bunch
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (cycling) The peloton; the main group of riders formed during a race.
2. (US, informal) A considerable amount.Examples: "a bunch of trouble"USinformal
3. (informal) An unmentioned amount; a number.Examples: "A bunch of them went down to the field."informal
4. (forestry) A group of logs tied together for skidding.
5. (geology, mining) An unusual concentration of ore in a lode or a small, discontinuous occurrence or patch of ore in the wallrock.Examples: "The ore may be disseminated throughout the matrix in minute particles, as gold in quartz; in parallel threads, strings, and plates, as with copper; in irregular pockets or bunches"Synonyms: ore pocket, pocket, pocket of ore, kidney, nest, nest of ore, ore bunch, bunch of ore
6. (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.
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To gather into a bunch.transitive
2. (transitive) To gather fabric into folds.transitive
3. (intransitive) To form a bunch.Examples: ""Permissive" working allows more than one train to be in a block section at one time but trains must be run at low speed in order to stop on sight behind the train in front. Such working is often authorised to allow freight trains to "bunch" together to await a path through a bottleneck instead of being strung out over several block sections, as would be necessary if absolute working were in force."Synonyms: cluster, groupintransitive
4. (intransitive) To be gathered together in foldsintransitive
5. (intransitive) To protrude or swellExamples: "A very large ſparry Nodule externally of a brown Colour. It has ſomewhat of the reſemblance of a large Champignon before 'tis open'd, bunching out into a large round Knob at one end, the part proceeding from it being leſs, round, and not unlike a Stalk."intransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary