bunch

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /bʌntʃ/|/bʌnʃ/    美 /bʌnt͡ʃ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A group of similar things, either growing together, or in a cluster or clump, usually fastened together.
    — a bunch of grapes
  2. The peloton; the main group of riders formed during a race.
  3. An informal body of friends.
    — He still hangs out with the same bunch.
  4. A considerable amount. US,informal
    — a bunch of trouble
  5. An unmentioned amount; a number. informal
    — A bunch of them went down to the field.
  6. A group of logs tied together for skidding.
  7. An unusual concentration of ore in a lode or a small, discontinuous occurrence or patch of ore in the wallrock.
    — 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
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. A protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump; a hump.
    — They will carry[…]their treasures upon the bunches of camels.
  11. A seventeenth-century unit of Rhenish glass, 60 of which constitute a way or web. obsolete
动词 v.
  1. To gather into a bunch. transitive
  2. To gather fabric into folds. transitive
  3. To form a bunch. intransitive
    — "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.
  4. To be gathered together in folds intransitive
  5. To protrude or swell intransitive
    — 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.

词形变化

bunches plural bunches present,singular,third-person bunching participle,present bunched participle,past bunched past

词汇关系

衍生词
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词源

词源 1
From Middle English bunche, bonche (“hump, swelling”), of uncertain origin.
Perhaps a variant of *bunge (compare dialectal bung (“heap, grape bunch”)), from Proto-Germanic *bunkō, *bunkô, *bungǭ (“heap, crowd”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰenǵʰ-, *bʰénǵʰus (“thick, dense, fat”). Cognates include Saterland Frisian Bunke (“bone”), West Frisian bonke (“bone, lump, bump”), Dutch bonk (“lump, bone”), Low German Bunk (“bone”), German Bunge (“tuber”), Danish bunke (“heap, pile”), Faroese bunki (“heap, pile”); Hittite [Term?] (/⁠panku⁠/, “total, entire”), Tocharian B pkante (“volume, fatness”), Lithuanian búožė (“knob”), Ancient Greek παχύς (pakhús, “thick”), Sanskrit बहु (bahú, “thick; much”)).
Alternatively, perhaps from a variant or diminutive of bump (compare hump/hunch, lump/lunch, etc.); or from dialectal Old French bonge (“bundle”) (compare French bongeau, bonjeau, bonjot), from West Flemish bondje, diminutive of West Flemish bond (“bundle”).
词源 2
From Middle English bunche, bonche (“hump, swelling”), of uncertain origin.
Perhaps a variant of *bunge (compare dialectal bung (“heap, grape bunch”)), from Proto-Germanic *bunkō, *bunkô, *bungǭ (“heap, crowd”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰenǵʰ-, *bʰénǵʰus (“thick, dense, fat”). Cognates include Saterland Frisian Bunke (“bone”), West Frisian bonke (“bone, lump, bump”), Dutch bonk (“lump, bone”), Low German Bunk (“bone”), German Bunge (“tuber”), Danish bunke (“heap, pile”), Faroese bunki (“heap, pile”); Hittite [Term?] (/⁠panku⁠/, “total, entire”), Tocharian B pkante (“volume, fatness”), Lithuanian búožė (“knob”), Ancient Greek παχύς (pakhús, “thick”), Sanskrit बहु (bahú, “thick; much”)).
Alternatively, perhaps from a variant or diminutive of bump (compare hump/hunch, lump/lunch, etc.); or from dialectal Old French bonge (“bundle”) (compare French bongeau, bonjeau, bonjot), from West Flemish bondje, diminutive of West Flemish bond (“bundle”).
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