lump

lump¹ S2 [lʌmp] n

1.) a small piece of something solid, without a particular shape

▪ Strain the custard to remove lumps.

lump of

▪ Melt a lump of butter in your frying-pan.

2.) a small hard swollen area that sticks out from someone's skin or grows in their body, usually because of an illness

▪ You should never ignore a breast lump.

3.) a small square block of sugar

▪ One lump or two?

4.) a lump in/to sb's throat

a feeling that you want to cry

▪ There was a lump in her throat as she gazed at the child.

5.) take your lumps

AmE informal to accept the bad things that happen and not let them affect you

▪ According to experts, the company took its lumps but is on the road to profitability.

6.) BrE spoken someone who is stupid or ↑clumsy

▪ He's a big fat lump.

lump ²

lump² v [T]

1.) lump it informal

to accept a situation or decision you do not like because you cannot change it

▪ They've been told: take the lower interest rate, or lump it.

▪ It's the law so you can like it or lump it .

2.) to put two or more different people or things together and consider them as a single group, sometimes wrongly

lump sth together

▪ You can't lump the symptoms together and blame them all on stress.

lump sb/sth in with sb

▪ The danger is that people who pay their bills on time will be lumped in with those that don't.