| 单词 | bundle |
| 释义 | bundle (once / 295 pages) 1nv 2v A bundle is a package of things wrapped together. To wrap things together in a compact way is to bundle them. A baby wrapped up in a blanket is a bundle of joy, and if it’s cold outside, bundle up! Bundle comes from the Middle Dutch word for bind, which is what you do when you bundle stuff — you bind it together. It also means to wrap in warm clothes. This is a word for things that are tightly packed together. If you get a package in the mail, it's a bundle. If you have knickknacks all over the place, you'll need to bundle them when you move by putting them in a box. WORD FAMILYbundle: bundled, bundles, bundling+/bundling: bundlings USAGE EXAMPLESBundling is when an individual or intermediary group collects many contributions on behalf of a candidate. Seattle Times(Dec 30, 2016) Seattle’s campaign-financing experiment will be extraordinarily expensive and poses potentially troubling scenarios about bundling. Seattle Times(Dec 28, 2016) She walked to her closet and found a bundle of black yarn. Washington Post(Dec 24, 2016) 1 1n a collection of things wrapped or boxed together Syn|Hypo|Hyper package, packet, parcel wisp a small bundle of straw or hay accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collection several things grouped together or considered as a whole 2n a package of several things tied together for carrying or storing Syn|Hypo|Hyper sheaf bale a large bundle bound for storage or transport faggot, fagota bundle of sticks and branches bound together packa bundle (especially one carried on the back) swaga bundle containing the personal belongings of a swagman hay balea bale of hay package, parcel a wrapped container 3n a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit) she made a bundle selling real estate Syn|Hyper big bucks, big money, megabucks, pile money wealth reckoned in terms of money 4v make into a bundle he bundled up his few possessions Syn|Hyper bundle up, roll up pack arrange in a container 5v gather or cause to gather into a cluster Syn|Hypo|Hyper bunch, bunch up, clump, cluster agglomerate form into one cluster form assume a form or shape 6v compress into a wad 2Syn|Hypo|Hyper compact, pack, wad compact, pack have the property of being packable or of compacting easily puddle work a wet mixture, such as concrete or mud arrange, set up put into a proper or systematic order v sleep fully clothed in the same bed with one's betrothed Syn|Hyper practice bundling catch some Z's, kip, log Z's, sleep, slumber be asleep |
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