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
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.
1. n. A large number of birds, especially those gathered together for the purpose of migration.
2. n. A large number of animals, especially sheep or goats kept together.
3. n. Those served by a particular pastor or shepherd.
4. n. A large number of people.
5. v. (intransitive) To congregate in or head towards a place in large numbers.
People flocked to the cinema to see the new film.
6. v. (transitive, obsolete) To flock to; to crowd.
7. v. To treat a pool with chemicals to remove suspended particles.
8. n. Coarse tufts of wool or cotton used in bedding
9. n. A lock of wool or hair.
10. n. Very fine sifted woollen refuse, especially that from shearing the nap of cloths, formerly used as a coating for wallpaper to give it a velvety or clothlike appearance; also, the dust of vegetable fib
11. v. To coat a surface with dense fibers or particles.