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Definition: BUMPED |
BUMPEDImperative & past participle1. Of Bump |
Date "BUMPED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1808. (references) |
Crosswords: BUMPED |
| English words defined with "BUMPED": bump ♦ jolted ♦ knock. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "BUMPED": BUMPING. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Well, everyone else we've bumped into has died. (The Mummy; writing credit: Stephen Sommers; Lloyd Fonvielle) | |
Lyrics | You stumbled in and bumped your head, if not for me then you would be dead. (Kryptonite; performing artist: 3 Doors Down) And then I bumped up. I took the hit that I was given, (Semi-Charmed Life; performing artist: Third Eye Blind) Then I bumped again, And then I bumped again. (Semi-Charmed Life; performing artist: Third Eye Blind) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
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Theater & Movies | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | He bumped his elbow against the door at the end and, hurrying down the staircase, walked quickly through the two corridors and out into the air. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The truck bumped to a stop. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | When bumped from the front or when starting to walk, patients with a backward lean have a tendency to step backwards, which is known as retropulsion. (references) | |
If the penis is abnormally bumped or bent, an area where the septum attaches to the elastic fibers may stretch beyond a limit, injuring the lining of the erectile chamber and, for example, rupturing small blood vessels. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Art Linkletter | The good things about aging are you become more tolerant and more loving, more caring because you've been bumped around. You've had some troubles and you know how tough life can be. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "BUMPED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 76.64% of the time. "BUMPED" is used about 274 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 76.64% | 210 | 20,939 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 23.36% | 64 | 42,009 |
| Total | 100.00% | 274 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "BUMPED": bumped-up. | |
Ending with "BUMPED": goose-bumped. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
bumped gets thomas | 11 |
bumped | 10 |
bumped gets other story thomas | 5 |
bumped wafer | 2 |
bumped gets thomas video | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "BUMPED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 碰' (Bumping, Clash, Collide, Collision, Crashed, Crashing). (various references) | ||||
Finnish | pääni kolahti seinään (I bumped my head against the wall). (various references) | ||||
German | gestoßen (hustled, impinged, kicked). (various references) | ||||
Hungarian | torpedót kap (to be bumped), bombatalálatot kap (to be bumped). (various references) | ||||
Korean | 부"치" (Butted). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | umpedbay | ||||
Misspellings | |
"BUMPED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bomped, Bompito, bumed, Bumpety, Bumpo, Bumppo, Obimpeh. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "BUMPED" (pronounced bu"mpt) |
| 4 | -u" m p t | dumped, humped, jumped, lumped, plumped, pumped, slumped, stumped, thumped, trumped. |
| 3 | -m p t | attempt, camped, clamped, contempt, cramped, crimped, damped, decamped, encamped, exempt, limped, preempt, prompt, revamped, stamped, stomped, swamped, tempt, unkempt. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-e-m-p-u" | |
-1 letter: umped. | |
-2 letters: bedu, bump, dumb, dump, dupe. | |
-3 letters: bed, bud, bum, deb, dub, due, dup, emu, med, mud, ped, pub, pud, ump. | |
-4 letters: be, de, ed, em, me, mu, pe, um, up. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-d-e-m-p-u" | |
+1 letter: plumbed. | |
+2 letters: bumpered. | |
+3 letters: bethumped, replumbed, unplumbed, upclimbed. | |
+4 letters: humpbacked, subsampled. | |
+5 letters: prenumbered, subemployed. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 55 4D 50 45 44 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... ..- -- .--. . -.. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01010101 01001101 01010000 01000101 01000100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B U M P E D |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0055 004D 0050 0045 0044 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)365547503938 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Chinese | 字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译 | 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , kiinalainen, Chinesisch, kínai, 중국 |
Finnish | määritelmä, translaatio, taajuusmuutos | 芬蘭語 , 芬兰语, suomi, suomalainen, finnisch, finn, 핀란" |
German | wörterbuch, Übersetzung | 德语, 德國 , 德文 , 德語 , saksalainen, deutsch, Deutsche, német, 독일 |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | 匈牙利语, 匈牙利語 , unkarilainen, Ungar, magyar, 헝가리 |
Korean | 사 , 의, 번역 | 韩国语, "國 , 朝鮮語 , koreanisch, Koreaner, koreai, 한국 |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , englantia, englantilainen, englisch, angol, 영국 |
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