bunch vs bundle

bunch

noun
  • A considerable amount. 

  • A group of similar things, either growing together, or in a cluster or clump, usually fastened together. 

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

  • An informal body of friends. 

  • A group of logs tied together for skidding. 

  • An unusual concentration of ore in a lode or a small, discontinuous occurrence or patch of ore in the wallrock. 

  • 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. 

  • The peloton; the main group of riders formed during a race. 

  • An unmentioned amount; a number. 

  • An unfinished cigar, before the wrapper leaf is added. 

verb
  • To be gathered together in folds 

  • To form a bunch. 

  • To protrude or swell 

  • To gather fabric into folds. 

  • To gather into a bunch. 

bundle

noun
  • A large amount, especially of money. 

  • A sequence of two or more words that occur in language with high frequency but are not idiomatic; a chunk, cluster, or lexical bundle. 

  • A group of objects held together by wrapping or tying. 

  • A package wrapped or tied up for carrying. 

  • A quantity of paper equal to two reams (1000 sheets). 

  • A cluster of closely bound muscle or nerve fibres. 

  • A court bundle, the assemblage of documentation prepared for, and referred to during, a court case. 

  • A group of products or services sold together as a unit. 

  • Topological space composed of a base space and fibers projected to the base space. 

  • A directory containing related resources such as source code; application bundle. 

verb
  • To dress someone warmly. 

  • To hustle; to dispatch something or someone quickly. 

  • To tie or wrap together into a bundle. 

  • To dress warmly. Usually bundle up 

  • To hurry. 

  • To prepare for departure; to set off in a hurry or without ceremony; used with away, off, out. 

  • To sell hardware and software as a single product. 

  • Synonym of dogpile: to form a pile of people upon a victim. 

  • To hastily or clumsily push, put, carry or otherwise send something into a particular place. 

How often have the words bunch and bundle occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )