What's the difference between bang and bump?

Bang


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To beat, as with a club or cudgel; to treat with violence; to handle roughly.
  • (v. t.) To beat or thump, or to cause ( something) to hit or strike against another object, in such a way as to make a loud noise; as, to bang a drum or a piano; to bang a door (against the doorpost or casing) in shutting it.
  • (v. i.) To make a loud noise, as if with a blow or succession of blows; as, the window blind banged and waked me; he was banging on the piano.
  • (n.) A blow as with a club; a heavy blow.
  • (n.) The sound produced by a sudden concussion.
  • (v. t.) To cut squarely across, as the tail of a hors, or the forelock of human beings; to cut (the hair).
  • (n.) The short, front hair combed down over the forehead, esp. when cut squarely across; a false front of hair similarly worn.
  • (n.) Alt. of Bangue

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Another source inside the centre, quoted earlier on the Detained Voices blog, said detainees had banged on their doors throughout the lockdown.
  • (2) If the Bicep2 result stands, the observation will be touted as evidence for cosmic inflation, the rapid expansion of the universe around a trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second after the big bang.
  • (3) Witnesses reported hearing a loud bang coming from the area, which is also close to the Belfast city centre's prime retail centre and the city's courts, hours after a security alert was declared after 9pm.
  • (4) Like the school friend who pops up on Facebook after 30 years, Barbie is banging on the door to come back into my life.
  • (5) They were banging on their shields and chasing these people up Regent Street.
  • (6) Eagles 17 - Cowboys 7 - 1:25 remaining 2nd quarter Bang bang!
  • (7) These changes will not arrive with an astronomical bang, of course, but will appear with stealth.
  • (8) A few seconds later there was a bang from the side of the Peugeot, as a small bomb stuck on to the window detonated, killing one of the men inside.
  • (9) The ETU whistleblower who drew the whole matter to the ETU and Turc’s attention said he did so, in part, because he had “always had a concern [the union] didn’t get much bang for our buck”.
  • (10) "They are wrong, we are bang on track, everything is on track," Howell said.
  • (11) The answer is not to be found at either financial extreme, but bang in the economic centre, where elections are won and lost.
  • (12) And the characters' creation of an avatar of a dead person based on their writings, in Jonze's film, is an idea that he's been banging on about for years.
  • (13) The man behind the Cillit Bang kitchen cleaner has shattered British records for executive pay after taking home more then £90m in cash and shares in one year.
  • (14) • Drinks about £12, Hornsgatan 82, Open Mon-Sat from 5pm, haktet.se Where to stay Facebook Twitter Pinterest HTL HTL HTL is a new and affordable boutique hotel and a perfect choice if location – it’s bang in the city centre – is more important to you than space.
  • (15) 5.38am BST Dodgers 2 - Cardinals 2, bottom of 11th Bang....just one bang.
  • (16) Julia Donaldson will be showcasing her latest book The Flying Bath as part of the children's programme, as the actor Mackenzie Crook launches his new title The Lost Journals of Benjamin Tooth, Frank Cottrell Boyce returns to Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and Rosen celebrates 25 years of We're Going on a Bear Hunt.
  • (17) The 6ft 5in striker Marc Janko bangs in the goals, often supplied by the all-Stuttgart right-sided combination of Florian Klein and Martin Harnik.
  • (18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The trading floor of the London Stock Exchange as the Big Bang reforms took effect in 1986.
  • (19) He went with a bang not a whimper: two of his last contributions to the New Republic were a trenchant critique of the history of the six-day war by Michael Oren, now Israeli ambassador to Washington, and an evisceration of Koba the Dread, Martin Amis's purported book on Stalin.
  • (20) Most dogs give a series of increasingly serious warning signs before they lose their tempers: lick their lips, blink, turn their heads away, curl their lip, lower their ears, wrinkle their foreheads, and if the dog that's annoying them doesn't get the message, they may growl or bare their teeth, and if that's still not enough it will be head and chest forward, muscles flexed, and bang, you've had it.

Bump


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To strike, as with or against anything large or solid; to thump; as, to bump the head against a wall.
  • (v. i.) To come in violent contact with something; to thump.
  • (n.) A thump; a heavy blow.
  • (n.) A swelling or prominence, resulting from a bump or blow; a protuberance.
  • (n.) One of the protuberances on the cranium which are associated with distinct faculties or affections of the mind; as, the bump of "veneration;" the bump of "acquisitiveness."
  • (n.) The act of striking the stern of the boat in advance with the prow of the boat following.
  • (v. i.) To make a loud, heavy, or hollow noise, as the bittern; to boom.
  • (n.) The noise made by the bittern.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Believe it or not, I still bump into people who have a good word to say about George Osborne .
  • (2) He, along with the world's policymakers, will be hoping that the waves in emerging markets created by his final act will prove to be a bump on the road to global recovery, and not the beginning of a fresh crisis.
  • (3) Shot noise analysis indicated that a combination of intense light and La3+ caused a large (down to zero) reduction in the rate of occurrence of the quantal responses to single photons (quantum bumps) which sum to produce the photoreceptor potential.
  • (4) 1.57pm BST Lap 36: Punchy stuff from Jules Bianchi up to 13th, literally bumping his way through Kobayashi on the inside.
  • (5) The immigration minister, Scott Morrison, headed to Papua New Guinea on Friday to discuss Manus Island violence and refugee resettlement and to iron out what the PNG foreign minister, Rimbink Pato, describes as “bumps” in an asylum policy partnership that is still intact.
  • (6) When Matt Slater went swimming with his dog Mango in a Cornish estuary this month, he bumped into a barrel jellyfish.
  • (7) This year, on the first day, I bumped into a fellow market regular who was hawking a DVD title (no longer a badge of shame).
  • (8) But Gates’s decision to “bump off from art” and live “in the sphere of dirt, the dirty, the stuff that we think is in the ground” was revelatory, leading to invitations to Davos and a TED Talk, where he talked about how he revived a neighborhood with imagination and hard graft .
  • (9) Earlier that year he appeared to bump into the same opponent after losing to him.
  • (10) By using a temperature-sensitive allele, we have found that that norpA mutation has little or no effect on either the rhodopsin-metarhodopsin transition or the machinery of quantum bump production.
  • (11) It is now surely José Mourinho’s Premier League title to lose after Loïc Rémy ironed out a bump on the road for Chelsea with the late winner.
  • (12) The Cowboys, meanwhile, move to 7-3 and are back on the play-off road after a couple of recent bumps.
  • (13) From time to time I'd bump into Amy she had good banter so we could chat a bit and have a laugh, she was a character but that world was riddled with half-cut, doped-up chancers, I was one of them, even in early recovery I was kept afloat only by clinging to the bodies of strangers so Winehouse, but for her gentle quirks didn't especially register.
  • (14) If anionic production of quantum bumps in Limulus photoreceptors is mediated by changes in cyclic nucleotides, then the electrophysiological response of Limulus photoreceptors to tungstate may indicate a role for phosphodiesterase rather than adenylate cyclase in mediating light-induced cyclic nucleotide alterations in this cell.
  • (15) I have weekly massages to iron out all the bumps and grumbles in my legs.
  • (16) "There will always be bumps in the road … It's a relationship that can withstand those," the US official said.
  • (17) Mardi Gras is one of the best, friendliest, loveliest events that we have in our city A big smile for greeting people that you know, because you’ll bump into them everywhere.
  • (18) Similarly, the Ernst & Young Item Club forecasting group recently warned that Britain faces a painful and prolonged "VW-shaped recovery" as the economy "bumps along the bottom", held back by weaker consumer spending and government cost-cutting.
  • (19) The usual Monday lineup of Australian Story, Four Corners, Media Watch and Q&A were either shunted to ABC2 or bumped to next week as Canberra’s broadcasting team took over.
  • (20) The cellular mechanism for reducing the rate of spontaneous quantum bumps is not known.

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