BUNCH | Meaning, Definition In Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of bunch in English bunchnoun uk /bʌntʃ/ us /bʌntʃ/

bunch noun (GROUP)

Add to word list Add to word list B1 [ C ] a number of things of the same type fastened together or in a close group: a bunch of flowers/grapes/bananas/keysa whole bunch of The reorganization will give us a whole bunch of problems. B1 [ S ] a group of people: They're a bunch of jerks. Your friends are a nice bunch.  the best/pick of the bunch the best person or thing, or the best people or things, from a group of similar people or things: Send in your poems and we'll publish the best of the bunch. See more

• Those builders are a bunch of cowboys - they made a terrible job of our extension.
• These politicians are just a bunch of crooks.
• a bunch of grapes
• Using a bunch of bananas, the zookeeper persuaded the monkey back into its cage.
• She sent him a bunch of red roses.

Groups and collections of things

• accession
• accessioning
• age bracket
• agglomerate
• agglomeration
• array
• basket
• crop
• deaccessioning
• empty set
• ensemble
• family
• feast
• nest
• permutation
• portfolio
• quartet
• selection
• sheaf
• sheaves

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Groups of people

bunch noun (HAIRSTYLE)

 bunches [ plural ] UK If a someone has their hair in bunches, it is tied together in two parts with one at each side of the head: in bunches As a little girl she wore her hair in bunches. See more

Idiom

a bunch of fives (Definition of bunch from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

bunch | American Dictionary

bunchnoun [ C ] us /bʌntʃ/ Add to word list Add to word list a number of things of the same type fastened or closely grouped together, or any particular group of things or people: We ate a whole bunch of grapes. They’re a nice bunch of people. infml I’ve got a bunch of things to do. bunchverb [ I/T ] us /bʌntʃ/ to pull together or gather into a unit: [ I ] Beth sat in bed with pillows bunched behind her, reading. (Definition of bunch from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of bunch

bunch Charged particle acceleration by an intense wake-field excited in plasmas by either laser pulse or relativistic electron bunch. From the Cambridge English Corpus Our interest is in the front of the output electron bunch, that is, the transversely confined and longitudinally compressed electron bunch. From the Cambridge English Corpus Necessity of bunch compression for heavy-ion-induced hydrodynamics and studies of beam fragmentation in solid targets at a proposed synchrotron facility. From the Cambridge English Corpus In this paper, the length of the electron bunches generated by the laser ponderomotive acceleration in vacuum are estimated numerically. From the Cambridge English Corpus The collision region is composed by a bunch of line segments called collision lengths. From the Cambridge English Corpus 29-48%, while bunch weights in control plots in trial 2 had coefficients of variation of 23-37% (table 3). From the Cambridge English Corpus It also means that civilizations will be more bunched in time than in a steady state (or uniformist) approach to the question. From the Cambridge English Corpus It requires only three fuzzy goals for successful navigation, which is compared to a bunch of linguistic rules in conventional fuzzy rule based navigation algorithms. From the Cambridge English Corpus Applications of these bunches include injector s to secondary accelerator s [9], short-pulse radiation sources [10], short-lived radio-isotope production [11], and fast ignition fusion [12]. From the Cambridge English Corpus At relativistic ion velocities, the ion bunches are squeezed by their own magnetic field factor 1 b i ! From the Cambridge English Corpus The block presentation (as opposed to the bunch presentation) of logics with mixed substructures provides considerable flexibility within a coherent framework. From the Cambridge English Corpus It was also shown that the amplitudes of the axial and radial electric fields increase as each subsequent bunch is injected into the plasma. From the Cambridge English Corpus Since he has no idea as to her present behaviour, he brings with him a bunch of flowers. From the Cambridge English Corpus Figure 4 shows the distributions of the proton bunch focused at t 28.0 fs, t 38.0 fs, and t 58.0 fs, respectively. From the Cambridge English Corpus Further, we find that some particles in another positron bunch are accelerated by the parallel electric field. From the Cambridge English Corpus See all examples of bunch These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. What is the pronunciation of bunch?

Translations of bunch

in Chinese (Traditional) 組, 串, 束… See more in Chinese (Simplified) 组, 串, 束… See more in Spanish manojo, ramo, grupo… See more in Portuguese maço, ramo, grupo… See more in Marathi in Japanese in Turkish in French in Catalan in Dutch in Tamil in Hindi in Gujarati in Danish in Swedish in Malay in German in Norwegian in Urdu in Ukrainian in Telugu in Bengali in Czech in Indonesian in Thai in Vietnamese in Polish in Korean in Italian एकाच प्रकारच्या अनेक गोष्टी एकत्र किंवा जवळच्या गटात बांधलेल्या… See more 束, 房, （人の）集まり… See more grup, aynı grup şeylerden oluşan deste, demet… See more paquet [masculine], bouquet [masculine], groupe [masculine]… See more ram, feix, manat… See more bos, tros, samendrommen… See more ஒரே வகையின் பல விஷயங்கள் ஒன்றாக அல்லது நெருங்கிய குழுவில் பிணைக்கப்பட்டுள்ளன… See more (एक ही तरह की चीज़ों का) गुच्छा… See more ઝૂમખો, ઝૂડો, ગુચ્છ… See more bundt, buket, klase… See more bunt, klase, knippe… See more seikat, sekumpulan… See more das Bündel, bündeln… See more bunt [masculine], knippe [neuter], bukett [masculine]… See more گچھا… See more в'язка, пучок, утворювати пучки… See more గుత్తి… See more একগুচ্ছ… See more trs, svazek, hrozen… See more serangkai, menyatukan… See more กลุ่มที่มัดรวมกัน, รวมกันเป็นกลุ่ม… See more bó, buồng, chùm… See more bukiet, pęk, kiść… See more 다발, 송이, 무리… See more mazzo, grappolo, cespo… See more Need a translator?

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More meanings of bunch

• bunch grass
• a whole bunch of something
• bunch grass, at bunchgrass
• bunch (something) up/together phrasal verb
• bunch (something) up phrasal verb
• a bunch of fives idiom
• the best/pick of the bunch phrase

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• bunch (something) up/together phrasal verb
• bunch (something) up phrasal verb

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• a bunch of fives idiom
• the best/pick of the bunch phrase
• the best of a bad bunch/lot idiom
• thanks a bunch, at thanks for nothing idiom
• the pick of the bunch, at the pick of something idiom

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