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Lump vs Prominence - What's the difference?

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Lump is a related term of prominence.


As nouns the difference between lump and prominence

is that lump is cad while prominence is the state of being prominent: widely known or eminent.

lump

English

(wikipedia lump)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Something that protrudes, sticks out, or sticks together; a cluster or blob; a mound, hill, or group.
  • Stir the gravy until there are no more lumps .
    a lump''' of coal; a '''lump''' of clay; a '''lump of cheese
  • A group, set, or unit.
  • The money arrived all at once as one big lump sum payment.
  • A small, shaped mass of sugar, typically about a teaspoonful.
  • Do you want one lump or two with your coffee?
  • A dull or lazy person.
  • Don't just sit there like a lump .
  • (informal, as plural) A beating or verbal abuse.
  • He's taken his lumps over the years.
  • *
  • A projection beneath the breech end of a gun barrel.
  • Derived terms

    * lumpectomy * lump in one’s throat * lumpy * lump-sun

    Hyponyms

    * nubble

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To treat as a single unit; to group together.
  • People tend to lump turtles and tortoises together, when in fact they are different creatures.

    See also

    * take one’s lumps * lump it * like it or lump it

    Anagrams

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    prominence

    Noun

  • The state of being prominent: widely known or eminent.
  • *
  • *:“My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”
  • Relative importance.
  • A bulge: something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from a form.
  • (lb) Autonomous height; relative height or prime factor; a concept used in the categorization of hills and mountains.