1. n. A group of similar things, either growing together, or in a cluster or clump, usually fastened together.
a bunch of grapes; a bunch of bananas; a bunch of keys; a bunch of yobs on a street corner
2. n. (cycling) The peloton; the main group of riders formed during a race.
3. n. An informal body of friends.
He still hangs out with the same bunch.
4. n. (US, informal) A considerable amount.
a bunch of trouble
5. n. (informal) An unmentioned amount; a number.
A bunch of them went down to the field.
6. n. (forestry) A group of logs tied together for skidding.
7. n. (geology, mining) An unusual concentration of ore in a lode or a small, discontinuous occurrence or patch of ore in the wallrock.
8. n. (textiles) The reserve yarn on the filling bobbin to allow continuous weaving between the time of indication from the midget feeler until a new bobbin is put in the shuttle.
9. n. An unfinished cigar, before the wrapper leaf is added.
Two to four filler leaves are laid end to end and rolled into the two halves of the binder leaves, making up what is called the bunch.
10. n. A protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump; a hump.
11. v. To gather into a bunch.
12. v. To gather fabric into folds.
13. v. (intransitive) To form a bunch.
14. v. (intransitive) To be gathered together in folds
15. v. (intransitive) To protrude or swell
band
1. n. Bande, bandeau.
A rubber band.
2. n. Bande, peuplade, groupe (de personnes).
A band of robbers.
3. n. Groupe de musiciens.
4. v. Attacher avec une bande.
band
1. n. A strip of material used for strengthening or coupling.
2. n. A strip of material wrapped around things to hold them together.
3. n. A narrow strip of cloth or other material on clothing, to bind, strengthen, or ornament it.
4. n. A strip along the spine of a book where the pages are attached.
5. n. A belt or strap that is part of a machine.
6. n. (architecture) A strip of decoration.
7. n. A continuous tablet, stripe, or series of ornaments, as of carved foliage, of colour, or of brickwork.
8. n. In Gothic architecture, the moulding, or suite of mouldings, which encircles the pillars and small shafts.
9. n. That which serves as the means of union or connection between persons; a tie.
10. n. A linen collar or ruff worn in the 16th and 17th centuries.
11. n. (in the plural) Two strips of linen hanging from the neck in front as part of a clerical, legal, or academic dress.
12. n. (physics) A part of the radio spectrum.
13. n. (physics) A group of energy levels in a solid state material.
valence band; conduction band
14. n. (obsolete) A bond.
15. n. (obsolete) Pledge; security.
16. n. (especially, American English) A ring, such as a wedding ring (wedding band), or a ring put on a bird's leg to identify it.
17. n. (sciences) Any distinguishing line formed by chromatography, electrophoresis etc
18. n. (medicine) (short for, band cell)
19. n. (slang) A wad of money totaling $10K, held together by a band; (by extension) money
20. v. (lbl, en, transitive) To fasten with a band.
21. v. (lbl, en, transitive, ornithology) To fasten an identifying band around the leg of (a bird).
22. n. A group of musicians who perform together as an ensemble, usually for a professional recording artist.
23. n. A type of orchestra originally playing janissary music.
24. n. A marching band.
25. n. A group of people loosely united for a common purpose (a band of thieves).
26. n. (anthropology) A small group of people living in a simple society.
27. n. (Canada) A group of aboriginals that has official recognition as an organized unit by the federal government of Canada.
28. v. (intransitive) To group together for a common purpose; to confederate.
29. v. (obsolete) simple past tense and past participle of bind
1. n. A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.
there is a group of houses behind the hill; he left town to join a Communist group
A group of people gathered in front of the Parliament to demonstrate against the Prime Minister's proposals.
2. n. (group theory) A set with an associative binary operation, under which there exists an identity element, and such that each element has an inverse.
3. n. (geometry, archaic) An effective divisor on a curve.
4. n. A (usually small) group of people who perform music together.
Did you see the new jazz group?
5. n. (astronomy) A small number (up to about fifty) of galaxies that are near each other.
6. n. (chemistry) A column in the periodic table of chemical elements.
7. n. (chemistry) A functional group.
Nitro is an electron-withdrawing group.
8. n. (sociology) A subset of a culture or of a society.
9. n. (military) An air force formation.
10. n. (geology) A collection of formations or rock strata.
11. n. (computing) A number of users with same rights with respect to accession, modification, and execution of files, computers and peripherals.
12. n. An element of an espresso machine from which hot water pours into the portafilter.
13. n. (music) A number of eighth, sixteenth, etc., notes joined at the stems; sometimes rather indefinitely applied to any ornament made up of a few short notes.
14. n. (sports) A set of teams playing each other in the same division, while not during the same period playing any teams that belong to other sets in the division.
15. n. (business) A commercial organization.
16. v. To put together to form a group.
group the dogs by hair colour
17. v. (intransitive) To come together to form a group.
1. n. A group or bunch of several discrete items that are close to each other.
a cluster of islands
A cluster of flowers grew in the pot.
A leukemia cluster has developed in the town.
2. n. A number of individuals grouped together or collected in one place; a crowd; a mob.
3. n. (astronomy) A group of galaxies or stars that appear near each other.
The Pleiades cluster contains seven bright stars.
4. n. (linguistics, education) A sequence of two or more words that occur in language with high frequency but are not idiomatic; a chunk, bundle, or lexical bundle.
examples of clusters would include "in accordance with", "the results of" and "so far"
5. n. (music) A secundal chord of three or more notes.
6. n. (phonetics) A group of consonants.
The word "scrub" begins with a cluster of three consonants.
7. n. (computing) A group of computers that work together.
8. n. (computing) A logical data storage unit containing one or more physical sectors (see block).
9. n. (statistics) A significant subset within a population.
10. n. (military) Set of bombs or mines.
11. n. (army) A small metal design that indicates that a medal has been awarded to the same person before.
12. n. (chemistry) An ensemble of bound atoms or molecules, intermediate in size between a molecule and a bulk solid.
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