clump /ˈklʌmp/
叢,塊,笨重的腳步聲
clump /ˈkləmp/ 名詞
叢,簇,團,塊,凝塊
Clump n.
1. An unshaped piece or mass of wood or other substance.
2. A cluster; a group; a thicket.
A clump of shrubby trees. --Hawthorne.
3. The compressed clay of coal strata.
Clump, v. t. To arrange in a clump or clumps; to cluster; to group.
Clump, v. i. To tread clumsily; to clamp. [Prov. Eng.]
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clump
n 1: a grouping of a number of similar things; "a bunch of
trees"; "a cluster of admirers" [syn: bunch, cluster,
clustering]
2: a compact mass; "a ball of mud caught him on the shoulder"
[syn: ball, clod, glob, lump, chunk]
3: a heavy dull sound (as made by impact of heavy objects)
[syn: thump, thumping, clunk, thud]
v 1: make or move along with a sound as of a horse's hooves
striking the ground [syn: clop, clunk, plunk]
2: come together as in a cluster or flock; "The poets
constellate in this town every summer" [syn: cluster, constellate,
flock]
3: walk clumsily [syn: clomp]
4: gather or cause to gather into a cluster; "She bunched her
fingers into a fist"; "The students bunched up at the
registration desk" [syn: bunch, bunch up, bundle, cluster]