Topic vs Bump - What's the difference?
topic | bump |
(l)
Subject; theme; a category or general area of interest.
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(obsolete) An argument or reason.
* Bishop Wilkins
(obsolete, medicine) An external local application or remedy, such as a plaster, a blister, etc.
A light blow or jolting collision.
The sound of such a collision.
A protuberance on a level surface.
A swelling on the skin caused by illness or injury.
* Shakespeare
One of the protuberances on the cranium which, in phrenology, are associated with distinct faculties or affections of the mind.
(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.
The swollen abdomen of a pregnant woman.
(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.
A temporary increase in a quantity, as shown in a graph.
(slang) A dose of a drug such as ketamine or cocaine, when snorted recreationally.
The noise made by the bittern; a boom.
A coarse cotton fabric.
A training match for a fighting dog.
To knock against or run into with a jolt.
To move up or down by a step.
(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.
(chemistry, of a superheated liquid) To suddenly boil, causing movement of the vessel and loss of liquid.
* 1916 , Albert Prescott Mathews, Physiological chemistry
To move (a booked passenger) to a later flight because of earlier delays or cancellations.
* 2005 , Lois Jones, EasyJet: the story of Britain's biggest low-cost airline (page 192)
To move the time of a scheduled event.
* 2010 , Nancy Conner, Matthew MacDonald, Office 2010: The Missing Manual , p. 332:
(archaic) To make a loud, heavy, or hollow noise; to boom.
* Dryden
As an adjective topic
is (l).As a noun topic
is subject; theme; a category or general area of interest.As a proper noun bump is
.topic
English
(wikipedia topic)Alternative forms
* topick (obsolete)Adjective
Noun
(en noun)The machine of a new soul, passage=The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure. Yet this is the level of organisation that does the actual thinking—and is, presumably, the seat of consciousness.}}
- contumacious persons, who are not to be fixed by any principles, whom no topics can work upon
- (Wiseman)
Synonyms
* subjectDerived terms
* topical * subtopic * off-topic * topic mapExternal links
* *Anagrams
* * *bump
English
Noun
(en noun)- It had upon its brow / A bump as big as a young cockerel's stone.
- the bump''' of veneration; the '''bump of acquisitiveness
- US presidential nominees get a post-convention bump in survey ratings.
Derived terms
* bump and grind * bump in the road * bumpity * bumpy * fist bump * razor bump * speed bump * things that go bump in the nightVerb
- I bumped the font size up to make my document easier to read.
- Heat until the liquid bumps , then reduce the heat and continue the boiling for 1½ hours.
- Easyjet said the compensation package for passengers bumped off flights was 'probably the most flawed piece of European legislation in recent years'...
- A colleague emails with news that her 4:30 meeting got bumped to 3:30.
- as a bittern bumps within a reed