Bundle vs Mess - 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
(obsolete) Mass; church service.
A quantity of food set on a table at one time; provision of food for a person or party for one meal; also, the food given to an animal at one time.
* Milton
A number of persons who eat together, and for whom food is prepared in common; especially, persons in the military or naval service who eat at the same table.
* 1610 , , IV. iv. 11:
A set of four (from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner).
(US) The milk given by a cow at one milking.
(label) To take meals with a mess.
(label) To belong to a mess.
(label) To eat (with others).
(label) To supply with a mess.
A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding; a disorder.
(label) A large quantity or number.
(label) Excrement.
(label) To make a mess of.
(label) To throw into confusion.
(label) To interfere.
Bundle is a related term of mess.
As verbs the difference between bundle and mess
is that bundle is while mess is (label) to take meals with a mess or mess can be (label) to make a mess of.As a noun mess is
(obsolete) mass; church service or mess can be a disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding; a disorder.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 * unbundlemess
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), partly from (etyl) . More at (m); see also (m).Noun
(es)- A mess of pottage.
- At their savoury dinner set / Of herbs and other country messes .
- the wardroom mess
- But that our feasts / In every mess have folly, and the feeders / Digest it with accustom,
- (Latimer)