clump | (noun) a heavy dull sound (as made by impact of heavy objects) | Synonyms: clunk, thud, thump, thumping |
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(noun) a grouping of a number of similar things | Synonyms: bunch, cluster, clustering |
(noun) a compact mass | Synonyms: ball, chunk, clod, glob, lump |
clumping | (noun) the sound of a horse's hoofs hitting on a hard surface | Synonyms: clip-clop, clippety-clop, clop, clopping, clunking |
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kalumpang | (noun) large tree of Old World tropics having foul-smelling orange-red blossoms followed by red pods enclosing oil-rich seeds sometimes used as food | Synonyms: Java olives, Sterculia foetida |
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lump | (noun) a compact mass | Synonyms: ball, chunk, clod, clump, glob |
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(noun) a large piece of something without definite shape | Synonyms: hunk |
(noun) an awkward stupid person | Synonyms: clod, gawk, goon, lout, lubber, lummox, oaf, stumblebum |
(noun) an abnormal protuberance or localized enlargement | Synonyms: puffiness, swelling |
lumpectomy | (noun) surgical removal of a tumor without removing much of the surrounding tissue or lymph nodes; performed in some cases of breast cancer | - |
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lumpenproletariat | (noun) (Marxism) the unorganized lower levels of the proletariat who are not interested in revolutionary advancement | - |
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lumper | (noun) a taxonomist who classifies organisms into large groups on the basis of major characteristics | - |
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(noun) a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port | Synonyms: dock-walloper, dock worker, docker, dockhand, dockworker, loader, longshoreman, stevedore |
lumpfish | (noun) clumsy soft thick-bodied northern Atlantic fish with pelvic fins fused into a sucker; edible roe used for caviar | Synonyms: Cyclopterus lumpus |
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lumpiness | (noun) The property of being full of lumps, not being smooth. | - |
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lumpsucker | (noun) any of several very small lumpfishes | - |
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plump | (noun) the sound of a sudden heavy fall | - |
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plumpness | (noun) the bodily property of being well rounded | Synonyms: embonpoint, roundness |
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slump | (noun) a noticeable deterioration in performance or quality | Synonyms: drop-off, falling off, falloff, slack |
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(noun) a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment | Synonyms: depression, economic crisis |
slumpflation | (noun) a situation in which economic depression is combined with increasing inflation. | - |
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