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Definition of 'Bump'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (v.t.) bump
to collide with; strike:
The car bumped a truck.

2.  bump
to cause to strike or collide:
He bumped the car against a tree.

3.  bump
to dislodge or displace by the force of collision.

4.  bump
Informal. to remove, dismiss, or eject:
The airline bumped me from the flight.

5.  bump
Informal. to force upward; raise:
Demand from abroad bumped up the price of corn.

6.  bump
Poker.

7. (v.i.) bump
to come in contact or collide with:
She bumped into me.

8.  bump
to bounce along; proceed in a series of jolts:
The old car bumped down the road.

9.  bump
to use pelvic bumps in erotic dancing.

10.  bump
bump into, to meet by chance.

11.  bump
Slang. to murder.

12. (n.) bump
a collision; blow.

13.  bump
a swelling from a blow.

14.  bump
a small area raised above the level of the surrounding surface; protuberance.

15.  bump
a rapidly rising current of air that gives an airplane a severe upward thrust.

16.  bump
a forward thrust of the pelvis for erotic effect.

Etymology: (1560–70; imit.)

Definition of 'Bump'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) bump
a lump on the body caused by a blow

2. (noun) bulge, bump, hump, swelling, gibbosity, gibbousness, jut, prominence, protuberance, protrusion, extrusion, excrescence
something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings
"the gun in his pocket made an obvious bulge"; "the hump of a camel"; "he stood on the rocky prominence"; "the occipital protuberance was well developed"; "the bony excrescence between its horns"

3. (verb) blow, bump
an impact (as from a collision)
"the bump threw him off the bicycle"

4. (verb) bump, knock
knock against with force or violence
"My car bumped into the tree"

5. (verb) find, happen, chance, bump, encounter
come upon, as if by accident; meet with
"We find this idea in Plato"; "I happened upon the most wonderful bakery not very far from here"; "She chanced upon an interesting book in the bookstore the other day"

6. (verb) bump
dance erotically or dance with the pelvis thrust forward
"bump and grind"

7. (verb) demote, bump, relegate, break, kick downstairs
assign to a lower position; reduce in rank
"She was demoted because she always speaks up"; "He was broken down to Sergeant"

8. (verb) dislodge, bump
remove or force from a position of dwelling previously occupied
"The new employee dislodged her by moving into her office space"

Definition of 'Bump'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) bump
a lump or swelling
lots of little bumps on his skin

2. bump
a hit to sth
a bump on the head

3. bump
the sound of a sth hitting sth else
It fell with a loud bump.

4. (verb) bump
to hit
to bump your head; a bruise from bumping into the table

Definition of 'Bump'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) Bump
a thump; a heavy blow

2. (noun) Bump
a swelling or prominence, resulting from a bump or blow; a protuberance

3. (noun) Bump
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."

4. (noun) Bump
the act of striking the stern of the boat in advance with the prow of the boat following

5. (noun) Bump
the noise made by the bittern

6. (verb) Bump
to strike, as with or against anything large or solid; to thump; as, to bump the head against a wall

7. (verb) Bump
to come in violent contact with something; to thump

8. (verb) Bump
to make a loud, heavy, or hollow noise, as the bittern; to boom

Definitions of 'Bump'

The New Hacker's Dictionary

1. Bump
Synonym for increment. Has the same meaning as C's ++ operator. Used esp. of counter variables, pointers, and index dummies in for, while, and do-while loops.

Translation of 'Bump'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to knock or strike (something) She bumped into me; I bumped my head against the ceiling.
Afrikaans: stamp, bots	Arabic: يَصْطَدِم بِ، يَلْتَقي صُ	Bulgarian: блъсвам
Brazilian: chocar com	Czech: narazit	German: prallen, stoßen
Danish: støde; ramle	Greek: χτυπώ επάνω σε κπ. ή κτ.	Spanish: dar(se) un golpe
Estonian: mütsatama, mütsuga lööma	Farsi: خوردن به؛ ضربه زدن	Finnish: törmätä
French: (se) cogner (contre/dans)	Hebrew: לַחֲבוֹט	Hindi: धक्का, उछाल
Croatian: udariti	Hungarian: tompán megüt	Indonesian: membentur
Italian: andare a sbattere, urtare	Japanese: どんとぶつかる	Korean: 쿵하고 부딪치다
Lithuanian: trinktelėti, atsitrenkti	Latvian: sasist; uzskriet virsū	Malay: terlanggar
Dutch: stoten	Norwegian: dunke, skumpe	Polish: zderzyć się
Persian: خوردن به؛ ضربه زدن	Pashto: له څه شی سره لګیدل، ضربه	Portuguese: chocar com
Romanian: a (se) ciocni (de)	Russian: наталкиваться	Slovak: naraziť
Slovenian: trčiti (v/ob)	Serbian: lupiti	Swedish: stöta, dunka, törna
Thai: ชน	Turkish: çarpmak, toslamak	Taiwanese: 撞擊
Ukrainian: ударяти(ся), стукати(ся)	Urdu: ٹکرانا	Vietnamese: đụng mạnh
Chinese: 撞击
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