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Lumping vs Clumping - What's the difference?

lumping | clumping |

As verbs the difference between lumping and clumping

is that lumping is while clumping is .

As an adjective lumping

is bulky; heavy.

As a noun clumping is

a clump or cluster.

lumping

English

Verb

(head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • bulky; heavy
    • (Arbuthnot)
    a lumping great thing

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    clumping

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A clump or cluster.
  • * 2006 , Patrizia Ferretti, Andrew Copp, Cheryll Tickle, Embryos, Genes and Birth Defects
    • BMP-2 and BMP-4 also induce the expression of the neurotrophin receptor, TrkC, in cultured crest-derived cells and induce the cells to coalesce into ganglion-like clumpings .
  • The sound of walking with heavy footfalls.
  • * 1916 , Nash Buckingham, De Shootinest Gent'man
    • Heavy backstair clumpings announce huge Ab, my negro paddler.