Clumped vs Clamped - What's the difference?
clumped | clamped |
(clump)
A cluster or lump; an unshaped piece or mass.
A thick group or bunch, especially of bushes or hair.
* Hawthorne
A dull thud.
The compressed clay of coal strata.
(clamp)
A brace, band, or clasp for strengthening or holding things together.
A mass of bricks heaped up to be burned; or of ore for roasting, or of coal coking.
A piece of wood (batten) across the grain of a board end to keep it flat, as in a breadboard.
A heavy footstep; a tramp.
(intransitive) To fasten in place or together with (or as if with) a clamp .
* 1897 , (Bram Stoker), (Dracula) Chapter 21
To tread heavily or clumsily; to clump or clomp.
* Thackeray
To hold or grip tightly.
To modify a numeric value so it lies within a specific range.
(UK, obsolete, transitive) To cover (vegetables, etc.) with earth.
As verbs the difference between clumped and clamped
is that clumped is past tense of clump while clamped is past tense of clamp.clumped
English
Verb
(head)clump
English
Noun
(en noun)- a clump of shrubby trees
Derived terms
* clumpyDerived terms
* clump upclamped
English
Verb
(head)clamp
English
Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* clover clamp * nipple clampVerb
(en verb)- As we burst into the room, the Count turned his face, and the hellish look that I had heard described seemed to leap into it. His eyes flamed red with devilish passion. The great nostrils of the white aquiline nose opened wide and quivered at the edge, and the white sharp teeth, behind the full lips of the blood dripping mouth, clamped together like those of a wild beast.
- The policeman with clamping feet.