English Dictionary: bump | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Bamboo \Bam*boo"\, v. t. To flog with the bamboo. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Bamboo \Bam*boo"\, n. [Malay bambu, mambu.] (Bot.) A plant of the family of grasses, and genus {Bambusa}, growing in tropical countries. Note: The most useful species is {Bambusa arundinacea}, which has a woody, hollow, round, straight, jointed stem, and grows to the height of forty feet and upward. The flowers grow in large panicles, from the joints of the stalk, placed three in a parcel, close to their receptacles. Old stalks grow to five or six inches in diameter, and are so hard and durable as to be used for building, and for all sorts of furniture, for water pipes, and for poles to support palanquins. The smaller stalks are used for walking sticks, flutes, etc. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Bomb \Bomb\, v. i. [Cf. {Boom}.] To sound; to boom; to make a humming or buzzing sound. [Obs.] --B. Jonson. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Bomb \Bomb\, v. t. To bombard. [Obs.] --Prior. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Bomb \Bomb\, n. [F. bombe bombshell, fr. L. bombus a humming or buzzing noise, Gr. [?].] 1. A great noise; a hollow sound. [Obs.] A pillar of iron . . . which if you had struck, would make . . . a great bomb in the chamber beneath. --Bacon. 2. (Mil.) A shell; esp. a spherical shell, like those fired from mortars. See {Shell}. 3. A bomb ketch. {Bomb chest} (Mil.), a chest filled with bombs, or only with gunpowder, placed under ground, to cause destruction by its explosion. {Bomb ketch}, {Bomb vessel} (Naut.), a small ketch or vessel, very strongly built, on which mortars are mounted to be used in naval bombardments; -- called also {mortar vessel}. {Bomb lance}, a lance or harpoon with an explosive head, used in whale fishing. {Volcanic bomb}, a mass of lava of a spherical or pear shape. [bd]I noticed volcanic bombs.[b8] --Darwin. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Bonify \Bon"i*fy\, v. t. [L. bonus good + -fy: cf. F. bonifier.] To convert into, or make, good. To bonify evils, or tincture them with good. --Cudworth. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Bump \Bump\, v. i. To come in violent contact with something; to thump. [bd]Bumping and jumping.[b8] --Southey. | |
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Bump \Bump\, n. [From {Bump} to strike, to thump.] 1. A thump; a heavy blow. 2. A swelling or prominence, resulting from a bump or blow; a protuberance. It had upon its brow A bump as big as a young cockerel's stone. --Shak. 3. (Phren.) One of the protuberances on the cranium which are associated with distinct faculties or affections of the mind; as, the bump of [bd]veneration;[b8] the bump of [bd]acquisitiveness.[b8] [Colloq.] 4. The act of striking the stern of the boat in advance with the prow of the boat following. [Eng.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Bump \Bump\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bumped}; 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. | |
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Bump \Bump\, v. i. [See {Boom} to roar.] To make a loud, heavy, or hollow noise, as the bittern; to boom. As a bittern bumps within a reed. --Dryden. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Bump \Bump\, n. The noise made by the bittern. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Bombay, NY Zip code(s): 12914 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Bonifay, FL (city, FIPS 7450) Location: 30.78482 N, 85.68386 W Population (1990): 2612 (1184 housing units) Area: 8.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 32425 | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
bamf /bamf/ 1. [from X-Men comics; originally "bampf"] interj. Notional sound made by a person or object teleporting in or out of the hearer's vicinity. Often used in {virtual reality} (esp. {MUD}) electronic {fora} when a character wishes to make a dramatic entrance or exit. 2. The sound of magical transformation, used in virtual reality {fora} like MUDs. 3. In MUD circles, "bamf" is also used to refer to the act by which a MUD server sends a special notification to the MUD client to switch its connection to another server ("I'll set up the old site to just bamf people over to our new location."). 4. Used by MUDders on occasion in a more general sense related to sense 3, to refer to directing someone to another location or resource ("A user was asking about some technobabble so I bamfed them to `http://www.tuxedo.org/jargon/'".) | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
BNF /B-N-F/ n. 1. [techspeak] Acronym for `Backus Normal Form' (often incorrectly expanded as `Backus-Naur Form'), a metasyntactic notation used to specify the syntax of programming languages, command sets, and the like. Widely used for language descriptions but seldom documented anywhere, so that it must usually be learned by osmosis from other hackers. Consider this BNF for a U.S. postal address: | This translates into English as: "A postal-address consists of a name-part, followed by a street-address part, followed by a zip-code part. A personal-part consists of either a first name or an initial followed by a dot. A name-part consists of either: a personal-part followed by a last name followed by an optional `jr-part' (Jr., Sr., or dynastic number) and end-of-line, or a personal part followed by a name part (this rule illustrates the use of recursion in BNFs, covering the case of people who use multiple first and middle names and/or initials). A street address consists of an optional apartment specifier, followed by a street number, followed by a street name. A zip-part consists of a town-name, followed by a comma, followed by a state code, followed by a ZIP-code followed by an end-of-line." Note that many things (such as the format of a personal-part, apartment specifier, or ZIP-code) are left unspecified. These are presumed to be obvious from context or detailed somewhere nearby. See also {parse}. 2. Any of a number of variants and extensions of BNF proper, possibly containing some or all of the {regexp} wildcards such as `*' or `+'. In fact the example above isn't the pure form invented for the Algol-60 report; it uses `[]', which was introduced a few years later in IBM's PL/I definition but is now universally recognized. 3. In {{science-fiction fandom}}, a `Big-Name Fan' (someone famous or notorious). Years ago a fan started handing out black-on-green BNF buttons at SF conventions; this confused the hacker contingent terribly. | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
bomb 1. v. General synonym for {crash} (sense 1) except that it is not used as a noun; esp. used of software or OS failures. "Don't run Empire with less than 32K stack, it'll bomb." 2. n.,v. Atari ST and Macintosh equivalents of a Unix `panic' or Amiga {guru} (sense 2), in which icons of little black-powder bombs or mushroom clouds are displayed, indicating that the system has died. On the Mac, this may be accompanied by a decimal (or occasionally hexadecimal) number indicating what went wrong, similar to the Amiga {guru meditation} number. {{MS-DOS}} machines tend to get {locked up} in this situation. | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
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. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
bamf /bamf/ 1. [Old X-Men comics] Notional sound made by a person or object teleporting in or out of the hearer's vicinity. Often used in {virtual reality} (especially {MUD}) electronic {fora} when a character wishes to make a dramatic entrance or exit. 2. The sound of magical transformation, used in virtual reality {fora}. [{Jargon File}] | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
BMF {Bird-Meertens Formalism} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
BMP {Basic Multilingual Plane} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
bmp Bmp files may use {run-length encoding}. This is the only graphics format where {compression} actually enlarges the file. The format is widely used nonetheless. [Format?] (1998-03-14) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
BMP {Basic Multilingual Plane} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
bmp Bmp files may use {run-length encoding}. This is the only graphics format where {compression} actually enlarges the file. The format is widely used nonetheless. [Format?] (1998-03-14) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
BMWF The Austrian, German and Swiss(?) Ministries of Science. [Expansion?] (1998-12-09) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
BNF {Backus-Naur Form}. Originally Backus Normal Form. [{Jargon File}] | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Boehm B. Proposed the COCOMO technique for evaluating the cost of a software project. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
bomb 1. not used as a noun. Especially used of software or {OS} failures. "Don't run Empire with less than 32K stack, it'll bomb". 2. of a {Unix} "{panic}" or {Amiga} {guru}, in which {icon}s of little black-powder bombs or mushroom clouds are displayed, indicating that the system has died. On the {Macintosh}, this may be accompanied by a decimal (or occasionally {hexadecimal}) number indicating what went wrong, similar to the {Amiga} {guru meditation} number. {MS-DOS} computers tend to {lock up} in this situation. 3. remains dormant until it is triggered. Logic bombs are triggered by an event whereas time bombs are triggered either after a set amount of time has elapsed, or when a specific date is reached. [{Jargon File}] (1996-12-08) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
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) |