different between gooseneck vs bumper

English

Etymology

goose +? neck

Noun

gooseneck (plural goosenecks)

1. (often attributive) Anything with a slender curved shape, resembling the neck of a goose, such as the shaft of some lamps.
   • 1961, James S. Holton, Sound Language Teaching: The State of the Art Today (page 77)

     The gooseneck microphone. Mounted to the desk or to the side wall of the booth, the gooseneck offers a limited degree of flexibility for height and depth adjustment of the microphone.

2. (nautical) The swivel connection on a sailboat located near the bottom of the mast that the boom attaches to. When a sailboat performs a tack or a jibe the gooseneck swings the boom from one side of the boat to the other.

Related terms

• gooseneck barnacle

Translations

English

Etymology

From bump +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?b?mp?(?)/
• Rhymes: -?mp?(?)

Noun

bumper (plural bumpers)

1. Someone or something that bumps.
2. (obsolete) A drinking vessel filled to the brim.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 443:

     […] they now shook hands heartily, and drank bumpers of strong beer to healths which we think proper to bury in oblivion.

   • 1818, Keats, Written in the cottage where Burns was born:

     Yet can I gulp a bumper to thy name,—

     O smile among the shades, for this is fame!

   • 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 8:

     Mr. Horrocks served myself and my pupils with three little glasses of wine, and a bumper was poured out for my lady.

   • 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, chapter 11

     Sydney Carton drank the punch at a great rate; drank it by bumpers, looking at his friend.

3. (colloquial, now chiefly attributive) Anything large or successful.
4. (automotive, US) Parts at the front and back of a vehicle which are meant to absorb the impact of a collision; fender.
5. Any mechanical device used to absorb an impact, soften a collision, or protect against impact.
   • The company sells screw-on rubber bumpers and feet.
6. (cricket) A bouncer.
7. (billiards) A side wall of a pool table.
8. (broadcasting) A short ditty or jingle used to separate a show from the advertisements.
9. (slang, dated) A covered house at a theatre, etc., in honour of some favourite performer.
10. (slang, Caribbean, Jamaican) A woman's posterior, particularly one that is considered full and desirable.
11. (music) An extra musician (not notated in the score) who assists the principal French horn by playing less-exposed passages, so that the principal can save their 'lip' for difficult solos. Also applied to other sections of the orchestra.
12. (pinball) An object on a playfield that applies force to the pinball when hit, often giving a minor increase in score.
13. (Australia, slang) A cigarette butt.

Descendants

Translations

Adjective

bumper (not comparable)

1. (colloquial) Large; filled to the bumpers at the top of a silo.

   We harvested a bumper crop of arugula and parsnips this year.

Translations

Verb

bumper (third-person singular simple present bumpers, present participle bumpering, simple past and past participle bumpered)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To drink from the vessels called bumpers.

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bomp?r/, [?b??mb??r]
• Homophone: bomber

Verb

bumper

1. present tense of bumpe

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English bumper.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?mp?r/
• Hyphenation: bum?per
• Rhymes: -?mp?r

Noun

bumper m (plural bumpers, diminutive bumpertje n)

1. bumper of a car, fender

Derived terms

• bumperkleven
• bumpersticker

Descendants

• Indonesian: bumper, bemper

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch bumper, from English bumper.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?b?mp?r]
• Hyphenation: bum?pêr

Noun

bumpêr (first-person possessive bumperku, second-person possessive bumpermu, third-person possessive bumpernya)

1. bumper.

Alternative forms

• bemper

Further reading

• “bumper” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Spanish

Noun

bumper m (plural bumpers)

1. bumper of a car