Meaning

6 senses
  1. A cluster or lump; an unshaped piece or mass.

    Klumpen

    глыбаglyba, комkom

    a compact mass

  2. (collective)A thick group or bunch, especially of bushes or hair.

    Büschel

    клокklok, зарослиzarosli

  3. (collective)A small group of trees or other plants growing together.

  4. A dull thud.

    Plumps

  5. The compressed clay of coal strata.

  6. (historical)A thick addition to the sole of a shoe.

Examples

9 sentences
  1. A clump of cells isn't a baby.

    deEin Zellklumpen ist kein Baby. — Yorwba

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  2. There are clumps of daisies here and there.

    deHie und da finden sich büschelweise Gänseblümchen. — Yorwba

  3. At the top, there was a clump of trees.

    deAuf dem Gipfel stand eine Gruppe von Bäumen. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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  4. There are measures you can take to mitigate clumping.

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  5. Benedito raised an eyebrow as his billy goat sniffed curiously at a clump of rocks.

Translations

5 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
cluster:
thick group:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
cluster:
thick group:
dull thud:

Origin

From Middle English clompe, from Old English clymppe, a variant of clympre (“a lump or mas

From Middle English clompe, from Old English clymppe, a variant of clympre (“a lump or mass of metal”), from Proto-Germanic *klumpô (“mass, lump, clump; clasp”), from Proto-Indo-European *glembʰ- (“lump, clamp”).

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Forms

plural: clumps
Singularclump
Pluralclumps

regular

Synonyms

12 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

14 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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