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Lump vs Vouch - What's the difference?

lump | vouch |

As nouns the difference between lump and vouch

is that lump is cad while vouch is warrant; attestation.

As a verb vouch is

to take responsibility for; to express confidence in; to witness; to obtest.

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

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    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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    vouch

    English

    Verb

    (es)
  • To take responsibility for; to express confidence in; to witness; to obtest.
  • To warrant; to maintain by affirmations; to attest; to affirm; to avouch.
  • * Atterbury
    • They made him ashamed to vouch the truth of the relation, and afterwards to credit it.
    I can vouch that the match took place.
  • To back; to support; to confirm.
  • * Milton
    • Me damp horror chilled / At such bold words vouched with a deed so bold.
  • To call into court to warrant and defend, or to make good a warranty of title.
  • * Blackstone
    • He vouches' the tenant in tail, who ' vouches over the common vouchee.
  • (obsolete) To call; to summon.
  • * Sir T. Elyot
    • [They] vouch (as I might say) to their aid the authority of the writers.
  • To bear witness; to give testimony or full attestation.
  • * Jonathan Swift
    • He will not believe her until the elector of Hanover shall vouch for the truth of what she has affirmed.
  • To call as a witness.
  • * Dryden
    • Vouch the silent stars and conscious moon.
  • To assert; to aver; to declare.
    • (Shakespeare)

    Noun

    (es)
  • Warrant; attestation.