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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
lump
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a lump of butter
▪ He served himself a big lump of butter.
a lump of ice (=a large piece of ice)
▪ Huge lumps of ice break off from the glaciers and float in the sea.
a lump of sugar (also a sugar lump) (= a small block of sugar)
▪ He put three lumps of sugar in his coffee.
a lump/hunk of cheese (=a large piece)
▪ We just had bread and a hunk of cheese for lunch.
a lump/piece of rock
▪ His leg was trapped under a large lump of rock.
lump sum
▪ When you retire you’ll get a lump sum of £80,000.
sugar lump
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
▪ And George gave me a big lump in traveller's cheques.
▪ If you put the meat back in the refrigerator in a big lump, the center will stay warm for hours.
▪ A milky discharge, if it is lumpy, in big lumps, then Sepia would be well worth trying.
▪ Now, staring at the big thick lump of meat, her self-confidence vanished.
▪ It is much more than simply a big lump of rock.
▪ After about a week she was tearing off big lumps of the dead chicks I was feeding her.
▪ As payment comes in big lumps when the job is finished, income, Gare noted, tends to be uneven.
great
▪ With a great lump of meat known as man. 1 wish I was a man.
▪ The food she had eaten immediately seemed to stick inside her like a great lump of lead.
▪ Even as she sank, she would know the woman was still leaning forward, great uncouth lump, writing.
▪ When it rained the water would cascade down the banks and wash great lumps of soil into the road.
▪ It's coming up in a great lump.
large
▪ Bruce and Kim have large lumps of clay.
▪ Add more water if mixture seems dry; dough should just hold together in large lumps.
▪ As Magee tugged it free a large lump of bone came away on the end of the knife.
▪ There is now quite a large lump in his groin which his General Practitioner diagnoses as an irreducible right inguinal hernia.
▪ In only one case was a sample obtained from a large lump of rock, these being scarce on the lunar surface.
▪ He is also accused of possessing an offensive weapon - a large lump hammer - and affray.
▪ There were two large lumps that I hadn't had before, but at least the skull didn't seem to be broken.
small
▪ She picked up a small flowerpot-shaped lump of earth.
▪ She could tell from the small lumps of matter floating on its vermilion surface.
▪ It's a small, firm lump and seems to slip from my fingers when I try to feel it.
▪ A small, shapely lump of granite, a little smaller than a hen's egg.
▪ A small lump of nothing rolled across the floor, gathering substance, and coalesced into an unnoticed rat.
▪ Building society accounts Share accounts-Building society terminology for a simple savings account useful for small lump sums or regular saving.
■ NOUN
sugar
▪ Guy immediately shovelled another sugar lump between its wet, smelly lips.
▪ There might be a sugar lump in a minute, but sometimes, when Henry was upset, there were no treats.
▪ I carry sugar lumps around with me and feed him those.
▪ If the fly landed on your sugar lump you got the girl.
sum
▪ Payment at today's price may be by a single lump sum or by instalments.
▪ If a fire department were given a lump sum budget and allowed to keep any savings, these incentives would change.
▪ She also received a cash lump sum from her Personal Accident Policy.
▪ I am 74 years old and when I retired in 1982 I invested my lump sum pension with a brokerage.
▪ A lump sum would be paid to a trade association or similar body.
▪ Additionally, he would have received $ 6, 000 in lump sum payments.
▪ Expect a lump sum paid in advance, either per month, or year.
▪ In the third year the budget was not detailed under headings but awarded as a lump sum.
■ VERB
feel
▪ Melanie felt a lump in her throat; it was a touching and whole-hearted welcome.
▪ All my body parts felt like lumps of lead.
▪ I feel a dead lump inside me, a parcel of old and tired meat.
▪ If you can feel a lump, try pushing it gently upwards.
▪ The fear is that women who have a negative mammogram will disregard contrary evidence such as feeling a lump, Bredt said.
▪ I could feel a lump in my throat like solid sick.
▪ He felt a hard lump of anger in him.
find
▪ He found some lumps in his neck and went to get them checked out, thinking he had a virus.
▪ He was told not to find out what the lumps were.
▪ I can't find any other lumps anywhere.
pay
▪ If it is less than £1.05 a week, it will be paid as a lump sum once a year.
▪ It will pay out a healthy lump sum at the end of the term you choose, just when you need it.
▪ It is also possible to pay a lump sum premium to an insurance company which will pay out to the amount insured.
▪ He paid her a lump sum and set up a trust fund for daughter Angelique.
▪ But that much money will not be paid in one lump sum.
receive
▪ She also received a cash lump sum from her Personal Accident Policy.
▪ Dear Help Wanted: I may be receiving a lump sum of money to settle a workers' compensation claim.
▪ Usually, for every £1 of annual pension you give up at 60, you will receive a lump sum of £11.
▪ Under a block grant approach, each state would receive a lump sum to be divided any way the state chose.
▪ He's received a lump sum payment - believed to be a few thousand pounds.
▪ The average partner received a lump sum of $ 7. 8 million from the sale.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
like it or lump it
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ He had a lump on his forehead the size of a golf ball.
▪ He put the gun in his pocket, where it made a slight lump.
▪ I was almost hit by a lump of rock that fell from the cliff.
▪ She saw a lump under the bedclothes.
▪ Stir the mixture until all the lumps are gone.
▪ The lump in Kay's breast turned out to be cancerous.
▪ There are a lot of lumps in this sauce.
▪ Throw a few more lumps of coal on the fire.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But what about those lavas that solidify into one homogeneous lump, without crystallizing?
▪ For a moment she said nothing, she just swallowed as if there were a lump in her throat.
▪ I got a little lump in my throat.
▪ In your frying pan melt a lump of butter.
II.verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All benefits and income from producing units were lumped together to establish overall feasibility.
▪ However, I warn people against lumping together pindown and what has been happening in Leicestershire.
▪ In addition, many minerals can be lumped into groups.
▪ Mercedes-Benz's proud engineers also loathe being lumped in with companies making everything from washing machines to weapons.
▪ She and a whole group of Communists whom the prosecutor had lumped together were to be tried later.
▪ They object to the two giants being lumped together simply because they are hugely ambitious, colossally expensive and largely Texan.
▪ This year marks the first time that the four industrial states have lumped their primaries together early in a campaign.
▪ Whole areas of property will be lumped into bands with no attempt at individual valuations.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lump

Lump \Lump\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Lumped; p. pr. & vb. n. Lumping.]

  1. To throw into a mass; to unite in a body or sum without distinction of particulars.

    The expenses ought to be lumped together.
    --Ayliffe.

  2. To take in the gross; to speak of collectively.

    Not forgetting all others, . . . whom for brevity, but out of no resentment to you, I lump all together.
    --Sterne.

  3. To get along with as one can, although displeased; as, if he doesn't like it, he can lump it. [Low]

Lump

Lump \Lump\ (l[u^]mp), n. [Cf. OD. lompe piece, mass. Cf. Lunch.]

  1. A small mass of matter of irregular shape; an irregular or shapeless mass; as, a lump of coal; a lump of iron ore. `` A lump of cheese.''
    --Piers Plowman. `` This lump of clay.''
    --Shak.

  2. A mass or aggregation of things.

  3. (Firearms) A projection beneath the breech end of a gun barrel. In the lump, In a lump, the whole together; in gross. They may buy them in the lump. --Addison. Lump coal, coal in large lumps; -- the largest size brought from the mine. Lump sum,

    1. a gross sum without a specification of items; as, to award a lump sum in satisfaction of all claims and damages.

    2. a single sum paid once in satisfaction of a claim, as contrasted with the alternate choice of several payments over a period of time; -- sometimes allowed, e.g., as an alternative to periodical pension payments for a lifetime.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
lump

early 14c., lumpe (1224 as surname), probably in Old English, perhaps from a Scandinavian source (compare Danish lumpe, 16c.), of unknown origin. Compare also Middle High German lumpe, early modern Dutch lompe. Phrase lump in (one's) throat "feeling of tightness brought on by emotion" is from 1803. Lumps "hard knocks, a beating" is colloquial, from 1934. Lump sum, one covering a number of items, is from 1867.

lump

"endure" (now usually in contrast to like), 1791, apparently an extended sense from an older meaning "to look sulky, dislike" (1570s), of unknown origin, perhaps a symbolic sound (compare grump, harumph, etc.). Related: Lumped; lumping.\n\nLUMPING. Great. A lumping pennyworth; a great qualtity for the money, a bargain. He has got a lumping pennyworth; frequently said of a man who marries a fat woman.

[Grose, "Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue," 3rd edition, 1796]

lump

early 15c., "to curl up in a ball, to gather into a lump" (implied in lumped), from lump (n.). Meaning "to put together in one mass or group" is from 1620s. Related: Lumped; lumping.

Wiktionary
lump

n. 1 Something that protrudes, sticks out, or sticks together; a cluster or blob; a mound, hill, or group. 2 A group, set, or unit. 3 A small, shaped mass of sugar, typically about a teaspoonful. 4 A dull or lazy person. 5 (context informal as plural English) A beating or verbal abuse. 6 A projection beneath the breech end of a gun barrel. vb. To treat as a single unit; to group together.

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WordNet
lump

  1. n. a large piece of something without definite shape; "a hunk of bread"; "a lump of coal" [syn: hunk]

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

  3. abnormal protuberance or localized enlargement [syn: swelling, puffiness]

  4. an awkward stupid person [syn: lout, clod, stumblebum, goon, oaf, lubber, lummox, gawk]

lump

  1. v. put together indiscriminately; "lump together all the applicants" [syn: chunk]

  2. group or chunk together in a certain order or place side by side [syn: collocate, chunk]

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Wikipedia
Lump (album)

Lump is a 2000 greatest hits compilation album by The Presidents of the United States of America.

The album includes three covers: " Video Killed the Radio Star", originally by The Buggles, " Kick Out the Jams", originally by MC5 and " Cleveland Rocks", originally by Ian Hunter.

Unusual for a "Greatest Hits" album, Lump features only ten tracks totalling less than 30 minutes in length. Also, one of the band's biggest hits that also gave them a Grammy Nomination, " Peaches", is missing completely, along with minor hit " Kitty".

Lump (dog)

Lump (1956 – 29 March 1973), was a Dachshund owned by David Douglas Duncan who lived with artist Pablo Picasso for six years, and featured in several of his works.

Lump (song)

"Lump" is a song by alternative rock band The Presidents of the United States of America. It was released in 1995 and featured on their self-titled debut album. The song reached #1 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart in 1995. Composer Chris Ballew said that the lyrics combined his own history of having a benign tumor in the head with a vision he had of a woman in a swamp, while employing the word "lump" because Ballew was fond of it. The musical part was described by Ballew as him "trying to write a Buzzcocks song". Ballew considers it his favorite composition.

Later in the same year, it debuted on the Album Rock Tracks chart, and went on to hit #7. The song is featured in the video games Rock Band 2, the Nintendo DS version of Band Hero, Just Dance, and Saints Row IV. It has additionally been covered or remade by several artists such as The Johnstones and "Weird Al" Yankovic.

Lump

Lump may refer to:

  • "Lump" (song), a 1995 song by The Presidents of the United States of America
  • Lump (compilation album), a 2000 best-of album by The Presidents of the United States of America
  • The Lump, a 1991 short animated film
  • Lump sum, a one time payment of money
  • a Lump, can be used as a unit of measure (about the size of your hand)
  • Lump Sugar, a 2006 South Korean film
  • Lump hammer, a tool
  • Lump (dog), a dog who acted as a muse to Pablo Picasso
  • Lumped parameters, in mathematical modelling
  • Swelling (medical), causes a lump
    • any tumor
    • commonly, a breast tumor
    • "lump in one's throat", see Globus pharyngis
  • Lump, short for clay lump, a British term for mudbrick
  • To put large sums of money on a given horse, that will go on to win and make you lots of money.

Also known as a dead cert

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Usage examples of "lump".

The panic backed up into his throat, leaving an acidy taste in his mouth and a lump obstructing his air.

As he listened, Alec felt despair crystallizing into a hard lump in his throat.

There was this lump of iron that I had dragged all the way back from the Galactic West, encased in aluminum and neutronium and alnico magnets, hanging there in its orbit, quite useless, so far, but potentially extremely useful.

His companion thanked him for the compliment, and the child, who had now got astride of his alpenstock, stood looking about him, while he attacked a second lump of sugar.

Upon the crest of the heap, the lump of ambergris bubbled, smoking, its sweet scent filling the air.

The lump of amorphous flesh assumed another, longer shape: It became a cockroach, a hideously ugly, unrealistically large cockroach.

However, the Baas has settled that we must save the lady and give her to the Lump of Wood for a wife.

Still, every now and then she would wake in the chasm night to the sound of floppers honking in the root mat, half dreaming about hiding on the rootwall, lumps of charcoal in her hands, looking up at the adze-cut end of the mainroot while hearing from below that phlegmy chuckle as Slysaw Bander came climbing up the stairs.

It was remarked that the natives subsisted mainly on roots of trees, and wild fruits such as batatas or oubis, with a little fish, and that they seemed to have some knowledge of gold when some lumps of the metal were shown them.

The Biter heeled on the new slant, and the breeze struck colder from the larboard beam, laced with lumps of spray.

Over half an hour the sails were snugged, and the tired ship lumped along towards the north Kent coast, with Biter dwindling into the ruck of boats and ships converging on the estuary.

I yanked the rest of the line over the wall, and hastened across the Boody grounds, coiling it as I went, the gun a hard lump between belt and belly.

It was my way of minimizing the painful lump in my throat, staving off the embarrassing boohoos I thought were best left unexpressed.

Move down on the sausage-shaped body, skipping over the greasy folds like freshly turned furrows, all the way back to where the shoulders extend into twin flesh lumps attached to clusters of brachiating greenish-gray tentacles.

It is this brickbat which makes a lump on the back of my head so big that Doc Brennan thinks it is a tumor when I go to him the next day about my stomach, and I never tell him any different.