(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.
Burp
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) "When I burp and pass wind the smell is absolutely horrendous.
(2) Emissions from livestock, largely from burping cows and sheep and their manure, currently make up almost 15% of global emissions.
(3) A 'mere' three hours per week on Radio 2 earn him £530,000 a year, which works out at £3,397 an hour, which, if you are inclined, you can break down into pounds per minute or pennies per burp.
(4) ITV's coverage of the tournament to date may or may not provide some fodder for Harry Hill's TV Burp, which returned with 4.4 million viewers, rising to 4.61 million when ITV1+1 viewers were included – a 19.3% share of the audience.
(5) In some ways these films are a straightforward response to box-office disenfranchisement: a burp from the bible belt, ignored by an industry set on manufacturing global blockbusters.
(6) Let's Dance was up against ITV1's New You've Been Framed, with 4.112 million (18.3%) and Harry Hill's TV Burp, which had 5.278 million (22.2%).
(7) In one species of vocalizing fish, the plainfin midshipman (Porichthys notatus), large, nest-guarding males ('type I') use striated muscles to produce acoustic communication signals that include short duration (less than 1 s) 'burps' important in agonistic encounters and long duration (in the order of minutes) 'hums' which function in attracting females to nest sites during the breeding season.
(8) Like, she wouldn't know that it's not OK just to burp in someone's face at the dinner table, which allowed me to play her with a measure of black comedy.
(9) It is effective in prevention of reflux and the patient is able to burp and vomit if necessary.
(10) Jack And The Beanstalk, SECC, Glasgow, to 6 Jan Harry Hill Harry Hill Ex-Burp man 1 Binoculars To check that I've legally parked from the office window.
(11) I miss Harry Hill's TV Burp [on ITV] and [BBC1's] Total Wipeout."
(12) drew 4.1 million and 19% at 7pm, while at 7.30pm Harry Hill's TV Burp brought in 5.3 million and a 23% audience share, down 1 million and five share points on last week.
(13) At the same time on ITV1, 4.5 million were watching Harry Hill's TV Burp.
(14) Burping (44.53%) and proper posturing (92%) of the child is not being practiced.
(15) Females, and a second group of smaller reproductively active males ('type II') that 'sneak' spawn, do not generate hums, although they produce burps.
(16) As executive chairman Michael Grade said he would move upstairs to become non-executive chairman of the cash-strapped broadcaster, his content-led recovery policy bore fruit with singing contest The X Factor winning best entertainment programme, while Harry Hill beat Ross to take home the Bafta for entertainment performance for the second year in a row, for his often-hilarious look at the week's television, TV Burp.
(17) W e will then live with the statistical risk of some gigantic underground burp.
(18) Decision Rules and Regulating Functions were associated only for burping during a feeding.
(19) 42% had no knowledge about the proper technique for feeding; 74%, burping; 90%, weaning; and 75%, colostrum.
(20) It was enough to put ITV1's lineup to the sword, including New You've Been Framed, which had 3.9 million viewers (17.2%) between 7.20pm and 7.50pm, and Harry Hill's TV Burp, with 4.3 million viewers (18.9%) between 7.50pm and 8.20pm.