Swathe vs Bundle - What's the difference?
swathe | bundle |
A bandage; a band;
(chiefly, British, usually in plural) A group of people.
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To bind with a swathe, band, bandage, or rollers.
* Archbishop Abbot
* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
A group of objects held together by wrapping or tying.
* Goldsmith
A package wrapped or tied up for carrying.
(biology) A cluster of closely bound muscle or nerve fibres.
(informal) A large amount, especially of money.
(computing, Mac OS X) A directory containing related resources such as source code; application bundle.
A quantity of paper equal to 2 reams (1000 sheets).
To tie or wrap together.
To hustle; to dispatch something or someone quickly.
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To prepare for departure; to set off in a hurry or without ceremony.
To dress someone warmly.
To dress warmly. Usually bundle up
(computing) To sell hardware and software as a single product.
To hurry.
(slang) To dogpile
To hastily or clumsily push, put, carry or otherwise send something into a particular place.
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* 1859 , Terence, Comedies of Terence
(dated) To sleep on the same bed without undressing.
* Washington Irving
As nouns the difference between swathe and bundle
is that swathe is a bandage; a band while bundle is a group of objects held together by wrapping or tying.As verbs the difference between swathe and bundle
is that swathe is to bind with a swathe, band, bandage, or rollers while bundle is to tie or wrap together.swathe
English
Noun
(en noun)- Large swathes will be affected by the tax increase.
Venezuela’s presidential election: The autocrat and the ballot box
- As well as the advantages of abused office, Mr Chávez can boast enduring popularity among a broad swathe of poorer Venezuelans. They like him for his charisma, humble background and demotic speech.
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Verb
(swath)- Their children are never swathed or bound about with anything when they are first born.
- The head was swathed in linen bands that had been white, but were now stained and discoloured with damp, but of this I shall not speak more, and beneath the chin-cloth the beard had once escaped.
Anagrams
*bundle
English
(wikipedia bundle)Noun
(en noun)- a bundle''' of straw or of paper; a '''bundle of old clothes
- The fable of the rods, which, when united in a bundle , no strength could bend.
- The inventor of that gizmo must have made a bundle .
Derived terms
* bundle buggy * bundle of energy * bundle of His * bundle of joy * bundle of laughs * bundle of nervesDescendants
*Coordinate terms
* (quantity of paper) bale, quire, reamSee also
*Verb
- They unmercifully bundled me and my gallant second into our own hackney coach.
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- Yes, there is death in this business of whaling—a speechlessly quick chaotic bundling of a man into Eternity.
- Why, I didn't know that she meant that, until the Captain gave me an explanation, because I was dull of comprehension ; for he bundled me out of the house.
- Van Corlear stopped occasionally in the villages to eat pumpkin pies, dance at country frolics, and bundle with the Yankee lasses.
