lump 1
(lŭmp)n.1. An irregularly shaped mass or piece.
2. A small cube of sugar.
3. Medicine A swelling or small palpable mass.
4. A collection or totality; an aggregate.
5. A person regarded as ungainly or dull-witted.
6. lumps Informal a. Severe punishment or treatment, as a beating or an unsparing criticism: take one's lumps.
b. One's just deserts; comeuppance: get one's lumps.
adj.1. Formed into lumps: lump sugar.
2. Not broken or divided into parts: a lump payment.
v. lumped, lump·ing, lumps
v.tr.1. To put together in a single group without discrimination.
2. To move with heavy clumsiness.
3. To make into lumps.
v.intr.1. To become lumpy.
2. To move heavily.
Idiom: lump in (one's) throat A feeling of constriction in the throat caused by emotion.
[Middle English lumpe, of Low German origin; akin to obsolete Dutch lompe.]
lump 2
(lŭmp)tr.v. lumped,
lump·ing,
lumps Informal To tolerate (what must be endured): like it or lump it.
[Perhaps from dialectal lump, to look sullen.]
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lump
(lʌmp) n1. a small solid mass without definite shape
2. (Pathology) pathol any small swelling or tumour
3. a collection of things; aggregate
4. informal an awkward, heavy, or stupid person
5. (plural) informal US punishment, defeat, or reverses: he took his lumps.
6. (Industrial Relations & HR Terms)
the lump a. self-employed workers in the building trade considered collectively, esp with reference to tax and national insurance evasion
b. (as modifier): lump labour.
7. (modifier) in the form of a lump or lumps: lump sugar.
8. a lump in one's throat a tight dry feeling in one's throat, usually caused by great emotion
vb9. (often foll by: together) to collect into a mass or group
10. (intr) to grow into lumps or become lumpy
11. (tr) to consider as a single group, often without justification
12. (tr) to make or cause lumps in or on
13. (often foll by: along) to move or proceed in a heavy manner
[C13: probably related to early Dutch lompe piece, Scandinavian dialect lump block, Middle High German lumpe rag]
lump
(lʌmp) vb (tr) informal to tolerate or put up with; endure (in the phrase lump it)
[C16: origin uncertain]
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lump1
(lʌmp)
n. 1. a piece or mass of solid matter without regular shape or of no particular shape: a lump of coal.
2. a protuberance or swelling: a blow that raised a lump on his head.
3. an aggregation, collection, or mass; clump: All the articles were piled in a great lump.
4. a small block of granulated sugar, for sweetening hot coffee, tea, etc.
5. majority; plurality; multitude: The great lump of voters are still undecided.
6. lumps, Informal. harsh criticism, punishment, or defeat.
7. Informal. a heavy, clumsy, and usu. stupid person.
adj. 8. in the form of a lump or lumps: lump sugar.
9. made up of a number of items taken together; not divided: to pay a debt in a lump sum.
v.t. 10. to unite into one aggregation, collection, or mass (often fol. by together): We lumped the reds and blues together.
11. to deal with, consider, etc., in the lump or mass: to lump unrelated matters indiscriminately.
12. to make into a lump or lumps.
13. to raise into or cover with lumps: a plow lumping the moist earth.
v.i. 14. to form a lump or lumps.
15. to move heavily and awkwardly.
Idioms: get or take one's lumps, to receive or endure hardship, punishment, criticism, etc.
[1250–1300; Middle English lumpe, lomp(e); akin to early Dutch lompe piece]
lump′ing•ly, adv.
lump2
(lʌmp)
v.t. Informal. to put up with; resign oneself to; accept and endure: If you don't like it, you can lump it.
[1785–95; Amer.; orig. uncertain]
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Lump
a great quantity; the majority.Examples: lumps of fables, 1875; of figs, 1611; of honey, 1713; of mankind, 1674; of money, 1869; of pain, 1841; of English papists, 1650; of people, 1880; of raisins, 1611; of ships, 1781; of sorrows, 1549; of swearers, 1709.
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