bundle

Meaning

Noun

1. (countable) A group of objects held together by wrapping or tying.
2. (countable) A package wrapped or tied up for carrying.
3. A group of products or services sold together as a unit.
4. (informal) A large amount, especially of money.
5. A cluster of closely bound muscle or nerve fibres.
6. A sequence of two or more words that occur in language with high frequency but are not idiomatic; a chunk, cluster, or lexical bundle.
7. A directory containing related resources such as source code; application bundle.
8. A quantity of paper equal to two reams (1000 sheets).
9. (countable) A court bundle, the assemblage of documentation prepared for, and referred to during, a court case.
10. Topological space composed of a base space and fibers projected to the base space.

Verb

1. (transitive) To tie or wrap together into a bundle.
2. (transitive) To hustle; to dispatch something or someone quickly.
3. (intransitive) To prepare for departure; to set off in a hurry or without ceremony; used with away, off, out.
4. (transitive) To dress someone warmly.
5. (intransitive) To dress warmly. Usually bundle up
6. To sell hardware and software as a single product.
7. (intransitive) To hurry.
8. (slang) Synonym of dogpile: to form a pile of people upon a victim.
9. (transitive) To hastily or clumsily push, put, carry or otherwise send something into a particular place.
10. (dated, intransitive) To sleep on the same bed without undressing.

Synonyms

bunch

package

📦

sheaf

pack

parcel

packet

roll

bale

bind

cluster

pile

load

clump

wisp

wrap

coil

knot

🪢

wrap up

group

truss

tie up

heap

armful

tie

collection

band

tuft

ball

handful

faggot

tie together

stack

wad

roll up

fascicle

compact

fasciculus

big bucks

string

🪢

fagot

beam

mass

bundle up

megabucks

batch

luggage

🧳

bandage

gathering

bunch up

bouquet

💐

Translations

Bündel

paquet

fagot

bundel

faisceau

haz

bulto

ballot

paquete

gerbe

fagotto

lío

δέμα

pacco

pacote

📦

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈbʌnd(ə)l/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: bundel

Inherited from Old English: byndele

Cognate with Dutch: bundel

Cognate with German: Bündel

In summary

From Middle English bundel, from Middle Dutch bondel or Old English byndele, byndelle (“a binding; tying; fastening with bands”); both from Proto-Germanic *bundil-, derivative of *bundą (“bundle”). Compare also bindle, Dutch bundel, German Bündel.

Sentences

This also defines a parallel transport on the frame bundle .