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Definition of Bundle

1. Noun. A collection of things wrapped or boxed together.

2. Verb. Make into a bundle. "He bundled up his few possessions"

3. Noun. A package of several things tied together for carrying or storing.

4. Verb. Gather or cause to gather into a cluster. "She bunched her fingers into a fist"

5. Noun. A large sum of money (especially as pay or profit). "They sank megabucks into their new house"

6. Verb. Compress into a wad. "Wad paper into the box"

7. Verb. Sleep fully clothed in the same bed with one's betrothed.

Definition of Bundle

1. n. 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.

2. v. t. To tie or bind in a bundle or roll.

3. v. i. To prepare for departure; to set off in a hurry or without ceremony.

Definition of Bundle

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

2. Noun. A package wrapped or tied up for carrying. ¹

3. Noun. (biology) A cluster of closely bound muscle or nerve fibres. ¹

4. Noun. (informal) A large amount, especially of money. ¹

5. Noun. (computing Mac OS X) A directory or (suffixed with an extension such as .app, .pkg, .bundle) and containing related resources such source code; application bundle. ¹

6. Verb. To tie or wrap together. ¹

7. Verb. To hustle; to dispatch something or someone quickly. ¹

8. Verb. (transitive) To dress someone warmly. ¹

9. Verb. (intransitive) To dress warmly. Usually bundle up ¹

10. Verb. (computing) To sell hardware and software as a single product. ¹

11. Verb. (intransitive) To hurry. ¹

12. Verb. (slang) To dogpile ¹

13. Verb. (transitive) To hastily or clumsily push, put, carry or otherwise send something into a particular place. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Bundle

1. to fasten a group of objects together [v -DLED, -DLING, -DLES]

Medical Definition of Bundle

1. 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. "Van Corlear stopped occasionally in the villages to eat pumpkin pies, dance at country frolics, and bundle with the Yankee lasses." (W. Irving) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bundle

bunco-steerer bunco-steerers bunco game buncoed buncoing buncombe buncombes buncos bund bunded

bunder bunder boat bunding bundist bundists bundle (current term) bundle-branch block bundle adjustment bundle adjustments bundle bone

bundle buggies bundle buggy bundle divertor bundle of His bundle of Rasmussen bundle of energy bundle of joy bundle of laughs bundle of nerves bundle off

Literary usage of Bundle

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1908)
"In this region the fibers of the bundle, as they emerged from the ... In the third case a fibrous scar was found at the point at which the bundle divides. ..."

2. Mirrors, Prisms and Lenses: A Text-book of Geometrical Optics by James Powell Cocke Southall (1918)
"If the vertex of the homocentric bundle of incident i lies at any point S on the surface of the sphere descrit around C as center with radius equal to ..."

3. Anatomy: Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1897)
"In each anterior area, just dorsal to the pyramid, is seen on section a well-marked bundle of fibres. This is the fillet, or lemniscus. ..."

4. Strasburger's Text-book of Botany by Eduard Strasburger, Hans Fitting (1921)
"Such a bundle is found in the stems of a number of living and extinct ... The simplest and phylogenetically oldest type of vascular bundle appears to be the ..."

5. Comparative Anatomy of the Vegetative Organs of the Phanerogams and Ferns by Anton Bary (1884)
"That belonging to leaf a lies deep in the section ; its parts are indicated by 1. and the vascular bundle which enters it by * + . ..."

6. A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines: Containing a Clear Exposition by Andrew Ure (1854)
"997 When the workman wishes to introduce the bundle в, he raises, by means of two chains i к, ßc. 999, and the lever о о, the swing piece and the cross bar. ..."

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