'Lump' definitions:
Definition of 'lump'
(from WordNet)
noun
A compact mass; "a ball of mud caught him on the shoulder" [syn: ball, clod, glob, lump, clump, chunk]
noun
noun
noun
A large piece of something without definite shape; "a hunk of bread"; "a lump of coal" [syn: hunk, lump]
verb
Put together indiscriminately; "lump together all the applicants" [syn: lump, chunk]
verb
Definition of 'Lump'
From: GCIDE
- Lump \Lump\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Lumped; p. pr. & vb. n. Lumping.]
- 1. To throw into a mass; to unite in a body or sum without distinction of particulars. [1913 Webster]
- The expenses ought to be lumped together. --Ayliffe. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To take in the gross; to speak of collectively. [1913 Webster]
- Not forgetting all others, . . . whom for brevity, but out of no resentment to you, I lump all together. --Sterne. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To get along with as one can, although displeased; as, if he doesn't like it, he can lump it. [Low] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Lump'
From: GCIDE
- Lump \Lump\ (l[u^]mp), n. [Cf. OD. lompe piece, mass. Cf. Lunch.]
- 1. A small mass of matter of irregular shape; an irregular or shapeless mass; as, a lump of coal; a lump of iron ore. " A lump of cheese." --Piers Plowman. " This lump of clay." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A mass or aggregation of things. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Firearms) A projection beneath the breech end of a gun barrel. [1913 Webster]
- In the lump,
- In a lump, the whole together; in gross. [1913 Webster]
- They may buy them in the lump. --Addison.
- Lump coal, coal in large lumps; -- the largest size brought from the mine.
- Lump sum, (a) a gross sum without a specification of items; as, to award a lump sum in satisfaction of all claims and damages. (b) a single sum paid once in satisfaction of a claim, as contrasted with the alternate choice of several payments over a period of time; -- sometimes allowed, e.g., as an alternative to periodical pension payments for a lifetime. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'lump'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abide,
- abide with,
- accumulation,
- acervation,
- agglomerate,
- agglomeration,
- aggregate,
- aggregation,
- allow,
- amassment,
- barrel,
- batch,
- bear,
- bear with,
- beard,
- bide,
- bilge,
- bit,
- blain,
- bleb,
- blend,
- blimp,
- blister,
- blob,
- block,
- body,
- boil,
- boss,
- bow,
- brave,
- brook,
- bubble,
- bulb,
- bulge,
- bulk,
- bulla,
- bump,
- bunch,
- bunion,
- burl,
- butt,
- butterfingers,
- button,
- cahot,
- cake,
- carbuncle,
- chine,
- chip,
- chunk,
- clabber,
- clip,
- clipping,
- clod,
- clot,
- clump,
- clumsy,
- cluster,
- coagulate,
- collect,
- collop,
- colophon,
- combine,
- comeuppance,
- concavity,
- concrete,
- concretion,
- condyle,
- congeal,
- congeries,
- conglobation,
- conglomerate,
- conglomeration,
- consolidate,
- convex,
- convexity,
- corn,
- crumb,
- cube,
- cumulation,
- curd,
- curdle,
- cut,
- cutting,
- cyst,
- dactylogram,
- dactylograph,
- dent,
- deserts,
- deserving,
- digest,
- dilatation,
- dilation,
- dint,
- distension,
- dollop,
- dowel,
- dub,
- due,
- duffer,
- ear,
- edema,
- embossment,
- end,
- endure,
- excrescence,
- fatty,
- fingerprint,
- flange,
- flap,
- footmark,
- footprint,
- footstep,
- foozler,
- fossil footprint,
- foul-up,
- fragment,
- fumble-fist,
- furuncle,
- gall,
- gathering,
- gawk,
- gel,
- gelatinate,
- gelatinize,
- glomeration,
- gnarl,
- gob,
- gobbet,
- goof,
- goofball,
- goofer,
- group,
- growth,
- handle,
- hang in,
- hang in there,
- hang tough,
- heap,
- heavy,
- heavyweight,
- hick,
- hill,
- hippo,
- hump,
- hunch,
- hunk,
- ichnite,
- ichnolite,
- impress,
- impression,
- imprint,
- incrassate,
- indent,
- indentation,
- indention,
- inspissate,
- intumescence,
- jell,
- jellify,
- jelly,
- jog,
- joggle,
- join,
- klutz,
- knob,
- knot,
- knur,
- knurl,
- lip,
- loaf,
- lobster,
- looby,
- loop,
- lopper,
- lot,
- lout,
- lubber,
- lummox,
- lump it,
- lump together,
- mass,
- merit,
- mix,
- modicum,
- moiety,
- mole,
- morsel,
- mountain,
- much,
- muff,
- muffer,
- nevus,
- node,
- nodule,
- nub,
- nubbin,
- nubble,
- nugget,
- oaf,
- pad,
- palooka,
- papilloma,
- paring,
- particle,
- pat,
- paw print,
- pawmark,
- peck,
- peg,
- persevere,
- piece,
- pile,
- pimple,
- pock,
- portion,
- potbelly,
- power,
- print,
- prominence,
- protrusion,
- protuberance,
- pug,
- pugmark,
- pustule,
- put together,
- put up with,
- quantity,
- rasher,
- rib,
- ridge,
- rights,
- ring,
- rising,
- roly-poly,
- rube,
- scoop,
- scrap,
- seal,
- sebaceous cyst,
- set,
- shard,
- shaving,
- shiver,
- shoulder,
- shred,
- sight,
- sigil,
- signet,
- slice,
- sliver,
- slob,
- smithereen,
- snack,
- snatch,
- snip,
- snippet,
- snowball,
- solid,
- solid body,
- spine,
- splinter,
- stamp,
- stand,
- stand for,
- step,
- stick,
- stitch,
- stockpile,
- stomach,
- stud,
- stumblebum,
- stumblebunny,
- stump,
- style,
- suffer,
- support,
- sustain,
- swagbelly,
- swallow,
- swell,
- swelling,
- swollenness,
- tab,
- take,
- take up with,
- tatter,
- thick,
- thicken,
- throw together,
- thumbmark,
- thumbprint,
- tolerate,
- tub,
- tub of lard,
- tubercle,
- tubercule,
- tumefaction,
- tumescence,
- tumidity,
- tumor,
- tun,
- turgescence,
- turgescency,
- turgidity,
- unite,
- verruca,
- vesicle,
- vestige,
- wad,
- wale,
- wart,
- wedge,
- welt,
- wen