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Cradle vs Bundle - What's the difference?

cradle | bundle |

As verbs the difference between cradle and bundle

is that cradle is to contain in or as if in a cradle while bundle is .

As a noun cradle

is a bed or cot for a baby, oscillating on rockers or swinging on pivots.

cradle

English

(wikipedia cradle)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A bed or cot for a baby, oscillating on rockers or swinging on pivots.
  • * Cowper
    • the cradle that received thee at thy birth
  • * Shakespeare
    • No sooner was I crept out of my cradle / But I was made a king, at nine months old.
  • (figuratively) The place of origin, or in which anything is nurtured or protected in the earlier period of existence.
    • a cradle of crime
    the cradle of liberty
  • (figuratively) Infancy, or very early life.
    • from the cradle to the grave
  • * Shakespeare
    • from their cradles bred together
  • * Clarendon
    • a form of worship in which they had been educated from their cradles
  • An implement consisting of a broad scythe for cutting grain, with a set of long fingers parallel to the scythe, designed to receive the grain, and to lay it evenly in a swath.
  • A tool used in mezzotint engraving, which, by a rocking motion, raises burrs on the surface of the plate, so preparing the ground.
  • A framework of timbers, or iron bars, moving upon ways or rollers, used to support, lift, or carry ships or other vessels, heavy guns, etc., as up an inclined plane, or across a strip of land, or in launching a ship.
  • A case for a broken or dislocated limb.
  • A frame to keep the bedclothes from contact with the sensitive parts of an injured person.
  • (mining) A machine on rockers, used in washing out auriferous earth.
  • (mining) A suspended scaffold used in shafts.
  • (carpentry) A ribbing for vaulted ceilings and arches intended to be covered with plaster.
    • (Knight)
  • (nautical) A basket or apparatus in which, when a line has been made fast to a wrecked ship from the shore, the people are brought off from the wreck.
    • The cradle was ill-made. One victim fell into the sea and was lost and the ensuing delay cost three more lives.
  • A rest for the receiver of a telephone, or for certain computer hardware.
    • He slammed the handset into the cradle .
  • (contact juggling) A hand position allowing a contact ball to be held steadily on the back of the hand.

    • Synonyms

    * (machine on rockers used in washing out auriferous earth) rocker * (rest for receiver of a telephone) rest

    Derived terms

    * cat's cradle * cradle cap * cradleland * cradlesong * from the cradle to the grave * the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world * rob the cradle

    See also

    * crib

    Verb

    (cradl)
  • To contain in or as if in a cradle.
  • To rock (a baby to sleep).
  • To wrap protectively.
  • * cradling the injured man’s head in her arms
  • To lull or quieten, as if by rocking.
  • * D. A. Clark
    • It cradles their fears to sleep.
  • To nurse or train in infancy.
  • * Glanvill
    • He that hath been cradled in majesty will not leave the throne to play with beggars.
  • (lacrosse) To rock the lacrosse stick back and forth in order to keep the ball in the head by means of centrifugal force.
  • To cut and lay (grain) with a cradle.
  • To transport a vessel by means of a cradle.
  • * Knight
    • In Lombardy boats are cradled and transported over the grade.
  • To put ribs across the back of (a picture), to prevent the panels from warping.

    • Anagrams

    *

    bundle

    English

    (wikipedia bundle)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A group of objects held together by wrapping or tying.
    • a bundle''' of straw or of paper; a '''bundle of old clothes
  • * Goldsmith
    • The fable of the rods, which, when united in a bundle , no strength could bend.
  • 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.
    • The inventor of that gizmo must have made a bundle .
  • (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).

    • Derived terms

    * bundle buggy * bundle of energy * bundle of His * bundle of joy * bundle of laughs * bundle of nerves

    Descendants

    *

    Coordinate terms

    * (quantity of paper) bale, quire, ream

    See also

    *

    Verb

  • To tie or wrap together.
  • To hustle; to dispatch something or someone quickly.
  • * T. Hook
    • They unmercifully bundled me and my gallant second into our own hackney coach.
  • 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.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2010 , date=December 29 , author=Chris Whyatt , title=Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=At the other end, Essien thought he had bundled the ball over the line in between Bolton's final two substitutions but the flag had already gone up.}}
  • * 1851 ,
    • Yes, there is death in this business of whaling—a speechlessly quick chaotic bundling of a man into Eternity.
  • * 1859 , Terence, Comedies of Terence
    • 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.
  • (dated) To sleep on the same bed without undressing.
  • * Washington Irving
    • 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 * unbundle