Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word BUMP

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Definitions of BUMP

1. A light blow or jolting collision.
2. The sound of such a collision.
3. A protuberance on a level surface.
4. A swelling on the skin caused by illness or injury.
5. The swollen abdomen of a pregnant woman.
6. A temporary increase in a quantity, as shown in a graph.
7. In skipping, a single jump over two consecutive turns of the rope.
8. A training match for a fighting dog.
9. To knock against or run into with a jolt.
10. To move up or down by a step; displace.
11. The breeding call made by the bittern; a boom.
12. Of a bittern, to make its characteristic breeding call.
13. (card games) In the game of khanhoo, the act of claiming a newly discarded card when it is not one's turn, permitted when one can use the card to form a meld other than a sequence.
14. (card games) In the game of khanhoo, to claim a newly discarded card when it is not one's turn, permitted when one can use the card to form a meld other than a sequence.
15. (obsolete) One of the protuberances on the cranium which, in phrenology, are associated with distinct faculties or affections of the mind. Also (dated, metonymically) the faculty itself
16. (rowing) The point, in a race in which boats are spaced apart at the start, at which a boat begins to overtake the boat ahead.
17. (Internet) A post in an Internet forum thread made in order to raise the thread's profile by returning it to the top of the list of active threads.
18. (slang) A dose of a drug such as ketamine or cocaine, when snorted recreationally.
19. (preceded by definite article) A disco dance in which partners rhythmically bump each other's hips together.
20. (uncountable) A coarse cotton fabric.
21. (snooker, slang) The jaw of either of the middle pockets.
22. (US, slang, uncountable) Music, especially played over speakers at loud volume with strong bass frequency response.
23. (industrial relations) A reassignment of jobs within an organization (for example, when an existing employee leaves) on the basis of seniority.
24. (Internet) To post in an Internet forum thread in order to raise the thread's profile by returning it to the top of the list of active threads.
25. (transitive) To move (a booked passenger) to a later flight because of earlier delays or cancellations.
26. (transitive) To move the time of (a scheduled event).
27. (transitive) To pick (a lock) with a repeated striking motion that dislodges the pins.
28. (intransitive, archaic) To make a loud, heavy, or hollow noise; to boom.
29. (printing, dated) To spread out material so as to fill any desired number of pages.
30. (slang, transitive) To assassinate; to bump off.
31. (industrial relations, transitive) To displace (another employee in an organization) on the basis of seniority.
32. (colloquial, dated) To anger, irritate.
33. (internet) Posted in an Internet forum thread in order to raise the thread's profile by returning it to the top of the list of active threads.
34. A surname.
35. (Internet) Alternative form of bump.
36. (US, broadcasting) A short, self-promotional spot on a radio or television station.
37. (colloquial) A minor problem or difficulty.
38. (mining) A sudden movement of underground strata, preceded by a characteristic sound.
39. (physical chemistry, of a superheated liquid) To suddenly boil, causing movement of the vessel and loss of liquid.
40. (slang) To play music through a speaker, often loudly and in public.
41. (criminal slang and USmilitary slang, circa 1920–1950) To encounter and stop, to catch.
42. (intransitive) To move while bumping up and down, as a cart or car does on rough ground.

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Examples of Using BUMP in a Sentence

• In recent decades, the advent of multi-pass rendering, multitexturing, mipmaps, and more complex mappings such as height mapping, bump mapping, normal mapping, displacement mapping, reflection mapping, specular mapping, occlusion mapping, and many other variations on the technique (controlled by a materials system) have made it possible to simulate near-photorealism in real time by vastly reducing the number of polygons and lighting calculations needed to construct a realistic and functional 3D scene.
• Bump mapping is a texture mapping technique in computer graphics for simulating bumps and wrinkles on the surface of an object.
• There is presumably a spine on each body bump and faint transverse parallel striations on the annulations on the legs.
• Ackermann steering has the two advantages that it reduces tyre scrub, the need to drag tyres sideways across their tread when turning the steering, and also it reduced bump steer, suspension and road bumps tending to upset the steering direction.
• Bump caps are used where there is a possibility of scraping or bumping one's head on equipment or structure projections but are not sufficient to absorb large impacts, such as that from a tool dropped from several stories.
• Rhinoplasty may remove a bump, narrow nostril width, change the angle between the nose and the mouth, or address injuries, birth defects, or other problems that affect breathing, such as a deviated nasal septum or a sinus condition.
• Players can not bump their own pawns back to Start; if the only way to complete a move would result in a player bumping their own pawn, the player's pawns remain in place and the player loses their turn.
• japonica is easily distinguished from other North Pacific whale species by several fieldmarks: lack of dorsal fin or bump, very broad, black back, cyamid-covered callosities on the head and lips, a very arched jaw line, a very narrow rostrum, and often a V-shaped spout.
• Some maritime charts, including MacKenzie (1776) and Heather (1804), mark the peninsula where the village sits as 'Plack'; however, it is generally considered that the village was built on the 'Ploc' of Lochalsh, with 'Ploc' being understood in Gaelic as pimple or bump (of Lochalsh).
• The ability to shine through the bump or any past decrease in size supports the diagnosis of the bump as a ganglion cyst.
• Mollifiers are an important special case of bump functions as they can be used in distribution theory to create sequences of smooth functions approximating nonsmooth (generalized) functions, via convolution.
• The topographic structure which is externally visible and colloquially called the "Adam's apple" is caused by an anatomical structure of the thyroid cartilage called the laryngeal prominence or laryngeal protuberance protruding and forming a "bump" under the skin at the front of the throat.
• In 3D computer graphics, normal mapping, or Dot3 bump mapping, is a texture mapping technique used for faking the lighting of bumps and dents – an implementation of bump mapping.
• By expanding and cooling slightly, the layer in the opacity bump becomes more opaque, absorbs more radiation, and heats up.
• The arms have to control camber, particularly the way that the camber changes as the wheel moves up (into jounce, or bump) and down into rebound or droop.
• Hence, someone's level of intelligence, for example, could be literally "read off" from the size of a particular bump on his posterior parietal lobe.
• Gutsy Golbat: As four Golbat, players fly around the cave collecting hearts that are blown by a Jynx, taking care not to bump into their opponents or Magnemite along the way.
• Compared to its precursor Jupiter, the Extended version was driven by a new DirectX 9 renderer and other advancements, including the addition of Havok physics software for improved real-world physics simulation, dynamic per-pixel lighting, bump mapping, normal mapping, and specular highlighting.
• Under the current Cambridge rules, to overtake merely requires the pursuing boat to draw alongside the other boat's bow ball; side by side is good enough, and in the early part of the course a bump is deemed to occur when the bowball of the chasing crew passes the cox of the crew being chased.
• Ants belonging to the Formica genus possess a single knob or bump located between their thorax and abdomen.

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