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lump English

Meaning lump meaning

What does lump mean?
Definitions in simple English

lump Noun

— A lump is a small hard part of something smooth, soft, or continuous. She felt the lump in her throat getting bigger and becoming even more painful. Her mother first discovered the lump in her breast a year ago. Add brown sugar and rub well between your fingers, breaking up any lumps of sugar. Last week, she received a lump sum payment of more than $250,000, or one year's salary. — A lump is a person who is not active or clever. Come on, let's go. Don't be such a lump. — If you take your lumps, bad things happen to you. He isn't the only member of the organization who has taken his lumps this year.

lump Verb

— To treat different things as the same thing or as part of the same group. People tend to lump turtles and tortoises together, when in fact they are different animals.

lump

— verb put together indiscriminately lump together all the applicants — noun (= ball) a compact mass a ball of mud caught him on the shoulder — noun (= hunk) a large piece of something without definite shape a hunk of bread a lump of coal — noun (= swelling) an abnormal protuberance or localized enlargement — noun (= lout) an awkward stupid person — verb (= chunk) group or chunk together in a certain order or place side by side

Synonyms lump synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as lump?

lump English » English

bump clod mass piece swelling protuberance chunk knot bit ball clump knob clot slice heap bulge wen tumor hump gob cluster part loaf gnarl tuber total snowball pimple gobbet fragment flake bunch block welt portion pile outgrowth nub node hunk glob excrescence boil blob aggregate weal tumour tumefaction stumblebum stone

Topics lump topics

What do people use lump to talk about?
Universe, creation World Substance, matter

Soil, dirt
Physical actions Arrange Join, attach

Stick together
Physical actions Arrange

Mix
States Quantity Whole, complete

Piece
Language and thought Communication Sign, symbol

Cry, tear
Work and occupation Occupation Working with minerals

Working with clay

Conjugation lump conjugation

How do you conjugate lump?

lump · verb

Examples lump examples

How do I use lump in a sentence?

Simple sentences

One lump of sugar, please.
A small lump of sugar, please.
Well, my friend, that's my last word. And if you don't like it you can lump it.
He gave him a lump of silver as big as his head.
She felt a lump in the back of her throat and tears began to well in her eyes.
Then little Gerda wept hot tears, which fell on his breast, and penetrated into his heart, and thawed the lump of ice, and washed away the little piece of glass which had stuck there.
In Sugarcandy Mountain it was Sunday seven days a week, clover was in season all the year round, and lump sugar and linseed cake grew on the hedges.
The doctor discovered a lump in her breast.
Tom had a lump on his head.
Please put a lump of sugar in my coffee.
Don't lump all these issues together. You need to give every single one careful consideration.
I bumped my head against the door and got a lump.
He banged his head against a shelf and got a big lump.
Tom felt a lump in his throat.
Tom has a lump on his head where he bumped it.
Tom paid for it in a lump sum.
Every time I think of Tom, I get a lump in my throat.

Movie subtitles

A lump of fakeness.
LUMP! OF!
I'll just call my wife and tell her we're running Neal to the hospital because we found a lump on his testicle.
You're getting a lump of coal.
Then add a lump of sugar.
You can teach a monkey to do that, and I'll take a monkey anytime. whether he's a dipsomaniac or beats his wife. over a lump of jelly like you.
Does that give you a lump in your throat, or does that give you a lump in your throat?
Perhaps as he drops in his second lump of sugar.
He was like a lump of charcoal.
And one lump.
Get the case dropped, or you'll have another lump to match the one that Kris gave you.
Certainly not, I've got a lump in my throat myself.
Not a drop. - Just a little drop. with a little hot water and a lump of sugar.
We can't lump them all together. Not every one of the Blessed is someone we have to fight.
She'd need no sense of sight, smell or taste to end up with indigestion from a heaving lump of meat!
Well, if they don't like them, they can lump them.
There's quite a lump on the back of his head.
To your friend and mine, a man, who many years ago. saw more in a lump of coal than anybody else in the world, Doc Powers.
These are the products that come from a simple lump of coal.
Now, smart guy, shovel every lump of that coal into that boiler.
Hokey pokey, penny a lump.
What heart? That cold lump you feel in your chest?
Poor little thing. Sort of raises a lump in your throat.
A young girl like you with beauty, youth, enchantment throwing yourself away on a lump like that.
He's neither a lump nor a pumpkin.
One lump or two?
LUMP! OF! FAKENESS!
Well, what I meant was that maybe we could just make it a lump sum this time.
Right now I'm going to talk to Vicky, and if you don't like it you can lump it.
Now I'm going to tell you. And if you don't like it, you can lump it.
You will get your whole payment in a lump. and if your information is not accurate, it will be a lump on the head.
No, they'll pay a lump sum, or do the place up as it was.
If you don't like that, you can lump it. you and the state of Texas. Just a minute.
Just after, you look like a lump of raw meat.

News and current affairs

The lump-of-labor theory assumes that working longer and employing more people is the same thing.
Advocates of the lump-of-labor view say no.
In principle, low-income individuals and families could be compensated through lump-sum transfer programs.
Many people are uneasy about offering lump-sum cash payments.
But a lump-sum charge to recover past costs will not change the financial sector's incentives concerning excessive risk-taking.

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