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lump

1 [luhmp]

–noun

1.	a piece or mass of solid matter without regular shape or of no particular shape: a lump of coal.

2.	a protuberance or swelling: a blow that raised a lump on his head.

3.	an aggregation, collection, or mass; clump: All the articles were piled in a great lump.

4.	Also called lump of sugar. a small block of granulated sugar, designed for sweetening hot coffee, tea, etc.: How many lumps do you take in your coffee?

5.	majority; plurality; multitude: The great lump of voters are still undecided.

6.	lumps, Informal. harsh criticism, punishment, or defeat: The new theory came in for some lumps when other scholars heard of it.

7.	Informal. a heavy, clumsy, and usually stupid person.

–adjective

8.	in the form of a lump or lumps: lump sugar.

9.	made up of a number of items taken together; not separated or considered separately: The debts were paid in one lump sum.

–verb (used with object)

10.	to unite into one aggregation, collection, or mass (often fol. by together): We lumped the reds and blues together.

11.	to deal with, handle, consider, etc., in the lump or mass: to lump unrelated matters indiscriminately.

12.	to make into a lump or lumps: to lump dough before shaping it into loaves.

13.	to raise into or cover with lumps: a plow lumping the moist earth.

–verb (used without object)

14.	to form or raise a lump or lumps: Stir the gravy so that it doesn't lump.

15.	to move heavily and awkwardly: The big oaf lumped along beside me.

—Idiom

16.	get or take one's lumps, to receive or endure hardship, punishment, criticism, etc.: Without its star pitcher, the baseball team will get its lumps today.

Origin:
1250–1300; ME lumpe, lomp(e); c. early D lompe piece, Dan lump(e) lump, dial. Norw lump block

Related forms:

lump⋅ing⋅ly, adverb

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lump

2 [luhmp]

–verb (used with object) Informal.

to put up with; resign oneself to; accept and endure: If you don't like it, you can lump it.

Origin:
1785–95; Americanism; perh. identical with Brit. dial. lump to look sullen, of expressive orig.

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lump¹ (lŭmp)

An irregularly shaped mass or piece.
A small cube of sugar.
Pathology A swelling or small palpable mass.
A collection or totality; an aggregate.
A person regarded as ungainly or dull-witted.
lumps Informal
1. Severe punishment or treatment, as a beating or an unsparing criticism: take one's lumps.
2. One's just deserts; comeuppance: get one's lumps.

adj.

Formed into lumps: lump sugar.
Not broken or divided into parts: a lump payment.

v. lumped, lump·ing, lumps

v. tr.

To put together in a single group without discrimination.
To move with heavy clumsiness.
To make into lumps.

v. intr.

To become lumpy.
To move heavily.

[Middle English lumpe, of Low German origin; akin to obsolete Dutch lompe.]

lump² (lŭmp)

tr.v. lumped, lump·ing, lumps Informal
To tolerate (what must be endured): like it or lump it.

[Perhaps from dialectal lump, to look sullen.]

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Lump

Lump\, n. [Cf. OD. lompe piece, mass. Cf. Lunch.]

1. A small mass of matter of irregular shape; an irregular or shapeless mass; as, a lump of coal; a lump of iron ore. " A lump of cheese." --Piers Plowman. " This lump of clay." --Shak.

2. A mass or aggregation of things.

3. (Firearms) A projection beneath the breech end of a gun barrel.

In the lump,

In a lump, the whole together; in gross.

They may buy them in the lump. --Addison.

Lump coal, coal in large lumps; -- the largest size brought from the mine.

Lump sum, a gross sum without a specification of items; as, to award a lump sum in satisfaction of all claims and damages.

Lump

Lump\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Lumped; p. pr. & vb. n. Lumping.]

1. To throw into a mass; to unite in a body or sum without distinction of particulars.

The expenses ought to be lumped together. --Ayliffe.

2. To take in the gross; to speak of collectively.

Not forgetting all others, . . . whom for brevity, but out of no resentment you, I lump all together. --Sterne.

3. To get along with as one can, although displeased; as, if he does n't like it, he can lump it. [Law]

Language Translation for : lump

Spanish: grumo,

German: der Klumpen,

Japanese: 固まり

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lump (n.)

c.1300, lumpe, perhaps from a Scandinavian source (cf. cognate Dan. lumpe, 16c.), of unknown origin. Phrase lump in (one's) throat "feeling of tightness brought on by emotion" is from 1803. Lumps "hard knocks, a beating" is colloquial, from 1935.

lump (v.)

"endure" (now usually in contrast to like), 1791, apparently an extended sense from an older meaning "to look sulky, dislike" (1577), of unknown origin, perhaps a symbolic sound (cf. grump, harumph, etc.).

Main Entry: lump
Pronunciation: 'l&mp
Function: noun
1 : a piece or mass of indefinite size and shape
2 : an abnormal massor swelling lump>

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In addition to the idiom beginning with lump, also see like it or lump it.

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