Bundle vs Beam - What's the difference?
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A group of objects held together by wrapping or tying.
* Goldsmith
A package wrapped or tied up for carrying.
(biology) A cluster of closely bound muscle or nerve fibres.
(informal) A large amount, especially of money.
(computing, Mac OS X) A directory containing related resources such as source code; application bundle.
A quantity of paper equal to 2 reams (1000 sheets).
To tie or wrap together.
To hustle; to dispatch something or someone quickly.
* T. Hook
To prepare for departure; to set off in a hurry or without ceremony.
To dress someone warmly.
To dress warmly. Usually bundle up
(computing) To sell hardware and software as a single product.
To hurry.
(slang) To dogpile
To hastily or clumsily push, put, carry or otherwise send something into a particular place.
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(dated) To sleep on the same bed without undressing.
* Washington Irving
Any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use.
One of the principal horizontal timbers of a building; one of the transverse members of a ship's frame on which the decks are laid - supported at the sides by knees in wooden ships and by stringers in steel ones.
(nautical) The maximum width of a vessel
The crossbar of a mechanical balance, from the ends of which the scales are suspended.
*(rfdate) (Alexander Pope)
The principal stem of the antler of a deer.
(literary) The pole of a carriage.(rfc-sense)
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(textiles) A cylinder of wood, making part of a loom, on which weavers wind the warp before weaving and the cylinder on which the cloth is rolled, as it is woven.
The straight part or shank of an anchor.
The central bar of a plow, to which the handles and colter are secured, and to the end of which are attached the oxen or horses that draw it.
In steam engines, a heavy iron lever having an oscillating motion on a central axis, one end of which is connected with the piston rod from which it receives motion, and the other with the crank of the wheel shaft.
A ray or collection of approximatelyly parallel rays emitted from the sun or other luminous body
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(figuratively) A ray; a gleam
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One of the long feathers in the wing of a hawk.
(music) A horizontal bar which connects the stems of two or more notes to group them and to indicate metric value.
An elevated rectangular dirt pile used to cheaply build an elevated portion of a railway.
(ambitransitive) To emit beams of light; shine; radiate.
(figuratively) To smile broadly or especially cheerfully.
To furnish or supply with beams; give the appearance of beams to.
(science fiction) To transmit matter or information via a high-tech wireless mechanism.
(currying) To stretch on a beam, as a hide.
(weaving) To put on a beam, as a chain or web.
(music) To connect (musical notes) with a beam, or thick line, in music notation.
As verbs the difference between bundle and beam
is that bundle is while beam is (ambitransitive) to emit beams of light; shine; radiate.As a noun beam is
any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use.bundle
English
(wikipedia bundle)Noun
(en noun)- a bundle''' of straw or of paper; a '''bundle of old clothes
- The fable of the rods, which, when united in a bundle , no strength could bend.
- The inventor of that gizmo must have made a bundle .
Derived terms
* bundle buggy * bundle of energy * bundle of His * bundle of joy * bundle of laughs * bundle of nervesDescendants
*Coordinate terms
* (quantity of paper) bale, quire, reamSee also
*Verb
- They unmercifully bundled me and my gallant second into our own hackney coach.
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- Yes, there is death in this business of whaling—a speechlessly quick chaotic bundling of a man into Eternity.
- Why, I didn't know that she meant that, until the Captain gave me an explanation, because I was dull of comprehension ; for he bundled me out of the house.
- Van Corlear stopped occasionally in the villages to eat pumpkin pies, dance at country frolics, and bundle with the Yankee lasses.
Derived terms
* bundle off * bundler * unbundlebeam
English
Noun
(en noun)- This ship has more beam than that one.
- The doubtful beam long nods from side to side.
- a beam of light
- a beam of energy
- How far that little candle throws his beams !
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- a beam of hope, or of comfort
- Mercy with her genial beam .
Synonyms
* (nautical) breadth * (heavy iron lever) working beam, walking beam * (sense, hawk's feather) beam feather * see alsoHyponyms
* (textiles) fore beam, back beamDerived terms
(Derived terms) * abeam * balance beam * beam reach * beam splitter * beam-ends * beamer * beamish * beamline * beamy * bond beam * crossbeam * moonbeam * sunbeam * broad across the beam * broad in the beam * chemical beam epitaxy * high-beam * laser beam * molecular beam epitaxy * particle beam * tractor beamVerb
(en verb)- to beam forth light
- Beam me up, Scotty; there's no intelligent life down here.