clump
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3.0
- noun
- /klʌmp/
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mata
- The children played around a clump of bushes that provided shade on a hot day.
- a small clump
- a clump of grass
- a clump of soil
There's perceptual clumps of nerve cells doing particular things.
- There's perceptual clumps of nerve cells doing particular things.
- And this misfolding can lead to proteins forming clumps or aggregates.
- A ganglion is just a collection or clump of cells.
- Smaller clumps of matter like our Earth can't do that.
- I saw someone actually sold successfully on eBay a clump of grass.
- The stem cells have always grown in in clumps.
- But they're arguing that it's not a black hole, it's just a clump of a dark matter.
- It was a weird clumping of product.
- I just found a clump of clogged tear in my bathtub.
Examples
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The girls from bunk 11 were staring at me in a clump from the porch window.
Fiction book (1991) -
"There is a small stream on the other side of that clump of brush," the woman said.
Fiction book (1992) -
So that one clump turned into five plants.
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Stop her just this side of that clump of trees around the bend.
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This is actually a clump of grass that Paul stepped on.
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He's behind that dark clump of trees.
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It's just a plain old clump of quartz.
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We've got several heritage Birch in clump form in our garden already.
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The woman went behind a clump of bushes by the side of the cave to relieve herself.
Fiction book (1992) -
A red turtle with its round, smooth shell sat before a clump of rabbit bushes.
Fiction book (1990)
Synonyms
800
1.0
A group of similar things held or put together
426
1.9
A heap of things put together
275
1.0
A solid round mass of material, like yarn or clay
210
3.1
A group of similar things or people close together
77
2.0
A small solid piece of something without a regular shape
53
1.1
A pile of things put on top of each other in no order
15
4.8
A small thick sticky piece of something like honey or paint
7
4.6
A lump of earth or clay from the ground
5
3.2
A group of people or things crowded closely together
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8.6
A group of things or people gathered together
A loose heap of different things gathered together
Many small things join together into one round mass
How Compact
Surface Forms
Etymology
Clump for a group comes from the idea of a lump of things stuck together and is like an old German word klump meaning 'lump', so a clump is a tight, compact mass of similar items.