bunch

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A group of things growing close together; a cluster or clump: a bunch of grapes; grass growing in bunches.
2. n. A group of like items or individuals gathered or placed together: a bunch of keys on a ring; people standing around in bunches.
3. n. Informal A group of people usually having a common interest or association: My brother and his bunch are basketball fanatics.
4. n. Informal A considerable number or amount; a lot: a bunch of trouble; a whole bunch of food.
5. n. A small lump or swelling; a bump.
6. v. To gather or form into a cluster: bunched my fingers into a fist.
7. v. To gather together into a group.
8. v. To gather (fabric) into folds.
9. v. To form a cluster or group: runners bunching up at the starting line.
10. v. To be gathered together in folds, as fabric.
11. v. To swell; protrude.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump.
2. n. A cluster, collection, or tuft of things of the same kind connected in growth or joined together mechanically: as, a bunch of grapes; a bunch of feathers on a hat.
3. n. More generally, a cluster or aggregate of any kind: used specifically of ducks, in the sense of a small flock.
4. n. In mining, a small mass of ore. See bunchy, 3, and pocket.
5. n. In flax-manuf., three bundles or 180,000 yards of linen yarn.
6. n. A unit of tale for osiers, reeds, teazels, and the like, with no general or fixed sense.
7. To swell out in a protuberance; be protuberant or round.
8. To make a bunch or bunches of; bring together into a bunch or aggregate; concentrate: as, to bunch ballots for distribution; to bunch profits; to bunch the hits in a game of base-ball.
9. To beat; strike.
10. n. In mining, the expanded portion of a pipe-line; a place where the pipe does not maintain a uniform cross-section, but is expanded.
11. In sugar-beet growing, see block, transitive verb, 8.

Wiktionary

1. n. A group of a number of similar things, either growing together, or in a cluster or clump. Usually fastened together.
2. n. cycling The peloton; the main group of riders formed during a race.
3. n. An informal body of friends.
4. n. informal A considerable amount.
5. n. informal An unmentioned amount; a number.
6. n. forestry A group of logs tied together for skidding.
7. n. geology (mining) An unusual concentration of ore in a lode or a small, discontinuous occurrence or patch of ore in the wallrock.
8. n. textiles The reserve yarn on the filling bobbin to allow continuous weaving between the time of indication from the midget feeler until a new bobbin is put in the shuttle.
9. n. An unfinished cigar, before the wrapper leaf is added.
10. v. transitive To gather into a bunch.
11. v. transitive To gather fabric into folds.
12. v. intransitive To form a bunch.
13. v. intransitive To be gathered together in folds
14. v. intransitive To protrude or swell

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump; a hump.
2. n. A collection, cluster, or tuft, properly of things of the same kind, growing or fastened together.
3. n. (Mining) A small isolated mass of ore, as distinguished from a continuous vein.
4. v. To swell out into a bunch or protuberance; to be protuberant or round.
5. v. To form into a bunch or bunches.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. any collection in its entirety
2. v. form into a bunch
3. n. an informal body of friends
4. n. a grouping of a number of similar things
5. v. gather or cause to gather into a cluster