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Definition of 'lump'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) lump
a piece or mass of solid matter without regular shape or of no particular shape:
a lump of coal.

2.  lump
a protuberance or swelling:
a blow that raised a lump on his head.

3.  lump
an aggregation, collection, or mass; clump:
All the articles were piled in a great lump.

4.  lump
a small block of granulated sugar, for sweetening hot coffee, tea, etc.

5.  lump
majority; plurality; multitude:
The great lump of voters are still undecided.

6.  lump
Informal. harsh criticism, punishment, or defeat.

7.  lump
Informal. a heavy, clumsy, and usu. stupid person.

8. (adj.) lump
in the form of a lump or lumps:
lump sugar.

9.  lump
made up of a number of items taken together; not divided:
to pay a debt in a lump sum.

10. (v.t.) lump
to unite into one aggregation, collection, or mass (often fol. by together):
We lumped the reds and blues together.

11.  lump
to deal with, consider, etc., in the lump or mass:
to lump unrelated matters indiscriminately.

12.  lump
to make into a lump or lumps.

13.  lump
to raise into or cover with lumps:
a plow lumping the moist earth.

14. (v.i.) lump
to form a lump or lumps.

15.  lump
to move heavily and awkwardly.

Definition of 'lump'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) ball, clod, glob, lump, clump, chunk
a compact mass
"a ball of mud caught him on the shoulder"

2. (noun) swelling, puffiness, lump
an abnormal protuberance or localized enlargement

3. (noun) lout, clod, stumblebum, goon, oaf, lubber, lummox, lump, gawk
an awkward stupid person

4. (verb) hunk, lump
a large piece of something without definite shape
"a hunk of bread"; "a lump of coal"

5. (verb) lump, chunk
put together indiscriminately
"lump together all the applicants"

6. (verb) collocate, lump, chunk
group or chunk together in a certain order or place side by side

Definition of 'lump'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) lump
a hard irregularly shaped piece
a lump of coal/ice/clay; too many lumps in the batter

2. lump
a swollen or hard spot under the skin
a lump in her breast

3. lump
a lump in your throat
the feeling in your throat when you might cry
I couldn't speak because of a huge lump in my throat.

4. (verb) lump
to force two different ideas or things together
lawmakers who lump unpopular proposals with popular ones so that they will become law; You can't lump students of such different abilities together.

Definition of 'lump'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) lump
a small mass of matter of irregular shape; an irregular or shapeless mass; as, a lump of coal; a lump of iron ore

2. (noun) lump
a mass or aggregation of things

3. (noun) lump
a projection beneath the breech end of a gun barrel

4. (verb) lump
to throw into a mass; to unite in a body or sum without distinction of particulars

5. (verb) lump
to take in the gross; to speak of collectively

6. (verb) lump
to get along with as one can, although displeased; as, if he does n't like it, he can lump it

Translation of 'lump'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a small solid mass of no particular shape The custard was full of lumps and no-one would eat it.
Afrikaans: stuk, klont	Arabic: كُتلَه، حَثْرَه	Bulgarian: бучка
Brazilian: caroço	Czech: hrouda,žmolek	German: der Klumpen
Danish: klump	Greek: εξόγκωμα, σβόλος	Spanish: grumo
Estonian: klomp	Farsi: توده	Finnish: paakku
French: grumeau	Hebrew: גוּש	Hindi: ढेला
Croatian: gruda, grumen	Hungarian: csomó	Indonesian: gumpalan
Icelandic: kökkur	Italian: grumo	Japanese: 固まり
Korean: (일정한 형태가 없는) 덩어리	Lithuanian: gabalas, gumulas, gurvoli	Latvian: gabals
Malay: ketul	Dutch: klont	Norwegian: klump
Polish: grudka	Persian: ،خاكريزه ها توده	Pashto: ټوټى او خاشى
Portuguese: grumo	Romanian: cocoloş	Russian: комок
Slovak: hrud(k)a, kus	Slovenian: strdek	Serbian: grumen
Swedish: klump	Thai: ก้อน	Turkish: parça, topak
Taiwanese: 小硬塊	Ukrainian: брила, грудка	Urdu: گومڑا، ڈھیری
Vietnamese: tảng; miếng	Chinese: 块
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