lump
noun
[ lʌmp ]
• a compact mass of a substance, especially one without a definite or regular shape.
• "there was a lump of ice floating in the milk"
Similar:
chunk,
wedge,
hunk,
piece,
mass,
block,
slab,
cake,
nugget,
ball,
brick,
cube,
dab,
pat,
knob,
clod,
dollop,
wad,
clump,
cluster,
mound,
concentration,
bit,
segment,
portion,
gobbet,
gob,
glob,
• the state of being self-employed and paid without deduction of tax, especially in the building industry.
• "‘Working?’ ‘Only on the lump, here and there’"
lump
verb
• put in an indiscriminate mass or group; treat as alike without regard for particulars.
• "Hong Kong and Bangkok tend to be lumped together in holiday brochures"
Similar:
combine,
put,
group,
bunch,
aggregate,
unite,
pool,
mix,
blend,
merge,
mass,
join,
fuse,
conglomerate,
coalesce,
consolidate,
collect,
throw,
consider together,
• carry (a heavy load) somewhere with difficulty.
• "the coalman had to lump one-hundredweight sacks right through the house"
Origin:
Middle English: perhaps from a Germanic base meaning ‘shapeless piece’; compare with Danish lump ‘lump’, Norwegian and Swedish dialect lump ‘block, log’, and Dutch lomp ‘rag’.
lump
verb
• accept or tolerate a disagreeable situation whether one likes it or not.
• "you can like it or lump it but I've got to work"
Similar:
put up with it,
bear it,
endure it,
take it,
tolerate it,
suffer it,
accept it,
make allowances for it,
abide it,
brook it,
weather it,
countenance it,
thole it,
stick it,
stomach it,
stand it,
swallow it,
hack it,
wear it,
Origin:
late 16th century (in the sense ‘look sulky’): symbolic of displeasure; compare with words such as dump and grump . The current sense dates from the early 19th century.
