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# bump

«bump» in Mova's school dictionary: **a raised round part on a surface, like a bump in a road** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a bump, bumps); verb (bump, bumps, bumped, bumping)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A bump is a raised round part on a surface, like a bump in a road. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bump/#m1)

2) A bump is a swelling on your body where you have been hit. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bump/#m2)

3) To bump into something is to hit it by accident. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bump/#m3)

4) To bump into someone is to meet them by chance. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bump/#m4)

5) A bump is a dull sound of something hitting something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bump/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In safety, a bump on the head should be told to an adult, especially if you feel sick or dizzy. In road safety, speed bumps make cars slow down. In stories, a bump in the night is a scary sound. Phrases: bump into, bump your head, speed bump, a bumpy ride, things that go bump in the night.

### examples

- I bumped my head on the cupboard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bump/#x1)
- He has a big bump on his knee. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bump/#x2)
- Slow down for the speed bump. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bump/#x3)
- I bumped into my teacher at the shop. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bump/#x4)
- We heard a bump upstairs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bump/#x5)
- The bus bumped along the country road. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bump/#x6)
- Careful not to bump the table. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bump/#x7)
- Do you see this little bump on his forehead? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bump/#x8)

### note

Past form bumped. Adjective: bumpy. "Bump into" is used both for hitting and for meeting by chance; context tells which. A bump on the head that brings sleepiness, vomiting or confusion needs a doctor.

### In the corpora

- [You should always ask before touching someone's bump.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/18-were-having-a-baby/9/)
- [Snakes push their bodies against bumps on the ground to move, and pythons still have tiny leg bones left from ancestors with legs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/30-snakes-and-lizards/12/)
- [Warts on people are caused by a virus that passes between people, not by toads; the bumps on a toad are glands.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/89-amphibian-room-poison-frogs-axolotls-frog-rescue/15/)
- [The soles of a polar bear's paws have fur and small bumps that grip the ice and keep the feet warm.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/105-the-polar-zone-polar-bears/11/)
- [In 2022 the DART spacecraft bumped into an asteroid and changed its path, a test of how to protect Earth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/271-the-asteroid-the-day-the-dinosaurs-died/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bump» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bump/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.