Used in a Sentence

lumpers

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for lumpers.

Editorial note

From the perspective of software, the lumpers are pretty much always wrong except for when they get a lucky guess.

Examples19
Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

An extra laborer hired to assist in the loading or unloading of a truck or a ship.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of lumpers gathered in one view.

noun

An extra laborer hired to assist in the loading or unloading of a truck or a ship.

noun

A variety of potato, best known as the variety that failed in the Irish potato famine.

noun

(historical) Synonym of lumpman (“type of salt worker”).

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for lumpers.

noun

An extra laborer hired to assist in the loading or unloading of a truck or a ship.

noun

A variety of potato, best known as the variety that failed in the Irish potato famine.

noun

(historical) Synonym of lumpman (“type of salt worker”).

noun

(biology, linguistics) A scientist in one of various fields who prefers to keep categories such as species or dialects together in larger groups.

Example sentences

1

From the perspective of software, the lumpers are pretty much always wrong except for when they get a lucky guess.

2

Without diving into the lumpers versus splitters politics too much, how familiar are you with the similarities between Russian and Ukrainian?

3

It costs more to fill a semi truck with fuel than to pay lumpers to load and unload it all day.

4

There are a lot of posts like this here on HN: history by lumpers.

5

It turns out that every interpretation produced by lumpers depends on oversimplifying or flattening the past in ways that are demonstrably wrong.

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There are 2 kinds of people in this world -- lumpers and splitters.

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… Lumpers make large units – their critics say that if a carnivore is neither a dog nor a bear, they call it a cat.

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Others, called 'lumpers,' see wider species categories and fewer limbs on the tree.

9

Rust and Windows is for lumpers, C and Unix is for dividers.

10

Any time there's taxonomy going on, you'll have lumpers and splitters.

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I'd expect research by lumpers would tend to find it true; research by splitters, false.

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The way we're lumped together is actually very arbitrary (and changes depending on how the lumpers are trying to score political points).

Quote examples

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"Lumpers" are demanding that people not find a particular distinction useful.

2

The general notion is called "lumpers" and "splitters".

3

The people who insist the statistical models have emergent behavior, or even worse, equate them with human brains are "lumpers" who lack imagination and have no desire to truly understand and model these things.

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That is why you will occasionally see mention of "lumpers" and "splitters", those who include everything possible into one species, and those who break things up into multiple species rather than subspecies.

Proper noun examples

1

Lumpers girl, is hardly mentioned by Farina without dubbies also indicated; secretarial skills hinted at at least once.

2

Lumpers are suspicious that there are several hundred discrete disorders of the brain that can't be more parsimoniously explained with existing, better validated illnesses.

3

Lumpers say that that doesn’t invalidate their larger point.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use lumpers in a sentence?

From the perspective of software, the lumpers are pretty much always wrong except for when they get a lucky guess.

What does lumpers mean?

An extra laborer hired to assist in the loading or unloading of a truck or a ship.

What part of speech is lumpers?

lumpers is commonly used as noun.