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31bump — /bʌmp / (say bump) verb (t) 1. to come more or less heavily in contact with; strike; collide with. 2. to cause to strike or collide: to bump one s head against the wall. 3. a. to dismiss, as an employee or a member of a team. b. to reject… …
32bump — n., v., & adv. n. 1 a dull sounding blow or collision. 2 a swelling or dent caused by this. 3 an uneven patch on a road, field, etc. 4 Phrenol. any of various prominences on the skull thought to indicate different mental faculties. 5 (in narrow… …
33bump — vb 1a. to remove someone surreptitiously from a waiting list, in order to substitute a more favoured client. A piece of jargon from the world of air travel which entered the public consciousness in the late 1980s due to the prevalence of the prac …
34bump — v 1. collide with, crash into, smash into, run into, Inf. plow into; butt, jar, jolt, jostle; strike, beat, rap, hit, bang, tap, smack, thwack, thump. 2.(all by force of collision) dislodge, displace, move, remove, shift; budge, nudge, shove,… …
35bump — [[t]bʌmp[/t]] v. t. 1) to collide with; strike: The car bumped a truck[/ex] 2) to cause to strike or collide: He bumped the car against a tree[/ex] 3) to dislodge or displace by the force of collision 4) inf Informal. to remove, dismiss, or eject …
36off — Synonyms and related words: aberrant, abnormal, abroad, absonant, absurd, adrift, adulterated, all abroad, all off, all wrong, aloof, amiss, askew, astray, at a distance, at fault, at leisure, at liberty, at loose ends, atonal, available, away,… …
37off — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adv. away, at a distance. adj. disconnected, discontinued; in error, mistaken; tainted, rank, stale, high; substandard, below par, not up to scratch. See distance, separation, deterioration, inferiority …
38off — 1) vb American to kill. A word popular at the time of the Vietnam War when off the pigs was a slogan much chanted by militant protest ers. The term, possibly derived from bump off, was picked up by British speak ers and enjoyed a brief vogue in… …
39Bump fire — Bump firing is the act of using the recoil of a firearm with or without a stock to fire multiple rounds in rapid succession. This process is achieved by holding the firearm in a normal firing position, releasing the grip on the firing hand… …
40Bump mapping — is a computer graphics technique where at each pixel, a perturbation to the surface normal of the object being rendered is looked up in a heightmap and applied before the illumination calculation is done (see, for instance, Phong shading). The… …
