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词汇 lumper
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Definition of lumper in English:

lumper

noun ˈlʌmpəˈləmpər
  • 1A docker, especially one who unloads cargoes from fishing boats.

    (尤指从渔船上卸货的)码头(装卸)工

  • 2A person (especially a taxonomist) who attaches more importance to similarities than to differences in classification.

    (尤指分类学家)聚合分类学家。与SPLITTER 相对

    Contrasted with splitter
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The splitters of linguistics have this problem: they're just not as interesting as the lumpers.
    • Charles Darwin divided taxonomists into lumpers and splitters.
    • Of course whether a species should be retained in a former genus or placed in a new one is often an arbitrary choice, which brings us to the battle between the splitters and the lumpers.
    • There are three kinds of historians: lumpers, who use highly technical terminology; splitters, who catalog broad similarities among various events and people; and those who record the differences.
    • He said that he tended to be a lumper and felt that the splitters had often created many more species than the evidence justified, which he said is a ‘huge problem’ in paleoanthropology.
    • As evidenced by review of his work, he was a lumper who frequently grouped a variety of valid cyrtospiriferid species under one name.
    • What looks like one phenomenon to a lumper may look like three to a splitter.
    • Nonetheless I notice some hardcore lumpers are already expressing doubts.
    • One sometimes sees the difference between splitters and lumpers presented as one of taste and personality.

Rhymes

bumper, dumper, gazumper, jumper, stumper, thumper

Definition of lumper in US English:

lumper

nounˈləmpərˈləmpər
  • 1A laborer who unloads cargo.

  • 2A person (especially a taxonomist) who attaches more importance to similarities than to differences in classification.

    (尤指分类学家)聚合分类学家。与SPLITTER 相对

    Contrasted with splitter
    Example sentencesExamples
    • One sometimes sees the difference between splitters and lumpers presented as one of taste and personality.
    • The splitters of linguistics have this problem: they're just not as interesting as the lumpers.
    • Of course whether a species should be retained in a former genus or placed in a new one is often an arbitrary choice, which brings us to the battle between the splitters and the lumpers.
    • There are three kinds of historians: lumpers, who use highly technical terminology; splitters, who catalog broad similarities among various events and people; and those who record the differences.
    • He said that he tended to be a lumper and felt that the splitters had often created many more species than the evidence justified, which he said is a ‘huge problem’ in paleoanthropology.
    • Charles Darwin divided taxonomists into lumpers and splitters.
    • As evidenced by review of his work, he was a lumper who frequently grouped a variety of valid cyrtospiriferid species under one name.
    • Nonetheless I notice some hardcore lumpers are already expressing doubts.
    • What looks like one phenomenon to a lumper may look like three to a splitter.
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