OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 16610

bunch

/bʌntʃ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
arlo • bonchote • colgajo • fajo • gabejo • gavilla • haz • manojo • mazo • puñado • racimo • ramo
A group of similar things, either growing together, or in a cluster or clump, usually fastened together.
a bunch of bananas
a bunch of grapes
grupo • pandilla
An informal body of friends.
He still hangs out with the same bunch.
“I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, the gor…
acervo • bolón • bonche • caterva • catizumbada • catizumbazo • cerro • chingo • chupo • culantro • culo • huevo • macanazo • manojo • mogollón • montonal • montonera • montón • mundo • parva • patulea • pocotón • porrillo • raudal • shuntalada
A considerable amount.
a bunch of trouble
bolsada
An unusual concentration of ore in a lode or a small, discontinuous occurrence or patch of ore in the wallrock.
The ore may be disseminated throughout the matrix in minute particles, as gold in quartz; in parallel threads, strings, and plates, as with copper; in irregular pockets or bunches
Word forms
📚 verb • entry_id 16611

bunch

/bʌntʃ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
amontonarse • apiñarse • juntarse
To gather into a bunch.
arracimarse • enracimarse • fruncirse
To form a bunch.
"Permissive" working allows more than one train to be in a block section at one time but trains must be run at low speed in order to stop on sight behind the train in front. Such w…