bumping
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]bumping
- present participle and gerund of bump
Adjective
[edit]bumping (comparative more bumping, superlative most bumping)
Noun
[edit]bumping (plural bumpings)
- 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.
- (physical chemistry) The violent boiling when a homogeneous liquid is superheated to the point that the bubbles are formed at pressure greater than atmospheric pressure and be expelled from the container
- Form of racing for coxed fours traditional at Oxford and Cambridge Universities; bumps race
- 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 3, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
- He listened, and with respect too, to Mr. Foker’s accounts of what the men did at the University of which Mr. F. was an ornament, and encountered a long series of stories about boat-racing, bumping, College grass-plats, and milk-punch—and began to wish to go up himself to College to a place where there were such manly pleasures and enjoyments.