英语词汇“lump”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	lump
释义	lump I. \ˈləmp\ noun (-s) Etymology: Middle English; probably akin to obsolete Dutch lompe piece, lump, Dutch lomp rag, Middle High German lumpe rag, and perhaps to Middle High German lampen to dangle — more at limp 1. a. (1) : a compact mass usually of indefinite size and shape < a queer lump of a house — Thomas Hardy > < a lump of coal > < a lump of sugar > < it is a ridge, a high and uneven lump of land — Norman Cousins > (2) : the amount of clay or dough needed for one vessel or one baking < all men's honors lie like one lump before him to be fashioned — Shakespeare > b. : something resembling a lump < everything is technique which is not the lump of experience itself — Mark Schorer > < everybody has a lump of loneliness — R.H.Newman > 2. a. obsolete : an aggregation of things : clump b. : a great amount or quantity < a really nice lump of salvage money — R.S.Porteous > c. : a vast mass or majority < few candidates ever started with such a lump who did not get the nomination — R.L.Strout > < the great lump of radio listeners … let it run all day — Atlantic > 3. : protuberance, swelling, bump 2a < came to with nothing more than a lump on his head > 4. : a thickset heavy person; specifically : one who is stupid or dull < a hearty lump of a lad — Robertson Davies > 5. Britain : a wave raised when a body of water is cut up by the wind 6. Britain : a length of gray goods 7. lumps plural a. : beatings < he'd taken enough lumps — John & Ward Hawkins > < on the back waterways the single small craft takes its lumps — A.W.Baum > b. : comeuppance < self-appointed specialists on women are given their lumps — Brendan Gill > < the good guys … were as usual giving the bad guys their lumps — Time > • - by the lump - in a lump - lump in one's throat II. verb (-ed/-ing/-s) *transitive verb* 1. : to throw into a mass : group or unite in a body or sum without discrimination : consider as a whole without distinction of the parts < the town harbor is all the northeast coast's little fishing caves … lumped together — Charles Rawlings > < promise that you won't lump me with all the rest in there — Louis Auchincloss > < lump men together according to degrees of orthodoxy — Barbara Ward > 2. a. : to make into lumps : hill < plowed fields, one of which was lumped up for melon planting — C.A.Murray > b. : to make lumps on or in < his pockets and the front of the shirt were lumped … with various articles — Vincent McHugh > 3. : to move noisily and clumsily : sit heavily < lumped his huge bulk down opposite — G.G.Carter > 4. : load < did not hesitate to lump coal at Newcastle — I.L.Idriess > *intransitive verb* 1. : to become formed into lumps < the cushion lumped up into uncomfortable hard wads > 2. : to move oneself usually noisily and clumsily : sit down heavily < would loll and lump on the sofa — Harold Nicolson > III. adjective : consisting of one whole : not divided into parts < pay by agreement a yearly lump sum — G.G.Coulton > < 300 dollars coming to you in a lump check — Edmund Schiddel > IV. \ˈləmp, ˈlu̇mp\ transitive verb (-ed/-ing/-s) Etymology: perhaps from obsolete Dutch lompen to beat, probably from lompe lump dialect England : to beat severely : thrash V. \ləmp\ transitive verb (-ed/-ing/-s) Etymology: origin unknown : to put up with or get used to < if you don't like it you can lump it — W.S.Maugham > VI. noun Britain : nonunion construction workers who work as self-employed subcontractors < lump labour >
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