(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.
Gall
Definition:
(n.) The bitter, alkaline, viscid fluid found in the gall bladder, beneath the liver. It consists of the secretion of the liver, or bile, mixed with that of the mucous membrane of the gall bladder.
(n.) An excrescence of any form produced on any part of a plant by insects or their larvae. They are most commonly caused by small Hymenoptera and Diptera which puncture the bark and lay their eggs in the wounds. The larvae live within the galls. Some galls are due to aphids, mites, etc. See Gallnut.
(v. t.) To impregnate with a decoction of gallnuts.
(v. t.) To fret and wear away by friction; to hurt or break the skin of by rubbing; to chafe; to injure the surface of by attrition; as, a saddle galls the back of a horse; to gall a mast or a cable.
(v. t.) To fret; to vex; as, to be galled by sarcasm.
(v. t.) To injure; to harass; to annoy; as, the troops were galled by the shot of the enemy.
(v. i.) To scoff; to jeer.
(n.) A wound in the skin made by rubbing.
Example Sentences:
(1) There was no correlation between disturbed gastric clearance, impaired gall bladder contraction, and prolonged colonic transit time in the patients with cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy nor was there a correlation between any disturbed motor function and age or duration of diabetes.
(2) The degree of the filling up and the dilation of the gall bladder, its functional state as well as the passibility of d. cysticus are evaluated by ultrasound examination and computer determination of the surface and dimensions of the gall bladder.
(3) One patient presented a rupture of the gall-bladder with formation of a bilioma in the adjacent liver tissue.
(4) When tissue metabolism was irreversibly inhibited by exposure to formaldehyde, hydrogen ion concentration and pCO2 were significantly decreased in the mucosal side of the chamber compared with the viable gall bladder.
(5) In 15 subjects the gall bladder emptied in relation to eating according to a double exponential function.
(6) On 3 April he announced on his website that he had inoperable gall bladder cancer, giving him, at most, a year to live.
(7) This is a report of the short- and long-term complications in a premature infant with tracheoesophageal fistula, including those related to central venous alimentation, seizures, chylothorax, bronchopulmonary dysplasia, dental erosions, gastroesophageal reflux, pulmonary problems, and gall stones.
(8) Adenomyomas of the gall bladder are rare benign neoplasms.
(9) The lack of symptomatic gall stones in cross sectional surveys is probably due to their rapid diagnosis and treatment.
(10) Histological examination suggested that the gall sludge in the pancreatic cyst was caused by the reflux of bile into the pancreatic duct through the papilla of Vater.
(11) The results were analysed according the morphological criteria (demonstration of the bile duct, intra-hepatic ducts, gall bladder and renal tract) and functional criteria (T max, half-time biliary excretion values, development of activity in the bile duct, in the gall bladder and in the gut).
(12) The number of stones per gall-bladder averaged 6.3 (1-20), size of stones 1.7 cm (0.5-2.8 cm), and duration of treatment 11.9 h (5-24 h).
(13) The types of metastasis expansion in the bones were determined radiologically: the most frequent--osteolytic, less frequent--mixed, and the osteoplastic type (prostate cancer, gall-bladder cancer, and pancreas cancer).
(14) Fractional turnover rate on the two regimens correlated with gall bladder emptying (n = 16, r = 0.61, p less than 0.01), but not with small intestinal transit time (r = 0.07, NS).
(15) Few to many cryptosporidia were present in the gall bladders and bile ducts of infected birds.
(16) Pulse rate and blood pressure were not affected by the gall bladder distension.
(17) Pancreatic duct abnormalities were more severe and occurred more frequently in patients with gall stones who had stones in the biliary tree than in patients with a normal biliary tree (postcholecystectomy patients, 55% v 25%) but the difference between the two groups just failed to be significant (chi 2 = 3.34).
(18) We conclude that a number of non-specific chronic inflammatory histological abnormalities were present in primary sclerosing cholangitis gall bladders.
(19) On histological examination, there were signs of acute cardiac failure; edema of the lungs, liver and gall bladder, partial myofibrillar degeneration and cytoplasmic vacuoles in the media of a small coronary artery.
(20) These investigations reveal that the great majority of cases of gall-stones are undiagnosed.