bunch

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. A group of similar things, either growing together, or in a cluster or clump, usually fastened together.
2. The illegitimate supplying of laboratory animals that are act
3. The peloton; the main group of riders formed during a race.
4. An informal body of friends.
5. (informal) A considerable amount.
6. (informal) An unmentioned amount; a number.
7. A group of logs tied together for skidding.
8. An unusual concentration of ore in a lode or a small, discontinuous occurrence or patch of ore in the wallrock.
9. 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.
10. An unfinished cigar, before the wrapper leaf is added.
11. A protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump; a hump.
12. (obsolete) A seventeenth-century unit of Rhenish glass, 60 of which constitute a way or web.

Verb

1. To gather into a bunch.
2. To gather fabric into folds.
3. To form a bunch.
4. To be gathered together in folds
5. To protrude or swell

Concepts

groupe

grappe

tas

botte

bande

bouquet

régime

touffe

trousseau

lot

faisceau

couette

paquet

petit tas

gerbe

fascicule

houppe

poignée

javelle

peloton

poupe

poupée

mouche

nid

poche

poche de minerai

poche minéralisée

réserve

empiler

grouper

mettre en masse

mettre en banc

ensemble

dispersion

gang

foule

ballot

racème

troupeau

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/bʌntʃ/

Étymologie (Anglais)

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-, *bʰéng̑ʰus (“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”).