, sector, segment, fraction, fragment, cantle, frustum, detachment, parcel, piece, lump, bit cut, cutting, chip, chunk, collop, slice, scale, lamina, small part, morsel, particle, installment, dividend, share, debris, odds and ends, oddments, detritus, excerpta, member, limb, lobe, lobule, arm, wing, scion, branch, bough, joint, link, offshoot, ramification, twig, bush, spray, sprig, runner, leaf, leaflet, stump, component part, sarmentum, compartment, department, county, fractional, fragmentary, sectional, aliquot, divided, in compartments, multifid, disconnected, partial, partly, in part, partially, piecemeal, part by part, by by installments, by snatches, by inches, by driblets, bit by bit, inch by inch, foot by foot, drop by drop, in detail, in lots.Assemblage
N assemblage, collection, collocation, colligation, compilation, levy, gathering, ingathering, muster, attroupement, team, concourse, conflux, congregation, contesseration, convergence, meeting, levee, reunion, drawing room, at home, conversazione, assembly, congress, convention, conventicle, gemote, conclave, posse, posse comitatus, Noah's ark, miscellany, collectanea, museum, menagerie, museology, crowd, throng, group, flood, rush, deluge, rabble, mob, press, crush, cohue, horde, body, tribe, crew, gang, knot, squad, band, party, swarm, shoal, school, covey, flock, herd, drove, atajo, bunch, drive, force, mulada, remuda, roundup, array, bevy, galaxy, corps, company, troop, troupe, task force, army, regiment, host, populousness, clan, brotherhood, fraternity, sorority, association, volley, shower, storm, cloud, group, cluster, Pleiades, clump, pencil, set, batch, lot, pack, budget, assortment, bunch, parcel, packet, package, bundle, fascine, fasces, bale, seron, seroon, fagot, wisp, truss, tuft, shock, rick, fardel, stack, sheaf, haycock, fascicle, fascicule, fasciculus, gavel, hattock, stook, accumulation, congeries, heap, lump, pile, rouleau, tissue, mass, pyramid, bing, drift, snowball, snowdrift, acervation, cumulation, glomeration, agglomeration, conglobation, conglomeration, conglomerate, coacervate, coacervation, coagmentation, aggregation, concentration, congestion, omnium gaterum, spicilegium, black hole of Calcutta, quantity, collector, gatherer, whip, whipper in, assembled, closely packed, dense, serried, crowded to suffocation, teeming, swarming, populous, as thick as hops, all of a heap, fasciculated cumulative, the plot thickens, acervatim, tibi seris tibi metis.Size
N size, magnitude, dimension, bulk, volume, largeness, greatness, expanse, amplitude, mass, proportions, capacity, tonnage, tunnage, cordage, caliber, scantling, turgidity, corpulence, obesity, plumpness, embonpoint, corporation, flesh and blood, lustihood, hugeness, enormity, immensity, monstrosity, giant, Brobdingnagian, Antaeus, Goliath, Gog and Magog, Gargantua, monster, mammoth, Cyclops, cachalot, whale, porpoise, behemoth, leviathan, elephant, hippopotamus, colossus, tun, cord, lump, bulk, block, loaf, mass, swad, clod, nugget, bushel, thumper, whooper, spanker, strapper, Triton among the minnows, mountain, mound, heap, largest portion, full size, life size, large, big, great, considerable, bulky, voluminous, ample, massive, massy, capacious, comprehensive, spacious, mighty, towering, fine, magnificent, corpulent, stout, fat, obese, plump, squab, full, lusty, strapping, bouncing, portly, burly, well-fed, full-grown, corn fed, gram fed, stalwart, brawny, fleshy, goodly, in good case, in good condition, in condition, chopping, jolly, chub faced, chubby faced, lubberly, hulky, unwieldy, lumpish, gaunt, spanking, whacking, whopping, walloping, thumping, thundering, hulking, overgrown, puffy, huge, immense, enormous, mighty, vast, vasty, amplitudinous, stupendous, monster, monstrous, humongous, monumental, elephantine, jumbo, mammoth, gigantic, gigantean, giant, giant like, titanic, prodigious, colossal, Cyclopean, Brobdingnagian, Bunyanesque, Herculean, Gargantuan, infinite, large as life, plump as a dumpling, plump as a partridge, fat as a pig, fat as a quail, fat as butter, fat as brawn, fat as bacon, immeasurable, unfathomable, unplumbed, inconceivable, unimaginable, unheard-of, of cosmic proportions, of epic proportions, the mother of all, teh granddaddy of all.Density
N density, solidity, solidness, impenetrability, impermeability, incompressibility, imporosity, cohesion, constipation, consistence, spissitude, specific gravity, hydrometer, areometer, condensation, caseation, solidation, solidification, consolidation, concretion, coagulation, petrification, crystallization, precipitation, deposit, precipitate, inspissation, gelation, thickening, indivisibility, indiscerptibility, insolubility, indissolvableness, solid body, mass, block, knot, lump, concretion, concrete, conglomerate, cake, clot, stone, curd, coagulum, bone, gristle, cartilage, casein, crassamentum, legumin, superdense matter, condensed states of matter, dwarf star, neutron star, dense, solid, solidified, caseous, pukka, coherent, cohesive, compact, close, serried, thickset, substantial, massive, lumpish, impenetrable, impermeable, nonporous, imporous, incompressible, constipated, concrete, knotted, knotty, gnarled, crystalline, crystallizable, thick, grumous, stuffy, undissolved, unmelted, unliquefied, unthawed, indivisible, indiscerptible, infrangible, indissolvable, indissoluble, insoluble, infusible.
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