BUNDLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bundle mean? 

• BUNDLE (noun)
  The noun BUNDLE has 3 senses:

1. a collection of things wrapped or boxed together

2. a package of several things tied together for carrying or storing

3. a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit)

  Familiarity information: BUNDLE used as a noun is uncommon.

• BUNDLE (verb)
  The verb BUNDLE has 4 senses:

1. make into a bundle

2. gather or cause to gather into a cluster

3. compress into a wad

4. sleep fully clothed in the same bed with one's betrothed

  Familiarity information: BUNDLE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BUNDLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A collection of things wrapped or boxed together

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

bundle; package; packet; parcel

Hypernyms ("bundle" is a kind of...):

accumulation; aggregation; assemblage; collection (several things grouped together or considered as a whole)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bundle"):

wisp (a small bundle of straw or hay)

Derivation:

bundle (gather or cause to gather into a cluster)

bundle (make into a bundle)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A package of several things tied together for carrying or storing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

bundle; sheaf

Hypernyms ("bundle" is a kind of...):

package; parcel (a wrapped container)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bundle"):

bale (a large bundle bound for storage or transport)

faggot; fagot (a bundle of sticks and branches bound together)

pack (a bundle (especially one carried on the back))

swag (a bundle containing the personal belongings of a swagman)

Derivation:

bundle (gather or cause to gather into a cluster)

bundle (make into a bundle)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A large sum of money (especially as pay or profit)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

big bucks; big money; bundle; megabucks; pile

Context example:

they sank megabucks into their new house

Hypernyms ("bundle" is a kind of...):

money (wealth reckoned in terms of money)

Domain usage:

argot; cant; jargon; lingo; patois; slang; vernacular (a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves))

• BUNDLE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they bundle    ... he / she / it bundles   
Past simple: bundled   
Past participle: bundled   
-ing form: bundling   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make into a bundle

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

bundle; bundle up; roll up

Context example:

he bundled up his few possessions

Hypernyms (to "bundle" is one way to...):

pack (arrange in a container)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

bundle (a package of several things tied together for carrying or storing)

bundle (a collection of things wrapped or boxed together)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Gather or cause to gather into a cluster

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

bunch; bundle; clump; cluster

Context example:

She bunched her fingers into a fist

Hypernyms (to "bundle" is one way to...):

form (assume a form or shape)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "bundle"):

agglomerate (form into one cluster)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

Derivation:

bundle (a package of several things tied together for carrying or storing)

bundle (a collection of things wrapped or boxed together)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Compress into a wad

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

bundle; compact; pack; wad

Context example:

wad paper into the box

Hypernyms (to "bundle" is one way to...):

arrange; set up (put into a proper or systematic order)

Verb group:

compact; pack (have the property of being packable or of compacting easily)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "bundle"):

puddle (work a wet mixture, such as concrete or mud)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

Also:

bundle off (send off unceremoniously)

Sense 4

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

bundle; practice bundling

Hypernyms (to "bundle" is one way to...):

catch some Z's; kip; log Z's; sleep; slumber (be asleep)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

 Context examples 

From the pocket of his light summer overcoat protruded the bundle of indorsed papers which proclaimed his profession.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

So Frank took my wedding-clothes and things and made a bundle of them, so that I should not be traced, and dropped them away somewhere where no one could find them.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A small bundle of ipsilateral neuronal fibers originating in the motor region of the cerebral cortex that descend down the spinal cord.

(Direct Pyramidal Tract, NCI Thesaurus)

They form a large bundle of corticofugal fibers extending longitudinally on each side of the midline on the ventral surface of the midbrain.

(Crus Cerebri, NCI Thesaurus)

A bundle of neuronal fibers originating in the lumbosacral spinal cord that ascend to the ipsilateral cerebellum conveying proprioceptive information for the lower limbs and joints.

(Direct Cerebellar Tract, NCI Thesaurus)

A histologic hallmark of this tumor is the 'specific glioneuronal element', characterized by columns, made up of bundles of axons, oriented perpendicularly to the cortical surface.

(Dysembryoplastic Neuroepithelial Tumor, NCI Thesaurus/Adapted from WHO)

He opened it with much impressment—assumed, of course—and showed a great bundle of white flowers.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

A small bundle of nerve fibers that is more or less associated functionally.

(Fascicle, NCI Thesaurus)

An electrocardiographic finding of relatively short duration QRS complexes that originate from the region of the posterior fascicle (or occasionally the anterior fascicle) of the left bundle branch.

(Fascicular Tachycardia by ECG Finding, NCI Thesaurus)

A WHO grade I meningioma characterized by the presence of spindle cells that form bundles in a collagen matrix.

(Fibrous Meningioma, NCI Thesaurus)