[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

bump \bump\, v. i. see boom to roar.
   to make a loud, heavy, or hollow noise, as the bittern; to
   boom.
   1913 webster

         as a bittern bumps within a reed.        --dryden.
   1913 webster
see also:
boom 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

bump \bump\, n.
   the noise made by the bittern.
   1913 webster

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

bump \bump\ bu^mp; 215, v. t. imp.  p. p. bumped
   bu^mpt; p. pr.  vb. n. bumping. cf. w. pwmp round
   mass, pwmpiaw to thump, bang, and e. bum, v. i., boom to
   roar.
   to strike, as with or against anything large or solid; to
   thump; as, to bump the head against a wall.
   1913 webster
see also:
bumped bumping 

[4] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

bump \bump\, v. i.
   to come in violent contact with something; to thump. "bumping
   and jumping." --southey.
   1913 webster

[5] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

bump \bump\, n. from bump to strike, to thump.
   1. a thump; a heavy blow.
      1913 webster

   2. a swelling or prominence, resulting from a bump or blow; a
      protuberance.
      1913 webster

            it had upon its brow
            a bump as big as a young cockerel's stone. --shak.
      1913 webster

   3. phren. one of the protuberances on the cranium which are
      associated with distinct faculties or affections of the
      mind; as, the bump of "veneration;" the bump of
      "acquisitiveness." colloq.
      1913 webster

   4. the act of striking the stern of the boat in advance with
      the prow of the boat following. eng.
      1913 webster
see also:
bump 

[6] : WordNet (r) 2.0

bump
     n 1: a lump on the body caused by a blow
     2: something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from
        a form syn: bulge, hump, gibbosity, gibbousness,
        jut, prominence, protuberance, protrusion, extrusion,
         excrescence
     3: an impact as from a collision; "the bump threw him off the
        bicycle" syn: blow
     v 1: knock against with force or violence; "my car bumped into
          the tree" syn: knock
     2: come upon, as if by accident; meet with; "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" syn: find, happen, chance,
         encounter
     3: dance erotically or dance with the pelvis thrust forward;
        "bump and grind"
     4: assign to a lower position; reduce in rank; "she was demoted
        because she always speaks up"; "he was broken down to
        sargeant" syn: demote, relegate, break, kick
        downstairs ant: promote
     5: remove or force from a position of dwelling previously
        occupied; "the new employee dislodged her by moving into
        her office space" syn: dislodge, displace
see also:
bulge hump gibbosity gibbousness jut prominence 
protuberance protrusion extrusion excrescence blow 
knock find happen chance encounter 
demote relegate break kick downstairs promote 
dislodge displace 

[7] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

460 moby thesaurus words for "bump":
   cat, abase, abasement, ability, aerospace, aerosphere, air hole,
   air pocket, airspace, appulse, aptness, assassinate, assault, bang,
   bang into, bear, bear upon, bearing, bent, bilge, blain, bleb,
   blister, blob, blow, bob, bobble, boil, boost, boot, boss, bounce,
   bow, break, brunt, bubble, buck, buffet, bulb, bulge, bull, bulla,
   bulldoze, bulldozing, bulling, bump against, bump into, bump off,
   bunch, bunion, bunt, burl, burst, bust, butt, butt against, button,
   cahot, caliber, can, cannon, capability, capacity, carambole,
   carbuncle, carom, carom into, cashier, casting down, ceiling,
   chance, chatter, chine, chink, chuckhole, clap, clash, click,
   clink, clop, clump, clunk, collide, collision, colophon,
   come across, come into collision, concavity, concuss, concussion,
   condyle, confront each other, convex, convexity, corn, crack,
   crack up, crack-up, cram, crash, crash into, crosswind, crowd,
   crump, crunch, cyst, dactylogram, dactylograph, dash into, debase,
   debasement, defrock, degradation, degrade, degrading, dement,
   demote, demotion, dent, deplume, depluming, depose, deprive,
   destroy, didder, dig, dilatation, dilation, dint, disbar,
   discharge, disemploy, disgrade, disgrading, dismiss, dispatch,
   displace, displume, displuming, distension, dither, do away with,
   do in, dowel, dower, downgrade, downgrading, dowry, drive,
   drum out, dull thud, ear, edema, elbow, eliminate, embossment,
   empty space, encounter, endowment, equipment, excrescence, execute,
   expel, faculty, fall foul of, falter, favorable wind, fingerprint,
   fire, flair, flange, flap, flick, flop, flump, fog, footmark,
   footprint, footstep, force, forte, fossil footprint, foul, front,
   furlough, furuncle, gall, genius, gift, give the ax, give the gate,
   gnarl, goad, grimace, hammering, handle, have an ague, head,
   head wind, high-pressure area, hill, hit, hit against, hole,
   humble, humbling, hump, hunch, hurt, hurtle, hustle, ice, ichnite,
   ichnolite, impact, impinge, impingement, impress, impression,
   imprint, indent, indentation, indention, instinct, intumescence,
   ionosphere, jab, jactitate, jam, jar, jerk, jetstream, jig, jigget,
   jiggle, jog, joggle, jolt, jostle, jounce, jump, kick,
   kick upstairs, kill, knack, knob, knock, knock against, knot, knur,
   knurl, lay off, let go, let out, light, lip, liquidate, long suit,
   loop, low-pressure area, lower, luck, lump, make redundant,
   makings, mauling, meet, meeting, metier, mole, mountain, mudhole,
   murder, natural endowment, natural gift, nevus, nub, nubbin,
   nubble, nudge, onslaught, overcast, pad, papilloma, parts, pat,
   patter, paw print, pawmark, peg, pension off, percuss, percussion,
   pile drive, pimple, pitapat, pitter-patter, plump, plunk, pock,
   pocket, poke, pop, potential, pothole, power, powers, press,
   pressure, print, prod, protuberance, pug, pugmark, punch, push,
   pustule, put away, quake, qualification, quaver, quiver, ram,
   ram down, ramming, rap, rattle, read out of, reduce, reduction,
   release, remove, replace, report, retire, rib, rictus, ridge, ring,
   rising, roughness, rub out, run, run across, run against, run into,
   rut, sack, seal, sebaceous cyst, separate forcibly, shake, shiver,
   shock, shoulder, shove, shudder, sideswipe, sigil, signet, slam,
   slam into, slap, slat, sledgehammering, smack, smack into, smash,
   smash into, smash up, smash-up, smashing, soup, space, speciality,
   spine, splat, stamp, step, stratosphere, stress, strike,
   strike against, strip, strip of rank, stripping of rank,
   strong flair, strong point, stud, stumble, style, substratosphere,
   superannuate, surplus, suspend, swap, swell, swelling, swollenness,
   tab, tail wind, talent, talents, tamp, tap, the goods, the stuff,
   thrust, thrusting, thud, thumbmark, thumbprint, thump, thwack, tic,
   tick, tinkle, tremble, tremor, tropopause, troposphere, trough,
   tubercle, tubercule, tumble, tumefaction, tumescence, tumidity,
   tumor, tunk, turbulence, turgescence, turgescency, turgidity, turn,
   turn off, turn out, twitch, twitter, unfrock, verruca, vesicle,
   vestige, vibrate, visibility, visibility zero, wale, wallop, wart,
   waste, welt, wen, whack, wham, whap, what it takes, whomp, whop,
   wipe out, wobble

[8] : Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)

bump vt. synonym for increment. has the same meaning as c's ++
   operator. used esp. of counter variables, pointers, and index dummies in
   `for', `while', and `do-while' loops.

[9] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

bump
     
        increment.  e.g. c's ++ operator.  it is used especially of
        counter variables, pointers and index dummies in "for",
        "while", and "do-while" loops.
     
        1994-11-29
     
     
see also:
c ++ 

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