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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Bump \Bump\, v. i. [See {Boom} to roar.]
     To make a loud, heavy, or hollow noise, as the bittern; to
     boom.
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           As a bittern bumps within a reed.        --Dryden.


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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Bump \Bump\, n.
     The noise made by the bittern.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Bump \Bump\, v. i.
     To come in violent contact with something; to thump. "Bumping
     and jumping." --Southey.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Bump \Bump\, n. [From {Bump} to strike, to thump.]
     1. A thump; a heavy blow.
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     2. A swelling or prominence, resulting from a bump or blow; a
        protuberance.
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              It had upon its brow
              A bump as big as a young cockerel's stone. --Shak.
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     3. (Phren.) One of the protuberances on the cranium which are
        associated with distinct faculties or affections of the
        mind; as, the bump of "veneration;" the bump of
        "acquisitiveness." [Colloq.]
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     4. The act of striking the stern of the boat in advance with
        the prow of the boat following. [Eng.]
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  bump
       n 1: a lump on the body caused by a blow
       2: something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from
          a form [syn: {bulge}, {hump}, {gibbosity}, {gibbousness},
          {jut}, {prominence}, {protuberance}, {protrusion}, {extrusion},
           {excrescence}]
       3: an impact (as from a collision); "the bump threw him off the
          bicycle" [syn: {blow}]
       v 1: knock against with force or violence; "My car bumped into
            the tree" [syn: {knock}]
       2: come upon, as if by accident; meet with; "We find this idea
          in Plato"; "I happened upon the most wonderful bakery not
          very far from here"; "She chanced upon an interesting book
          in the bookstore the other day" [syn: {find}, {happen}, {chance},
           {encounter}]
       3: dance erotically or dance with the pelvis thrust forward;
          "bump and grind"
       4: assign to a lower position; reduce in rank; "She was demoted
          because she always speaks up"; "He was broken down to
          Sargeant" [syn: {demote}, {relegate}, {break}, {kick
          downstairs}] [ant: {promote}]
       5: remove or force from a position of dwelling previously
          occupied; "The new employee dislodged her by moving into
          her office space" [syn: {dislodge}, {displace}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  460 Moby Thesaurus words for "bump":
     CAT, abase, abasement, ability, aerospace, aerosphere, air hole,
     air pocket, airspace, appulse, aptness, assassinate, assault, bang,
     bang into, bear, bear upon, bearing, bent, bilge, blain, bleb,
     blister, blob, blow, bob, bobble, boil, boost, boot, boss, bounce,
     bow, break, brunt, bubble, buck, buffet, bulb, bulge, bull, bulla,
     bulldoze, bulldozing, bulling, bump against, bump into, bump off,
     bunch, bunion, bunt, burl, burst, bust, butt, butt against, button,
     cahot, caliber, can, cannon, capability, capacity, carambole,
     carbuncle, carom, carom into, cashier, casting down, ceiling,
     chance, chatter, chine, chink, chuckhole, clap, clash, click,
     clink, clop, clump, clunk, collide, collision, colophon,
     come across, come into collision, concavity, concuss, concussion,
     condyle, confront each other, convex, convexity, corn, crack,
     crack up, crack-up, cram, crash, crash into, crosswind, crowd,
     crump, crunch, cyst, dactylogram, dactylograph, dash into, debase,
     debasement, defrock, degradation, degrade, degrading, dement,
     demote, demotion, dent, deplume, depluming, depose, deprive,
     destroy, didder, dig, dilatation, dilation, dint, disbar,
     discharge, disemploy, disgrade, disgrading, dismiss, dispatch,
     displace, displume, displuming, distension, dither, do away with,
     do in, dowel, dower, downgrade, downgrading, dowry, drive,
     drum out, dull thud, ear, edema, elbow, eliminate, embossment,
     empty space, encounter, endowment, equipment, excrescence, execute,
     expel, faculty, fall foul of, falter, favorable wind, fingerprint,
     fire, flair, flange, flap, flick, flop, flump, fog, footmark,
     footprint, footstep, force, forte, fossil footprint, foul, front,
     furlough, furuncle, gall, genius, gift, give the ax, give the gate,
     gnarl, goad, grimace, hammering, handle, have an ague, head,
     head wind, high-pressure area, hill, hit, hit against, hole,
     humble, humbling, hump, hunch, hurt, hurtle, hustle, ice, ichnite,
     ichnolite, impact, impinge, impingement, impress, impression,
     imprint, indent, indentation, indention, instinct, intumescence,
     ionosphere, jab, jactitate, jam, jar, jerk, jetstream, jig, jigget,
     jiggle, jog, joggle, jolt, jostle, jounce, jump, kick,
     kick upstairs, kill, knack, knob, knock, knock against, knot, knur,
     knurl, lay off, let go, let out, light, lip, liquidate, long suit,
     loop, low-pressure area, lower, luck, lump, make redundant,
     makings, mauling, meet, meeting, metier, mole, mountain, mudhole,
     murder, natural endowment, natural gift, nevus, nub, nubbin,
     nubble, nudge, onslaught, overcast, pad, papilloma, parts, pat,
     patter, paw print, pawmark, peg, pension off, percuss, percussion,
     pile drive, pimple, pitapat, pitter-patter, plump, plunk, pock,
     pocket, poke, pop, potential, pothole, power, powers, press,
     pressure, print, prod, protuberance, pug, pugmark, punch, push,
     pustule, put away, quake, qualification, quaver, quiver, ram,
     ram down, ramming, rap, rattle, read out of, reduce, reduction,
     release, remove, replace, report, retire, rib, rictus, ridge, ring,
     rising, roughness, rub out, run, run across, run against, run into,
     rut, sack, seal, sebaceous cyst, separate forcibly, shake, shiver,
     shock, shoulder, shove, shudder, sideswipe, sigil, signet, slam,
     slam into, slap, slat, sledgehammering, smack, smack into, smash,
     smash into, smash up, smash-up, smashing, soup, space, speciality,
     spine, splat, stamp, step, stratosphere, stress, strike,
     strike against, strip, strip of rank, stripping of rank,
     strong flair, strong point, stud, stumble, style, substratosphere,
     superannuate, surplus, suspend, swap, swell, swelling, swollenness,
     tab, tail wind, talent, talents, tamp, tap, the goods, the stuff,
     thrust, thrusting, thud, thumbmark, thumbprint, thump, thwack, tic,
     tick, tinkle, tremble, tremor, tropopause, troposphere, trough,
     tubercle, tubercule, tumble, tumefaction, tumescence, tumidity,
     tumor, tunk, turbulence, turgescence, turgescency, turgidity, turn,
     turn off, turn out, twitch, twitter, unfrock, verruca, vesicle,
     vestige, vibrate, visibility, visibility zero, wale, wallop, wart,
     waste, welt, wen, whack, wham, whap, what it takes, whomp, whop,
     wipe out, wobble
  
  

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  bump vt. Synonym for increment. Has the same meaning as C's ++
     operator. Used esp. of counter variables, pointers, and index dummies in
     `for', `while', and `do-while' loops.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  bump
       
          Increment.  E.g. {C}'s {++} operator.  It is used especially of
          counter variables, pointers and index dummies in "for",
          "while", and "do-while" loops.
       
          (1994-11-29)
       
       

















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