Crossword clues for bundle
bundle
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bundle \Bun"dle\, v. i.
To prepare for departure; to set off in a hurry or without ceremony.
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To sleep on the same bed without undressing; -- applied to the custom of a man and woman, especially lovers, thus sleeping.
--Bartlett.Van Corlear stopped occasionally in the villages to eat pumpkin pies, dance at country frolics, and bundle with the Yankee lasses.
--W. Irving.To bundle up, to dress warmly, snugly, or cumbrously.
Bundle \Bun"dle\ (b[u^]n"d'l), n. [OE. bundel, AS. byndel; akin to D. bondel, bundel, G. b["u]ndel, dim. of bund bundle, fr. the root of E. bind. See Bind.] A number of things bound together, as by a cord or envelope, into a mass or package convenient for handling or conveyance; a loose package; a roll; as, 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.
--Goldsmith.
Bundle pillar (Arch.), a column or pier, with others of
small dimensions attached to it.
--Weale.
Bundle \Bun"dle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bundled; p. pr. & vb. n. Bundling.]
To tie or bind in a bundle or roll.
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To send off abruptly or without ceremony.
They unmercifully bundled me and my gallant second into our own hackney coach.
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to sell together as a single item at one inclusive price; -- usually done for related products which work or are used together.
To bundle off, to send off in a hurry, or without ceremony; as, the working mothers bundle their children off to school and then try to get themselves to work on time.
To bundle one's self up, to wrap one's self up warmly or cumbrously.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 14c., "bound collection of things," from Middle Dutch bondel, diminutive of bond, from binden "to bind," or perhaps a merger of this word and Old English byndele "binding," from Proto-Germanic *bundilin (source also of German bündel "to bundle"), from PIE root *bhendh- "tie" (see bend (v.)). Meaning "a lot of money" is from 1899. To be a bundle of nerves "very anxious" is from 1938.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A group of objects held together by wrapping or tying. 2 A package wrapped or tied up for carrying. 3 (context biology English) A cluster of closely bound muscle or nerve fibres. 4 (context informal English) A large amount, especially of money. 5 (context computing Mac OS X English) A directory containing related resources such as source code; application bundle. 6 A quantity of paper equal to 2 reams (1000 sheets). vb. 1 To tie or wrap together. 2 To hustle; to dispatch something or someone quickly. 3 (context intransitive English) To prepare for departure; to set off in a hurry or without ceremony. 4 (context transitive English) To dress someone warmly. 5 (context intransitive English) To dress warmly. Usually bundle up 6 (context computing English) To sell hardware and software as a single product. 7 (context intransitive English) To hurry. 8 (context slang English) To dogpile 9 (context transitive English) To hastily or clumsily push, put, carry or otherwise send something into a particular place.
WordNet
n. a collection of things wrapped or boxed together [syn: package, packet, parcel]
a package of several things tied together for carrying or storing [syn: sheaf]
a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit); "she made a bundle selling real estate"; "they sank megabucks into their new house" [syn: pile, big bucks, megabucks, big money]
v. make into a bundle; "he bundled up his few possessions" [syn: bundle up, roll up]
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, cluster, clump]
compress into a wad; "wad paper into the box" [syn: pack, wad, compact]
sleep fully clothed in the same bed with one's betrothed [syn: practice bundling]
Wikipedia
In mathematics, a bundle is a generalization of a fiber bundle dropping the condition of a local product structure. The requirement of a local product structure rests on the bundle having a topology. Without this requirement, more general objects can be considered bundles. For example, one can consider a bundle π: E→ B with E and B sets. It is no longer true that the preimages π(x) must all look alike, unlike fiber bundles where the fibers must all be isomorphic (in the case of vector bundles) and homeomorphic.
In NeXTSTEP, OPENSTEP, GNUstep, and their lineal descendants OS X and iOS, a bundle is a file directory with a defined structure and file extension, allowing related files to be grouped together as a conceptually single item.
Examples of bundles that contain executable code include applications, frameworks, and plugins. This kind of bundle usually contains one file representing executable code, and files that represent resources such as nibs, templates, images, sounds, and other media. On some other systems, such as Microsoft Windows, these resources are usually included directly in the executable file itself at compile time. On older Macintoshes, a similar technique is used, where additional metadata can be added to a file's resource fork. Similar in concept are the application directories used in RISC OS and on the ROX Desktop.
Examples of bundles that do not contain executable code include document packages ( iWork documents) and media libraries ( iPhoto Library).
Bundles are programmatically accessed with the NSBundle class in Cocoa, NeXTSTEP and GNUstep's Foundation frameworks, and with CFBundle in Core Foundation. The Uniform Type Identifier (UTI) for an Apple bundle is com.apple.bundle.
Bundle or Bundling may refer to:
In marketing:
- Product bundling, a marketing strategy that involves offering several products for sale as one combined product
- Bundling (fundraising), when donations from many individuals are collected by one person and presented to the recipient
- Bundling (public choice), a similar concept to product bundling that occurs in electoral republics
In economics:
- A bundle is a set of one or more goods.
In mathematics:
- Bundle (mathematics), a generalization of a fiber bundle dropping the condition of a local product structure
- Fiber bundle, a topology space that looks locally like a product space
In medicine:
- Bundle of His, a collection of heart muscle cells specialized for electrical conduction
- Bundle of Kent, an extra conduction pathway between the atria and ventricles in the heart
In computing:
- Bundle (OS X), a type of directory in NEXTSTEP and OS X
- Bundle (software distribution), a package containing a software and everything it needs to operate together with some hardware or additional software (sometimes adware).
Other uses:
- Bundle adjustment, a photogrammetry/computer vision technique
- Bundle conductor (power engineering)
- Bundle of rights (property law)
- Bundle theory (philosophy)
- Bundled payment, a method for reimbursing health care providers
- Bundles (album), a 1975 album by Soft Machine, including a song of the same title
- Bundling (antitrust law), the setting of the total price of a purchase of several products or services from one seller over a period at a lower level than the sum of the prices of the products or services purchased separately from several sellers.
- Bundling (packaging), the process of using straps to bundle up items
- Bundling (tradition), the traditional practice of wrapping one person in a bed accompanied by his/her courter
- Optical fiber bundle, a cable consisting of a collection of fiber optics
- Eileen "Bundle" Brent, an Agatha Christie character
- The Bundles, an anti-folk supergroup, or The Bundles (album), their only album
Usage examples of "bundle".
One corner of the bundle, wrapped solidly, had abraded to threads, but had not spoiled.
Then Don Esteban took from his breast pocket a bundle of thongs tanned the color of acanthus wood, the fringes of which, painted red, were twisted into numerous knots.
She proceeded to explain about the ragged bundle Acorn had carried, and described the rock that fell out of it after his death.
An innocent-looking piece of firewood set off a bundle of aerolite cartridges if anyone picked it up to put it in the stove.
A few moments later Aristarchi had placed her in his boat, the heavy bundle of spoils lay at her feet, and the craft shot swiftly from the door of the house of the Agnus Dei.
Cold with dread, Alec found the driver and helped him bundle Seregil, well wrapped in cloaks and blankets, into the carriage.
These bundles then become aligned, as bundles, with the emanations at large.
Reaching home after the flight from New Orleans, Sarchi grabbed her neuro anatomy text and read about the ansa lenticularis, the fiber bundle Latham was going to sever to treat Drew.
She knelt stiffly before Ashake and spread it out, sitting back then on her heels as the girl, making slow work of it, rolled the talisman into a tight bundle.
I could make out Asteria gamely tramping across with a crowd of other women, bearing a bundle on her shoulders that seemed far larger than she should be required to carry.
The bundles of cash she stuffed into her purse, and the Baggie of cocaine she emptied into the toilet, which she patiently flushed three times.
The disciple was a bundle of contradictions, for though he was willful, headstrong, belligerent when challenged, he was also a seeker, as the Baptist had described him.
He would call out the moment he saw her, warn her, then hold back the committee while she bundled Sahra and Bibi out the back door.
Wrapping them tightly round Blinky, he crawled out of the fowl-house with a struggling, kicking bundle under his arm.
Tiffany went and got some blankets, bundling them up so that when she carried them back to the grave, no one would notice that the two Boffo skulls and the spiderweb-making machine were tucked inside.