clump

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A cluster or lump; an unshaped piece or mass.
  2. A thick group or bunch, especially of bushes or hair.
    — There are suitable clumps of gorse a little way back, sir. I anticipate that you would be quite safe there, or I would not suggest it, sir.
  3. A dull thud.
    — She [Miss Climpson] asks questions which a young man could not put without a blush. She is the angel that rushes in where fools get a clump on the head.
  4. The compressed clay of coal strata.
    — clump-burned bricks
  5. A small group of trees or plants.
  6. A thick addition to the sole of a shoe. historical
动词 v.
  1. To form clusters or lumps. ambitransitive
  2. To gather in dense groups. ambitransitive
  3. To walk with heavy footfalls. intransitive
  4. To strike; to beat. UK,regional,transitive
    — There is his poor little cap hanging up on the door; and there on the table is the knife he chipped a piece out of through not minding the mark on the knife machine, and I clumped his head for him, poor lamb!

词形变化

clumps plural clumps present,singular,third-person clumping participle,present clumped participle,past clumped past

词汇关系

衍生词
clumpable clump block clumper clumpful clumpish clumplike clumpy declump interclump macroclump microclump Pine Clump red clump subclump unclump clump up

词源

词源 1
From Middle English clompe, from Old English clymppe, a variant of clympre (“a lump or mass of metal”), from Proto-Germanic *klumpô (“mass, lump, clump; clasp”), from Proto-Indo-European *glembʰ- (“lump, clamp”).
Alternatively, possibly from Middle Dutch clompe or Middle Low German klumpe (compare German Klumpen). Doublet of klomp.
Cognates include Danish klump (probably from Low German as well). Compare Norwegian Bokmål klump.
词源 2
From Middle English clompe, from Old English clymppe, a variant of clympre (“a lump or mass of metal”), from Proto-Germanic *klumpô (“mass, lump, clump; clasp”), from Proto-Indo-European *glembʰ- (“lump, clamp”).
Alternatively, possibly from Middle Dutch clompe or Middle Low German klumpe (compare German Klumpen). Doublet of klomp.
Cognates include Danish klump (probably from Low German as well). Compare Norwegian Bokmål klump.
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