What's the difference between bang and sudden?

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.

Sudden


Definition:

  • (a.) Happening without previous notice or with very brief notice; coming unexpectedly, or without the common preparation; immediate; instant; speedy.
  • (a.) Hastly prepared or employed; quick; rapid.
  • (a.) Hasty; violent; rash; precipitate.
  • (adv.) Suddenly; unexpectedly.
  • (n.) An unexpected occurrence; a surprise.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) One must be suspicious of any gingival lesion, particulary if there is a sudden onset of bleeding or hyperplasia.
  • (2) Electrophysiologic studies are indicated in patients with sustained paroxysmal ventricular tachycardia, ventricular fibrillation or aborted sudden death.
  • (3) The strongest predictor of non-sudden cardiac death was the New York Heart Association functional class.
  • (4) But it will be a subtle difference, because it's already abundantly clear there's no danger of the war being suddenly forgotten, or made to seem irrelevant to our sense of what Europe and the world has to avoid repeating.
  • (5) We report a case of a sudden death in a SCUBA diver working at a water treatment facility.
  • (6) In addition to the 89 cases of sudden and unexpected death before the age of 50 (preceded by some modification of the patient's life style in 29 cases), 11 cases were symptomatic and 5 were transplanted with a good result.
  • (7) For the case described by the author primary tearing of the chiasma due to sudden applanation of the skull in the frontal region with burstfractures in the anterior cranial fossa is assumed.
  • (8) The automatic half of both the motor which advances the trepan as well as the second motor which rotates the trepan is triggered by the sudden change in electrical resistance between the trepan and the patient's internal body fluid, at the final stage of penetration.
  • (9) In addition, recent studies have not confirmed previous observations that diuretic-induced hypokalaemia increases ventricular ectopy or contributes to sudden death.
  • (10) Because of these different direct and indirect actions, a sudden cessation of sinus node activity or sudden AV block may result in the diseased heart in a prolonged and even fatal cardiac standstill, especially if the tolerance to ischemia of other organs (notably the brain) is decreased.
  • (11) The high ED50 immediately after vagotomy is ascribed to the sudden fall in the subthreshold release of acetylcholine previously supplied by the intact vagus.
  • (12) If it works anyone can do this exactly as we have done.” The sudden release follows weeks of visual clues left on the Radiohead frontman’s Twitter and Tumblr.
  • (13) 23 years old woman with sudden deafness and ipsilateral lack of rapid phase caloric nystagmus was described.
  • (14) Furthermore, myocarditis, pathological changes of the conduction system, and other rare conditions can lead to sudden cardiac death.
  • (15) Five of the children presented an "aplastic crisis," for example, a sudden decrease in hemoglobin concentration associated with absence of reticulocytes in the peripheral blood, and four were admitted with unremitting severe pain because of a "vaso-occlusive crisis."
  • (16) The authors present a boy with a sudden onset a large intracranial hematoma causing rapid neurologic deterioration.
  • (17) The animal showed progressive hindlimb paresis of sudden onset.
  • (18) In almost 80% of sudden cardiac deaths in ACMP foci of acute myocardial ischemia are found, that can lead to ventricular fibrillation with lethal outcome.
  • (19) There is a certain degree of swagger, a sudden interruption of panache, as Alan Moore enters the rather sterile Waterstones office where he has agreed to speak to me.
  • (20) Our data show that the incidence of sudden death over 51 months is relatively low in patients with single vessel disease.

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