Crossword clues for bumping
bumping
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bump \Bump\ (b[u^]mp; 215), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bumped (b[u^]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.
Wiktionary
n. The sound or action of a bump. vb. (present participle of bump English)
Wikipedia
Bumping may refer to:
Bumping is a phenomenon in chemistry where homogenous liquids boiled in a test tube or other container will superheat and, upon nucleation, rapid boiling will expel the liquid from the container. In extreme cases, the container may be broken.
Usage examples of "bumping".
I went back to the wall again, following it until bumping into another wall, then eased straight down.
You got away with bumping Bristow because of special circumstances, but do anything to Mitchell, and nothing will save you.
Three or four of us wandered around, bumping into some of the others from time to time.
I want to do yet, just sort of bumping around, looking for a niche I might fit into.
The prop bit air and pulled us slowly forward, bumping over the grass and shaking the plane.
Richard hopped down and tried to walk away from the gate, promptly bumping his head on the field.
There was a Roundabout, the Hoopla game, the Bumping Motor-Cars, and the Waxwork Show.
Greenstalk was silent for a second, then she did something funny with her axles, bumping free of the stickem.
They floated free, occasionally bumping into walls and discarded clothing, or drifting through tears.
He was pissed, if you want my opinion, about the job he was sent on, he was pissed at BM, pissed at management, he was upset as hell about the accident and he had no doubt whatsoever the company’d back him against us when we did find the body—just like the bumpings, just like that, bad blood, a way of shedding some of the fallout on us—because we couldn’t prove a damned thing.
We heard more subdued bumpings as he moved round the hull to the air-lock, and then there was a long pause while he examined the controls.
The car turned right under an elevated, the tires made hard, bumping sounds on rough cobbled pavement and the bumpings slowed as they caught a red light.
But how could he believe it with all the bumpings and the scrapings, the howlings and snarlings and cries in the night?