Definitions for Bunch
bʌntʃbunch

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. bunch, clump, cluster, clusteringnoun

   a grouping of a number of similar things

   "a bunch of trees"; "a cluster of admirers"

2. crowd, crew, gang, bunchnoun

   an informal body of friends

   "he still hangs out with the same crowd"

3. bunch, lot, caboodleverb

   any collection in its entirety

   "she bought the whole caboodle"

4. bunch together, bunch, bunch upverb

   form into a bunch

   "The frightened children bunched together in the corner of the classroom"

5. bunch, bunch up, bundle, cluster, clumpverb

   gather or cause to gather into a cluster

   "She bunched her fingers into a fist"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. bunchnoun

   A group of a number of similar things, either growing together, or in a cluster or clump. Usually fastened together.

2. bunchnoun

   An informal body of friends.

   He still hangs out with the same bunch.

3. bunchnoun

   A considerable amount.

   a bunch of trouble

4. bunchnoun

   An unmentioned amount; a number.

   A bunch of them went down to the field.

5. bunchnoun

   A group of logs tied together for skidding.

6. bunchnoun

   An unusual concentration of ore in a lode or a small, discontinuous occurrence or patch of ore in the wallrock.

7. bunchnoun

   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.

8. bunchnoun

   (tobacco) An unfinished cigar, before the wrapper leaf is added.

   Two to four filler leaves are laid end to end and rolled into the two halves of the binder leaves, making up what is called the bunch.

9. bunchverb

   To gather into a bunch.

10. bunchverb

    To gather fabric into folds.

11. bunchverb

    To form a bunch.

12. bunchverb

    To be gathered together in folds

13. bunchverb

    To protrude or swell

14. Etymology: From bunche 'hump, swelling', variant of *bunge (confer English dialect bung 'heap, grape bunch'), from bunkōn (confer West Frisian bonke 'bone, lump, bump', German Bunge 'tuber', Danish bunke 'heap, pile'), from bʰenǵʰ- (confer Hittite panku 'total, entire', Tocharian B pkante 'volume, fatness', Lithuanian búožė 'knob', Ancient Greek παχύς 'thick', Sanskrit बहु 'thick; much').

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. BUNCHnoun

   Etymology: buncker, Danish, the crags of the mountains.

   1. A hard lump; a knob.

   They will carry their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit them. Josh. xxx. 6.

   He felt the ground, which he had wont to find even and soft, to be grown hard with little round balls or bunches, like hard boiled eggs. Boyle.

   2. A cluster; many of the same kind growing together.

   Vines, with clust’ring bunches growing. William Shakespeare, Tempest.

   Titian said, that he knew no better rule for the distribution of the lights and shadows, than his observations drawn from a bunch of grapes. John Dryden, Dufresnoy.

   For thee, large bunches load the bending vine,
   And the last blessings of the year are thine. Dryden.

   3. A number of things tied together.

   And on his arms a bunch of keys he bore. Fairy Q. b. i.

   All? I know not what ye call all; but if I fought not with fifty of them, I am a bunch of radish. William Shakespeare, Henry IV. p. i.

   Ancient Janus, with his double face,
   And bunch of keys, the porter of the place. Dryden.

   The mother’s bunch of keys, or any thing they cannot hurt themselves with, serves to divert little children. John Locke.

   4. Any thing bound into a knot.

   Upon the top of all his lofty crest,
   A bunch of hairs discolour’d diversly,
   With sprinkled pearl and gold full richly drest. Fairy Q. b. i.

2. To Bunchverb

   To swell out in a bunch; to grow out in protuberances.

   Etymology: from the noun.

   It has the resemblance of a large champignon before it is opened, bunching out into a large round knob at one end. John Woodward, on Fossils.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. BUNCH

   The BUNCH was the nickname for the group of mainframe computer competitors of IBM in the 1970s. The name is derived from the names of the five companies: Burroughs, UNIVAC, NCR, Control Data Corporation (CDC), and Honeywell. These companies were grouped together because the market share of IBM was much higher than all of its competitors put together.During the 1960s, IBM and these five computer manufacturers, along with RCA and General Electric, had been known as "IBM and the Seven Dwarfs". The description of IBM's competitors changed after GE's 1970 sale of its computer business to Honeywell and RCA's 1971 sale of its computer business to Sperry (who owned UNIVAC), leaving only five "dwarves". The companies' initials thus lent themselves to a new acronym, BUNCH. International Data Corporation estimated in 1984 that BUNCH would receive less than $2 billion of an estimated $11.4 billion in mainframe computer sales that year, with IBM receiving most of the remainder. IBM so dominated the mainframe market that observers expected the BUNCH to merge or exit the industry. BUNCH followed IBM into the microcomputer market with their own PC compatibles. but unlike that company did not quickly adjust to retail sales of smaller computers.Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), at one point the second largest in the industry, was joined to BUNCH as DeBUNCH.

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1. bunch

   A bunch is a collection or grouping of items that are typically gathered or tied together. It is used to describe a cluster or a quantity of things that are closely packed or closely related.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Bunchnoun

   a protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump; a hump

2. Bunchnoun

   a collection, cluster, or tuft, properly of things of the same kind, growing or fastened together; as, a bunch of grapes; a bunch of keys

3. Bunchnoun

   a small isolated mass of ore, as distinguished from a continuous vein

4. Bunchverb

   to swell out into a bunch or protuberance; to be protuberant or round

5. Bunchverb

   to form into a bunch or bunches

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. BUNCH

   The group of mainframe computer competitors to IBM in the 1970s became known as the BUNCH: Burroughs, UNIVAC, NCR, Control Data Corporation, and Honeywell. These companies were grouped together because the market share of IBM was much higher than all of its competitors put together. During the 1960s, IBM and these five computer manufacturers, along with RCA and General Electric, had been known as "IBM and the Seven Dwarfs." The description of IBM's competitors changed after GE's 1970 sale of its computer business to Honeywell and RCA's 1971 sale of its computer business to Sperry, leaving only five "dwarfs". Fortunately, their initials lent themselves to a new acronym, BUNCH.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Bunch

   bunsh, n. a number of things tied together or growing together: a definite quantity fastened together, as of linen yarn (180,000 yards), &c.: a cluster: something in the form of a tuft or knot.—v.i. to swell out in a bunch.—v.t. to make a bunch of, to concentrate.—adjs. Bunch′-backed (Shak.), having a bunch on the back, crook-backed; Bunched, humped, protuberant.—ns. Bunch′-grass, a name applied to several West American grasses, growing in clumps; Bunch′iness, the quality of being bunchy: state of growing in bunches.—adj. Bunch′y, growing in bunches or like a bunch, bulging.—Bunch of fives, the fist with the five fingers clenched. [Ety. obscure.]

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1. BUNCH

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Bunch is ranked #1629 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Bunch surname appeared 22,117 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 8 would have the surname Bunch.
   
   78.7% or 17,411 total occurrences were White.
   15.4% or 3,424 total occurrences were Black.
   2% or 460 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   1.9% or 433 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   1.2% or 279 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
   0.5% or 111 total occurrences were Asian.

Matched Categories

1. • Agglomeration
   • Form
   • Gathering

British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Bunch' in Nouns Frequency: #2439

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How to pronounce Bunch?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say Bunch in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Bunch in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Bunch in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of Bunch in a Sentence

1. Denise Campbell Mays:

   Times Out...for a bunch of wishy-washy saints! Stand Up! And Remain Firm In The Perfect Word Of God.

2. Patrick Roddy:

   The first thing I would tell you to do is I want to tear down a bunch of buildings over here and expand out the turnout lots, i'd like to redo a bunch of these facilities. But on a day-to-day operational funding, horses are not going hungry, horses are not going without medical care, horses are not going without the required supplements. Our prioritization of funding goes to the health and welfare of the horses, and we're constantly watching that.

3. Mayor Louie Trujillo:

   There are large portions of the watershed you can see that are completely burned. It looks like burnt toothpicks sticking out of the ground for acres and acres, with the soil instability, during a heavy rain event it would be like putting water on a bunch of baby powder where it doesn't absorb at all ; it just falls. We hope to beat the monsoon season, doing some of the interventions we're going to have to do along the watershed.

4. Rob Flaherty:

   We're really focused on,' OK, how does somebody actually have an opportunity to interact with Joe BidenBiden ?' we're going to be playing with a bunch of different formats to see what sticks in the space of making sure the VP gets those interactions.

5. Luke Reiland:

   I’m right in the battle ... to get this money allocated, i think a lot of these small schools are trying to use this money to really upgrade a bunch of stuff, and I am just trying to get my piece of the pie.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Bunch
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Bunch
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=Bunch
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunch
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Bunch
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Bunch
8. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=Bunch
9. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html
10. ^ Usage in printed sources
    https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Bunch