Bunch
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
bunch
n 1: a grouping of a number of similar things; "a bunch of
trees"; "a cluster of admirers" [syn: {bunch}, {clump},
{cluster}, {clustering}]
2: an informal body of friends; "he still hangs out with the
same crowd" [syn: {crowd}, {crew}, {gang}, {bunch}]
3: any collection in its entirety; "she bought the whole
caboodle" [syn: {bunch}, {lot}, {caboodle}]
v 1: form into a bunch; "The frightened children bunched
together in the corner of the classroom" [syn: {bunch
together}, {bunch}, {bunch up}]
2: gather or cause to gather into a cluster; "She bunched her
fingers into a fist" [syn: {bunch}, {bunch up}, {bundle},
{cluster}, {clump}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Bunch \Bunch\ (b[u^]nch; 224), n. [Akin to OSw. & Dan. bunke
heap, Icel. bunki heap, pile, bunga tumor, protuberance; cf.
W. pwng cluster. Cf. {Bunk}.]
1. A protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump; a hump.
[1913 Webster]
They will carry . . . their treasures upon the
bunches of camels. --Isa. xxx. 6.
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2. A collection, cluster, or tuft, properly of things of the
same kind, growing or fastened together; as, a bunch of
grapes; a bunch of keys.
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3. (Mining) A small isolated mass of ore, as distinguished
from a continuous vein. --Page.
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from
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
Bunch
(1.) A bundle of twigs (Ex. 12:22). (2.) Bunch or cake of
raisins (2 Sam. 16:1). (3.) The "bunch of a camel" (Isa. 30:6).
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
361 Moby Thesaurus words for "bunch":
a mass of, a world of, accumulate, adhere, affiliate, age group,
agglomerate, agglomeration, aggregate, aggroup, ally, amass,
amount, army, assemble, assembly, associate, assort, assortment,
band, band together, batch, battalion, be in cahoots, bevy, bilge,
blain, bleb, blister, blob, body, boss, bouquet, bow, bracket,
breccia, brigade, bring together, bubble, budget, bulb, bulge,
bulk, bulla, bump, bunch together, bunch up, bundle, burl, button,
cabal, cadre, cahot, camarilla, cast, categorize, cell,
cement a union, centralize, charmed circle, chine, chunk, circle,
clan, clasp, class, classify, cleave, clinch, cling, cling to,
clique, closed circle, clot, cloud, club, club together, clump,
cluster, clutch, clutter, coagulate, cohere, cohort, collect,
collection, colligate, collocate, colony, combine, come together,
company, compare, compile, complement, concrete, concretion,
condyle, confederate, congeal, conglomerate, conglomeration,
congregate, consociate, conspire, contingent, converge, convex,
copse, copulate, corps, corral, coterie, count, couple, covey,
crew, crop, crowd, cumulate, date, deal, detachment, detail,
dig up, division, dose, dowel, draw together, dredge up, drift,
drive, drive together, drove, ear, elite, elite group, embrace,
faction, federalize, federate, flange, flap, fleet, flight, flock,
flock together, flocks, flow together, forgather, freeze to, fuse,
gall, gam, gang, gang around, gang up, gather, gather around,
gather in, gather together, gathering, get in, get together, gnarl,
go in partners, go in partnership, gob, grasp, group, grouping,
groupment, grove, grow together, hail, handle, hang on,
hang together, hassock, heap, herd, herd together, hill, hive,
hold, hold on, hold together, hook up with, horde, host, huddle,
hug, hump, hunch, hunk, in-group, ingroup, inner circle, jam, jog,
joggle, join, join forces, join fortunes with, join together,
join up with, join with, junta, junto, juxtapose, kennel, knob,
knot, knur, knurl, large amount, league, legion, link, lip, litter,
loop, lot, lots, lump, lump together, make up, many, marry, mass,
masses of, match, measure, meet, merge, mess, mill, mob, mobilize,
mole, mountain, movement, muchness, multitude, muster, nest, nevus,
nosegay, nub, nubbin, nubble, number, numbers, organize, out-group,
outfit, pack, pair, pair off, papilloma, parcel, part, partner,
party, peer group, peg, persist, phalanx, platoon, plurality, pod,
portion, posse, posy, pride, push, put together, quantities,
quantity, quite a few, raise, rake up, rally, rally around, ration,
regiment, rendezvous, rib, ridge, ring, round up, rout, ruck,
salon, school, scores, scrape together, seethe, set, shoal, shock,
shoulder, skulk, slew, sloth, small amount, smock, solidify, sort,
spine, spray, squad, stable, stand together, stand up with, stay,
stay put, stick, stick together, stook, stream, string, stud,
style, sum, surge, swarm, tab, take hold of, take up, team,
team up with, team with, thicket, throng, throw in with, tidy sum,
tie in with, tie up with, tribe, trip, troop, troupe, tubercle,
tubercule, tuft, tussock, unionize, unite, unite with, verruca,
vesicle, wale, wart, we-group, wed, welt, whip in, wing, wisp,
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