Definition of Lump

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Definition of Lump

Lump

A small mass of matter of irregular shape; an irregular or shapeless mass; as, a lump of coal; a lump of iron ore.

A mass or aggregation of things.

A projection beneath the breech end of a gun barrel.

To throw into a mass; to unite in a body or sum without distinction of particulars.

To take in the gross; to speak of collectively.

To get along with as one can, although displeased; as, if he does n't like it, he can lump it.

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Lump Quotations

Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.
Pablo Picasso

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
Robert Frost

A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism.
Irving Babbitt

A guy is a lump like a doughnut. So, first you gotta get rid of all the stuff his mom did to him. And then you gotta get rid of all that macho crap that they pick up from beer commercials. And then there's my personal favorite, the male ego.
Roseanne Barr

Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump.
Auguste Rodin

The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump?
David Herbert Lawrence

It's great to be recognized when I'm looking for a table at a crowded restaurant, but I still don't put it to best use. I'm such a lump. I won't cut the line. It's my Catholic guilt. I gotta get used to it.
Christopher Meloni

It's the same as any role and I find that you can't lump characters together; because they all have different life experiences, different reasons for being the way they are.
Brenda Blethyn

Television broadcasts have, in the main, been more suggestive, less specific, more distant in their images than the print press: often you knew that lump was a dead body only because a chattering reporter told you it was.
Bruce Jackson

I really enjoy squeezing out a big lump of paint directly onto the canvas and leaving it; fresh, immediate and sometimes shocking.
John Dyer

Lump Translations

lump in Afrikaans is massa, stuk
lump in Danish is brud, stykke, masse, brudstykke
lump in Dutch is prop, klont, klomp, bal, kluit, dot
lump in Finnish is kimpale, massa, pala
lump in Italian is cumulo, ammaccatura, gnocco
lump in Latin is offa
lump in Norwegian is klumpe, klump, hevelse
lump in Swedish is bit, sockerbitklimp, klump

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