different between bale vs bunch

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /be??l/, [?be??(?)?], [be???]
• Rhymes: -e?l
• Homophone: bail

Etymology 1

From Middle English bale (“evil”), from Old English bealo, from Proto-Germanic *balw?. Cognate with Low German bal- (“bad, ill”), Gothic ???????????????????????????????? (balweins, “torture”), Old High German balo (“destruction”), Old Norse b?l (“disaster”).

Noun

bale (uncountable)

1. Evil, especially considered as an active force for destruction or death.
2. Suffering, woe, torment.

Derived terms

• baleful

Etymology 2

From Middle English bale (“pyre, funeral pyre”), from Old English b?l (“pyre, funeral pyre”), from Proto-Germanic *b?l? (“pyre”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?el- (“to shine; gleam; sparkle”). Cognate with Old Norse bál (which may have been the direct source for the English word).

Noun

bale (plural bales)

1. (obsolete) A large fire, a conflagration or bonfire.
2. (archaic) A funeral pyre.
3. (archaic) A beacon-fire.

Derived terms

• balefire

Etymology 3

From Middle English bale (“bale”), from Old French bale and Medieval Latin bala, of Germanic origin. Doublet of ball.

Noun

bale (plural bales)

1. A rounded bundle or package of goods in a cloth cover, and corded for storage or transportation.
   • 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 563:

     So having made up my mind, I packed up in bales a quantity of precious stuffs suited for sea-trade and repaired with them from Baghdad-city to Bassorah-town, where I found ship ready for sea, and in her a company of considerable merchants.

2. A bundle of compressed wool or hay, compacted for shipping and handling.
3. A measurement of hay equal to 10 flakes. Approximately 70-90 lbs (32-41 kg).
4. A measurement of paper equal to 10 reams.

Coordinate terms

• (measurement of paper): bundle, quire, ream

Derived terms

• bale of dice

Translations

Further reading

• Units of paper quantity on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

bale (third-person singular simple present bales, present participle baling, simple past and past participle baled)

1. (transitive) To wrap into a bale.

Translations

Etymology 4

Alternative spelling of bail.

Verb

bale (third-person singular simple present bales, present participle baling, simple past and past participle baled)

1. (Britain, nautical) To remove water from a boat with buckets etc.

Translations

Further reading

• Bale in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Anagrams

• -able, Abel, Able, Beal, Blea, Ebla, Elba, able, albe, bael, beal, blea

Buginese

Noun

bale

1. fish

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

bale

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of balen

Anagrams

• Abel

French

Alternative forms

• balle

Etymology

From Gaulish *balu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bal/

Noun

bale f (uncountable)

1. chaff (inedible casing of a grain seed)

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French balai.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba.le/

Noun

bale

1. broom

Verb

bale

1. to sweep

Javanese

Noun

bale

1. Dated spelling of balé.

Kapampangan

Etymology

From Proto-Philippine *balay, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *balay, from Proto-Austronesian *balay.

Noun

balé

1. house

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English bealo, from Proto-Germanic *balw?.

Alternative forms

• balu

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ba?l(?)/

Noun

bale (plural bales)

2. An evil or wrong act; a bad deed.
3. Maliciousness, iniquity, damage.
4. Devastation and doom; the causing of lifelessness.
5. Woe or torment; hurting, agony.

Related terms

• baleful
• bale-siðe

Descendants

• English: bale (dated)

References

• “b?le, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-19.

Adjective

bale

2. decisive, ruinous, vicious
3. tormentuous, painful, hurtful

References

• “b?le, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-19.

Etymology 2

Either from Old English b?l, Old Norse bál, or a conflation of both; in any case, from Proto-Germanic *b?l?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba?l/

Noun

bale

2. Any large fire; a bonfire or pyre.
3. A fire for inhumation; a funeral pyre.
4. A fire for execution or killing.

Related terms

• bale-fyre

Descendants

• English: bale (archaic)
• Scots: bale

References

• “b?l(e, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-19.

Etymology 3

Probably from Old French bale, balle, from Medieval Latin balla, from Frankish or Old High German balla (“ball”), from Proto-Germanic *balluz.

Alternative forms

• bala, ball

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ba?l(?)/

Noun

bale (plural bales)

2. A bale (rounded bundle)

Descendants

• English: bale

References

• “b?le, n.(3).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-19.
• Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
• “bale”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, ?ISBN

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

bale (present tense balar, past tense bala, past participle bala, passive infinitive balast, present participle balande, imperative bal)

1. Alternative form of bala

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Homophones: Bali (Brazil), vale (Norte of Portugal)
• Hyphenation: ba?le

Verb

bale

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of balar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of balar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of balar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of balar
5. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of balir
6. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of balir

Romanian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin root *baba. Compare French bave, Italian bava, Spanish and Portuguese baba. The normal result, *ba, is not used as the singular has been replaced with bal? through analogy.

Noun

bale f pl (plural only)

1. slobber, drool, dribble, saliva

Declension

Synonyms

• saliv?

Derived terms

• b?los

Spanish

Verb

bale

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of balar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of balar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of balar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of balar.

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• bali

Etymology

From Spanish vale, second-person singular present indicative form of valer (“to be worth”), from Old Spanish valer, from Latin val?re, present active infinitive of vale? (“to be worth”), from Proto-Italic *wal??, from Proto-Indo-European *h?wl?h?éh?yeti, from *h?welh?- (“to rule, be strong”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: bá?le

Noun

bále

1. An advance of money or value; payment in advance.

Conjunction

bále

1. so; Used to connect previous conversation or events to the following question.
2. so; Used to introduce a rhetorical question.

Interjection

bále

1. Used before stating or enumerating the gist or summary of what is being discussed.
2. Used as a meaningless filler word to begin a response or when one cannot start to speak.

Adjective

bále

1. with value or importance

Derived terms

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from French ballet.

Noun

bale (definite accusative baleyi, plural baleler)

1. ballet

English

Etymology

From Middle English bunche, bonche (“hump, swelling”), of uncertain origin.

Perhaps a variant of *bunge (compare dialectal bung (“heap, grape bunch”)), from Proto-Germanic *bunk?, *bunkô, *bung? (“heap, crowd”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?en??-, *b?éng??us (“thick, dense, fat”). Cognates include Saterland Frisian Bunke (“bone”), West Frisian bonke (“bone, lump, bump”), Dutch bonk (“lump, bone”), Low German Bunk (“bone”), German Bunge (“tuber”), Danish bunke (“heap, pile”), Faroese bunki (“heap, pile”); Hittite [Term?] (/panku/, “total, entire”), Tocharian B pkante (“volume, fatness”), Lithuanian búož? (“knob”), Ancient Greek ????? (pakhús, “thick”), Sanskrit ??? (bahú, “thick; much”)).

Alternatively, perhaps from a variant or diminutive of bump (compare hump/hunch, lump/lunch, etc.); or from dialectal Old French bonge (“bundle”) (compare French bongeau, bonjeau, bonjot), from West Flemish bondje, diminutive of West Flemish bond (“bundle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?nt?/
• Rhymes: -?nt?

Noun

bunch (plural bunches)

1. A group of similar things, either growing together, or in a cluster or clump, usually fastened together.
2. (cycling) The peloton; the main group of riders formed during a race.
3. An informal body of friends.

   • “I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, the gorged dowagers, […], the jewelled animals whose moral code is the code of the barnyard—!"

4. (US, informal) A considerable amount.

5. (informal) An unmentioned amount; a number.

6. (forestry) A group of logs tied together for skidding.
7. (geology, mining) An unusual concentration of ore in a lode or a small, discontinuous occurrence or patch of ore in the wallrock.
   • 1874, David Page, Economic Geology: Or, Geology in Its Relations to the Arts and Manufactures

     The ore may be disseminated throughout the matrix in minute particles, as gold in quartz; in parallel threads, strings, and plates, as with copper; in irregular pockets or bunches

8. (textiles) The reserve yarn on the filling bobbin to allow continuous weaving between the time of indication from the midget feeler until a new bobbin is put in the shuttle.
9. An unfinished cigar, before the wrapper leaf is added.

10. A protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump; a hump.

Synonyms

• (group of similar things): cluster, group
• (informal body of friends): pack, group, gang, circle
• (unusual concentration of ore): ore pocket, pocket, pocket of ore, kidney, nest, nest of ore, ore bunch, bunch of ore

Derived terms

• buncha (bunch of)

Translations

Verb

bunch (third-person singular simple present bunches, present participle bunching, simple past and past participle bunched)

1. (transitive) To gather into a bunch.
2. (transitive) To gather fabric into folds.
3. (intransitive) To form a bunch.
4. (intransitive) To be gathered together in folds
5. (intransitive) To protrude or swell
   • 1728, John Woodward, An Attempt towards a Natural History of the Fossils of England

     Bunching out into a large round knob at one end.

Synonyms

• (form a bunch): cluster, group

Derived terms

• bunch up

Translations