Word Finder - lump

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Something that protrudes, sticks out, or sticks together; a cluster or blob; a mound or mass of no particular shape.

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Stir the gravy until there are no more lumps.

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A group, set, or unit.

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The money arrived all at once as one big lump sum payment.

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A small, shaped mass of sugar, typically about a teaspoonful.

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Do you want one lump or two with your coffee?

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A dull or lazy person.

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Don't just sit there like a lump.

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(as plural) A beating or verbal abuse.

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He's taken his lumps over the years.

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A projection beneath the breech end of a gun barrel.

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A kind of fish, the lumpsucker.

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Food given to a tramp to be eaten on the road.

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To treat as a single unit; to group together in a casual or chaotic manner (as if forming an ill-defined lump of the items).

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People tend to lump turtles and tortoises together, when in fact they are different creatures.

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To bear a heavy or awkward burden; to carry something unwieldy from one place to another.

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To hit or strike (a person).

The lump was back in her throat.

She swallowed a lump in her throat.

A lump of snow cannot be melted instantaneously.

A lump formed in her throat and tears spilled from her eyes.

She jerked her hand away from the sand and stared up at him, a lump forming in her throat.

Note that the coal bunker contains both lump coal and coal briquettes.

A cold lump of ore chills the slag immediately around it, just where its oxygen, reacting on the carbon of the metal, generates carbonic oxide; the slag becomes cool, viscous, and hence easily made to froth, just where the froth-causing gas is evolved.

He was originally a mere tax-collector, or farmer of the land revenue, who agreed to furnish a lump sum from the tract of country assigned to him.

I turned far enough to one side to see the lump of a body scarcely two feet away from me.

They may also come with a gurgling lump in the left side of the neck and rarely with a lung abscess.

A single blowhole is located on a slightly raised lump on the front left side of the rostrum.

The bird was in a mesh fronted cage and no longer had a cere, just a bloody lump of pulp.

I occasionally wish journalists would not lump us all into the same cesspool.

Paragraph 23 amends the overall ceiling on an individual's total pension commencement lump sums of 25% of the standard lifetime allowance.

We have also looked in detail at the savings to be made from removing the 85 Rule and the 25% lump sum commutation.

Once a lump sum compensation payment has been received, it may affect your client's entitlements to any income-based benefits.

A heavy lump hammer is required if you find any concretions from the ' Crackers ' layer.

Somehow I used the 2 foot long crowbar in a passage less than a foot high to lever off a lump of rock.

Whack it a few times with a lump hammer, it breaks and the little cubbyhole gets bigger.

The three were paid seven francs in a lump sum for the night.

In the event of your death the Scheme pays a lump sum death gratuity of two years pay.

A 24 year-old male comes to me with pain and a lump in his left groin.

Typing is tricky - I have my left index finger bound in a big theatrical lump of bandages.

This is a huge lump of limestone that pokes off the north coast, and Llandudno occupies the relatively narrow, low isthmus.

Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?

Izzie, meanwhile, is having trouble with her patient, who needs a biopsy on a potentially cancerous testicular lump.

It was nothing more than a large, shapeless lump of glass, dark and smoky.

We asked that the conditions be leveled up and sought a one-off lump sum payment.

If you do not make a nomination we will pay the lump sum to your estate.

He will do this by providing the lump sum calculated by the court.

The objective is to award a lump sum that will enable the claimant to meet his assessed needs over the relevant period.

From A day, the maximum tax-free lump sum will be 25% of the value of the fund.

If you survive the diagnosis for more than 28 days you will receive the Sum assured as a tax free lump sum.

The final payment is a large lump sum of the remaining principal.

This annual tax-free lump sum is normally paid from November and most payments are made by Christmas.

Needles were magnetized by stroking them with a lodestone, a lump of magnetic rock called magnetite.

The lump was a grade 5, and she needed a mastectomy straight away.

The main change proposed would see a shift from a lump sum payment at the outset to periodical payments.

An order for an outright transfer might be coupled with a lump sum payment between the spouses.

After I had eventually regained the route I noticed my rear tire had developed a large lump.

Heaps of love, sweetheart, I feel awfully sappy to-day - it makes a big lump come in my throat.

A tick bite usually looks like a lump with a small scab on the skin surface at the site of the bite.

The simplest is a lump sum payment of the value of the policy.

In 1997/8 a miniature stormtrooper graced the ceiling, hanging upside down with feet encased in a lump of blu tack.

Taking such a large lump sum can be very tempting.

However, the only way to be certain that the lump is cancer is for the surgeon to examine the testicle during an operation.

Then there's his lyrics, wrapped in emotional turbulence of the kind that evokes the lump in throat effect.

Projects are undertaken on a global basis and are always lump sum turnkey.

This is the so-called " poly organ " theory, especially con-, nected with the name of Huxley; but it must be borne in mind that Huxley regarded all the forms produced, in any animal, between one egg-generation and the next, as constituting in the lump one single individual.

The phenomena of beats may be easily observed with two organpipes put slightly out of tune by placing the hand near the open end of one of them, with two musical strings on a resonant chest, or with two tuning-forks of the same pitch mounted on their resonance boxes, or held over a resonant cavity (such as a glass jar), one of the forks being put out of tune by loading one prong with a small lump of beeswax.