Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A group of objects held together, as by tying or wrapping.
- noun Something wrapped or tied up for carrying; a package.
- noun Biology A cluster or strand of closely bound muscle or nerve fibers.
- noun Botany A vascular bundle.
- noun A large amount; a lot.
- noun A large sum of money.
- intransitive verb To tie, wrap, or gather together.
- intransitive verb To dispatch or dispense of quickly and with little fuss; hustle.
- intransitive verb To dress (a person) warmly.
- intransitive verb To hurry; hasten.
- intransitive verb To sleep in the same bed while fully clothed, a custom formerly practiced by engaged couples in New England and in Wales.
- idiom (bundle of joy) A baby.
- idiom (bundle of nerves) An extremely nervous person.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A number of things bound together; anything bound or rolled into a convenient form for conveyance or handling; a package; a roll: as, a bundle of lace; a bundle of hay.
- noun Hence A group or a number of things having some common characteristic which leads to their being held and transferred in the same ownership.
- noun In botany, a fascicular aggregation of one or more elementary tissues traversing other tissues.
- noun In paper-making, two reams of printing-paper or brown paper: established by a statute of George I.
- noun In spinning, twenty hanks or 6,000 yards of linen yarn.
- To tie or bind in a bundle or roll: often followed by up: as, to
bundle up clothes. - To place or dispose of in a hurried, unceremonious manner.
- To depart in a hurry or unceremoniously: often with off.
- In New England (in early times) and in Wales, to sleep in the same bed without undressing: applied to the custom of men and women, especially sweethearts, thus sleeping.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To prepare for departure; to set off in a hurry or without ceremony.
- intransitive verb To sleep on the same bed without undressing; -- applied to the custom of a man and woman, especially lovers, thus sleeping.
- intransitive verb to dress warmly, snugly, or cumbrously.
- transitive verb To tie or bind in a bundle or roll.
- transitive verb To send off abruptly or without ceremony.
- transitive verb to sell together as a single item at one inclusive price; -- usually done for related products which work or are used together.
- transitive verb to send off in a hurry, or without ceremony.
- transitive verb to wrap one's self up warmly or cumbrously.
- noun 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.
- noun (Arch.) a column or pier, with others of small dimensions attached to it.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
group of objects heldtogether bywrapping ortying . - noun A
package wrapped ortied up forcarrying . - noun biology A
cluster of closelybound muscle ornerve fibres . - noun informal A large
amount , especially ofmoney . - noun computing A
directory containing related resources such assource code ; application bundle. - verb To
tie orwrap together. - verb To
hustle ; todispatch something or someonequickly . - verb intransitive To prepare for departure; to set off in a hurry or without ceremony.
- verb transitive To
dress someonewarmly . - verb intransitive To dress warmly. Usually
bundle up - verb computing To
sell hardware andsoftware as a singleproduct . - verb intransitive To
hurry . - verb slang To
dogpile - verb transitive To
hastily orclumsily push ,put ,carry or otherwise send something into a particular place. - verb dated, intransitive To
sleep on the samebed withoutundressing .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a package of several things tied together for carrying or storing
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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WHITFIELD: And somehow the term bundle of joy, I don't know, that doesn't come like trickling off the tongue there.
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Some advice: Next time, substitute the phrase "bundle of joy" for "problems."
NY Daily News 2011
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Some advice: Next time, substitute the phrase "bundle of joy" for "problems."
NY Daily News 2011
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Some advice: Next time, substitute the phrase "bundle of joy" for "problems."
NY Daily News 2011
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Some advice: Next time, substitute the phrase "bundle of joy" for "problems."
NY Daily News 2011
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Because they being the workmanship of the understanding, pursuing only its own ends, and the conveniency of expressing in short those ideas it would make known to another, it does with great liberty unite often into one abstract idea things that, in their nature, have no coherence; and so under one term bundle together a great variety of compounded and decompounded ideas.
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A 2GB bundle costs $24.99, and a 6GB bundle is $44.99.
Optus Wants $9.99 A Month For iPhone Tethering | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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Quinn: But breaking the encryption on the bundle is what concerns us.
Archive 2009-05-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009
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Once a district subscribes and the bundle is deployed, all staff and students may access the resources at school and at home.
February 2009 2009
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Meanwhile, many of them are set to make a bundle from the disastrous legislation they ram through.
zc0000 commented on the word bundle
Had Lampard scored when he was bundled over in the box by Michael Brown three minutes from time, Chelsea would have deserved it.
May 15, 2010
bilby commented on the word bundle
One of those sports words I tend to notice because it seems so contrived. Favourites in tennis tournaments never seem to lose without being bundled out.
May 16, 2010
bilby commented on the word bundle
'To sleep in the same bed while fully clothed, a custom formerly practiced by engaged couples in New England and in Wales' is a definition with quite a lot going on.
August 6, 2021