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1 to bind

2 bunch

3 bundle

4 classifier for bunches, bundles, beams of light etc

5 to control

1 to string together

2 to skewer

3 to connect wrongly

4 to gang up

5 to rove

6 string

7 bunch

8 skewer

9 classifier for things that are strung together, or in a bunch, or in a row: string of, bunch of, series of

10 to make a swift or abrupt linear movement (like a bead on an abacus)

11 to move across

1 a bunch of nonsense

1 carefully chosen

2 handpicked

3 best of the bunch

4 choice (product)

5 concentration (mining)

6 to concentrate

7 to winnow

1 lit. choose a general from among the dwarfs

2 fig. choose the best person available (out of a mediocre bunch)

1 bunch of gangsters

2 criminal gang

3 organized crime syndicate

1 a bunch of nonsense

2 verbose and rambling

1 lit. silly people get their panties in a bunch (idiom)

2 fig. to get upset over nothing

3 to make problems for oneself

1 cluster

2 bunch

1 lit. a bunch of flowers poked into a pile of manure

2 fig. a terrible shame (as when a lovely woman marries an odious man)

1 lit. a piece of rat feces spoiled the whole pot of soup (idiom)

2 fig. one bad apple can spoil the whole bunch

1 lit. a piece of rat feces spoiled the whole pot of congee (idiom)

2 fig. one bad apple can spoil the whole bunch

1 bunch planting

1 bunch of flowers

2 bouquet

1 ear (of corn or sorghum etc)

2 bunch (of grapes)

3 infructescence

1 lit. sparrow and swallow, crow and magpie; fig. any Tom, Dick or Harry

2 a bunch of nobodies

1 a bunch

2 to tie together

3 bundle

1 crowded

2 framework for silkworms

3 gather foliage

4 bunch

5 classifier for bunched objects

1 bunch

2 cluster

3 classifier for bunched objects

4 to hang down in a bunch

5 to droop