Meaning

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

    Stir the gravy until there are no more lumps.

    a lump of coal; a lump of clay; a lump of cheese

    Klumpen, Kloß

    вы́ступvýstup, комkom, глы́баglýba

  2. A swelling or nodule of tissue under the skin or in an internal part of the body.

    Lumps in the breasts are an indicator of breast cancer.

  3. A group, set, or unit.

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

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

    Do you want one lump or two with your coffee?

    Stück (Würfelzucker m)

  5. A dull or lazy person.

    Don't just sit there like a lump.

    an awkward stupid person

  6. A fat person.

  7. (informal)A beating or verbal abuse.

    He's taken his lumps over the years.

  8. A projection beneath the breech end of a gun barrel.

  9. A kind of fish, the lumpsucker.

  10. (obsolete, slang)Food given to a tramp to be eaten on the road.

  11. (obsolete, slang)The workhouse.

Examples

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  1. Tom felt a lump in his throat.

    ruТом почувствовал ком в горле.

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  2. Tom has a lump on his forehead.

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  3. Please put a lump of sugar in my coffee.

    ruПожалуйста, положите кусочек сахара в моё кофе.

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  4. He banged his head against a shelf and got a big lump.

    ruОн ударился головой о полку и получил огромный синяк.

    deEr hat sich den Kopf an einem Regal gestoßen und sich eine dicke Beule zugezogen.

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  5. Tom had a lump on his head.

    deTom hatte eine Beule am Kopf.

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Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
something that protrudes, sticks out, or sticks together; a cluster or blob; a mound, hill, or group:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
something that protrudes, sticks out, or sticks together; a cluster or blob; a mound, hill, or group:
small, shaped mass of sugar:

Origin

From Middle English lumpe, from a Germanic base akin to Proto-Germanic *limpaną (“to glide

From Middle English lumpe, from a Germanic base akin to Proto-Germanic *limpaną (“to glide, go, hang loosely”). Compare Dutch lomp (“rag”), German Low German Lump (“rag”), German Lumpen (“rag”) and Lump (“ragamuffin”).

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