bund
See also: Bund
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
From German Bund (“alliance, league”). Doublet of Bund, bond, and band.
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Noun edit
bund (plural bunds)
- A league or confederacy; especially the confederation of German states.
- A group of foreign sympathesizers of Nazi Germany, most notoriously before and during World War II.
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Etymology 2 edit
From Hindustani بند / बंद (band), from Classical Persian بند (band).
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Noun edit
bund (plural bunds)
- A secondary enclosure, typically consisting of a wall or berm, which surrounds a tank or fluid-handling mechanism, intended to contain any spills or leaks.
- 2024 April 25, “The Buncefield investigation - second progress report”, in Buncefield investigation[1] (PDF), archived from the original on 2006-04-14, page 4:
- The most important of these [secondary containment] provisions are bunds, which are enclosures capable of holding liquids that may escape from the vessels and pipes within the bund wall.
- (India) A perennial ("wet") or seasonal ("dry") pond constructed in a depression and in which fish are stored, typically for breeding.
- An embankment.
- 1875, John Thomson, The Straits of Malacca, Indo-China, and China, page 408:
- It is pleasant to see the Chinese domestics and their families; or native ladies dressed in silks, their glossy hair held in by a broad black velvet band with a spray of pearls in front, being propelled along the bund in their hand-carts; but they are not used among Europeans, excepting after dark.
- 2021 November 17, Mark Rand, “Reconnecting rail freight to S&C quarries”, in RAIL, number 944, page 54:
- A massive opening in the bund (embankment), specifically there to screen the quarry from view, was needed, along with a Midland Railway-style bridge carrying a historic bridleway.
- 2022 March 23, Philip Haigh, “Network News: Rogue earthwork triggered fatal washout at Carmont”, in RAIL, number 953, page 6:
- RAIB said it could not find evidence to explain who built the earth bank, known as a bund, or why it was built.
Verb edit
bund (third-person singular simple present bunds, present participle bunding, simple past and past participle bunded)
- To provide berms or other secondary enclosures to guard against accidental fluid spills within.
- 2020 December 1 (last accessed), “Plant Room Waterproofing & Tanking”, in RIW[2]:
- Plant room floors are generally bunded and/or waterproofed to contain any leaks or spillages of liquids and fluids from faulty tanks, plant or pipe work.
Etymology 3 edit
Variant of bandh, from Hindi बंध (bandh); see that entry for more. Doublet of etymology 2 above.
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bund (plural bunds)
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References edit
- “bund”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “bund”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “bund” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.
- “bund”, in Collins English Dictionary.
Danish edit
Etymology edit
From Old Norse botn, from Proto-Germanic *butmaz.
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bund c (singular definite bunden, plural indefinite bunde)
- bottom (the lowest part)
Inflection edit
Declension of bund
Derived terms edit
- bunde ("to touch bottom", i.e. "not out of one's depth")
Verb edit
bund
- imperative of bunde
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
bund n (plural bunduri)
Declension edit
Declension of bund
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
| nominative/accusative | (un) bund | bundul | (niște) bunduri | bundurile |
| genitive/dative | (unui) bund | bundului | (unor) bunduri | bundurilor |
| vocative | bundule | bundurilor | ||