Difference between Find and Bump

What is the difference between Find and Bump?

Find as a verb is to encounter, to discover. while Bump as a verb is knock or run into with a jolt.

Find

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To encounter, to discover. To point out. To decide that, to form the opinion that. To determine or judge.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Anything that is found, especially by good fortune, particularly objects on archeological sites. A person with talent. The act of finding.

Example sentence: If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

Bump

Part of speech: verb

Definition: Knock or run into with a jolt.To post in an Internet forum thread in order to raise the thread's profile by returning it to the top of the list of active threads.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A light blow or jolting collision.The sound of such a collision.A protuberance on a level surface.A swelling on the skin caused by illness or injury.(rowing) The point, in a race in which boats are spaced apart at the start, at which a boat begins to overtake the boat ahead.The swollen abdomen of a pregnant woman.A post in an Internet forum thread made in order to raise the thread's profile by returning it to the top of the list of active threads.A temporary increase in a quantity, as shown in a graph.A dose of the drug ketamine, when taken recreationally.

Example sentence: The kind of people that love 'The Rocketeer' are the kind of people that love good storytelling and innocence and a better world, so to speak, so they're almost always nice people to bump into.

We hope you now know whether to use Find or Bump in your sentence.

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