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Pumping vs Bumping - What's the difference?

pumping | bumping |

As verbs the difference between pumping and bumping

is that pumping is present participle of lang=en while bumping is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between pumping and bumping

is that pumping is the act by which something is pumped while bumping is the sound or action of a bump.

pumping

English

(wikipedia pumping)

Verb

(head)

    • Derived terms

    *pumping iron

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is pumped.
  • * 2010 , Nancy Mohrbacher, ?Kathleen Kendall-Tackett, Breastfeeding Made Simple
    • Focus on the number of pumpings per day, not the time between pumpings.

    bumping

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The sound or action of a bump.
  • * 1941 , Gladys Mitchell, When Last I Died
    • There was nothing to be seen, but he could hear loud thumpings and bumpings which seemed to come from the back of the house.