What's the difference between bumper and collision?

Bumper


Definition:

  • (n.) A cup or glass filled to the brim, or till the liquor runs over, particularly in drinking a health or toast.
  • (n.) A covered house at a theater, etc., in honor of some favorite performer.
  • (n.) That which bumps or causes a bump.
  • (n.) Anything which resists or deadens a bump or shock; a buffer.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) On the upside, this year's monsoon will lead to bumper agricultural production, and the cheaper rupee also comes with a thick silver lining.
  • (2) Record numbers of shoppers hit the stores this weekend for the Thanksgiving Day sales but retail experts are sceptical that the trend can continue into a bumper Monday for online retailers.
  • (3) A rash of bumper pay deals would support the argument of the hawks, who believe interest rates should be raised to clamp down on inflation.
  • (4) This gesture goes some way to acknowledging the hypocrisy of an organisation which has sacked over 21,000 staff, while still attempting to pay bumper bonuses to the bosses.
  • (5) The Mr Benn approach also opens up lots of fancy dress options for TV sponsorship bumpers and blipverts.
  • (6) But the bumper year was somewhat blighted in the UK as Google was one of a number of multinational companies, including Amazon and Starbucks, that came under fire from MPs over their tax arrangements .
  • (7) Santander is planning to accelerate its expansion in Britain after reporting bumper profits in a market where it is now issuing 50% of all new mortgages.
  • (8) The run of unpredictable weather this season has left farmers and growers with bumper crops of "ugly" fruit and vegetables with reported increases in blemishes and scarring, as well as shortages due to later crops.
  • (9) 12.01pm GMT Report: Germany considering bumper aid payout for Greece.....
  • (10) None of these suggest a bumper year for the high street, since the jobless total is going up, house prices are going down, consumer confidence has cratered and real disposable income in 2011 saw its biggest fall since 1977.
  • (11) A bumper 16-page souvenir pullout will mark the end of its 30 years in print before it becomes the first national newspaper in the UK to go online only .
  • (12) The results are the second successive year of bumper returns for the major accounting firms and will fuel calls for more scrutiny from some backbench MPs and the small band of academics who closely watch the profession.
  • (13) Numerous educational materials were developed including training manuals, counseling booklets, tippee cups, posters, and bumper stickers.
  • (14) The company said it cannot make enough bumpers to satisfy demand, but will keep the offer of the free case open until September.
  • (15) The bumper return has prompted clubs to bring in new financial controls that they hope will limit wage inflation.
  • (16) She has also begun a privatisation programme and promised to put aside some of Nigeria's oil revenues in bumper years to cushion the country against plunging prices in future.
  • (17) We describe a patient in whom the internal bumper eroded into the stomach wall and was completely covered by gastric epithelium 11 months after gastrostomy tube placement.
  • (18) Headline profit before tax and one-off items is set to exceed expectations of £200m by up to 15% thanks to bumper sales – up 10% on a like-for-like basis in the 49 weeks to 7 January.
  • (19) It was also the year in which EastEnders and Coronation Street celebrated significant anniversaries by airing live episodes, which brought in bumper ratings.
  • (20) "The unpredictable weather this season, has left growers with bumper crops of ugly-looking fruit and vegetables with reported increases in blemishes and scarring, as well as shortages due to later crops.

Collision


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of striking together; a striking together, as of two hard bodies; a violent meeting, as of railroad trains; a clashing.
  • (n.) A state of opposition; antagonism; interference.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Structure assignment of the isomeric immonium ions 5 and 6, generated via FAB from N-isobutyl glycine and N-methyl valine, can be achieved by their collision induced dissociation characteristics.
  • (2) The reduction of such potentials can be explained in terms of collision between the antidromic volleys and those elicited orthodromically by chemical and thermic stimulation.
  • (3) The most common seenario was a vehicle-vehicle collision in which seat belts were not used and the decedent or the decedent's driver was at fault.
  • (4) One hypothesis to account for intercellular invasion proposes that a necessary condition for a cell type to be invasive to a given host tissue is that it lack contact paralysis of locomotion during collision with cells of that host tissue.
  • (5) The method requires that an orthodromic spike be recorded following an antidromic spike, with estimation of a collision interval analogous to that used for establishing antidromicity.
  • (6) We analized 71 car head-on collisions with 100 persons involved wearing seat belts.
  • (7) These questions are the points of collision of two immensely important spheres of interest in our everyday life.
  • (8) A woman who was 30 weeks pregnant was sitting with a three-point seat belt fastened in the front passenger seat of an automobile that was involved in a head-on collision.
  • (9) Instead of pulling off a rapprochement, the Brown ended up opening a new sore and he is, in all likelihood, on another collision course with his backbenchers, who have already recoiled from attempts to attach conditions to other welfare reforms.
  • (10) Collision is dependent on the hydrodynamic environment as well.
  • (11) What we are witnessing is the collision of two imperfect storms: the Conservative party’s turmoil over the future of taxation, and the transformation of the economy.
  • (12) This report, based on police records submitted to the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet from 1987 through 1989, characterizes motor-vehicle collisions with deer in Kentucky.
  • (13) There is only a minimal association of a poor prognosis with the speed or severity of the collision and the extent of vehicle damage.
  • (14) Collision locations were abstracted from police reports and assigned a census tract.
  • (15) These results indicate the usefulness of low-energy collision-activated dissociation tandem mass spectrometry in the daughter and parent scan modes for the analysis of ganglioside structure, in combination with fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry and high-energy collision-activated dissociation mass spectrometry.
  • (16) Five-part drama Collision was one of several successes last year, and ITV1 was named channel of the year last night, the day after Crozier's 46th birthday.
  • (17) Replays show that Maicon had an accidental collision with Lionel Messi's shoulder as a corner was sent in to the mixer.
  • (18) A Tn5tac1 insertion just inside the 3' end of cysQ, with its isopropyl-beta-D-thiogalactopyranoside-inducible tac promoter pointed toward the cysQ promoter, resulted in auxotrophy only when isopropyl-beta-D-thiogalactopyranoside was present; this conditional phenotype was ascribed to collision between converging RNA polymerases or interaction between complementary antisense and cysQ mRNAs.
  • (19) Most of the victims had multiple injuries, and only serious collisions, often with a heavier vehicle, led to fatal heart rupture.
  • (20) Induction of experimental neurosis (by collision of the alimentary and avoidance reflex) gave rise to changes not only in the output of HCl and gastric proteinases, but also in the ratio of macromolecular substances.