thump

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A blow that produces a muffled sound.

   “... and so the universal thump is passed round, and all hands should rub each other’s shoulder-blades, and be content.”

2. isim The sound of such a blow; a thud.

   “An interesting feature of the church is the invisible clock, which you can hear thumping away as you enter. Constructed in 1525, it is one of the oldest timepieces in England. It chimes the hours and the quarters, and every three hours it plays a hymn. But it has no faces.”

3. isim Used to replace the vulgar or blasphemous element in "what the hell" and similar phrases.

   “Where the thump have you been?!”

4. isim Synonym of bump (“sudden movement of underground strata”).
5. fiil To hit (someone or something) as if to make a thump.

   “These bastard Bretons, whom our fathers / Have in their own land beaten, bobb'd, and thump'd.”

6. fiil To cause to make a thumping sound.

   “The cat thumped its tail in irritation.”

7. fiil To thud or pound.
8. fiil To throb with a muffled rhythmic sound.

   “Dance music thumped from the nightclub entrance.”

9. fiil (of a rabbit) to hit the ground with the back legs to signal agitation.