What's the difference between bang and bung?

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.

Bung


Definition:

  • (n.) The large stopper of the orifice in the bilge of a cask.
  • (n.) The orifice in the bilge of a cask through which it is filled; bunghole.
  • (n.) A sharper or pickpocket.
  • (v. t.) To stop, as the orifice in the bilge of a cask, with a bung; to close; -- with up.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) More than 60 officers, who might be investigating a burglary in your street, are zealously pursuing other cops and public officials who may, or may not, have taken bungs from Sun journalists in return for information.
  • (2) "I said it's got nothing to do with a bung," he explained.
  • (3) The femoral medullary cavity is plugged with a bone core taken from the excised femoral head or with a polyethylene bung.
  • (4) Dawn raids However, as Redknapp's successful 2008 challenge to the legality of the search warrant later revealed, Operation Apprentice was not related to bungs at all.
  • (5) In fact, the City of London police investigation centred not on bungs but on what the force has said was alleged money-laundering.
  • (6) Bung enough money at a sufficiently ingenious lawyer and you’re in the club.
  • (7) A document showing that former Sun editor Rebekah Brooks personally authorised a cash payment for a story was not disclosed to police investigating whether staff at her paper were paying bungs to public officials for tipoffs, a jury has heard.
  • (8) (lacovitti, L., M. I. Johnson, T. H. Joh, and R. P. Bunge (1982) Neuroscience 7:2225-2239).
  • (9) It is argued that Bunge's dialectic is developed from a dualistic universe and is, therefore, incompatible with Rogers's views on the unitary nature of phenomena.
  • (10) E. sinica Stapf, E. equisetina Bunge, E. intermedia Schrenk ex Mey., E. qrzewaskiistaqs E. monosperma Gmel.
  • (11) Stellate astrocytes might therefore represent mature astrocytes in vivo (Ard and Bunge: J. Neurosci.
  • (12) The claims had credence, because even before the billions from Sky TV and the Premier League's commercial revolution, bungs were indeed proved to have been paid.
  • (13) For example, bonuses of 200% have become routine; but why do so many companies use such rough and ready round numbers – hardly a sign that anybody has thought carefully about what is needed to produce performance and much more like a pure bung – and then accompany them with requirements for their eligibility that are far from demanding and transparent?
  • (14) Anyway, if there is a good time to get caught paying bungs, this wasn’t it, what with US president Donald Trump already hinting that he may have pharmaceuticals companies in his sights over drug pricing.
  • (15) In addition to new impulses initiated by Paracelsus, the author emphasizes the clinical and experimental studies pursued, from the 17th to the 19th centuries, by such scientists as Thomas Sydenham, Justus von Liebig, Carl von Voit and Gustav von Bunge.
  • (16) Threadneedle Street got quite sniffy when it was suggested that the FLS would be a bung to the high street banks benefiting only Britain's vociferous and overblown housing lobby?
  • (17) An original bank The problem with “challenger” banks, it is often said, is that they attract the most challenging customers – ie those who are happy to switch their current accounts for a year for £100, then depart in search of the next bung.
  • (18) Or are the terrestrial services bunged up with clowns like in the UK, and you're giving them the bodyswerve?
  • (19) It is not as if his windfall had come from secretly manipulating the Libor rate or getting a bung for fixing a Fifa vote.
  • (20) When these date were compared to RGC survival and axon growth on SC (Baehr and Bunge: Exp.

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