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What (who) is bump - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
BUMP; Bump (song); Bump (disambiguation); Bumped; The Bump; Bump the Elephant; Bump (TV series)
bump
I. n.
1.
Thump, knock, blow, shock, jar, jolt.
2.
Swelling, protuberance, lump.
3.
(Colloquial, in allusion to the doctrine of Phrenology that protuberances on the skull indicate faculties of the mind.) Faculty, power, endowment, gift.
II. v. a.
Knock, thump, strike, hit.
III. v. n.
1.
Come in contact, strike together, strike, thump.
2.
Boom (as the bittern), make a hollow, resounding noise.
bump
¦ noun
1. a light blow or a jolting collision.
Rowing (in races where boats make a spaced start one behind another) the point at which a boat begins to overtake or touch the boat ahead, thereby defeating it.
2. a protuberance on a level surface.
dated a lump on a person's skull, formerly thought to indicate a particular mental faculty.
3. Aeronautics a rising air current causing an irregularity in an aircraft's motion.
¦ verb
1. knock or run into with a jolt.
(bump into) meet by chance.
Rowing gain a bump against.
2. move or travel with much jolting.
3. (bump someone off) informal murder someone.
4. (bump something up) informal make something larger or appear to be larger.
5. refuse (a passenger) a reserved place on a flight because of deliberate overbooking by the airline.
N. Amer. displace from a job or position.
Origin
C16 (as v.): imitative, perh. of Scand. origin.
Examples of use of bump
1. A bump rate allows the investor to "bump" a CD to a higher rate should interest rates rise.
2. Still, he was willing to admit that the bump exists.
3. "What I can say is that I bump into her occasionally on social ... there are social events and I bump into her," she said.
4. "The results suggest that differential encoding initially causes the reminiscence bump, but resampling strengthens the bump." Janssen is a University of Amsterdam PhD student.
5. Jennifer‘s bump was momentarily on display Read more...