'Bump' definitions:
Definition of 'bump'
(from WordNet)
noun
A lump on the body caused by a blow
noun
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" [syn: bulge, bump, hump, swelling, gibbosity, gibbousness, jut, prominence, protuberance, protrusion, extrusion, excrescence]
noun
An impact (as from a collision); "the bump threw him off the bicycle" [syn: blow, bump]
verb
Knock against with force or violence; "My car bumped into the tree" [syn: bump, knock]
verb
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" [syn: find, happen, chance, bump, encounter]
verb
Dance erotically or dance with the pelvis thrust forward; "bump and grind"
verb
Assign to a lower position; reduce in rank; "She was demoted because she always speaks up"; "He was broken down to Sergeant" [syn: demote, bump, relegate, break, kick downstairs] [ant: advance, elevate, kick upstairs, promote, raise, upgrade]
verb
Remove or force from a position of dwelling previously occupied; "The new employee dislodged her by moving into her office space" [syn: dislodge, bump]
Definition of 'Bump'
From: GCIDE
Definition of 'Bump'
From: GCIDE
- Bump \Bump\, v. i. To come in violent contact with something; to thump. "Bumping and jumping." --Southey. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Bump'
From: GCIDE
- Bump \Bump\, n. [From Bump to strike, to thump.]
- 1. A thump; a heavy blow. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A swelling or prominence, resulting from a bump or blow; a protuberance. [1913 Webster]
- It had upon its brow A bump as big as a young cockerel's stone. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Phren.) 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." [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
- 4. The act of striking the stern of the boat in advance with the prow of the boat following. [Eng.] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Bump'
From: GCIDE
- Bump \Bump\, v. i. [See Boom to roar.] To make a loud, heavy, or hollow noise, as the bittern; to boom. [1913 Webster]
- As a bittern bumps within a reed. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Bump'
From: GCIDE
- Bump \Bump\, n. The noise made by the bittern. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'bump'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abase,
- abasement,
- ability,
- aerospace,
- aerosphere,
- air hole,
- air pocket,
- airspace,
- appulse,
- aptness,
- assassinate,
- assault,
- bang,
- bang into,
- bear,
- bear upon,
- bearing,
- bent,
- bilge,
- blain,
- bleb,
- blister,
- blob,
- blow,
- bob,
- bobble,
- boil,
- boost,
- boot,
- boss,
- bounce,
- bow,
- break,
- brunt,
- bubble,
- buck,
- buffet,
- bulb,
- bulge,
- bull,
- bulla,
- bulldoze,
- bulldozing,
- bulling,
- bump against,
- bump into,
- bump off,
- bunch,
- bunion,
- bunt,
- burl,
- burst,
- bust,
- butt,
- butt against,
- button,
- cahot,
- caliber,
- can,
- cannon,
- capability,
- capacity,
- carambole,
- carbuncle,
- carom,
- carom into,
- cashier,
- casting down,
- CAT,
- ceiling,
- chance,
- chatter,
- chine,
- chink,
- chuckhole,
- clap,
- clash,
- click,
- clink,
- clop,
- clump,
- clunk,
- collide,
- collision,
- colophon,
- come across,
- come into collision,
- concavity,
- concuss,
- concussion,
- condyle,
- confront each other,
- convex,
- convexity,
- corn,
- crack,
- crack up,
- crack-up,
- cram,
- crash,
- crash into,
- crosswind,
- crowd,
- crump,
- crunch,
- cyst,
- dactylogram,
- dactylograph,
- dash into,
- debase,
- debasement,
- defrock,
- degradation,
- degrade,
- degrading,
- dement,
- demote,
- demotion,
- dent,
- deplume,
- depluming,
- depose,
- deprive,
- destroy,
- didder,
- dig,
- dilatation,
- dilation,
- dint,
- disbar,
- discharge,
- disemploy,
- disgrade,
- disgrading,
- dismiss,
- dispatch,
- displace,
- displume,
- displuming,
- distension,
- dither,
- do away with,
- do in,
- dowel,
- dower,
- downgrade,
- downgrading,
- dowry,
- drive,
- drum out,
- dull thud,
- ear,
- edema,
- elbow,
- eliminate,
- embossment,
- empty space,
- encounter,
- endowment,
- equipment,
- excrescence,
- execute,
- expel,
- faculty,
- fall foul of,
- falter,
- favorable wind,
- fingerprint,
- fire,
- flair,
- flange,
- flap,
- flick,
- flop,
- flump,
- fog,
- footmark,
- footprint,
- footstep,
- force,
- forte,
- fossil footprint,
- foul,
- front,
- furlough,
- furuncle,
- gall,
- genius,
- gift,
- give the ax,
- give the gate,
- gnarl,
- goad,
- grimace,
- hammering,
- handle,
- have an ague,
- head,
- head wind,
- high-pressure area,
- hill,
- hit,
- hit against,
- hole,
- humble,
- humbling,
- hump,
- hunch,
- hurt,
- hurtle,
- hustle,
- ice,
- ichnite,
- ichnolite,
- impact,
- impinge,
- impingement,
- impress,
- impression,
- imprint,
- indent,
- indentation,
- indention,
- instinct,
- intumescence,
- ionosphere,
- jab,
- jactitate,
- jam,
- jar,
- jerk,
- jetstream,
- jig,
- jigget,
- jiggle,
- jog,
- joggle,
- jolt,
- jostle,
- jounce,
- jump,
- kick,
- kick upstairs,
- kill,
- knack,
- knob,
- knock,
- knock against,
- knot,
- knur,
- knurl,
- lay off,
- let go,
- let out,
- light,
- lip,
- liquidate,
- long suit,
- loop,
- low-pressure area,
- lower,
- luck,
- lump,
- make redundant,
- makings,
- mauling,
- meet,
- meeting,
- metier,
- mole,
- mountain,
- mudhole,
- murder,
- natural endowment,
- natural gift,
- nevus,
- nub,
- nubbin,
- nubble,
- nudge,
- onslaught,
- overcast,
- pad,
- papilloma,
- parts,
- pat,
- patter,
- paw print,
- pawmark,
- peg,
- pension off,
- percuss,
- percussion,
- pile drive,
- pimple,
- pitapat,
- pitter-patter,
- plump,
- plunk,
- pock,
- pocket,
- poke,
- pop,
- potential,
- pothole,
- power,
- powers,
- press,
- pressure,
- print,
- prod,
- protuberance,
- pug,
- pugmark,
- punch,
- push,
- pustule,
- put away,
- quake,
- qualification,
- quaver,
- quiver,
- ram,
- ram down,
- ramming,
- rap,
- rattle,
- read out of,
- reduce,
- reduction,
- release,
- remove,
- replace,
- report,
- retire,
- rib,
- rictus,
- ridge,
- ring,
- rising,
- roughness,
- rub out,
- run,
- run across,
- run against,
- run into,
- rut,
- sack,
- seal,
- sebaceous cyst,
- separate forcibly,
- shake,
- shiver,
- shock,
- shoulder,
- shove,
- shudder,
- sideswipe,
- sigil,
- signet,
- slam,
- slam into,
- slap,
- slat,
- sledgehammering,
- smack,
- smack into,
- smash,
- smash into,
- smash up,
- smash-up,
- smashing,
- soup,
- space,
- speciality,
- spine,
- splat,
- stamp,
- step,
- stratosphere,
- stress,
- strike,
- strike against,
- strip,
- strip of rank,
- stripping of rank,
- strong flair,
- strong point,
- stud,
- stumble,
- style,
- substratosphere,
- superannuate,
- surplus,
- suspend,
- swap,
- swell,
- swelling,
- swollenness,
- tab,
- tail wind,
- talent,
- talents,
- tamp,
- tap,
- the goods,
- the stuff,
- thrust,
- thrusting,
- thud,
- thumbmark,
- thumbprint,
- thump,
- thwack,
- tic,
- tick,
- tinkle,
- tremble,
- tremor,
- tropopause,
- troposphere,
- trough,
- tubercle,
- tubercule,
- tumble,
- tumefaction,
- tumescence,
- tumidity,
- tumor,
- tunk,
- turbulence,
- turgescence,
- turgescency,
- turgidity,
- turn,
- turn off,
- turn out,
- twitch,
- twitter,
- unfrock,
- verruca,
- vesicle,
- vestige,
- vibrate,
- visibility,
- visibility zero,
- wale,
- wallop,
- wart,
- waste,
- welt,
- wen,
- whack,
- wham,
- whap,
- what it takes,
- whomp,
- whop,
- wipe out,
- wobble