bund
See also: Bund
English
editEtymology 1
editFrom German Bund (“alliance, league”). Doublet of Bund, bond, and band.
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /bʊnd/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ʊnd
Noun
editbund (plural bunds)
- A league or confederacy; especially the confederation of German states.
- A group of foreign sympathizers of Nazi Germany, most notoriously before and during World War II.
Translations
editEtymology 2
editFrom Hindustani بند / बंद (band), from Classical Persian بند (band).
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /bʌnd/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
editbund (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 September 2, “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
editbund (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
editVariant of bandh, from Hindi बंध (bandh); see that entry for more. Doublet of etymology 2 above.
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /bʌnd/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
editbund (plural bunds)
Derived terms
editReferences
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
editEtymology
editFrom Old Norse botn, from Proto-Germanic *butmaz.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editbund c (singular definite bunden, plural indefinite bunde)
- bottom (the lowest part)
Inflection
editDeclension of bund
Derived terms
edit- bunde ("to touch bottom", i.e. "not out of one's depth")
Verb
editbund
- imperative of bunde
Romanian
editEtymology
editNoun
editbund n (plural bunduri)
Declension
editDeclension 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 |
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