bundle
/'bʌndl/
Học thuậtThân thiện
Definition
Noun:
- A collection of items tied or wrapped together: A group of objects bound or packaged as a single unit for carrying, storing, or selling.
- A large amount of money (informal): A significant sum, especially as profit or payment.
Verb:
- To tie or wrap items together into a compact group: To gather and secure things into a bundle.
- To push or send someone or something quickly and unceremoniously: To move or dispatch in a hurried, often rough, manner.
- (Archaic) To sleep in one's clothes, especially with another person, as a historical courting custom.
Usage and Examples
- Noun:
- She carried a bundle of firewood into the house.
- He earned a bundle from that business deal.
- Verb:
- Please bundle the newspapers for recycling.
- They bundled the children into the car and drove off.
- (Historical) In some traditions, couples would bundle during courtship.
Advanced Usage
- "to be a bundle of nerves": To be extremely nervous or anxious.
- Before the speech, she was a bundle of nerves.
- "to bundle someone off/out": To send or escort someone away quickly.
- He was bundled off to boarding school at a young age.
Variants and Related Words
- Bundling (n): The act of making a bundle. Also refers to the historical practice or, in commerce, selling products together as a package.
- The bundling of software with a new computer is common.
- Bundled (adj): Sold or provided together in a package.
- The phone comes with a bundled case and charger.
Synonyms
- Noun (for items): Bunch, package, parcel, packet.
- Noun (for money): Fortune, pile, packet (informal).
- Verb (to tie): Bind, wrap, pack, truss.
- Verb (to push hurriedly): Hurry, hustle, shove.
Related Phrasal Verbs
- Bundle up:
- To dress warmly in many layers of clothing.
- You should bundle up; it's freezing outside.
- To tie or wrap items into a bundle.
- We need to bundle up these old magazines.
- Bundle into: To put or push someone or something into a place quickly and without ceremony.
- We bundled the groceries into the trunk.
Related Idioms
- A bundle of joy: A baby (used to express that a baby brings happiness).
- They welcomed a bundle of joy into their family.
- A bundle of laughs: Someone or something that is very amusing (often used sarcastically).
- Oh, he's a real bundle of laughs at parties. (Sarcastic)
Noun
- a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit)
- she made a bundle selling real estate
- they sank megabucks into their new house
- a package of several things tied together for carrying or storing
- a collection of things wrapped or boxed together
Verb
- sleep fully clothed in the same bed with one's betrothed
- compress into a wad
- wad paper into the box
- gather or cause to gather into a cluster
- She bunched her fingers into a fist
- make into a bundle
- he bundled up his few possessions