bunching

bunching is the present participle and gerund of bunch.

Noun

bunching (countable and uncountable, plural bunchings)

(countable) An arrangement of items in a bunch.
- The foreign ladies, in their simple, tasteful, fresh attire, innocent of the humpings and bunchings, the monstrosities and deformities of ultra-fashionable bad taste, beamed with cheerfulness, friendliness, and kindliness.1974, Isabella Bird, Six Months in the Sandwich Islands, amongst the Palm Groves, Coral Reefs and Volcanoes
An occurrence of things in a bunch.
- Why do we sometimes find three buses on the same route arriving together at a bus stop? What is the explanation of bunching? […] Meanwhile there are other buses following on the same route. The 600-yard interval between the second and third bus is decreased by every second's delay to the leaders...1949 July and August, Railway Magazine, page vii, advertisement by London Transport
(uncountable) The illegitimate supplying of laboratory animals that are actually kidnapped pets or illegally trapped strays.

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

(transitive) To gather into a bunch.
(transitive) To gather fabric into folds.
(intransitive) To form a bunch.
- "Permissive" working allows more than one train to be in a block section at one time but trains must be run at low speed in order to stop on sight behind the train in front. Such working is often authorised to allow freight trains to "bunch" together to await a path through a bottleneck instead of...1962 October, “Talking of Trains: The collisions at Connington”, in Modern Railways, page 232
Synonyms:

cluster, group
(intransitive) To be gathered together in folds
(intransitive) To protrude or swell
- A very large ſparry Nodule externally of a brown Colour. It has ſomewhat of the reſemblance of a large Champignon before 'tis open'd, bunching out into a large round Knob at one end, the part proceeding from it being leſs, round, and not unlike a Stalk.1729, J[ohn] Woodward, “Classis V. Corpora Coralloidea, & hisce affinia.”, in An Attempt towards a Natural History of the Fossils of England; […], tome I, London: […] F[rancis] Fayram, […]; J[ohn]...

plural	bunchings

What does bunching mean?: Bunching means an arrangement of items in a bunch.
What is bunching the present participle and gerund of?: Bunching is the present participle and gerund of bunch.
What part of speech is bunching?: Bunching is a noun.
What is the plural of bunching?: The plural of bunching is bunchings.

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