bundle

plural bundles

1. collectivecountableA group of objects held together by wrapping or tying.

   a bundle of noodles

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   a bundle of straw or of paper

   a bundle of old clothes

   The fable of the rods, which, when united in a bundle, no strength could bend.

   1760, Oliver Goldsmith, On National Concord

   Synonyms: sheaf, wisp

2. countableA package wrapped or tied up for carrying.
3. collectiveA group of products or services sold together as a unit.

   This software bundle includes a wordprocessor, a spreadsheet, and two games.

4. informalA large amount, especially of money.

   The inventor of that gizmo must have made a bundle.

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   I mean it's nothing for him to go to the races, do a bundle, and come home laughing and joking like nothing's happened.

   1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 134

   Synonyms: mint, pile, small fortune

5. biologyA cluster of closely bound muscle or nerve fibres.
6. educationA sequence of two or more words that occur in language with high frequency but are not idiomatic; a chunk, cluster, or lexical bundle.
7. Mac OS XcomputingA directory containing related resources such as source code; application bundle.
8. A quantity of paper equal to two reams (1000 sheets).
9. countablelawA court bundle, the assemblage of documentation prepared for, and referred to during, a court case.
10. mathematicsTopological space composed of a base space and fibers projected to the base space.

present singular third person bundles · participle present bundling · participle past bundled · past bundled

1. transitiveTo tie or wrap together into a bundle.
2. transitiveTo hustle; to dispatch something or someone quickly.

   They unmercifully bundled me and my gallant second into our own hackney coach.

   1835, Theodore Hook, Gilbert Gurney

3. intransitiveTo prepare for departure; to set off in a hurry or without ceremony; used with away, off, out.
4. transitiveTo dress someone warmly.
5. intransitiveTo dress warmly. Usually bundle up
6. computingTo sell hardware and software as a single product.
7. intransitiveTo hurry.
8. slangSynonym of dogpile: to form a pile of people upon a victim.

   Synonyms: dogpile

9. transitiveTo hastily or clumsily push, put, carry or otherwise send something into a particular place.

   Yes, there is death in this business of whaling—a speechlessly quick chaotic bundling of a man into Eternity.

   1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 7”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC

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   At the other end, Essien thought he had bundled the ball over the line in between Bolton's final two substitutions but the flag had already gone up.

   2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC

   Why, I didn't know that she meant that, until the Captain gave me an explanation, because I was dull of comprehension ; for he bundled me out of the house.

   1859, Terence, Comedies of Terence

10. datedintransitiveTo sleep on the same bed without undressing.

    Van Corlear […][stopped] occasionally in the villages to eat pumpkin pies, dance at country frolics, and bundle with the Yankee lasses.

    1809, Diedrich Knickerbocker [pseudonym; Washington Irving], A History of New York, from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), New York, N.Y.: Inskeep & Bradford, […], →OCLC

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    They were on the couch for nearly an hour, then in the shower for she didn't know how long — until the hot water started to fail and drove them out, anyway. Then she took him into her bed, where she lay too exhausted and too content to do anything but bundle.

    1991, Stephen King, Needful Things