lump
Because it is a word with a single syllable, lump is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.
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Definitions oflump
- Something that protrudes, sticks out, or sticks together; a cluster or blob; a mound or mass of no particular shape.
Example: "Stir the gravy until there are no more lumps."
- A group, set, or unit.
Example: "The money arrived all at once as one big lump sum payment."
- A small, shaped mass of sugar, typically about a teaspoonful.
Example: "Do you want one lump or two with your coffee?"
- A dull or lazy person.
Example: "Don't just sit there like a lump."
- (as plural) A beating or verbal abuse.
Example: "He's taken his lumps over the years."
- A projection beneath the breech end of a gun barrel.
- A kind of fish, the lumpsucker.
- Food given to a tramp to be eaten on the road.
- To treat as a single unit; to group together in a casual or chaotic manner (as if forming an ill-defined lump of the items).
Example: "People tend to lump turtles and tortoises together, when in fact they are different creatures."
- To bear a heavy or awkward burden; to carry something unwieldy from one place to another.
- To hit or strike (a person).
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