different between bump vs ramp

English

Etymology

From Early Modern English bump (“a shock, blow from a collision", also "to make a heavy, hollow sound, boom”), probably of North Germanic origin. Compare Danish bump (“a thump”), Danish bumpe (“to thump”), Old Danish bumpe (“to strike with a clenched fist”). Apparently related to Middle English bumben, bummen (“to make a hollow noise”), Dutch bommen (“to hum, buzz”), German bummen (“to hum, buzz”), Icelandic bumba (“drum”), probably of imitative origin. More at bum, bumble. Compare also bomb.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?mp/
• Rhymes: -?mp

Noun

bump (countable and uncountable, plural bumps)

1. A light blow or jolting collision.
2. The sound of such a collision.
3. A protuberance on a level surface.
4. A swelling on the skin caused by illness or injury.
5. (obsolete) One of the protuberances on the cranium which, in phrenology, are associated with distinct faculties or affections of the mind. Also (dated, metonymically) the faculty itself
   • c.1845 Thomas MacNevin, cited in Charles Gavan Duffy (1896) Young Ireland: A Fragment of Irish History, 1840-45; final revision (London: T.F. Unwin) Vol.II p.100:

     Our task is to elevate the character of the people, raising up, in fact, their bump of self-esteem and suppressing the bumps of servility and fury.

6. (rowing) The point, in a race in which boats are spaced apart at the start, at which a boat begins to overtake the boat ahead.
7. The swollen abdomen of a pregnant woman.
8. (Internet) A post in an Internet forum thread made in order to raise the thread's profile by returning it to the top of the list of active threads.
9. A temporary increase in a quantity, as shown in a graph.

10. (slang) A dose of a drug such as ketamine or cocaine, when snorted recreationally.
11. The noise made by the bittern; a boom.
12. (preceded by definite article) A disco dance in which partners rhythmically bump each other's hips together.
13. In skipping, a single jump over two consecutive turns of the rope.
14. (uncountable) A coarse cotton fabric.
15. A training match for a fighting dog.
16. (snooker, slang) The jaw of either of the middle pockets.
17. (US, slang, uncountable) Music, especially played over speakers at loud volume with strong bass frequency response.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

bump (third-person singular simple present bumps, present participle bumping, simple past and past participle bumped)

1. To knock against or run into with a jolt.
2. To move up or down by a step; displace.

3. (Internet) To post in an Internet forum thread in order to raise the thread's profile by returning it to the top of the list of active threads.
4. (chemistry, of a superheated liquid) To suddenly boil, causing movement of the vessel and loss of liquid.
5. (transitive) To move (a booked passenger) to a later flight because of earlier delays or cancellations.
   • 2005, Lois Jones, EasyJet: the story of Britain's biggest low-cost airline (page 192)

     Easyjet said the compensation package for passengers bumped off flights was 'probably the most flawed piece of European legislation in recent years' […]

6. (transitive) To move the time of (a scheduled event).
   • 2010, Nancy Conner, Matthew MacDonald, Office 2010: The Missing Manual, p. 332:

     A colleague emails with news that her 4:30 meeting got bumped to 3:30.

7. (transitive) To pick (a lock) with a repeated striking motion that dislodges the pins.
8. (intransitive, archaic) To make a loud, heavy, or hollow noise; to boom.

   • as a bittern bumps within a reed

9. (printing, dated) To spread out material so as to fill any desired number of pages.
10. (slang, transitive) To assassinate; to bump off.
    • 1944, William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett, Jules Furthman, The Big Sleep (screenplay)

      You know about the night the kid bumped Brody?

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Translations

Interjection

bump

1. (Internet) Posted in an Internet forum thread in order to raise the thread's profile by returning it to the top of the list of active threads.

Danish

Etymology

Onomatopoeic, compare English bump.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bom?p/, [?b??m?b?]
• Homophone: bomb

Noun

bump n (singular definite bumpet, plural indefinite bump)

1. thud
2. jolt
3. road hump

Inflection

Derived terms

• vejbump
• bumpe

Verb

bump (form)

1. imperative of bumpe

Welsh

Numeral

bump

1. Soft mutation of pump (“five”).

Mutation

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æmp/
• Rhymes: -æmp

Etymology 1

From French rampe, back-formation of Old French ramper, from Frankish *ramp?n, *hramp?n (“to contract oneself”), akin to Old English hrimpan (“to wrinkle, rimple, rumple”), Old High German rimpfan (German rümpfen (“to wrinkle up”)). Compare Danish rimpe (“to fold" (archaic), "to baste”), Icelandic rimpa. More at rimple.

Noun

ramp (plural ramps)

1. An inclined surface that connects two levels; an incline.
2. A road that connects a freeway to a surface street or another freeway.
3. (aviation) A mobile staircase that is attached to the doors of an aircraft at an airport
4. (aviation) A large parking area in an airport for aircraft, for loading and unloading or for storage (see also apron)
5. (aviation) A surface inside the air intake of a supersonic aircraft which adjusts in position to allow for efficient shock wave compression of incoming air at a wide range of different Mach numbers.
6. (skating) A construction used to do skating tricks, usually in the form of part of a pipe.
7. A speed bump. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
8. (obsolete) A leap or bound.
9. A concave bend at the top or cap of a railing, wall, or coping; a romp.

Derived terms

• boat ramp
• rampie

Translations

Verb

ramp (third-person singular simple present ramps, present participle ramping, simple past and past participle ramped)

1. To behave violently; to rage.
   • 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1943, Chapter XII, p. 196, [1]

     Mick raged and ramped at the barred door till his voice failed,

2. (obsolete, intransitive) To spring; to leap; to bound, rear, or prance; to move swiftly or violently.
3. (obsolete, intransitive) To climb, like a plant; to creep up.

   • With claspers and tendrils, they [plants] catch hold, […] and so ramping upon trees, […] they mount up to a great height.

4. (obsolete, intransitive) To stand in a rampant position. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
5. (transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) change value, often at a steady rate.
   • 2007, Sean Meyn, Control Techniques for Complex Networks (page 285)

     If Q(t) < q^p then primary generation ramps up at maximal rate, subject to the constraint that Q(t) does not exceed this threshold.

   • 2011, Sheng Liu, Yong Liu, Modeling and Simulation for Microelectronic Packaging Assembly

     The forces are ramped down gradually to ensure that element removal has a smooth effect on the model.

6. To adapt a piece of iron to the woodwork of a gate.

Derived terms

• ramper
• ramp up

Related terms

• rampage
• rampant

Translations

Etymology 2

See ramson.

Noun

ramp (plural ramps)

1. An American plant, Allium tricoccum, related to the onion; a wild leek.
2. (Appalachia) A promiscuous man or woman.
3. (Appalachia, derogatory) A worthless person.

Synonyms

• (Allium tricoccum): ramps, rams, ramson, ramsons, wild leek

Translations

See also

• buckram

Further reading

• Allium tricoccum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Allium tricoccum on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Allium tricoccum on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• ramp at USDA Plants database

Anagrams

• MRAP, parm, pram

Dutch

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch ramp (“misfortune”). Related to rimpel (“wrinkle”). In the 19th century, the grammatical gender of the word was a matter of debate. It was finally standardized as feminine, departing from its historical masculine gender.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r?mp/
• Hyphenation: ramp
• Rhymes: -?mp

Noun

ramp f (plural rampen, diminutive rampje n)

1. disaster, catastrophe

   • Mensen wensen geluk en welvaart en verafschuwen ongeluk en rampen

     People wish happiness and prosperity and abhor mishap and disasters

2. an accident

Synonyms

• catastrofe
• ongeluk

Derived terms

• kernramp
• olieramp
• rampspoed

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French rampe, back-formation of Old French ramper, from Frankish *ramp?n, *hramp?n (“to contract oneself”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r?mp/
• Hyphenation: ramp
• Rhymes: -?mp

Noun

ramp f (plural rampen, diminutive rampje n)

1. a ramp
2. a driveway

Synonyms

• (ramp): helling
• (driveway): oprit

Derived terms

• oprijramp

Etymology 3

Borrowed from English ramp, from French rampe.

Pronunciation

• (Netherlands) IPA^(key): /r?mp/, [?æmp]
• Hyphenation: ramp
• Rhymes: -?mp

Noun

ramp m (plural ramps, diminutive rampje n)

1. (skating) A construction to do skating tricks, usually in the form of one half of a pipe, a half-pipe.

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -am?p

Noun

ramp

1. indefinite accusative singular of rampur

Middle Dutch

Etymology

Related to rimpel (“wrinkle”).

Noun

ramp m

1. epilepsy, (human) cramp
2. bird claw disease, bird cramp
3. disaster, misfortune

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: ramp

Further reading

• “ramp”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000