Clump vs. Nugget — What's the Difference?

A clustered mass; a lump

A small, solid lump, especially of gold.

A thick grouping, as of trees or bushes.

A small compact portion or unit

A heavy dull sound; a thud.

(countable) A small, compact chunk or clump.

To form lumps or thick groupings.

(countable) A chicken nugget.

To walk or move so as to make a heavy dull sound.

(countable) A tidbit of something valuable.

To gather into or form lumps or thick groupings of.

(countable) A small piece of tasty food, a tidbit.

A cluster or lump; an unshaped piece or mass.

(uncountable) A type of boot polish.

A thick group or bunch, especially of bushes or hair.

(countable) A bud from the Cannabis sativa plant, especially one that is potent.

A dull thud.

An inexperienced, newly trained fighter pilot.

The compressed clay of coal strata.

(comptheory) A partial description gleaned from data mining.

A small group of trees or plants.

A person with no arms or legs; a basket case.

(historical) A thick addition to the sole of a shoe.

A lump; a mass, esp. a native lump of a precious metal; as, a nugget of gold.

(ambitransitive) To form clusters or lumps.

Something of value, usually found among many other less valuable things; - often used figuratively; as, a nugget of useful information in a sea of data.

(ambitransitive) To gather in dense groups.

A solid lump of a precious metal (especially gold) as found in the earth

(intransitive) To walk with heavy footfalls.

To strike; to beat.

An unshaped piece or mass of wood or other substance.

A cluster; a group; a thicket.

The compressed clay of coal strata.

To arrange in a clump or clumps; to cluster; to group.

To tread clumsily; to clamp.

A grouping of a number of similar things;

A compact mass;

A heavy dull sound (as made by impact of heavy objects)

Make or move along with a sound as of a horse's hooves striking the ground

Come together as in a cluster or flock;

Walk clumsily

Gather or cause to gather into a cluster;