Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A game of questions and answers.
- noun Variant forms of
clumse .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A game in which questions are asked for the purpose of enabling the questioners to discover a word or thing previously selected by two persons who answer the questions; -- so called because the players take sides in two “clumps” or groups, the “clump” which guesses the word winning the game.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
clump . - noun Plural form of
clump . - noun A
game in whichquestions are asked for the purpose of enabling the questioners to discover a word or thing previously selected by two persons who answer the questions; so called because the players take sides in two "clumps" or groups.
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Examples
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I can see black oil slicks floating in clumps on and below the surface.
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Downstairs, a delicious array of hand-dyed yarn hung in clumps on wooden pegs.
Artesanía - Behind the Scenes in San Miguel de Allende & Guanajuato 2007
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Some were sweet most savory all All of them mounded very attractively in clumps that I imagine were caused by the machine that grinds the ingredients and expels them in these mounds.
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Downstairs, a delicious array of hand-dyed yarn hung in clumps on wooden pegs.
Artesanía - Behind the Scenes in San Miguel de Allende & Guanajuato 2007
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Downstairs, a delicious array of hand-dyed yarn hung in clumps on wooden pegs.
Artesanía - Behind the Scenes in San Miguel de Allende & Guanajuato 2007
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Continue sifting until all of the clumps from the fragrance are worked into the powder and it is free-flowing.
Anti-Talc - Day Two - Fragrance and Color Anne-Marie 2007
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All of this is designed to makes expats tear out their hair in clumps, sell their car for peanuts to a dealer in Texas, take a long bus ride from the border and buy a Mexican car, no matter what outrageous fees result.
what else? cars. 2006
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It seems like you could avoid this by either increasing the frequency of buses (though with the other traffic, anything more than the current ~7 minute spacing is likely to result in clumps of buses rather than a steady flow) or by adding an express bus every so often to pick up passengers from the more active stops.
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Drop them in clumps of 20 to 30 near scrapes, along rub lines, and in bedding areas.
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Their short hair that was stickery and in clumps only made their wrinkled faces look harsher.
More Readers Respond 2005
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