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Definition of hump in English: humpnoun hʌmphəmp 1A rounded raised mass of earth or land. they sat on a hump of cropped grass Example sentencesExamples - Almost immediately, a sonar scan of the sea bed revealed a line of unnatural-looking humps, only 100 ft out from the shore - an obvious invitation to the divers.
- The contouring of the fairways and greens is strong and the dramatic humps and hollows combined with the strategic design of the layout will present playing characteristics in a traditional links style.
- Thanks to a dry course, the ball landed on the downhill side of a grass hump and rolled 30 yards straight onto the green and into the cup.
- The Similans are granite humps which rise from the clear, tropical sea.
- But Mr Oswald said the breathtaking array of ditches, humps and bank was much more extensive than anyone had thought.
- From here there's a breathtaking view of the whale-like humps of the hills beyond Troutbeck, on the other side of the lake.
- If one were to travel past the countless monolithic factories and coal pits of the world's main continent, and onto where the equator was once, one would find a small hump of earth.
- Gravel pathways winding over humps in the landscape, idyllic wooden bridges crossing twinkling streams here and there, all clothed in colourful vegetation.
- There are multiple humps to get over, corners to putt round, small pipes to putt through and an impossible basket to putt into.
- There are certainly plenty of humps and dips, including deep valleys that correspond to several mass extinctions.
- The smooth humps of downland suited his purpose.
- Field surveys were conducted to measure the heights and widths of humps.
- There must be something worth looking at in this huge expanse of dry puna that stretched away from us to some distant humps.
- After an overnight stay in the hut we made an early start by following a wildlife trail up a rocky hump on the east bank of the stream to the east of the hut.
- 1.1 A mound over which railway vehicles are pushed so as to run by gravity over points to the required place in a marshalling yard.
Example sentencesExamples - Lastly, to accommodate the increasing postwar coal business, 26 more tracks were added to the classification yard west of the hump in 1949.
- Older hump yards utilized large numbers of ‘riders’, yardmen who rode cars to apply hand brakes as they went down the hump.
- A single-track hump can handle about 800 cars per shift.
- Six more tracks were also added to the classification yard, west of the hump.
- Scheme 4 created a hump yard on the West Toronto side with the hump crest at Runnymede Road just as was the existing hump.
2A rounded protuberance found on the back of a camel or other animal or as an abnormality on the back of a person. his back rose into a kind of hump at the base of the spine Example sentencesExamples - These adverse events include acne, easy bruising, moon face, swollen ankles, hirsutism, buffalo hump, and skin striae.
- Before beginning to walk, a baby with achondroplasia often develops a small hump on his upper back.
- There is often a prominent hump in front of the dorsal fin.
- In Indian waters the marine mammals display spotted skin and grow smaller humps.
- Compared to the domestic Bactrian camel, the wild Bactrian is greyer, slimmer, and has smaller sized humps spaced more widely apart.
- He snorted indignantly, and walked away across the tram rails, his hump quivering with rage.
- Appropriately named, the humpback chub has a small head and snout, a streamlined gray body streaked with silver, and a prominent hump along its back.
- Now, instead of the point, there are two round humps separated by a trough, like a camel's hump.
- Instead of a dorsal fin they have a prominent dorsal hump about two-thirds of the way down their back.
- The older members of the herd have full sets of antlers and prominent wooly humps, but they only walk.
- The people of Arabia used to cut off the humps of camels or the fat part of the sheep while still alive.
- Aging camels may be slaughtered for their meat, especially when guests are expected for a celebration, and the fatty camel's hump is considered a delicacy.
- His body was hunched over painfully, creating a hump at the back of his neck.
- One of this animal's distinguishing features is the saddle-like hump on its back.
- The wild Bactrian camel has longer legs, lighter fur, and smaller humps than domesticated camels have.
- The other is a deformed little man with a big hump on his back and oily black hair.
- An Asian camel with two humps can go only for a few days and would not last in Sinai conditions.
- He provides a sketch of a creature with the head of an elephant, a fishlike body with a camel hump, four legs like a lion, and a forked tail like a fish.
- They have a slender body with a low dorsal hump and no dorsal fin.
- During such times they live mainly off the fat stored in their humps.
Synonyms protuberance, lump, bump, knob, protrusion, prominence, projection, bulge, swelling, hunch, nodule, node, mass, growth, outgrowth, excrescence rare tumescence, tumefaction, intumescence
verb hʌmphəmp 1British informal with object and adverbial of direction Carry (a heavy object) with difficulty. he continued to hump cases up and down the hotel corridor Example sentencesExamples - Personally it worked OK for me but I am reasonably fit and can hump my luggage about without too much trouble.
- At least I no longer have to hump the zinc bath in from the backyard.
- And of course we never thought that some day we might have to hump the eighteen stone up Kilimanjaro.
- Heritage volunteers - many of them no longer in the prime of youth - literally humped everything up two flights of stairs in a bucket chain.
- I saw one group of traders run off like a startled herd, humping their bags of bags, while three police, like a pack of hunting dogs, scragged the least nimble.
- It's very nice not to have to meet train or bus time tables, to hump baggage, nor to contend with taxi drivers taking you on a tour when your destination is just around the corner.
- I don't drive, so the only way to get two big bags of compost and some plants home is to borrow a trolley and hump it up the hill!
- And the vandal humping various bags of concrete and heavy tools around in the middle of the night may also have been deterred by the sight of a uniform or two.
- Rather than just shuffle the new bottles in and let me hump them into the house, she asked me where I wanted them.
- I take my bag and hump it out of the front of the station where the smart double-decker coach is awaiting us.
- Don't be alarmed by the fat content of such food - you'll need plenty of fat, protein and carbohydrate fuel to hump your enormous pack up Mount Fuji.
- Everything had to be humped up and down countless stairs to get into the room - tables, chairs, the dozen or more boxes of crockery, all the catering equipment, and the well-stocked bar too.
- Huge tunas were humped off to local restaurants.
- You really can't hump 50 lb rucksacks with a back problem, can you?
- We have set up tours, got work permits, worked out hotels and humped equipment for our artists.
- Removals took one full day moving to and fro between the two houses with my two sons helping to hump the heavy stuff into and out of the van.
- You are going to hump it around airport terminals, on and off trains and buses.
Synonyms carry, lug, heave, lift, shoulder, hoist, heft, tote informal schlep Scottish informal humph rare upheave 2with object Make hump-shaped. he turned and humped his body to avoid a rope Example sentencesExamples - Without further pause and again in silence, I hump my body up over the rock.
Synonyms arch, curve, hunch, bend, bow, curl, crook 3vulgar slang with object Have sexual intercourse with. 4usually in imperative hump offIrish informal Go away. Example sentencesExamples - Does he ever feel like telling people to just hump off?
Phrases get (or have or give someone) the hump informal Become, be, or make someone annoyed or moody. fans get the hump when they lose Example sentencesExamples - It seems whoever got the hump and complained believed the ad implied that the driver of the car had been texting while driving, and that this encouraged people to do likewise.
- I wish humans were more like that - my wife gets the hump and she won't talk to me for a week.
- I got the hump so I sabotaged the tyres of the head's car by putting tin tacks in to puncture them.
- He said he did not mind her going up to see her parents and her children for days at a time, but she would get the hump when he stayed out down here for ‘more than two nights in succession.’
- Everything was fine as long as you never got the hump.
- To be honest, there was a time when I really got the hump with Spain.
- He or she got the hump because the ad didn't make it clear that the deal included an ‘additional, compulsory delivery charge’ of £39.99.
- Dozens of recently installed speed bumps in a Yorkshire suburb have been ripped out and replaced after council officials got the hump over their height.
- Debate has been raging about road safety, with people across London getting the hump.
- It is quite nice that people are getting the hump enough to write about it.
Synonyms take offence, be offended, take exception, bridle, take something personally, be aggrieved, be affronted, take something amiss, be upset, be annoyed, be angry, be indignant, get one's hackles up, be put out, be insulted, be hurt, be wounded, be piqued, be resentful, be disgruntled, get into a huff, go into a huff, get huffy irritate, vex, make angry, make cross, anger, exasperate, irk, gall, pique, put out, displease, get someone's back up, put someone's back up, antagonize, get on someone's nerves, rub up the wrong way, ruffle, ruffle someone's feathers, make someone's hackles rise, raise someone's hackles
Past the most difficult part of something. now we have reached this point we are over the hump Example sentencesExamples - If we all kick in a few bucks we can help them get over the hump.
- Then, in an instant, we are over the hump, the gray skies part, and we descend toward the lowlands.
- But, you know, Christmas and the New Year aren't too far away and soon we'll all be over the hump.
- If we lose our energy, we don't have one player who can get us over the hump or even to the free throw line late in the game.
- That's what got us over the hump and gave us the advantage in the first half.
- But when I'm over the hump, rest assured I will get back to you, even if you've totally forgotten that you emailed me.
- Something like this could really get us over the hump.
- Local retailers will be looking to residents to help them over the hump so that everyone can be part of the bright new future this regeneration will bring.
- ‘They look like they're over the hump now,’ he says.
- Change is usually a big part of a team getting over the hump.
Synonyms over the worst part, over the worst of it, out of the woods, on the road to recovery, on the up and up, on the way up, getting better, making progress, in the clear
Derivatives adjective A pencil drawing from 1982 presents four hunchbacks and freaks aboard a humpless camel standing on a platform mounted on a wheelcart. Example sentencesExamples - Our work has shown that the cattle of Europe, northern Asia, and Africa all have closely related DNA sequences and that they all belong to a group that corresponds most closely to the humpless cattle known as Bos taurus.
- Among these large animals was the prehistoric forerunner of all domestic humpless cattle: the aurochs.
- It is now accepted that all humpless domestic cattle are of a single species, Bos taurus, and that they all descend ultimately from the aurochs, Bos primigenius.
Origin Early 18th century: probably related to Low German humpe 'hump', also to Dutch homp, Low German humpe 'lump, hunk (of bread)'. If something annoying makes you get the hump the word is being used in something like its original sense. Hump arrived in English in the mid 17th century and is probably related to German humpe ‘hump’, and to Dutch homp ‘lump, hunk of bread’. Its earliest use was to mean ‘a complaint’, especially in the rhyming phrase humps and grumps, the ancestor of get the hump. With reference to a personal deformity it dates from the early 18th century.
Rhymes bump, chump, clump, crump, dump, flump, frump, gazump, grump, jump, lump, outjump, plump, pump, rump, scrump, slump, stump, sump, thump, trump, tump, ump, whump Definition of hump in US English: humpnounhəmphəmp 1A rounded protuberance found on the back of a camel or other animal or as an abnormality on a person's back. Example sentencesExamples - One of this animal's distinguishing features is the saddle-like hump on its back.
- The other is a deformed little man with a big hump on his back and oily black hair.
- Before beginning to walk, a baby with achondroplasia often develops a small hump on his upper back.
- The older members of the herd have full sets of antlers and prominent wooly humps, but they only walk.
- An Asian camel with two humps can go only for a few days and would not last in Sinai conditions.
- They have a slender body with a low dorsal hump and no dorsal fin.
- Compared to the domestic Bactrian camel, the wild Bactrian is greyer, slimmer, and has smaller sized humps spaced more widely apart.
- There is often a prominent hump in front of the dorsal fin.
- His body was hunched over painfully, creating a hump at the back of his neck.
- In Indian waters the marine mammals display spotted skin and grow smaller humps.
- During such times they live mainly off the fat stored in their humps.
- He provides a sketch of a creature with the head of an elephant, a fishlike body with a camel hump, four legs like a lion, and a forked tail like a fish.
- The people of Arabia used to cut off the humps of camels or the fat part of the sheep while still alive.
- Now, instead of the point, there are two round humps separated by a trough, like a camel's hump.
- The wild Bactrian camel has longer legs, lighter fur, and smaller humps than domesticated camels have.
- These adverse events include acne, easy bruising, moon face, swollen ankles, hirsutism, buffalo hump, and skin striae.
- Instead of a dorsal fin they have a prominent dorsal hump about two-thirds of the way down their back.
- He snorted indignantly, and walked away across the tram rails, his hump quivering with rage.
- Appropriately named, the humpback chub has a small head and snout, a streamlined gray body streaked with silver, and a prominent hump along its back.
- Aging camels may be slaughtered for their meat, especially when guests are expected for a celebration, and the fatty camel's hump is considered a delicacy.
Synonyms protuberance, lump, bump, knob, protrusion, prominence, projection, bulge, swelling, hunch, nodule, node, mass, growth, outgrowth, excrescence 2A rounded raised mass of earth or land. Example sentencesExamples - If one were to travel past the countless monolithic factories and coal pits of the world's main continent, and onto where the equator was once, one would find a small hump of earth.
- But Mr Oswald said the breathtaking array of ditches, humps and bank was much more extensive than anyone had thought.
- There must be something worth looking at in this huge expanse of dry puna that stretched away from us to some distant humps.
- There are multiple humps to get over, corners to putt round, small pipes to putt through and an impossible basket to putt into.
- After an overnight stay in the hut we made an early start by following a wildlife trail up a rocky hump on the east bank of the stream to the east of the hut.
- From here there's a breathtaking view of the whale-like humps of the hills beyond Troutbeck, on the other side of the lake.
- Thanks to a dry course, the ball landed on the downhill side of a grass hump and rolled 30 yards straight onto the green and into the cup.
- Almost immediately, a sonar scan of the sea bed revealed a line of unnatural-looking humps, only 100 ft out from the shore - an obvious invitation to the divers.
- The Similans are granite humps which rise from the clear, tropical sea.
- The contouring of the fairways and greens is strong and the dramatic humps and hollows combined with the strategic design of the layout will present playing characteristics in a traditional links style.
- There are certainly plenty of humps and dips, including deep valleys that correspond to several mass extinctions.
- Gravel pathways winding over humps in the landscape, idyllic wooden bridges crossing twinkling streams here and there, all clothed in colourful vegetation.
- Field surveys were conducted to measure the heights and widths of humps.
- The smooth humps of downland suited his purpose.
- 2.1 A mound over which railroad vehicles are pushed so as to run by gravity to the required place in a switchyard.
Example sentencesExamples - Older hump yards utilized large numbers of ‘riders’, yardmen who rode cars to apply hand brakes as they went down the hump.
- A single-track hump can handle about 800 cars per shift.
- Lastly, to accommodate the increasing postwar coal business, 26 more tracks were added to the classification yard west of the hump in 1949.
- Six more tracks were also added to the classification yard, west of the hump.
- Scheme 4 created a hump yard on the West Toronto side with the hump crest at Runnymede Road just as was the existing hump.
verbhəmphəmp 1British informal with object and adverbial of direction Lift or carry (a heavy object) with difficulty. he continued to hump cases up and down the hotel corridor Example sentencesExamples - Huge tunas were humped off to local restaurants.
- And of course we never thought that some day we might have to hump the eighteen stone up Kilimanjaro.
- I take my bag and hump it out of the front of the station where the smart double-decker coach is awaiting us.
- Removals took one full day moving to and fro between the two houses with my two sons helping to hump the heavy stuff into and out of the van.
- Heritage volunteers - many of them no longer in the prime of youth - literally humped everything up two flights of stairs in a bucket chain.
- I don't drive, so the only way to get two big bags of compost and some plants home is to borrow a trolley and hump it up the hill!
- At least I no longer have to hump the zinc bath in from the backyard.
- We have set up tours, got work permits, worked out hotels and humped equipment for our artists.
- Personally it worked OK for me but I am reasonably fit and can hump my luggage about without too much trouble.
- Everything had to be humped up and down countless stairs to get into the room - tables, chairs, the dozen or more boxes of crockery, all the catering equipment, and the well-stocked bar too.
- It's very nice not to have to meet train or bus time tables, to hump baggage, nor to contend with taxi drivers taking you on a tour when your destination is just around the corner.
- Don't be alarmed by the fat content of such food - you'll need plenty of fat, protein and carbohydrate fuel to hump your enormous pack up Mount Fuji.
- Rather than just shuffle the new bottles in and let me hump them into the house, she asked me where I wanted them.
- I saw one group of traders run off like a startled herd, humping their bags of bags, while three police, like a pack of hunting dogs, scragged the least nimble.
- You are going to hump it around airport terminals, on and off trains and buses.
- You really can't hump 50 lb rucksacks with a back problem, can you?
- And the vandal humping various bags of concrete and heavy tools around in the middle of the night may also have been deterred by the sight of a uniform or two.
Synonyms carry, lug, heave, lift, shoulder, hoist, heft, tote - 1.1no object Move heavily and awkwardly.
it was late morning by the time I finally humped into camp
2with object Make hump-shaped. the cat humped himself into a different shape and purred Example sentencesExamples - Without further pause and again in silence, I hump my body up over the rock.
Synonyms arch, curve, hunch, bend, bow, curl, crook 3vulgar slang with object Have sexual intercourse with.
Phrases Over the worst or most difficult part of something. Example sentencesExamples - ‘They look like they're over the hump now,’ he says.
- If we all kick in a few bucks we can help them get over the hump.
- But when I'm over the hump, rest assured I will get back to you, even if you've totally forgotten that you emailed me.
- Change is usually a big part of a team getting over the hump.
- Then, in an instant, we are over the hump, the gray skies part, and we descend toward the lowlands.
- But, you know, Christmas and the New Year aren't too far away and soon we'll all be over the hump.
- That's what got us over the hump and gave us the advantage in the first half.
- Something like this could really get us over the hump.
- If we lose our energy, we don't have one player who can get us over the hump or even to the free throw line late in the game.
- Local retailers will be looking to residents to help them over the hump so that everyone can be part of the bright new future this regeneration will bring.
Synonyms over the worst part, over the worst of it, out of the woods, on the road to recovery, on the up and up, on the way up, getting better, making progress, in the clear
Origin Early 18th century: probably related to Low German humpe ‘hump’, also to Dutch homp, Low German humpe ‘lump, hunk (of bread)’. |