(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.
Rowing
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Row
Example Sentences:
(1) Arizona on Wednesday executed the oldest person on its death row, nearly 35 years after he was charged with murdering a Bisbee man during a robbery.
(2) And any Labour commitment on spending is fatally undermined by their deficit amnesia.” Davey widened the attack on the Tories, following a public row this week between Clegg and Theresa May over the “snooper’s charter”, by accusing his cabinet colleague Eric Pickles of coming close to abusing his powers by blocking new onshore developments against the wishes of some local councils.
(3) But we sent out reconnoitres in the morning; we send out a team in advance and they get halfway down the road, maybe a quarter of the way down the road, sometimes three-quarters of the way down the road – we tried this three days in a row – and then the shelling starts and while I can’t point the finger at who starts the shelling, we get the absolute assurances from the Ukraine government that it’s not them.” Flags on all Australian government buildings will be flown at half-mast on Thursday, and an interdenominational memorial service will be held at St Patrick’s cathedral in Melbourne from 10.30am.
(4) However, a new, high-profile business deal, and a public row with her family, mean the multibillionaire's days of privacy are numbered.
(5) In the midst of all the newspaper headlines and vigils you can sometimes lose sight of the man who was on death row.
(6) Likewise, Blanchett's co-star Alec Baldwin appeared to call for an end to the public nature of the row, terming Dylan's allegations "this family's personal struggle".
(7) In the subsequent report into the row , the BBC concluded there was a "lack of direct control by Radio 2" over Brand's independent production company.
(8) These observations suggest that the inner dynein arms in Chlamydomonas axonemes are aligned not in a single straight row, but in a staggered row or two discrete rows.
(9) It is suggested therefore that the ATPase is not randomly distributed in the plane of the membrane but rather forms ordered clusters (probably rows of monomers or dimers) on the fluorescence time scale (nanoseconds) even in the presence of a large excess of phospholipid.
(11) However, BBC director general Mark Thompson said recently that the row over senior executives not relocating to the corporation's new headquarters in Salford would become a "non-issue" once the move is completed.
(12) Union urges M&S to open talks about pay and pension changes Read more M&S’s shares, which have fallen more than 40% in the past year, have come under pressure as investors assess the impact of Rowe’s plans on its profitability as well as the prospect of a high street downturn following the Brexit vote.
(13) In a month where the price of the paper increased its price to £1.40 on weekdays and £2.30 on a Saturdayand launched the "Own the Weekend" advertising campaign, the headline figure increased by 0.11% to 204,440, the third month-on-month increase in a row.
(14) The proliferation zone is only a few cell rows thick and contains single cells with an oval shape and longitudinal fibrocyte-like nucleus.
(15) It leaves 121 people on death row in the state, including two women.
(16) The row between two of the media industry's most colourful and abrasive figures took place in the YouView boardroom, located at Desmond's Northern & Shell Thameside skyscraper.
(17) Thorny issues of racism on the catwalk, of the impact of fashion on our relationship with food, of the decreasing relevance of the traditional catwalk show in the digital age, and of the bloated size of the fashion industry are the topics engrossing the front row.
(18) The row had been inflamed over the weekend by a series of leaks about the spiralling price of Gove's free schools and high costs of Clegg's free school meals, giving Labour ammunition to attack the government's education policy in Westminster.
(19) The prospect of prosecutions has already led to rows between the Obama administration and members of the Bush administration led by the former vice-president Dick Cheney, who said CIA morale would be damaged.
(20) Each forward pack was tested under the following scrummaging combinations: front-row only; front-row plus second-row; full scrum minus side-row, and full scrum.