Dictionary entry details
• BUMP (noun)
Meaning:
A lump on the body caused by a blow
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("bump" is a kind of...):
harm; hurt; injury; trauma (any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.)
Meaning:
Something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings
Classified under:
Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes
Synonyms:
protuberance; protrusion; jut; hump; gibbousness; gibbosity; extrusion; excrescence; bulge; bump; prominence
Context examples:
the gun in his pocket made an obvious bulge / the hump of a camel / he stood on the rocky prominence / the occipital protuberance was well developed / the bony excrescence between its horns
Hypernyms ("bump" is a kind of...):
projection (any solid convex shape that juts out from something)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bump"):
wart (any small rounded protuberance (as on certain plants or animals))
snag (a sharp protuberance)
nub; nubble (a small lump or protuberance)
mogul (a bump on a ski slope)
caput (a headlike protuberance on an organ or structure)
belly (a part that bulges deeply)
occipital protuberance (prominence on the outer surface of the occipital bone)
frontal eminence (either prominence of the frontal bone above each orbit)
Meaning:
An impact (as from a collision)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural events
Synonyms:
blow; bump
Context example:
the bump threw him off the bicycle
Hypernyms ("bump" is a kind of...):
impact (the striking of one body against another)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bump"):
jar; jolt; jounce (a sudden impact)
slap; smack (a blow from a flat object (as an open hand))
sideswipe (a glancing blow from or on the side of something (especially motor vehicles))
buffeting; pounding (repeated heavy blows)
bang; bash; belt; knock; smash (a vigorous blow)
rap; strike; tap (a gentle blow)
concussion (any violent blow)
• BUMP (verb)
Meaning:
Knock against with force or violence
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
bump; knock
Context example:
My car bumped into the tree
Hypernyms (to "bump" is one way to...):
collide with; hit; impinge on; run into; strike (hit against; come into sudden contact with)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s PP
Also:
bump into (collide violently with an obstacle)
Meaning:
Come upon, as if by accident; meet with
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Synonyms:
find; encounter; bump; chance; happen
Context examples:
We find this idea in Plato / I happened upon the most wonderful bakery not very far from here / She chanced upon an interesting book in the bookstore the other day
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Dance erotically or dance with the pelvis thrust forward
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Context example:
bump and grind
Hypernyms (to "bump" is one way to...):
dance; trip the light fantastic; trip the light fantastic toe (move in a pattern; usually to musical accompaniment; do or perform a dance)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Sentence example:
They bump
Meaning:
Assign to a lower position; reduce in rank
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Synonyms:
demote; kick downstairs; relegate; bump; break
Context examples:
She was demoted because she always speaks up / He was broken down to Sergeant
Hypernyms (to "bump" is one way to...):
assign; delegate; depute; designate (give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person))
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "bump"):
sideline (remove from the center of activity or attention; place into an inferior position)
reduce (bring to humbler or weaker state or condition)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s something PP
Also:
bump off (kill intentionally and with premeditation)
Meaning:
Remove or force from a position of dwelling previously occupied
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
dislodge; bump; displace
Context example:
The new employee dislodged her by moving into her office space
Hypernyms (to "bump" is one way to...):
boot out; chuck out; eject; exclude; expel; kick out; throw out; turf out; turn out (put out or expel from a place)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "bump"):
throw (cause to fall off)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP
