lump in Gujarati ગુજરાતી
lump in Sindhi سنڌي
lump in Telugu తెలుగు
lump in English
- lump⇄adj. 1. in lumps; in a lump.
Ex. lump sugar, lump coal.
2. including a number of items.
Ex. The girls will be given a lump sum of $10 to pay all their expenses. - lump⇄expr. a lump in one's throat, a feeling of inability to swallow, caused by pity, sorrow, or other strong emotion.
Ex. The sad story gave her a lump in her throat. - lump⇄expr. in the lump, in the mass; as a whole.
Ex. He praises or dispraises in the lump (Joseph Addison). - lump⇄expr. lumps, (Informal.) a beating; punishment.
Ex. The Sooners had ... regularly taken their lumps from the likes of Texas (7-40) (Time). - lump⇄lump (1), noun, verb, adjective.
- lump⇄lump (2), transitive verb.
(Informal.) to put up with; endure.
Ex. If you don't like what I am doing, you can lump it. - lump⇄noun 1. a solid mass of no particular shape, often small.
Ex. a lump of coal; a great lump of beeswax ... which weighed above half a hundred weight (Daniel Defoe).
2. a swelling; bump.
Ex. There is a lump on my head where I bumped it. - lump⇄v.i. 1. to form into a lump or lumps.
Ex. The cornstarch lumped because we cooked it too fast. The low-humidity atmosphere keeps the sugar from lumping (Wall Street Journal).
2. to move heavily.
3. to rise in a lump or lumps.
4 - lump⇄v.t. 1. to make lumps of, on, or in.
Ex. He lumped the salt by carelessly getting water into it.
2. to put together; deal with in a mass or as a whole.
Ex. to lump all of one's effort in a single project. We will lump all our expenses.