Bale vs Bunch - What's the difference?
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Evil, especially considered as an active force for destruction or death.
Suffering, woe, torment.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.7:
(obsolete) A large fire, a conflagration or bonfire.
(archaic) A funeral pyre.
(archaic) A beacon-fire.
A rounded bundle or package of goods in a cloth cover, and corded for storage or transportation.
A bundle of compressed wool or hay, compacted for shipping and handling.
A measurement of hay equal to 10 flakes. Approximately 70-90 lbs (32-41 kg).
A measurement of paper equal to 10 reams.
To wrap into a bale.
(British, nautical) To remove water from a boat with buckets etc.
A group of a number of similar things, either growing together, or in a cluster or clump, usually fastened together.
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, title= (lb) The peloton; the main group of riders formed during a race.
An informal body of friends.
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*:“I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch —the insolent chatterers at the opera, the gorged dowagers,, the jewelled animals whose moral code is the code of the barnyard—!"
(lb) A considerable amount.
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(lb) An unmentioned amount; a number.
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(lb) A group of logs tied together for skidding.
An unusual concentration of ore in a lode or a small, discontinuous occurrence or patch of ore in the wallrock.
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(lb) 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.
An unfinished cigar, before the wrapper leaf is added.
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A protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump; a hump.
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*:They will carrytheir treasures upon the bunches of camels.
To gather into a bunch.
To gather fabric into folds.
To form a bunch.
To be gathered together in folds
To protrude or swell
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Bale is a related term of bunch.
As nouns the difference between bale and bunch
is that bale is white spot (on forehead) while bunch is a group of a number of similar things, either growing together, or in a cluster or clump, usually fastened together.As a verb bunch is
to gather into a bunch.bale
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Noun
(-)- That other swayne, like ashes deadly pale, / Lay in the lap of death, rewing his wretched bale .
Derived terms
* balefulEtymology 2
Form (etyl) (which may have been the direct source for the English word).Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* balefire * balefulEtymology 3
Precise derivation uncertain: perhaps from (etyl) (m), (m), from , from (etyl); or perhaps from (etyl) (m), itself borrowed from (etyl).Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* bale of diceCoordinate terms
* (measurement of paper) bundle, quire, reamSee also
*Verb
(bal)Etymology 4
Alternative spelling of (bail)Verb
(bal)See also
*Anagrams
* English terms with multiple etymologies ----bunch
English
Noun
(es)Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.}}
Synonyms
* (group of similar things) cluster, group * (informal body of friends) pack, group, gang, circle * (unusual concentration of ore) ore pocket, pocket, pocket of ore, kidney, nest, nest of ore, ore bunch, bunch of oreDerived terms
* buncha (bunch of)Verb
(es)- Bunching out into a large round knob at one end.