Definitie, Betekenis & Synoniemen | Engels word VAMP

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Definities van VAMP

1. Something added to give an old thing a new appearance.
2. Something patched up, pieced together, improvised, or refurbished.
3. The top part of a boot or shoe, above the sole and welt and in front of the ankle seam, that covers the instep and toes; the front part of an upper; the analogous part of a stocking. [from c. 1225]
4. (music) A repeated and often improvised accompaniment, usually consisting of one or two measures, often a single chord or simple chord progression, repeated as necessary, for example, to accommodate dialogue or to anticipate the entrance of a soloist. [from c. 1789]
5. (by extension) An activity or speech intended to fill or stall for time.
6. (transitive) To patch, repair, or refurbish.
7. (transitive) Often as vamp up: to fabricate or put together (something) from existing material, or by adding new material to something existing.
8. (transitive) To cobble together, to extemporize, to improvise.
9. (transitive, shoemaking) To attach a vamp (to footwear).
10. (ambitransitive, now, dialectal) To travel by foot; to walk.
11. (intransitive) To delay or stall for time, as for an audience.
12. (informal) A vampire.
13. (transitive, intransitive) To seduce or exploit someone.
14. (US, slang) A volunteer firefighter.
15. (transitive, UK, slang, obsolete) To pawn.
16. A flirtatious, seductive woman, especially one who exploits men by using their sexual desire for her; femme fatale. [from c. 1915]
17. (fiction, slang, transitive) To turn (someone) into a vampire.
18. (intransitive) To cosplay a vampire.

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Voorbeelden van het gebruik van VAMP in een zin

• She was originally typecast in exotic roles, often as a vamp or a woman of Asian descent, but her career prospects improved greatly following her portrayal of Nora Charles in The Thin Man (1934).
• Though described by a critic as "one of the worst plays ever written," it is a commercial success, largely due to Theda Bara as the central character of a vamp.
• Her femme fatale roles earned her the nickname "The Vamp" (short for vampire, here meaning a seductive woman), later fueling the rising popularity in "vamp" roles based in exoticism and sexual domination.
• It is an extended vamp, with individual instruments (mostly the guitar, tenor saxophones and organ) improvising brief licks on top.
• The sixth track, "Rock Your Body", incorporates tinny, "keyboard-set-to-emulate-clavichord" synthesizers of The Neptunes' late 90s productions, overlaid with "keys and a propulsive drum vamp".
• Also, young adults of the 1920s considered Victorian-era sexual and moral codes to be oppressive; Bohemianism continued to influence and be embraced by this generation following WWI, and the liberated flapper and vamp emerged as lifestyle personas in popular culture.
• Sliders are distinguished from flip-flops by their vamp strap which does not separate the big toe from the rest of the toes.
• During the 1920s, Cahun produced an astonishing number of self-portraits in various guises such as aviator, dandy, doll, body builder, vamp and vampire, angel, and Japanese puppet.
• An Oxford shoe is characterized by shoelace eyelets tabs that are attached under the vamp, a feature termed "closed lacing".
• Roughly the first 8 minutes of Part II A is a vamp over a D major groove with a repeated bass vamp in the left hand, and in Part IIb, Jarrett improvises over an F♯ minor vamp for about the first 6 minutes.
• The rest of the family comprised Charles' decorative wife Isabelle (Helen Bourne) and their four children—upstanding heir to the family law firm Simon (Thomas Russell), irresponsible teenager Matthew (Oliver Milburn), angelic countrywoman Rebecca (Karen Westwood) and beautiful go-getting vamp Juliette (Emma Davies).

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