Thump vs Bump - What's the difference?
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a blow that produces a muffled sound
* Tatler
the sound of such a blow; a thud
To hit (someone or something) as if to make a .
* (William Shakespeare)
* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=January 19, author=Jonathan Stevenson, work=BBC
, title= To thud or pound.
To throb with a muffled rhythmic sound.
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, title= 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
Thump is a related term of bump.
As a noun thump
is a blow that produces a muffled sound.As a verb thump
is to hit (someone or something) as if to make a.As a proper noun bump is
.thump
English
Noun
(en noun)- The watchman gave so great a thump at my door, that I awaked at the knock.
Verb
(en verb)- These bastard Bretons, whom our fathers / Have in their own land beaten, bobb'd, and thump'd .
Leeds 1-3 Arsenal, passage=Kasper Schmeichel brilliantly denied Marouane Chamakh before Bacary Sagna thumped home a second, though Bradley Johnson's screamer halved the deficit.}}
Travels and travails, passage=Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.}}
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
