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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
clump
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a clod/clump of earth (=a lump of earth)
▪ The horse’s hooves kicked up great clods of earth.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
dense
▪ One, the copper flower, grows in dense violet clumps on the most polluted soils of all.
▪ Nuclear plants are sprinkled liberally across the capital, with a particularly dense clump in the northern suburbs.
large
▪ Lift and divide large clumps of pond plants and marginals.
▪ You should not see large clumps of flour in the batter.
▪ Where the lawn had been grew a large clump you could hardly call it a copse - of coconut palms.
▪ As we ate our meal using our fingers and large clumps of ugali, the conversation turned quite serious.
small
▪ I add a small clump of Java Moss and a few grains of Aquazorb, which helps to keep the water sweet.
▪ Wild plants growing well where never before seen, and growing very well where only found in small clumps.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ An unwanted clump can be pulled up, and its roots and leaves dried for later use.
▪ Bright green lizards were scuttling over a clump of tree-roots twice as tall as Alan, and he was wide awake.
▪ By one of the legs is a clump of dust shaped like a sea lion with its head and neck raised.
▪ Crunching up the gravel drive past a clump of rhododendrons, she heard a scuffle in the undergrowth.
▪ Grasses gradually increase and after 10 years the appearance is mainly one of grassland with scattered clumps of tall herbs.
▪ It was like the first part we had was in a clump and was brown.
▪ Three lone boys finally started up his walk in a sullen clump, and the rest followed in a bigger clump.
II.verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Humidity causes sugar to clump.
▪ The three of us clumped up the steps in our heavy ski boots.
▪ The walls are so thin we can hear the man next door clumping about all day.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And those watching Forcibles swung their empty stares around the nearly deserted bar, then wheeled their tight formation and clumped out.
▪ Galaxies, too, tend to clump together in clusters, which in turn may be parts of superclusters.
▪ This leads to a slightly bizarre and unconvincing fusion of musical forces which all end up clumped awkwardly together.
▪ When you add vinegar to milk, the small solid pieces clump together and form larger solid pieces.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Clump

Clump \Clump\, v. i. To tread clumsily; to clamp. [Prov. Eng.]
--Halliwell.

Clump

Clump \Clump\, v. t. To arrange in a clump or clumps; to cluster; to group.
--Blackmore.

Clump

Clump \Clump\ (kl[u^]mp), n. [Cf. D. klomp lump, G. klump, klumpen, Dan. klump, Sw. klump; perh. akin to L. globus, E. globe. Cf. Club.]

  1. An unshaped piece or mass of wood or other substance.

  2. A cluster; a group; a thicket.

    A clump of shrubby trees.
    --Hawthorne.

  3. The compressed clay of coal strata.
    --Brande & C.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
clump

1580s, "lump; cluster of trees," from Middle English clompe "a lump" (c.1300), from Dutch klomp "lump, mass," or Middle Low German klumpe "clog, wooden shoe." Old English had clympre "lump, mass of metal."

clump

"walk heavily," 1660s, imitative. Related: Clumped; clumping.

clump

"to heap or gather in clumps" (transitive), 1824, from clump (n.). Related: Clumped; clumping. Intransitive sense "to form a clump or clumps" is recorded from 1896.

Wiktionary
clump

n. 1 A cluster or lump; an unshaped piece or mass. 2 A thick group or bunch, especially of bushes or hair. 3 A dull thud. 4 The compressed clay of coal strat

  1. v

  2. 1 (context transitive English) To form clusters or lumps 2 (context transitive English) To gather into thick groups 3 (context intransitive English) To walk with heavy footfalls.

WordNet
clump
  1. n. a grouping of a number of similar things; "a bunch of trees"; "a cluster of admirers" [syn: bunch, cluster, clustering]

  2. a compact mass; "a ball of mud caught him on the shoulder" [syn: ball, clod, glob, lump, chunk]

  3. a heavy dull sound (as made by impact of heavy objects) [syn: thump, thumping, clunk, thud]

  4. v. make or move along with a sound as of a horse's hooves striking the ground [syn: clop, clunk, plunk]

  5. come together as in a cluster or flock; "The poets constellate in this town every summer" [syn: cluster, constellate, flock]

  6. walk clumsily [syn: clomp]

  7. gather or cause to gather into a cluster; "She bunched her fingers into a fist"; "The students bunched up at the registration desk" [syn: bunch, bunch up, bundle, cluster]

Usage examples of "clump".

Why they should be still advancing in that dense clump we do not now know, nor can we surmise what thoughts were passing through the mind of the gallant and experienced chieftain who walked beside them.

Most were still aflight, but some were on the ground, surrounded by clumps of people.

Isemonger, wife of the police magistrate of the Province, met me on the bright, green lawn studded with clumps of alamanda, which surrounds their lovely, palm-shaded bungalow.

I went back to that upper path to look up two or three special arbutus clumps that I knew, but seeing his depression over the snag incident, I could not suggest this.

Charles had been a coachman or a groom, Asey bet, as he ducked behind a clump of bushes and watched the bow - legged little man inarch over to the roadster and play the beam of his flashlight around it, and then over the contents of the seat.

Semerket made for the open waters of a far lagoon, weaving through the clumps of reeds with Assai in pursuit.

Satisfied that the beisa was at last dead, the Count descended and walked slowly towards a nearby clump of thorn scrub, but his gait was bow-legged and stiff, for he had lightly soiled his magnificently monogrammed silk underwear.

After Boots had clumped out, Blok turned his attention to the canvases over by the easel and began to go through them, tossing them aside in his fearful search for any more such drawings as on the scraps of paper clenched in his hand.

Hussars and Lancers scouted in the scrub at each side, and within moved the clump of camels, with humorous eyes and supercilious lips, their comic faces a contrast to the blood-stained men who already lay huddled in the cacolets on either side.

Bert and Cec clumped down the stairs to accept cups and perch themselves on the over-stuffed chairs.

The three of them clumped along for forty yards, crossed the highroad, and with the wizard leading, slid and leaped down the side of a bush-dotted hill and in among a thicket of willows.

Moon Man warned as the three of them clumped down a long batch of stone stairs into an immense underground gallery.

The trees were scattered and clumped and rimmed with dark morass and marsh grass and pools of dim water, but their limbs bent out so alarmingly that there seemed to be an almost unbroken canopy of leaves overhead.

In a few moments Bufo clumped back down carrying Ahab, who was in much the same condition as Jonathan and the Professor.

Georgia lolloped along on Clumper, a war bunny much like Thumper except for an ear with a bend in it.