lump

• POS: Noun, Verb (intransitive), Verb (transitive)
• COUNT in NET: 1 in 1 verses (in NT : 1 in 1 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

lump, n. [Cf. OD. lompe piece, mass. Cf. Lunch.].

•  A small mass of matter of irregular shape; an irregular or shapeless mass; as, a lump of coal; a lump of iron ore.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]
•  A mass or aggregation of things.  [1913 Webster]
•  A projection beneath the breech end of a gun barrel.  [1913 Webster]

  "They may buy them in the lump."

lump, v. i. 

•  To throw into a mass; to unite in a body or sum without distinction of particulars.  [1913 Webster]

  "The expenses ought to be lumped together."  [1913 Webster]
•  To take in the gross; to speak of collectively.  [1913 Webster]

  "Not forgetting all others, . . . whom for brevity, but out of no resentment to you, I lump all together."  [1913 Webster]
•  To get along with as one can, although displeased; as, if he doesn't like it, he can lump it.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

lump, n. & v.
--n.
1 a compact shapeless or unshapely mass.
2 sl. a quantity or heap.
3 a tumour, swelling, or bruise.
4 a heavy, dull, or ungainly person.
5 (prec. by the) Brit. casual workers in the building and other trades.
--v.
1 tr. (usu. foll. by together, with, in with, under, etc.) mass together or group indiscriminately.
2 tr. carry or throw carelessly (lumping crates round the yard).
3 intr. become lumpy.
4 intr. (usu. foll. by along) proceed heavily or awkwardly.
5 intr. (usu. foll. by down) sit down heavily.

Idiom

in the lump taking things as a whole; in a general manner. lump in the throat a feeling of pressure there, caused by emotion. lump sugar sugar shaped into lumps or cubes. lump sum
1 a sum covering a number of items.
2 money paid down at once (opp. INSTALMENT).

Derivative

lumper n. (in sense 2 of v.).

lump, v.tr. colloq. endure or suffer (a situation) ungraciously.

Idiom

like it or lump it put up with something whether one likes it or not.

Etymology

imit.: cf. dump, grump, etc.

THESAURUS

lump

abide, abide with, accumulation, acervation, agglomerate, agglomeration, aggregate, aggregation, allow, amassment, barrel, batch, bear, bear with, beard, bide, bilge, bit, blain, bleb, blend, blimp, blister, blob, block, body, boil, boss, bow, brave, brook, bubble, bulb, bulge, bulk, bulla, bump, bunch, bunion, burl, butt, butterfingers, button, cahot, cake, carbuncle, chine, chip, chunk, clabber, clip, clipping, clod, clot, clump, clumsy, cluster, coagulate, collect, collop, colophon, combine, comeuppance, concavity, concrete, concretion, condyle, congeal, congeries, conglobation, conglomerate, conglomeration, consolidate, convex, convexity, corn, crumb, cube, cumulation, curd, curdle, cut, cutting, cyst, dactylogram, dactylograph, dent, deserts, deserving, digest, dilatation, dilation, dint, distension, dollop, dowel, dub, due, duffer, ear, edema, embossment, end, endure, excrescence, fatty, fingerprint, flange, flap, footmark, footprint, footstep, foozler, fossil footprint, foul-up, fragment, fumble-fist, furuncle, gall, gathering, gawk, gel, gelatinate, gelatinize, glomeration, gnarl, gob, gobbet, goof, goofball, goofer, group, growth, handle, hang in, hang in there, hang tough, heap, heavy, heavyweight, hick, hill, hippo, hump, hunch, hunk, ichnite, ichnolite, impress, impression, imprint, incrassate, indent, indentation, indention, inspissate, intumescence, jell, jellify, jelly, jog, joggle, join, klutz, knob, knot, knur, knurl, lip, loaf, lobster, looby, loop, lopper, lot, lout, lubber, lummox, lump it, lump together, mass, merit, mix, modicum, moiety, mole, morsel, mountain, much, muff, muffer, nevus, node, nodule, nub, nubbin, nubble, nugget, oaf, pad, palooka, papilloma, paring, particle, pat, paw print, pawmark, peck, peg, persevere, piece, pile, pimple, pock, portion, potbelly, power, print, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, pug, pugmark, pustule, put together, put up with, quantity, rasher, rib, ridge, rights, ring, rising, roly-poly, rube, scoop, scrap, seal, sebaceous cyst, set, shard, shaving, shiver, shoulder, shred, sight, sigil, signet, slice, sliver, slob, smithereen, snack, snatch, snip, snippet, snowball, solid, solid body, spine, splinter, stamp, stand, stand for, step, stick, stitch, stockpile, stomach, stud, stumblebum, stumblebunny, stump, style, suffer, support, sustain, swagbelly, swallow, swell, swelling, swollenness, tab, take, take up with, tatter, thick, thicken, throw together, thumbmark, thumbprint, tolerate, tub, tub of lard, tubercle, tubercule, tumefaction, tumescence, tumidity, tumor, tun, turgescence, turgescency, turgidity, unite, verruca, vesicle, vestige, wad, wale, wart, wedge, welt, wen

ROGET THESAURUS

lump

Whole

N whole, totality, integrity, totalness, entirety, ensemble, collectiveness, unity, completeness, indivisibility, indiscerptibility, integration, embodiment, integer, all, the whole, total, aggregate, one and all, gross amount, sum, sum total, tout ensemble, length and breadth of, Alpha and Omega, be all and end all, complex, complexus, lock stock and barrel, bulk, mass, lump, tissue, staple, body, compages, trunk, torso, bole, hull, hulk, skeleton greater part, major part, best part, principal part, main part, essential part, lion's share, Benjamin's mess, the long and the short, nearly, all, almost all, whole, total, integral, entire, complete, one, individual, unbroken, intact, uncut, undivided, unsevered, unclipped, uncropped, unshorn, seamless, undiminished, undemolished, undissolved, undestroyed, unbruised, indivisible, indissoluble, indissolvable, indiscerptible, wholesale, sweeping, comprehensive, wholly, altogether, totally, entirely, all, all in all, as a whole, wholesale, in a body, collectively, all put together, in the aggregate, in the lump, in the mass, in the gross, in the main, in the long run, en masse, as a body, on the whole, bodily, en bloc, in extenso, throughout, every inch, substantially, tout bien ou rien.

Part

N part, portion, dose, item, particular, aught, any, division, ward, subdivision, section, chapter, clause, count, paragraph, verse, article, passage, sector, segment, fraction, fragment, cantle, frustum, detachment, parcel, piece, lump, bit cut, cutting, chip, chunk, collop, slice, scale, lamina, small part, morsel, particle, installment, dividend, share, debris, odds and ends, oddments, detritus, excerpta, member, limb, lobe, lobule, arm, wing, scion, branch, bough, joint, link, offshoot, ramification, twig, bush, spray, sprig, runner, leaf, leaflet, stump, component part, sarmentum, compartment, department, county, fractional, fragmentary, sectional, aliquot, divided, in compartments, multifid, disconnected, partial, partly, in part, partially, piecemeal, part by part, by by installments, by snatches, by inches, by driblets, bit by bit, inch by inch, foot by foot, drop by drop, in detail, in lots.

Assemblage

N assemblage, collection, collocation, colligation, compilation, levy, gathering, ingathering, muster, attroupement, team, concourse, conflux, congregation, contesseration, convergence, meeting, levee, reunion, drawing room, at home, conversazione, assembly, congress, convention, conventicle, gemote, conclave, posse, posse comitatus, Noah's ark, miscellany, collectanea, museum, menagerie, museology, crowd, throng, group, flood, rush, deluge, rabble, mob, press, crush, cohue, horde, body, tribe, crew, gang, knot, squad, band, party, swarm, shoal, school, covey, flock, herd, drove, atajo, bunch, drive, force, mulada, remuda, roundup, array, bevy, galaxy, corps, company, troop, troupe, task force, army, regiment, host, populousness, clan, brotherhood, fraternity, sorority, association, volley, shower, storm, cloud, group, cluster, Pleiades, clump, pencil, set, batch, lot, pack, budget, assortment, bunch, parcel, packet, package, bundle, fascine, fasces, bale, seron, seroon, fagot, wisp, truss, tuft, shock, rick, fardel, stack, sheaf, haycock, fascicle, fascicule, fasciculus, gavel, hattock, stook, accumulation, congeries, heap, lump, pile, rouleau, tissue, mass, pyramid, bing, drift, snowball, snowdrift, acervation, cumulation, glomeration, agglomeration, conglobation, conglomeration, conglomerate, coacervate, coacervation, coagmentation, aggregation, concentration, congestion, omnium gaterum, spicilegium, black hole of Calcutta, quantity, collector, gatherer, whip, whipper in, assembled, closely packed, dense, serried, crowded to suffocation, teeming, swarming, populous, as thick as hops, all of a heap, fasciculated cumulative, the plot thickens, acervatim, tibi seris tibi metis.

Size

N size, magnitude, dimension, bulk, volume, largeness, greatness, expanse, amplitude, mass, proportions, capacity, tonnage, tunnage, cordage, caliber, scantling, turgidity, corpulence, obesity, plumpness, embonpoint, corporation, flesh and blood, lustihood, hugeness, enormity, immensity, monstrosity, giant, Brobdingnagian, Antaeus, Goliath, Gog and Magog, Gargantua, monster, mammoth, Cyclops, cachalot, whale, porpoise, behemoth, leviathan, elephant, hippopotamus, colossus, tun, cord, lump, bulk, block, loaf, mass, swad, clod, nugget, bushel, thumper, whooper, spanker, strapper, Triton among the minnows, mountain, mound, heap, largest portion, full size, life size, large, big, great, considerable, bulky, voluminous, ample, massive, massy, capacious, comprehensive, spacious, mighty, towering, fine, magnificent, corpulent, stout, fat, obese, plump, squab, full, lusty, strapping, bouncing, portly, burly, well-fed, full-grown, corn fed, gram fed, stalwart, brawny, fleshy, goodly, in good case, in good condition, in condition, chopping, jolly, chub faced, chubby faced, lubberly, hulky, unwieldy, lumpish, gaunt, spanking, whacking, whopping, walloping, thumping, thundering, hulking, overgrown, puffy, huge, immense, enormous, mighty, vast, vasty, amplitudinous, stupendous, monster, monstrous, humongous, monumental, elephantine, jumbo, mammoth, gigantic, gigantean, giant, giant like, titanic, prodigious, colossal, Cyclopean, Brobdingnagian, Bunyanesque, Herculean, Gargantuan, infinite, large as life, plump as a dumpling, plump as a partridge, fat as a pig, fat as a quail, fat as butter, fat as brawn, fat as bacon, immeasurable, unfathomable, unplumbed, inconceivable, unimaginable, unheard-of, of cosmic proportions, of epic proportions, the mother of all, teh granddaddy of all.

Density

N density, solidity, solidness, impenetrability, impermeability, incompressibility, imporosity, cohesion, constipation, consistence, spissitude, specific gravity, hydrometer, areometer, condensation, caseation, solidation, solidification, consolidation, concretion, coagulation, petrification, crystallization, precipitation, deposit, precipitate, inspissation, gelation, thickening, indivisibility, indiscerptibility, insolubility, indissolvableness, solid body, mass, block, knot, lump, concretion, concrete, conglomerate, cake, clot, stone, curd, coagulum, bone, gristle, cartilage, casein, crassamentum, legumin, superdense matter, condensed states of matter, dwarf star, neutron star, dense, solid, solidified, caseous, pukka, coherent, cohesive, compact, close, serried, thickset, substantial, massive, lumpish, impenetrable, impermeable, nonporous, imporous, incompressible, constipated, concrete, knotted, knotty, gnarled, crystalline, crystallizable, thick, grumous, stuffy, undissolved, unmelted, unliquefied, unthawed, indivisible, indiscerptible, infrangible, indissolvable, indissoluble, insoluble, infusible.