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.

单词	lumper
释义	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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