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Main definitions of bang in English

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  • 1A sudden loud, sharp noise.

    ‘the door slammed with a bang’
    • ‘The late-nights thuds and bangs have made it loud and clear - it's firework time again.’
    • ‘Hazel Stewart, 50, a teacher in the village, said locals were woken yesterday morning by a loud bang as the car smashed into the pub.’
    • ‘Whether the display is at 2pm or 2am is immaterial to animals, most of whom are terrorised by the sudden and loud bangs.’
    • ‘The station was flooded with complaints reporting of loud bangs from Sunset Beach to Tarcoola Beach.’
    • ‘Evacuating the offices, they heard loud bangs and crashing noises in the loft above their office and raised the alarm.’
    • ‘Locals reported hearing two loud bangs before the main explosion.’
    • ‘A loud bang accompanied with boisterous laughter startled her out from her thoughts and she groaned to herself.’
    • ‘A loud bang sounded, almost like a crack of thunder, but there was no pain, only blackness.’
    • ‘So if you hear loud crashes and bangs while walking past the Grammar, don't worry, it's only a couple of robots having a fight.’
    • ‘All of a sudden, a loud bang erupted from behind him followed by a shriek of pain.’
    • ‘Police were called to the scene after a neighbour reported hearing a loud bang.’
    • ‘The driver reported hearing a loud bang near the front of the vehicle and stopped to investigate, said Ernst.’
    • ‘People should also be aware that the elderly can be very frightened by loud bangs and also animals.’
    • ‘Pets are on tranquillisers and I have seen some horrible images of damage done to other animals frightened by loud bangs.’
    • ‘A cabin crew member also later reported hearing a loud bang from the ceiling of the aircraft just before the vibrations began.’
    • ‘Should we be entertaining ourselves with loud bangs and explosions?’
    • ‘A loud bang occurred when he slammed onto the hard, solid ground on his back.’
    • ‘With a loud bang, she slammed into the wall at the bottom of the stairway.’
    • ‘Not so long ago, such loud, booming bangs would have sent shivers down the spines of many.’
    sharp noise, crack, boom, clang, peal, clap, pop, snap, knock, tap, slam, bump, thud, thump, clunk, clonk, clash, crash, smash, smack
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    1. 1.1 A sharp blow causing a sudden, loud noise.
      ‘I went to answer a bang on the front door’
      • ‘His deep laugh mingled with the splashing of the water as a bang on the wall indicated Paul Hutchinson's annoyance.’
      • ‘Instead he lied and told them that he had heard a bang on the floor, and it was not until many hours after the accident that he told police the truth.’
      • ‘All of this would have taken a few seconds when suddenly there was a bang and the car jolted.’
      • ‘Just as we began playing there was a loud bang on the front door.’
      • ‘Suddenly a bang on the door was heard; Emilee and Lilly shot their glances onto the door, but it was only a bat.’
      • ‘Cushioned to protect your computer from bangs and bruises, the bags have reinforced straps and expandable openings.’
      • ‘He turned and punched the nearest wall with a resounding bang.’
      • ‘When it came within a metre of the canoe, Henri gave it a hard bang on the snout with his paddle.’
      • ‘At exactly 1pm, when the ship was about a mile off Beadnell Point, there was a small bang, followed by a colossal explosion which blew off the bow.’
      • ‘The house did not suffer any structural damage but when the lightning hit the house there was an enormous bang, the fuses blew and the power went.’
      • ‘Then his team romped around Cambridge in a pair of Humvees to tune the system so that it wasn't fooled by normal urban bangs and jolts.’
      • ‘Neighbours said they were woken by loud bangs and crashes.’
      • ‘‘My computer's broken,’ James said, rapping his knuckles on the machine and issuing a dull bang.’
      • ‘A large bang upon the large double doors nearly took Alex out of his train of thought.’
      • ‘There was no vehicle parked outside, there was no bang on the door and no card through the letter box.’
      • ‘More instructive was watching how quickly the experienced NCOs jumped and ran at any bangs from the drive bells.’
      • ‘Many of the wrecks around our coasts are either mine or torpedo victims, and either way there is a colossal bang, the ship gets a big chunk blown out of it and the rest lands in a heap nearby.’
    2. 1.2 A sudden painful blow.
      ‘a nasty bang on the head’
      • ‘Young Andrew Wilson, until a bang on the head necessitated his withdrawal, again played very well.’
      • ‘He took a bang on his head as he landed and someone must have told him he was Lev Yashin as the keeper got better.’
      • ‘The wife was shutting the garage door tonight and I didn't get out of the way quick enough, so I got a bang on the head.’
      • ‘She was shunted from the rear on her way to the flag and had a nasty bang into the bank just before the finish line.’
      • ‘His partner Agustin Pichot also took a bang on the head but it will hardly be revealed that he has concussion.’
      • ‘But I never realised he was, well, you know, I just thought he'd had a bang on the head.’
      • ‘My parents were actually worried about me playing rugby because of the old bang on the head.’
      • ‘Whether it was because of the blow or the resulting bang against the column, Suzanne didn't know.’
      • ‘She said Mr Cawthraw had been perfectly healthy until he had a bang on his head at work last November and passed out.’
      • ‘But, despite losing their playmaker, Mark Toohey, after only three minutes of the game with a bang on the head, the Bulldogs made their Super League opponents fight all the way.’
      • ‘John Hayden was hurt and Thomas Walsh got a bang on the cheekbone, which looks like a fracture.’
      • ‘Defender Matt Hocking is also not expected to travel to Keele after taking a bang on the head just minutes into last night's second half.’
      • ‘Rugby is the all-time leader in biffs and bangs and broken bones, but you don't often die.’
      • ‘Then Chris got a bang on the head and said he would feel better if I kept on kicking anyway.’
      • ‘The wing-back suffered a bang on the hip in training and while he would probably have been fit to face his former club he now has more time to recover.’
      • ‘I took a slight bang on the elbow, but the shoulder is absolutely fine - there was no reaction.’
      blow, hit, punch, knock, thump, rap, bump, thwack, smack, crack, slap, welt, cuff, box
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  • 2bangsNorth American A fringe of hair cut straight across the forehead.

    ‘she brushed back her wispy bangs’
    • ‘She had a dark and straight hair, with bangs falling over her purple eyes.’
    • ‘A cold sweat moistened his red hair and his bangs were plastered to his forehead.’
    • ‘I stared into his deep blue eyes, a few bangs of chestnut hair tumbled down his forehead.’
    • ‘A lecherous smile played on his lips and his hair was set loose, dark bangs falling over his forehead.’
    • ‘I came up again to float on my back, short hair fanning around me, bangs plastered to my forehead.’
    • ‘One day she would have blonde straight long hair and bangs and blue eyes, the next black curly hair and brown eyes.’
    • ‘A twelve-year-old boy with dark hair and long bangs hung around the wood-burning stove.’
    • ‘She had drawn a girl with long bangs and her hair pulled back in a ponytail.’
    • ‘Madison had silky black hair, half up and with bangs to cover her forehead.’
    • ‘In the month and a half since they stopped speaking, the vice president had cut his hair, shaggy with bangs and he looked more like a boy.’
    • ‘The long bangs of her dark hair fell in front of her face.’
    • ‘This face had chocolate brown hair with bangs almost in his dark blue eyes, which were framed with large round glasses.’
    • ‘His jet-black hair was slightly longer than most guys kept their hair; his bangs fell forward in spikes at his forehead.’
    • ‘After brushing her hair and letting her bangs fall over her forehead, Jewel went into the kitchen of her apartment.’
    • ‘The mage hid his face with the bangs of his midnight hair.’
    • ‘A person with brown hair and long bangs was the only one who stopped his track and turned around.’
    • ‘Her striking sapphire eyes looked violet, framed by her straight bangs and perfectly arched eyebrows.’
    • ‘Her usual curly hair was pulled up in a French roll with bangs falling over the forehead.’
    • ‘She had blond hair with bangs falling into her baby blue eyes.’
    • ‘Her black hair had crooked bangs as if she'd cut it herself.’
  • 3vulgar slang An act of sexual intercourse.

  • 4North American Computing
    The character ‘!’.

  • 1Strike or put down (something) forcefully and noisily.

    ‘he began to bang the table with his fist’
    ‘Sarah banged the phone down’
    no object ‘someone was banging on the door’
    • ‘Jas got bored and began banging his heels against the chair legs.’
    • ‘At this point I began banging my head on the table, so I turned the TV off.’
    • ‘From the very first scene, when those little orphan girls begin banging their buckets on the ground in unison singing It's a Hard Knock Life, they had me.’
    • ‘The fork shivered angrily and then slid across the table, banging Sven's glass.’
    • ‘He returned, and began to noisily bang his spoon on the table to distract Al-Allaf, who ignored him and continued to read out loud.’
    • ‘I begin banging my head against the table top, rattling the plates and cutlery.’
    • ‘The neighbors downstairs banged on the ceiling and so then I began banging my head against the wall.’
    • ‘He looked around quickly and desperately began banging his head against the nearest wall.’
    • ‘When he gets to me, he removes the person sitting opposite, flips down a tiny wall table, and bangs his elbow on it, hand open.’
    • ‘And in the front, a group of students are having a rap contest as they make their beats by banging on the table.’
    • ‘I put my head on the table and began to rhythmically bang it.’
    • ‘Chris walked lightly to my closet doorway and began banging his head on the frame lightly.’
    • ‘I began to bang my head on the table in front of me.’
    • ‘The other two burst out laughing, banging the table top with their paws.’
    • ‘Simon started cracking up again, banging his hand dramatically on the table as he held his stomach.’
    • ‘She began banging things around as she cooked the fish, and in the process of being spiteful and noisy, splashed herself with hot grease.’
    • ‘The mess table shook as Seahorse banged his forehead on it.’
    • ‘He promptly stood in front of it and began banging his head upon the curved surface.’
    • ‘He could hear Chela talking in the other room and began loudly banging the book on the table beside the laptop.’
    • ‘She turned around and began banging her forehead against the wall.’
    hit, strike, beat, thump, hammer, knock, rap, pound, thud, punch, bump, thwack, smack, crack, slap, slam, welt, cuff, pummel, buffet
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    1. 1.1with object and adverbial Cause (something) to strike something else unexpectedly and sharply.
      ‘I banged my head on the low beams’
      no object ‘she banged into some shelves in the darkness’
      • ‘I assumed […] that the noise we heard was my car banging into one of the pillars of the house.’
      • ‘And people just don't stop: everywhere you go they are banging into you.’
      • ‘Things in the room were starting to crash and bang into each other, making a mighty ruckus.’
      • ‘The worst part of that crash was likely the people banging into each other.’
      • ‘I bolted upright and banged my head on the shelf in the closet.’
      • ‘The next thing I know I have banged into the ref and he has gone down.’
      • ‘They were banging into elbows and not apologizing or anything.’
      • ‘On a regular basis, she would slam him into a wall or table, often banging his head into the wall.’
      • ‘You know that red mist thing where you find yourself punching some inoffensive article of furniture for no better reason than that you have just banged into it?’
      • ‘He seemed to return her bitterness as he sharply walked past, banging into my shoulder on his way.’
      • ‘He tried to stand up and banged his head rather painfully on a shelf sticking out of the wall.’
      • ‘Standing up quickly, she banged her head against the top shelf in the cupboard and cursed.’
      • ‘Then there was the personal injury claim from a man who jumped from his bed when he heard his car being hit and banged his head on a shelf.’
      • ‘He holds a mic to his lips to emit a noise that is a cross between a mosquito dazedly banging into a porch light and a junior high video class sound effect of a crashing UFO.’
      • ‘As she raised her free hand, Ian, sensing a slap, flinched away and banged his head hard into the corner of a shelf.’
      • ‘Her head banged sharply against the underside of the desk.’
      • ‘I go to Hreod Parkway normally but I was worried that people might bang into my back.’
      • ‘Crystal pleaded as the cat darted down the alleyway banging into trash cans and making all kinds of noise as it went.’
      • ‘One man nearly crashed his car and another banged into a lamppost.’
      • ‘Her head came up so quickly that she banged it on the shelf above her.’
    2. 1.2with object and adverbial of direction (of a sports player) hit (a ball or a shot) forcefully and successfully.
      ‘he banged home four penalties in the opening twenty minutes’
      • ‘He ran superbly from full-back and banged over seven goals as Leigh secured their place against Salford in the Arriva Trains Cup final.’
      • ‘One after another they banged the ball out of the infield, line-drives and whizzing grounders and almost all of them got on base.’
      • ‘I thought I would turn and bang the ball because I had seen the keeper move a little bit towards the far post and leave a small gap at his near post.’
      • ‘The ball spun for the Ecuadorean and he banged in a fierce shot which the goalkeeper could only palm away.’
      • ‘They can try like crazy to bang the ball inside and have the guards try to drive through traffic, but it's of little use.’
      • ‘Extra time loomed after Kevin Sinfield banged over a late penalty but Warriors had one last throw of the dice and Tickle's timely one-pointer was enough.’
      • ‘When you started your career as a first class cricketer in India, you were a lively fast medium bowler who loved banging the ball in short.’
      • ‘Addingham were trying to spread play out wide but each time they lost possession, the ball was banged straight back down route one style.’
      • ‘I was going on twenty-one years of age and just banging the balls around trying to cut in hard shots.’
      • ‘He's just banged in ten goals from midfield and has come good at the right time.’
      • ‘So he started the second half intent on spraying line drives all over the park and relying on his speed by banging balls into the ground.’
      • ‘By comparison, the three Eagles tries came off Bulldog mistakes while Eagles flyhalf Hugo van As banged over four penalties and a conversion.’
      • ‘And, in his first major league at-bat, he banged a single off veteran right-hander Hank Borowy.’
      • ‘You either bang the hell out of the ball or you stand back and absorb it.’
      • ‘Fast bowlers bang the ball in but nothing hits the splice of the bat, there are no edges, shoulders drop and there is an air of lethargy and helplessness in the movement of fielders.’
      • ‘It was clear from the moment he went on-loan to Bournemouth as a West Ham player, and banged in all those goals on the bounce, that this was a special talent.’
      • ‘Bagwell banged a career-high 47 homers that season, knocked in 132 runs and hit .310.’
      • ‘Pock were unable to take advantage of their numerical superiority until Mitchell banged over a 40 yard penalty.’
      • ‘McBride singled in a run in the second, banging a ball off the glove of diving third baseman Ken Boyer to score Leon Wagner.’
      • ‘If his team has banged in five, he's the most ecstatic fan on the park and doesn't mind who knows it.’
    3. 1.3no object Make a sudden loud noise, typically repeatedly.
      ‘the shutter was banging in the wind’
      • ‘But those who make a living from the sea know that tides don't merely ebb and flow, they crash and bang.’
      • ‘The family was asleep while the storm crashed and banged - Gnat decided she wouldn't sleep today.’
      • ‘However the wind outside was making it bang too much so I locked it, and later when the cat wanted to go outside he meowed for me to open it for him.’
      • ‘I heard shutters banging and people wailing and babies crying and dog barking.’
      • ‘Her boots banged louder and harder and with each step she screamed to herself the words she had been thinking for four days but never uttered.’
      • ‘He floored it and we sped off with the engine roaring, banging and clattering like a class of five year olds in the school music room.’
      • ‘It rang like a huge gong banging relentlessly into the silence.’
      • ‘Two loud, sharp knocks banged at the black doors guarding the entrance to the Calestia Dela.’
      • ‘The boxes shook, banged, and shuddered, yet they stayed closed.’
      • ‘People were throwing up on the lawn as loud music banged through the walls.’
      • ‘Noise banged through the high-ceilinged, uncarpeted room, matching the din inside her skull.’
      • ‘A window lay open, revealing a steel-grey sky beyond the wooden shutters, banging as the wind whistled furiously outside.’
      explode, crack, go off with a bang, detonate, burst, blow up
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    4. 1.4 (with reference to something such as a door) open or close noisily.
      with object and complement ‘he banged the kitchen door shut behind him’
      • ‘She heard the whoosh of a flushing toilet, and one of the stall doors banged open to reveal a girl with bronze skin and curly dark hair.’
      • ‘Then the back door had banged open and Sonny had followed the college boy out to his car, quick long strides crunching over gravel.’
      • ‘Another hour later, the screen door banged open with a small clatter.’
      • ‘We suffered a similar situation for six years during which time we had to put up with loud music, doors banging at all hours and verbal abuse.’
      • ‘The car door closest to Tyler banged open and a tall girl of 17 stepped out from it.’
      • ‘When the door had banged open so suddenly, she had been startled enough to let out a yelp loud enough for anyone in the house to hear.’
      • ‘She said she heard doors banging and loud music on the night of the attack.’
      • ‘Iroka awoke with a start as the front door banged open and a figure stumbled in.’
      • ‘The kitchen door banged open behind us and voice drifted out’
      • ‘But Karen was already gone, laughter trailing behind her, webbing the screen door as it banged open and shut.’
      • ‘Just then the front door banged open and I jumped as a man ran into the room.’
      • ‘She banged open the door to find them all huddled together in a large group, lounging on the floor, obviously discussing something.’
      • ‘She banged open the door of her locker, and put on her armour with a speed born of practice.’
      • ‘The front door banged open and soon, Joel was at my side.’
      • ‘Beneath him, heavy footsteps raced from room to room, and doors banged open.’
      • ‘They also don't stay up all night playing rather loud music, and banging all the house doors.’
      • ‘Suddenly the doors banged open and I looked up to see three dark men.’
      • ‘He was in such a rush to get in and out of the sight of passers by that he banged open the door with a resounding crash.’
      • ‘He got about two steps towards the doors before they banged open and the room was blinded with light.’
      • ‘She then went straight to Lily's house and banged open the door.’
      go bang, crash, smash, thud
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    5. 1.5no object, with adverbial of direction (of a person) move around or do something noisily.
      ‘she was banging around the kitchen’
      • ‘He started banging around in the kitchen, then he picked up his keys and went storming out.’
      • ‘I use the dishes, banging around, making lots of noise.’
      • ‘Ian heard Linda banging around in the bedroom, and walked to the doorway.’
      • ‘I could hear Mom banging around downstairs, probably making something else.’
      • ‘Timur and Anikei banged out of the house as the narrative was winding down.’
      • ‘But told the jury the noise problems had been real with loud music being played at night, doors being slammed and people banging around.’
      • ‘The three women banged and clattered down the stairs and out the door.’
      • ‘It's like a whirlwind version of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, but with more characters banging about and fewer insights into them.’
      • ‘As I walk downstairs, I can hear the sound of my mother banging around in the kitchen, muffled by something.’
      • ‘I could hear Kathy banging around in the house and a moment later she came back into the lounge where I was standing, waiting.’
  • 2North American Cut (hair) in a fringe.

  • 3vulgar slang (typically used of a man) have sexual intercourse with.

  • 1Exactly.

    ‘the train arrived bang on time’
    • ‘It's a 15-room guesthouse, bang on the waterfront and at the heart of all local goings-on.’
    • ‘The bus leaves bang on time, and we roll along the freeways as the sun rises and adds a flush to the Rockies on our right.’
    • ‘The holy grail for any magazine is hitting your target market bang on the nail.’
    • ‘While the boys struggled, the girls from Rosary Convent were bang on the target.’
    • ‘We are also bang opposite the London Eye, and very close, but I forgot to take pictures of that.’
    • ‘We were collected at the college bang on 11.00 am and had a great drive up through the Lakes.’
    • ‘Even so, I woke up after only 45 minutes of the alarm going off and made it to my desk bang on 10.’
    • ‘One of the nuclear trains from our local power plant trundled past at quarter past eight, bang on time.’
    • ‘It's not just that they think Europe is bang next door to Afghanistan.’
    • ‘Diva may be an overused word, but it's bang on the button here.’
    • ‘Slap bang in the middle of the box was a huge walnut.’
    • ‘Slap bang in the centre of Vietnam is Hoi An, a charismatic old port bearing all the architectural hallmarks of its commercial heritage.’
    • ‘Slap bang in the middle of the week commencing September 17, it's the Top Gear charity karting evening.’
    • ‘Slap bang in the heart of Sligo Town, McGarrigles may not be here at the end of 2003, but they are still alive and kicking.’
    • ‘His satisfaction would have been boosted by the fact that his loud celebrations were taking place bang next door to Rotherham's M&S store.’
    • ‘Not only is it bang next door to Ben Nevis, the highest mountain in Britain, but it also boasts the country's highest ski run, at 4000 feet.’
    • ‘And, bang on cue, Barry strode on to stage dripping blood, sat down at the drums and started to play.’
    precisely, exactly, right, directly, immediately, squarely, just, dead
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    1. 1.1 Completely.
      ‘bring your wardrobe bang up to date’
      • ‘Presented by Ian Wright, Spy TV brings the hidden-camera format bang up-to-date.’
      • ‘House of Fraser had a bang up-to-date Phillips TV at £799.99, half the usual price.’
      • ‘We've focused on the rest, which we hope has some value: observations on Sun's integrator strategy and company history that are bang up to date.’
      • ‘The drop in revenues between the fourth quarter and the first quarter of this year is bang in line with the trend of the past three years.’
      • ‘These are perhaps most obvious as we leave the prison, and walk past the site of what will become a bang up-to-date mother and baby facility, due to open next year.’
      • ‘She's bang up to now without kowtowing to fashion, and catches the zeitgeist in a completely individual way.’
      • ‘It also means the curriculum is bang up-to-date, with Merlin crews who took part in the conflict in Iraq feeding their observations and experiences back to the squadron.’
      • ‘An example of a bang in the middle of town and bang up-to-date venue is The Hub, in Edinburgh.’
      • ‘Software is the bang up-to-date Office XP Small Business Edition and it's backed up by a one-year, collect-and-return warranty.’
      • ‘I have to make sure that my material is bang up-to-date, which means scouring the web to check for new developments.’
      • ‘The organisation was updated bang 21st century.’
      • ‘The aesthetic of the series is bang up-to-date, ultramodern stuff.’
      • ‘Romeo and Juliet's gear conveyed a bang up-to-the-minute approach to love-making while, in truth, it was a bit starchy.’
      completely, absolutely, totally, entirely, wholly, fully, thoroughly, utterly, quite, altogether, one hundred per cent, downright, unqualifiedly, in all respects, unconditionally, perfectly, unrestrictedly, undisputedly, to the maximum extent
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  • 1Used to convey the sound of a sudden loud noise.

    ‘party poppers went bang’
    • ‘I was casting out my spinner and next thing, bang!’
    • ‘Damn, 57 years loaded with ammo that was 61 years old and it went bang every time.’
    • ‘On November 5, we watched fireworks, but those we hear now are nothing like I remember; they are just bang, bang, bang!’
    • ‘I was staring mesmerized at the erratic pfft coming from the brown-paper cylinder when - bang!’
    • ‘It would be let loose from the top of the hill and we would all line up and let fire with our double barrels: bang!’
    • ‘I put all my strength into hitting this wooden shield, and it was - bang!’
    • ‘One night I started twisting the dial, hoping that something would happen, and then - bang!’
    • ‘Of course we have to do it - so we did - and the predictable result was the gun went bang every time.’
    • ‘A few seconds passed, a few more - then, just as I took them away, bang!’
  • 2Used to convey the suddenness of an action.

    ‘the minute something becomes obsolete, bang, it's gone’
    • ‘Sugar triggers the release of feel-good hormones into your brain - and, bang, you're fixed.’
    • ‘All I'd have to do is read, memorize lines and, bang, people would love me.’
    • ‘And it just got progressively more and more and more, just keeping on adding to our jobs… and then one morning… bang!’
    • ‘I mean, he had me all built up there for awhile and then, bang!’
    • ‘You want a piece of music - bang, you can download it.’
    • ‘You just need to know a good joke, or have the comical sense to see absurdity in daily life and… bang!’
    • ‘And one particular day when I was particularly tired, she was talking, and my eyes closed, and the next thing was, bang!’
    • ‘The judge is on the marae, he does something that someone says is contrary to tikanga Maori, and, bang, the judge is up on a complaint.’
    • ‘Even enjoying someone's company becomes loaded with expectation and social convention, fears that this will lead to that, and then, bang!’
    • ‘Get blind drunk, snog, repeat the next week, repeat the next week, bang!’
    • ‘Here we are, smoothly bringing the tail down with the fluke adjusted to just the right angle of attack, when - bang!’
    • ‘There was no consultation with New Zealand First, but through an agreement with United Future and the Greens - bang!’
    • ‘It happens once, twice, three times and you get so fed up you argue and, bang, you are arrested and it's a criminal record.’
    • ‘Then, as I inched closer, it locked on - bang, got it!’
    • ‘So I started up Windows Media Player and, bang, the virus warnings started again, each time telling me the darn thing had been deleted.’
    • ‘Then, all of a sudden, bang, they're going as well.’
    • ‘Just when you think that childhood diseases were nothing more than a fuzzy memory - bang, you develop shingles.’
    • ‘Willow and Tara reunite, have great sex and, bang, Tara's dead.’
    • ‘Then, just as we are immersed in the realism we've conjured for ourselves, bang!’
    • ‘Just when you thought it was safe to never watch a Cavs game again, bang!’
    suddenly, abruptly, immediately, instantaneously, instantly, in an instant, straight away, all of a sudden, at once, all at once, promptly, in a trice, swiftly
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  • bang for one's (or the) buck

    • informal Value for money.

      ‘classy sports cars with huge bang for your buck’
      • ‘Cruises still offer a lot of bang for your buck, and with specials as low as $300 or $400 per person, many travelers can save with a sea vacation.’
      • ‘Each of these featurettes lasts around a half-hour, so you know you're getting a lot of film bang for your buck.’
      • ‘While many tech execs are moping, corporations get a lot more bang for their buck.’
      • ‘A lot of companies can get a lot of bang for their buck out of the investment.’
      • ‘Given that films at the Bloomsbury Theatre only cost £2.50, I can certainly say I got a lot of bang for my buck.’
      • ‘Granted, this only covers four days, but I think I got a lot of movie bang for my buck.’
      • ‘This will spare you the cost of resizing the opening, and still give you a lot of bang for your buck.’
      • ‘So they might as well try to get a lot of bang for their buck and sell it while they can.’
      • ‘Fortunately, our customers will benefit from getting a lot of bang for their buck when they upgrade.’
      • ‘Thanks to cutthroat competition and continued innovation in the tech industry, corporate buyers are finding that they can get more bang for their buck when they do decide to put their money to work.’
      • ‘Meanwhile, we shouldn't be too harsh on our governments, which want to spend the taxpayers' money to, in this case, ensure less bang for their buck.’
      • ‘Your entire body is involved in each move, so you're getting a lot more bang for your buck.’
      • ‘There's a lot of bang for your buck with this disc.’
      • ‘Season Four certainly didn't lack for drama or surprise, and Fox really delivers a lot of bang for your buck with the extras this time around.’
      • ‘Yeah, so you don't actually get a lot of bang for your buck as far as jokes out of the time we spend together.’
      • ‘One of the reasons is because you get a lot of bang for your buck with their products.’
      • ‘To me, short films are the best value and most bang for your buck.’
      • ‘However, according to Fisher, ‘You may spend more money but you'll get more bang for your buck.’’
      • ‘They spend more money, they're getting less bang for their buck and this is an opportunity for them to associate with the show on many levels.’
      • ‘But with this much firepower, you expect a lot more bang for your buck.’
  • bang goes —

    • Used to express the sudden collapse of a plan or hope.

      ‘my first thought when I heard the news was ‘Bang goes my knighthood!’’
      • ‘I think what he meant that if a track worker gets himself killed bang goes the job and bang goes the cash.’
      • ‘Probably not and bang goes another $8 or $9 million at our hard-pressed national broadcaster.’
      • ‘Well, bang goes any chance of making your protest, guys.’
      • ‘But I guess I will just have to accept that if he's just going to be there for a day, he won't be there for a night, so bang goes Gerry's plan for the Grand Seduction.’
      • ‘The moment the Herald becomes the organ for the Bishop or the Archbishop, bang goes journalistic objectivity.’
      • ‘Policies can be changed, perhaps a new council, another roundabout for a new access road and bang goes the Hilperton Gap.’
      • ‘Even the other new girl comes from another pregnancy yoga class, so bang goes my hopes of safety in numbers.’
      • ‘Then there is the added worry that perhaps the property bubble could go pop and bang goes the potential capital gain and your expected return on investment.’
      • ‘Actually, when people arrive late I usually think they are terribly rude, so bang goes my theory…!’
      • ‘All postings demonstrate a level of literacy far higher than that in the general population, so bang goes another big chunk of the possible readership.’
      • ‘If you don't plaster your walls you are saving on cement and thereby on energy, but if at the same time you end up using a lot of timber, bang goes eco-friendliness, points out Mahesh.’
      • ‘But the localisers want us all to retreat behind borders - so bang goes the international transfer of assets which is so desperately needed.’
      • ‘So bang goes my dream of being sophisticated again.’
      • ‘And I will have to buy a new one: bang goes the budget.’
      • ‘Let's also not forget the one-man freeware/shareware operation - they might not be able to afford a listing so bang goes one of the main distribution avenues for them.’
      • ‘So bang goes the Rotary Club outing to Gaza City.’
      • ‘SO bang goes our dreams of reaching the FA Cup final for another season.’
  • bang on

    • informal Exactly right.

      ‘the programme is bang on about the fashion world’
      • ‘He was bang on, too, in his observations about the entrepreneurial nature of Maori.’
      • ‘On some nights, it'll just be bang on, and all these people will come out.’
      • ‘The mixture is fairly gelatinous in texture, but the calibration of sweet and sour elements is bang on.’
      • ‘It is quite a forgiving rod that lets you off when your timing isn't bang on.’
      • ‘But the whole foxhunting/inner city poverty thing is pretty much bang on.’
      • ‘Once again the budget carrier's marketing department had got it bang on.’
      • ‘It looks beautiful; what Roth says about attention to detail is bang on.’
      • ‘We even got to point at David Blaine and laugh, so it was bang on, really.’
      • ‘With no fresh injury problems to report, Bolton should be bang on for victory at the weekend.’
      • ‘When both coaches get their schemes bang on, then you look to an individual to come up with a piece of magic that nobody can plan against.’
      • ‘The vocals were bang on, and the beat had people dancing to the bizarre electro-melody.’
      • ‘While some fans were distracted as police and stewards quickly dealt with it, City showed their concentration level was bang on.’
      • ‘Having grown up in the '70s, I can cite a couple of films that capture the period bang on.’
      • ‘We did read the URL that you supplied, and intuitively we knew that it was true and bang on when we read it.’
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  • get a bang out of

    • informal Derive excitement or pleasure from.

      ‘some people get a bang out of reading that stuff’
      • ‘Rufus, obviously getting a bang out of his new found ‘status’, took the opportunity to vent.’
      • ‘It's way too silly for words, but if your children are familiar with the Peanuts strip, they might get a bang out of this.’
      • ‘If someone gets a bang out of seeing the Stooges in color, I say let 'em enjoy themselves.’
      • ‘Sylvia Fisher gets a bang out of approaching people in the international tent at the AirVenture grounds and speaking to them in their native languages.’
      • ‘He has the fun of manipulating the bug to coax the fish to it, then he gets a bang out of the strike, right there in plain view, and then the excitement of fighting the fish near the surface.’
      • ‘I especially got a bang out of the one entitled ‘Doctor Barnhelm perfects his machine for restoring animation’ because of the crazy gadgetry in the background.’
      • ‘If I had seen it last year, or even a few months ago, I surely would have got a bang out of it.’
      • ‘If The Who weren't genuinely getting a bang out of this, they did a good job of fooling the crowd in Glen Falls.’
      • ‘The Northerners are fanatics who'll get a bang out of dying for their cause and leader.’
      • ‘There is a segment of the market that gets a bang out of buying those things.’
      • ‘Only a private boat operator with no one to please but himself can fish with say, lures that he makes and gets a bang out of catching fish on, even though there may be other lures that catch better.’
      • ‘Aunt Pinkey was enough like her nephew to understand and even get a bang out of the ridiculousness of his momentary rage.’
      • ‘So, is it possible that a woodchuck might expand its horizons, meet with a richer fate, and get a bang out of a ride in the opposite direction?’
      • ‘Back in the Meredith household, Molly gets a bang out of cruising the house.’
      • ‘If you're fascinated by factoids you might get a bang out of the following information.’
      • ‘Innovate E-Commerce gets a bang out of the immediate publicity the awards programs generate.’
      • ‘Lots of youngsters get a bang out of watching the puppy snarf up bits of food thrown on the floor, so Misha should be locked away while the little ones eat.’
      • ‘Kenny got a bang out of all this and asked them if he could take their picture and one guy immediately held up his hand - No.’
      • ‘Unlike me, Fat Mikey simply did not get a bang out of crocheting afghans or listening to National Public Radio.’
      • ‘Students will get a bang out of the ending of this demo.’
  • with a bang

    • 1Abruptly.

      ‘the remark brought me down to earth with a bang’
      • ‘Luckily, London has a canny knack of bringing you back down to earth with a bang and ensuring you don't get unbearably maudlin - take, for instance, yesterday's weepy moment.’
      • ‘Next up was Arsenal and we were brought back down to earth with a bang and a 2-1 defeat.’
      • ‘He was dumped like hot potato after his first film flopped but he came with a bang with ‘Chandni Bar’ and established himself with ‘Satta’.’
      • ‘I will always remember the 1990s as the decade in which the mythologicals came down to earth with a bang.’
      • ‘In a season when British Athletics crashed back to earth with a bang after the successes of Sydney, she was one of the few to illuminate a disappointing year.’
      • ‘Bypassing Byzantine state restrictions would open up competition with a bang… and most certainly lead to dramatic reductions in insurance costs.’
      • ‘He certainly brought Frenchman Sebastien Grosjean down to earth with a bang in the semi-finals.’
      • ‘We have paid the penalty for not being prepared and we have been brought down to earth with a bang.’
      • ‘After last week's great win over Camlough Rovers, Bessbrook United were brought down to earth with a bang when Kilkeel Athletic held them to a 3-3 draw.’
      • ‘Fifty five years is a long time to wait for a repeat and both men are confident that this mighty English team can be brought down to earth with a bang on Sunday.’
      • ‘And who knows, if we have another extended bout of irrational exuberance, how high the shares might climb before coming back to earth with a bang?’
      • ‘An exuberant Mozilla Foundation has been brought back down to earth with a bang by the world's internet organisations.’
      • ‘‘We've come right back down to earth with a bang,’ he said.’
      • ‘However, he failed to impress Bobby Williamson sufficiently, returning to earth with a bang.’
      • ‘Weybridge golfer Paul Casey, ranked 29th in the world, came down to earth with a bang in the Open last week when he failed to make the cut for the final two rounds.’
      • ‘RI's title rivals, Malton and Norton, fell to earth with a bang following the euphoria they enjoyed after their Tetley's Bitter Vase semi-final win last week.’
      • ‘Now, that bought me back down to earth with a bang.’
      • ‘Ms Del Duca left with a bang, accusing council of ‘staff problems’ and ‘citizens still not getting the service’.’
      • ‘It's back down to Earth with a bang for the Performance Workshop's latest production, however.’
    • 2Successfully or impressively.

      ‘the occasion went with a bang’
      • ‘A huge group of audience members were invited on the stage to ‘get down’ while the ladies went out with a bang in the final show of their very first headlining tour.’
      • ‘It probably means a little bit more to Ian than a normal game because he wants to start with a bang.’
      • ‘The concept is so original and it started with a bang, the audience being welcomed to the occasion one by one with some amusing improvisation.’
      • ‘‘Pinafore’ proved that Ballina is back with a bang on the light operatic scene and that its exile has in no way resulted in a general diminution of talent.’
      • ‘Their promise to make good on leaving the NAIA with a bang hinges upon success in these games.’
      • ‘Since beginning their season with a bang and four successive wins, the Minstermen have seen their form and fortune dip, rise and dip again.’
      • ‘In October, Miller kicked off the current season with a bang, nailing a win in the giant slalom at Sölden, Austria, by more than a second - a huge margin.’
      • ‘The 2004/2005 pheasant shoot will begin with a bang.’
      • ‘And the only thing you can do, if you leave ‘American Idol,’ is go out with a bang, and I think that he definitely, definitely did that.’
      • ‘A trip to the Isle Of Wight went with a bang - literally - for dozens of pensioners.’
      • ‘Pyrotechnic specialists Pa-Boom will round off the celebrations with a bang by providing a spectacular display of sound and smoke.’
      • ‘The final of the Buster Under-19 basketball championship ended this year's Inter-Secondary School Sports program with a bang!’
      • ‘Local groups Detox and Catch 22 will get the night's entertainment off with a bang at approximately 8.30 pm for what should prove a highly entertaining night.’
      • ‘We are coming back with a bang and I know everyone will really like our new songs’.’
      • ‘Nick Warren, owner of Big Nick's Karaoke, waived his normal £200 fee to ensure the party went with a bang.’
      • ‘It sure opens with a bang: Detroit Rock City, the boys clomping around the stage to that ageless opening riff, the orchestra blasting horns and sawing fiddles like enraged monkeys.’
      • ‘Earlier, the Boxing Day card started with a bang as McCoy and Doumen treated spectators to an epic tussle.’
      • ‘The fundraising evening held in aid of the Southern Area Hospice Services turned out to be a brilliant success and proceeded to start the annual charity efforts with a bang.’
      • ‘In his last post of our week-long debate on the supposed ‘Constitution in Exile’ movement, Cass Sunstein goes out with a bang.’
      • ‘The 2004 Chelmsford Spectacular started and finished with a bang, with chart toppers The Sugababes headlining the opening night of the annual event.’
      • ‘Linda Jones, the university's enterprise director, said: ‘We're sorry to see the old building go but at least we can make sure that it departs with a bang.’’
      • ‘If we go out we are determined to go out with a bang.’
      • ‘Tony Sullivan made sure Lancashire Day went with a bang in the county capital with a late, late FA Trophy winner against Bromsgrove.’
      • ‘With a whole slew of new crew alliances, nights, guest DJs, clubs and parties to talk about, Montreal has started the year with a bang, so let's cut to the chase and get down to the nitty-gritty.’
      • ‘After starting the season with a bang and matching the club's record start, Saturday's dismissal of Richard Hope saw City equal another record, this time for the number of red cards in a campaign.’
      • ‘Their July wedding at St Barnabas's Church went with a bang, despite suffering a few rather unusual hitches.’
      • ‘The political year 2003/2004 ended with a bang.’
      • ‘A3, as the album is otherwise known, has hit the stands with a bang after packaging it with ‘catchy’ music and endorsement by the superstar, says the company.’
      • ‘That will set us up nicely for next year and we can start next season with a bang.’
      • ‘They may have started the competition with a bang, but South Korea's women's coach, Won Geo Seo, played down the importance of their record-breaking achievements.’
      • ‘To begin with a bang: Members are informed that the recording of the much-awaited project - Thiruvasakam in Symphony - in Hungary was over.’
      • ‘I even thought 2003 had come in with a bang when a smooch on New Year's Eve progressed to a steamy taxi ride back to my folks' house, who heard nothing of our hanky-pankying.’
      • ‘Four hundred years after the Gunpowder Plot, Mr Fawkes' election night hardly went with a bang.’
      • ‘But after two years of disappointing cancellations, due to the foot and mouth outbreak and access problems, organisers wanted to attract as many people as possible to make it go with a bang.’
      • ‘Fence has launched a book series, and done it with a bang - two forceful choices that come out of different worlds in different tones and at different speeds.’
      • ‘‘The Magic of Chemistry’ performance led by Malcolm Armstrong was put on for year seven and eight pupils at Castle View School and literally went with a bang.’
      • ‘It was Motherless Brooklyn, Lethem's fifth novel in as many years, that finally landed him back in the old neighborhood, with a bang that woke the literary world.’

Phrasal Verbs

  • bang away

    • Do something in a persistent or dogged way.

      ‘he was banging away at his novel’
      • ‘We were banging away at the council for eight months before they finally agreed it was a new-build.’
      • ‘I fully intend to spend my time reading, not banging away at a keyboard.’
      • ‘They are forced to live in ‘barracks’ of the companies that sponsor them and are required to spend 12 hours a day banging away at their console games practicing for major contests (which are televised).’
      • ‘And while Nick Jago's drumming would benefit from more practice on fills and less on banging away at the high-hat, it still provides the purring engine that drives this beautiful machine.’
      • ‘It would do us well to ponder these words as we sit daily banging away at our computers, talking on our cell phones, and whizzing our faxes to the four corners of earth.’
      • ‘‘I think our best problem-solving happens when three or four smart people get together and bang away at it, and we make that as easy as possible,’ he says.’
      • ‘The unexpected closing surge from the Scots continued, and they had been banging away at the Newport line once again in injury-time when the referee blew for no-side.’
      • ‘And as he continued into the following day he continued to work though his repertoire - a good rock ‘n’ roll session, rather than just banging away at a single drum.’
      • ‘The next thing I know he's banging away at the car and it's rocking like hell.’
      • ‘The responsible thing then was to drag your weary body to work, superglue your eyelids open and bang away at the keyboard so nobody else would suffer.’
      • ‘‘There is a great deal more to writing for the musical theater than learning notation, the meaning of a diminished seventh, or banging away at a typewriter in some lonely room,’ he acknowledged.’
      • ‘That's what Ranieri the player was like, constantly banging away at something until he succeeded, without caring whether more talented people succeeded on the first attempt.’
      • ‘I believe there is a vast and unseen military effort banging away at the very foundations of the Baathists, and we have yet to really see it unfold.’
      • ‘From National Review to the Wall Street Journal, the usual suspects have been banging away at the expedient scandal.’
      • ‘We do need to keep banging away at the healthy eating message, and hope that it begins to get through.’
      • ‘If we in the industry hadn't kept banging away at these drugs, we wouldn't have ever known that better ones could be found.’
      • ‘No sleep, no rice for a week, a family wedding and a five km marathon, and I'm here banging away at 11-30 p.m.’
      • ‘Could it be related to the fact that I heard Jackson banging away at the piano in G11, as I passed?’
      • ‘My prediction: groups who oppose the Morning News' positions will start banging away at them, using comments from the blog as proof of editorial perfidy and moral unclarity.’
      • ‘Later that week, Jill the Very, Very Good Tester is banging away at the code, rolling her forehead back and forth on the keyboard or some equally cruel test.’
  • bang on

    • Exactly right.

      ‘the programme is bang on about the fashion world’
      • ‘He was bang on, too, in his observations about the entrepreneurial nature of Maori.’
      • ‘On some nights, it'll just be bang on, and all these people will come out.’
      • ‘The mixture is fairly gelatinous in texture, but the calibration of sweet and sour elements is bang on.’
      • ‘It is quite a forgiving rod that lets you off when your timing isn't bang on.’
      • ‘But the whole foxhunting/inner city poverty thing is pretty much bang on.’
      • ‘Once again the budget carrier's marketing department had got it bang on.’
      • ‘It looks beautiful; what Roth says about attention to detail is bang on.’
      • ‘We even got to point at David Blaine and laugh, so it was bang on, really.’
      • ‘With no fresh injury problems to report, Bolton should be bang on for victory at the weekend.’
      • ‘When both coaches get their schemes bang on, then you look to an individual to come up with a piece of magic that nobody can plan against.’
      • ‘The vocals were bang on, and the beat had people dancing to the bizarre electro-melody.’
      • ‘While some fans were distracted as police and stewards quickly dealt with it, City showed their concentration level was bang on.’
      • ‘Having grown up in the '70s, I can cite a couple of films that capture the period bang on.’
      • ‘We did read the URL that you supplied, and intuitively we knew that it was true and bang on when we read it.’
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  • bang something out

    • 1Play music noisily, enthusiastically, and unskilfully.

      ‘Dad was annihilating a Beethoven sonata, banging out notes’
      • ‘Tasha-Ray rips on guitar, her sister Lacey-Lee is a kick-butt keyboardist, Louise jams bass and Kim bangs it out on drums.’
      • ‘They know how to bang riffs out of their axes well, but it tends to get buried beneath the mediocrity and predictability of their songwriting.’
      • ‘If people aren't listening to you in music, you don't care, you can just bang it out.’
      • ‘I've got them written, I just have to bang them out and record them.’
      • ‘Composers make gorgeous music, and can bang their moods out on a piano.’
      • ‘They bang the tunes out one after another, the playing's tight, the energy never flags.’
      • ‘The tunes are banged out with such verve the audience has no time to miss the strings and horns that adorned the originals - though sections of the audience join Lee in sketching them in vocally.’
      • ‘They were banging the beat out on the dashboard so hard that the music stopped.’
      • ‘He auditioned it before Stalin's musically illiterate arts committee by banging it out on a piano and singing in his own, unreliable voice.’
    • 2Produce something hurriedly or in great quantities.

      ‘they weren't banging out ads in my day the way they are now’
      • ‘Ken Loach keeps banging them out, but this is the one I'd pick.’
      • ‘So I banged it out on my office laptop; logged on to the office mainframe, sent the column.’
      • ‘I really need to get cracking on the writing test (or just e-mail it to hyper disciplined Odious, who could probably bang this thing out in a nanosecond).’
      • ‘I know because I saw him sit down at the typewriter and begin banging it out in his inimitable style, which included forced nicknames and chatty familiarity.’
      • ‘I could bang the story out in a day, the agency guy suggested, and the magazines would print it because ‘Alan Guebert, one of their own, had written it.’’
      • ‘They have to decide if they want to do repeat and then original, repeat and original, and kind of lose their momentum, or just, you know, bang them out all at once.’
      • ‘If it weren't enough that I banged a book out this past Monday, now there is a companion website…’
      • ‘I think someone saw Wrath of Khan before they banged the script out.’
      • ‘Who am I to tell you one way or the other, given that I am banging these words out on a keyboard in my Hong Kong home?’
      • ‘It seems like networks can bang these things out in about a year or two, so I'm pretty sure we'll see something soon.’
      • ‘Well, for sixty five grand, I have to say I might just bang something out.’
      • ‘We sent him some rough demos and he banged his parts out in two days.’
      • ‘If that's the case, I'll let you in on a little secret: I usually try to bang these things out, at least a rough copy, on the Sunday night prior to the Thursday on which you read them.’
      • ‘‘I can usually bang something out fast,’ he says, ‘whereas others might take a long time. I can never sit still, and it's hard for me to focus.’’
      • ‘He's working on the plane as he travels around the country on his laptop computer banging it out.’
      • ‘(Producer and co-star) Mark Redfield and I made the deal to start shooting ‘Sally’ and before you know it, a first draft of a script was banged out, and it just went from there.’
      • ‘Finished one column this morning; composed the other on the way to work, and banged it out with a minimum of fuss and second guessing.’
      • ‘Two decades in, Nick Cave and co. decided to bang an album out in a week from the ground up.’
      • ‘I have NO idea what Thursday's Fence will be like, because I banged that thing out without heed for the usual rules of coherence.’
      • ‘He got his trio of set-top box posts done within the day so hopefully I'll bang my essay out within the week.’
  • bang someone/something up

    • 1Imprison someone.

      ‘they've been banged up for something they didn't do’
      • ‘The bag contained a teddy bear, some fruit and some clothes but magistrates had no sympathy and banged him up for 10 days under public nuisance laws.’
      • ‘Mickey, Danny, Albert, Ash and Stacie return from a well-earned break to discover that old-time grifter Harry Holmes has been banged up.’
      • ‘I hope they catch whoever did this and bang him up for life.’
      • ‘If these allegations were made about me I would be banged up by now.’
      • ‘More than 12,000 British people are banged up like this every year, only to be found not guilty of any crime when their trial finally arrives.’
      • ‘They'd banged me up at just after 1am and they let me out at 5.30 am.’
      • ‘What is the point of banging him up in prison or a lunatic asylum?’
      • ‘Last August a mob-handed police raid whisked them off without any warning and banged them up behind the barbed wire of Harmondsworth detention centre at Heathrow.’
      • ‘Who could forget Blair's support for the ‘Free Deidre’ campaign, when Corrie favourite Deirdre Barlow was banged up for fraud?’
      • ‘The hardest thing is getting the lawyers to bang them up so I hope this new terror legislation will help cure some of those ills.’
      • ‘But, whispers a seductive voice, why not bang them up, just to be on the safe side?’
      • ‘As quick as you could say ‘Slipper of the Yard’ he was banged up in Belmarsh jail.’
      • ‘But he had been banged up for a while, and didn't know how to put together the alliances, how to outreach and work with others.’
      • ‘It is better, I ruefully think, to enter a state of perpetual frisk for everyone, than to automatically bang poor kids up in the slammer simply because they were themselves afraid.’
      • ‘The fact that they had only ever spent 10 nights apart - because Paul was banged up in a Japanese police cell for possession of marijuana - is often quoted as the indisputable evidence.’
      • ‘The streets are safer now this scum has been banged up’ reported P.C. Agenda.’
      • ‘Awaiting trial, they are banged up at Cook County Jail under the tight regime of crooked prison matron Morton (singer Queen Latifah in the mama of all big mama roles).’
      • ‘When French tourists are banged up for disciplining their child in a restaurant, or a teacher is sacked for smacking a daughter who plays up in the dentist's waiting room, the message gets useful reinforcement.’
      • ‘This gives inmates only an hour in which to shower, play pool, chat and relax, before they are banged up alone again.’
      1. 1.1North American Damage or injure someone or something.
        ‘he banged up his knee’
        • ‘They were left with no running game, and their defense was banged up.’
        • ‘Lakers forward Karl Malone has been banged up and just generally not close to his old self, missing wide-open jumpers and struggling to get into any kind of rhythm.’
        • ‘That has changed in recent weeks as Foster emerged while Davis was banged up.’
        • ‘Numerous starters and key reserves are banged up and missing practice time or games.’
        • ‘Does it seem like a lot of baseball teams are banged up?’
        • ‘Smoltz missed all of last year after undergoing elbow surgery, Veras blew out a knee and Jordan was banged up most of the second half.’
        • ‘He didn't fare as well in his only extended action as a full-time starter in Houston last season, but the Texans' offensive line and QB David Carr were banged up.’
        • ‘The Aggies weren't horrible even though they were banged up in 2002, going 6-6 with two of the losses in overtime and two others by a touchdown or less.’
        • ‘Right now, I banged my knee up pretty badly and I have a back problem.’
        • ‘Oronde Gadsden was banged up, and James McKnight and Dedric Ward are bit players who can have big games on occasion, but neither makes the ‘must stop’ list on opponents' defensive game plans.’
        • ‘The key on defense is health, because key players LB Jessie Armstead and Hamilton have been banged up, and their backups have little experience.’
        • ‘I know Angola was banged up, and that obviously was a factor, but we had a lot of guys do some good things.’
        • ‘Yes, Romeo Crennel has some work to do and his team is banged up.’
        • ‘RB Eddie George and QB Steve McNair were banged up and looked as though they were aging in dog years.’
        • ‘Upon being helped from the vehicle, Smathers, whose knees had been banged up in the crash, collapsed to the ground.’
        • ‘He thrived late last season when Davis was banged up, and the coaches hope to use Foster more.’
        • ‘The Cardinals have suffered without LCB Duane Starks all season and Renaldo Hill has been banged up.’
        • ‘When Derrick Brooks was banged up two years ago, that defense was not the same.’
        • ‘Defenses increasingly are forcing Jake Delhomme to move the ball and now first-half star Stephen Davis is banged up.’
        • ‘That means you were banged up badly enough to get sent home, but not permanently hurt.’

Mid 16th century: imitative, perhaps of Scandinavian origin; compare with Old Norse bang ‘hammering’.

Main definitions of bang in English

: bang1bang2

  • variant spelling of bhang


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Definition of sunrise industry in English:

sunrise industry

  • A new and growing industry, especially in electronics or telecommunications.

    • ‘The new electronics and computer industries - the sunrise industries - which were emerging in the West led the drive for developing new products and new technologies.’
    • ‘After all, the renaissance of US industry in the 1990s has been a story not just of American dominance in sunrise industries, but also ruthless cost-cutting to make firms more efficient.’
    • ‘He is also extremely critical of the Government for not using the proceeds from asset sales to either invest in new sunrise industries or for dedicated investment funds to finance future pension or superannuation liabilities.’
    • ‘For the past two decades, the main thrust of inward-investment strategy has been to replace jobs lost in declining industrial sectors with new ones in the so-called sunrise industries.’
    • ‘He welcomes the merger of three sunrise industries and predicts a bright future Scotland is at a new frontier.’
    • ‘Exhibition services have become a sunrise industry in the city and the number of international exhibitions is increasing at an annual rate of 20 per cent.’
    • ‘Smokestack industries were on the way out and sunrise industries had yet to arrive.’
    • ‘When does a sunrise industry begin to resemble a sunset one?’
    • ‘We are turning a sunrise industry into a sunset industry, as Australia and Chile get out there and capture our markets.’
    • ‘Successive monsoon failures, closure of mills and a sluggishness in sunrise industries contributed to dull celebrations.’
    • ‘An index dominated by frothy sunrise industries multiplies the risk of investing for us all.’
    • ‘On the other hand, many of the new sunrise industries are very vulnerable to the slightest shifts in the economic wind - witness the problems of the companies.’
    • ‘The pace at which fish-farming in Scotland has slid from its status as a sunrise industry to one on which the sun is setting is breathtaking.’
    • ‘Ironically, fiscal deficit has never been the consideration when the government doles out massive funds for the telecom industry, the IT industry or the new sunrise industry - biotechnology.’

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Definition of bed-blocking in English:

  • The long-term occupation of hospital beds, chiefly by elderly people, due to a shortage of suitable care elsewhere.

    • ‘More old people need nursing and residential care in winter, but Mr Vickers fears a lack of bed spaces could cause bed-blocking at hospitals.’
    • ‘He also expressed doubts over plans to fine local authorities if lack of social services led to bed-blocking in hospitals.’
    • ‘Last autumn the Sunday Herald revealed that the first national census of bed-blocking showed that in some areas 10% of hospital beds were occupied by patients who had nowhere else to go.’
    • ‘A further £1.4m of Government funds was also announced yesterday to pay for care beds in the community to ease bed-blocking.’
    • ‘Fines to reduce bed-blocking in hospitals could mean elderly and chronically sick people are forced into care homes many miles from their families, researchers have warned.’
    • ‘North Kent's record in tackling bed-blocking in hospitals is among the best in the country.’
    • ‘Funding will be increased in a few areas such as an extra £500,000 for bus subsidies and money for 500 new nursing care beds for the elderly to tackle the chronic problem of bed-blocking in hospitals.’
    • ‘The delays were having a knock-on impact on bed-blocking in hospitals and some bookings were also being lost.’
    • ‘The closure of many homes has already led to a shortage of care places in some areas - adding to problems of bed-blocking on hospital wards.’
    • ‘Targets on transferring successfully treated patients out of hospital to avoid bed-blocking were also met.’
    • ‘Since the fines were introduced, there has been a reduction in bed-blocking, but not as dramatic as hospital chiefs had hoped.’
    • ‘Lengthy waiting times, cancelled operations and bed-blocking soon became a problem.’
    • ‘The Government has announced that social services would get an extra £100 million for each of the next three years to help them end hospital bed-blocking.’
    • ‘One of her first duties, as she has outlined herself, will be to tackle the problem of bed-blocking.’
    • ‘Ironically, some of these problems have been caused by the successful policy of reducing bed-blocking in hospitals.’
    • ‘A transfer programme to end bed-blocking, where appropriate, so that patients who can be cared for in nursing homes are moved from acute beds to rehabilitation beds.’
    • ‘The treatment centre will play a major role in reducing waiting times for thousands of patients a year, cutting bed-blocking and hitting government targets.’
    • ‘The problem of bed-blocking, where patients, particularly the elderly, have to stay in hospital and take up beds despite being well enough to leave, has bedevilled the health service for decades.’
    • ‘Th health spokesman blamed bed-blocking caused by the closure of care homes for the high number of cancellations.’
    • ‘The Government is desperate to avoid bed-blocking and each year the council can apply for a grant to cope with the discharges.’

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Kerry in Kabul on key mission to calm election turmoil

11 july 2014, 13:10

US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Afghanistan on a key mission to try to quell tensions over disputed presidential polls which have triggered fears of violence and ethnic unrest, AFP reports.

Kerry, who landed amid tight security on a pre-dawn, unannounced visit, had earlier said Afghanistan faces a "critical moment" as Abdullah Abdullah and Ashraf Ghani wrangle over who will lead the country while international forces prepare to withdraw following more than a decade of war.

Preliminary results from last month's second round run-off have put Ghani in the lead, but Abdullah, who has already once lost a presidential bid, has declared himself the true winner, saying massive fraud robbed him of victory.

The election stand-off has sparked concern that protests could spiral into ethnic violence and even lead to a return of the fighting between warlords that ravaged Afghanistan during the 1992-1996 civil war.

Without backing either candidate, Kerry was to meet Friday with outgoing President Hamid Karzai as well as both presidential hopefuls, UN officials and possibly members of the independent election commission.

"A perfect election in these conditions is neither possible nor really the objective," a senior US administration admitted.

The US was "going to push for the very best, most credible, most transparent and most broadly accepted outcome that we can under the circumstances," he told reporters flying in with Kerry from Beijing.

"There are a number of constraints to getting an outcome that would reflect a very exact vote-count... but we can get to a much better outcome than we currently have."

Ghani's campaign spokesman Abdul Ali Mohammadi said Kerry was "coming here to solve the election deadlock, and I think it is a positive step".

Abdullah's spokeswoman Lailuma Ahmadi also welcomed Kerry's visit.

"We think it is a positive move and we welcome any move and efforts to separate clean votes from unclean votes or fraudulent votes," Ahmadi told AFP.

Kerry will be pressing both candidates to accept a thorough review of the results, and the two candidates have broadly agreed to four types of audits, the US official said.

Auditors may look at districts in which a perfectly round number of votes was recorded, or where the number of women voters outnumbered men, "which in the Afghan context seems like an unlikely outcome".

Election officials will also look at districts with very high turnout figures.

Unrest fears grow

Amid protests and political turmoil, the United States has warned both candidates that any attempted power grab will lead to an immediate cut in billions of dollars in annual aid to Afghanistan.

Kerry, speaking at a press conference after two days of high-stakes talks in Beijing, said "this is a critical moment for the transition which is essential to the future governance of the country".

After more than 13 years of war following the 2001 US invasion to oust hardline Taliban militants, President Barack Obama has said all American forces will be withdrawn by the end of 2016.

The 30,000 US troops on the ground will be whittled down to 9,800 next year, leaving Afghan security forces in full control of battling a resilient Taliban and Al-Qaeda insurgency.

Eight million votes were cast in the run-off, and preliminary results showed Ghani garnered an estimated 56 percent, while Abdullah, who had been seen as the front-runner, got some 43 percent -- a gap of around one million votes.

UN officials have said that a full audit of the results could take up to two weeks, but some Afghan officials are pressing to stick by an election calendar which would see the new president inaugurated on August 2.

"We don't consider that an impossible goal," the US official said, but getting a credible outcome "was more important that sticking to a timeline".

There are growing fears in Washington that without a successful political transition, the situation could deteriorate and mirror the violent chaos currently gripping Iraq.

The Obama administration is also desperately waiting for Afghan leaders to sign a bilateral pact governing the presence of US forces in the country beyond this year.

Karzai walked away from the deal, but both presidential candidates have said that they would sign it.

Karzai, who is constitutionally barred from a third term in office, has stayed publicly neutral in the lengthy election, but Abdullah supporters accuse him of fixing the vote in Ghani's favour.

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Catering college; see European training
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A chef is a trained and skilled professional cook who is proficient in all aspects of food preparation of a particular cuisine. The word "chef" is derived from the term chef de cuisine (French pronunciation: [ʃɛf.də.kɥi.zin]), the director or head of a kitchen. Chefs can receive both formal training from an institution, as well as through apprenticeship with an experienced chef.

There are different terms that use the word chef in their titles, and deal with specific areas of food preparation, such as the Sous-chef, who acts as the second-in-command in a kitchen, or the Chef de partie, who handles a specific area of production. The Brigade system is a system of hierarchy found in restaurants and hotels employing extensive staff, many of which use the word chef in their titles. Underneath the chefs are the kitchen assistants. A chef's standard uniform includes a hat called a toque, necktie, double-breasted jacket, apron and shoes with steel or plastic toe-caps.

The word "chef" is derived (and shortened) from the term chef de cuisine (French pronunciation: [ʃɛf.də.kɥi.zin]), the director or head of a kitchen. (The French word comes from Latin caput and is a doublet with English "chief".) In English, the title "chef" in the culinary profession originated in the haute cuisine of the 19th century. The culinary arts, among other aspects of the French language introduced French loan-words into the English language.[1]

A chef working with a tandoor, a cylindrical clay oven used in cooking and baking

Various titles, detailed below, are given to those working in a professional kitchen and each can be considered a title for a type of chef. Many of the titles are based on the brigade de cuisine (or brigade system) documented by Auguste Escoffier, while others have a more general meaning depending on the individual kitchen.

Chef de cuisine[edit]

Other names include executive chef, chef manager, head chef, and master chef. This person is in charge of all activities related to the kitchen, which usually includes menu creation, management of kitchen staff, ordering and purchasing of inventory, controlling raw material costs and plating design. Chef de cuisine is the traditional French term from which the English word chef is derived.[2] Head chef is often used to designate someone with the same duties as an executive chef, but there is usually someone in charge of a head chef, possibly making the larger executive decisions such as direction of menu, final authority in staff management decisions, and so on.[3] This is often the case for executive chefs with multiple restaurants. Involved in checking the sensory evaluation of dishes after preparation and they are well aware of each sensory property of those specific dishes.

The Sous-Chef de Cuisine (under-chef of the kitchen) is the second-in-command and direct assistant of the Chef de Cuisine. Sous chef works under executive chef or head chef. This person may be responsible for scheduling the kitchen staff, or substituting when the head chef is off-duty. Also, he or she will fill in for or assist the Chef de Partie (line cook) when needed. This person is accountable for the kitchen's inventory, cleanliness, organization, and the continuing training of its entire staff. A sous-chef's duties can also include carrying out the head chef's directives, conducting line checks, and overseeing the timely rotation of all food products. Smaller operations may not have a sous-chef, while larger operations may have more than one.[4] The sous chef is also responsible when the Executive Chef is absent.

Chef de partie[edit]

A chef de partie, also known as a "station chef" or "line cook,"[5] is in charge of a particular area of production. In large kitchens, each chef de partie might have several cooks or assistants. In most kitchens, however, the chef de partie is the only worker in that department. Line cooks are often divided into a hierarchy of their own, starting with "first cook," then "second cook," and so on as needed.

Commis (Chef) / Range chef [edit]

A commis is a basic chef in larger kitchens who works under a chef de partie to learn the station's or range's responsibilities and operation.[6] This may be a chef who has recently completed formal culinary training or is still undergoing training

Brigade system titles[edit]

Station-chef titles which are part of the brigade system include:[7]

English French IPA Description
Sauté chef saucier [sosje] Responsible for all sautéed items and their sauce. This is usually the highest stratified position of all the stations.
Fish chef poissonnier [pwasoɲe] Prepares fish dishes and often does all fish butchering as well as appropriate sauces. This station may be combined with the saucier position.
Roast chef rôtisseur [ʁotisœʁ] Prepares roasted and braised meats and their appropriate sauce.
Grill chef grillardin [ɡʁijaʁdɛ̃] Prepares all grilled foods; this position may be combined with the rotisseur.
Fry chef friturier [fʁityʁje] Prepares all fried items; this position may be combined with the rotisseur position.
Entrée preparer entremetier [ɑ̃tʁəmetje] Prepares hot appetizers and often prepares the soups, vegetables, pastas and starches. In smaller establishments, this station may also cover those tasks performed by the potager and légumier.
Soup chef Potager [pɔtaʒe] Prepares soups in a full brigade system. In smaller establishments, this station may be handled by the entremetier.
Vegetable chef Légumier [legymje] Prepares vegetables in a full brigade system. In smaller establishments, this station may be handled by the entremetier.
Roundsman tournant [tuʁnɑ̃] Also referred to as a swing cook, fills in as needed on stations in the kitchen.
Pantry chef garde manger [ɡaʁd mɑ̃ʒe] Responsible for preparing cold foods including salads, cold appetizers, pâtés and other charcuterie items.
Butcher boucher [buʃe] Butchers meats, poultry, and sometimes fish. May also be responsible for breading meats and fish.
Pastry chef pâtissier [patisje] Makes baked goods such as pastries, cakes, breads and desserts. In larger establishments, the pastry chef often supervises a separate team in their own kitchen.

Kitchen assistant[edit]

Kitchen assistants are of two types, kitchen-hands and stewards/ kitchen porters. Kitchen-hands assist with basic food preparation tasks under the chef's direction. They carry out relatively unskilled tasks such as peeling potatoes and washing salad. Stewards/ kitchen porters are involved in the scullery, washing up and general cleaning duties. In a smaller kitchen, these duties may be incorporated.

A communard is in charge of preparing the meal for the staff during a shift. This meal is often referred to as the staff or family meal.[6]

The escuelerie (from 15th century French and a cognate of the English "scullery"), or the more modern plongeur or dishwasher, is the keeper of dishes, having charge of dishes and keeping the kitchen clean. A common humorous title for this role in some modern kitchens is "chef de plonge" or "head dishwasher".[8]

Culinary education[edit]

Chefs in training at chef school in Oxford, England

Culinary education is available from many institutions offering diploma, associate, and bachelor's degree programs in culinary arts. Depending on the level of education, this can take one to four years. An internship is often part of the curriculum. Regardless of the education received, most professional kitchens follow the apprenticeship system, and most new cooks will start at a lower-level 2nd or 1st cook position and work their way up.

The training period for a chef is generally four years as an apprentice. A newly qualified chef is advanced or more commonly a torquecommis-chef, consisting of first-year commis, second-year commis, and so on. The rate of pay is usually in accordance with the chefs. Like all other chefs except the executive-chef, trainees are placed in sections of the kitchen (e.g., the starter (appetizer) or entrée sections) under the guidance of a demi-chef de partie and are given relatively basic tasks. Ideally, over time, a commis will spend a certain period in each section of the kitchen to learn the basics. Unaided, a commis may work on the vegetable station of a kitchen.[9]

The usual formal training period for a chef is two to four years in catering college. They often spend the summer in work placements. In some cases this is modified to 'day-release' courses; a chef will work full-time in a kitchen as an apprentice and then would have allocated days off to attend catering college. These courses can last between one and three years.

Chefs in Mexico wearing standard uniform.
A chef preparing Peking duck

The standard uniform for a chef includes a hat called a toque, necktie, double-breasted jacket, apron and shoes with steel or plastic toe-caps. A chef's hat was originally designed as a tall rippled hat called a Dodin Bouffant or more commonly a toque. The Dodin Bouffant had 101 ripples that represent the 101 ways that the chef could prepare eggs.[citation needed] The modern chef's hat is tall to allow for the circulation of air above the head and also provides an outlet for heat. The hat helps to prevent sweat from dripping down the face and hair shedding on food. Neckties were originally worn to allow for the mopping of sweat from the face, but as this is now against health regulations, they are largely decorative. The chef's neck tie was originally worn on the inside of the jacket to stop sweat running from the face and neck down the body.[10] The jacket is usually white to show off the chef's cleanliness and repel heat, and is double-breasted to prevent serious injuries from burns and scalds. The double breast also serves to conceal stains on the jacket as one side can be rebuttoned over the other, which is common practice.

French chef painted by Théodule Ribot (1823–1891)

An apron is worn to just below knee-length, also to assist in the prevention of burns because of spillage. If hot liquid is spilled onto it, the apron can be quickly removed to minimize burns and scalds. Shoes and clogs are hard-wearing and with a steel-top cap to prevent injury from falling objects or knives. According to some hygiene regulations, jewelry is not allowed apart from wedding bands and religious jewelry. If wound dressings are required they should be blue—an unusual colour for foodstuffs—so that they are noticeable if they fall into food. Facial hair and longer hair are often required to be netted, or trimmed, for food safety.[citation needed] Bandages on the hands are usually covered with nylon gloves. Latex is not typically used for food preparation due to latex allergy.

See also[edit]

  1. ^ Roth, Isabel. "Innervate" (PDF). The University of Nottingham School of English Studies. Retrieved January 30, 2016.
  2. ^ "the definition of chef-de-cuisine". Retrieved 2016-01-30.
  3. ^ Lowry, Brad. "Types of Chefs: Executive Chef, Sous Chef & Celebrity Chefs – Who’s Who in the Kitchen?". Retrieved 2016-01-30.
  4. ^ CIA (2011). p. 8.
  5. ^ Sophie Brickman (September 12, 2010). "How French Laundry's chefs reach for the stars". San Francisco Chronicle.
  6. ^ a b CIA (2011). p. 9.
  7. ^ CIA (2011). pp. 8–9.
  8. ^ Amanda Afiya (4 August 2011). "Chef Revelations – Kevin Gratton". Caterer & Hotelkeeper. Retrieved 3 January 2013.
  9. ^ - chef training options
  10. ^ Sockrider, Guy David (July 27, 2005). "History of the Chefs Uniform". Chefolio. Pflugerville, Texas: Escoffier Media. Retrieved June 29, 2009.

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Rfv-sense: (UK) An exclamation of joy. While I've heard something like "Results! Finally!" the singular "result" doesn't seem that common. A search on google books:"result!" appears to confirm this. TeleComNasSprVen 23:28, 6 February 2011 (UTC)

Also tagged above this sense "The decision or determination of a court, council or deliberative assembly; a resolve; a decree." Which IMO isn't an RFV case, it's just redundant to the senses above. Mglovesfun (talk) 23:30, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
Any tips for searching for interjection use? I'd like to try searching for "Result!", but I don't know if Google lets us do that. refuckingsult gets a couple dozen raw googles, suggesting result could be a valid interjection. --Plowman 07:37, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
See COCA and BNC at BYU, where the search syntax allows searches of the corpora for punctuation and offers other advantages. DCDuring TALK 10:58, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
This looks good to me (in the singular, on its own). But finding usage would be a nightmare. SemperBlotto 08:09, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
What noun couldn't be used as an interjection in the appropriate context? Wouldn't we want to reserve the interjection PoS to terms that have no other PoS, have a shift in meaning when used as an interjection, or are pure expressions of emotion? (There may be other justifications.) DCDuring TALK 10:50, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
I'm totally unfamiliar with this sense. Is yay result's one b.g.c. hit relevant? —RuakhTALK 12:42, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
Semper's right, it is used colloquially in the UK. It's sort of ellipsis for "good result" or "great result". I think it could be considered a noun, like "fail!" or "nightmare!" Mglovesfun (talk) 12:44, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
What may distinguish "result!" from "nightmare!" or "fail!" is that it takes a neutral term and selects only the positive valence meaning, if that is indeed how it is used. That might be considered to meet the shift-in-meaning criterion I posit. The other two intrinsically have negative valence, I think, thereby not meeting such criterion, AFAICT. DCDuring TALK 12:57, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
Though the noun result does have a specifically positive sense (our sense #2). I think someone would be surprised if you said that someone is "getting results" and it turned out you didn't mean positive ones. —RuakhTALK 13:56, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
The exclamation would be understood by most in the UK (though it is relatively recent in origin, I think). The meaning is "that was a favourable result" with associated emotion of excitement and glee, and it carries much more meaning than "nightmare!" or "fail!" Dbfirs 09:24, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
I do seem to have one genuine use so far. Mglovesfun (talk) 09:37, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
Cited, I think. Mglovesfun (talk) 09:48, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
I think Mglovesfun's citations are good, and I would lean toward the wort being distinct as an interjection and as a noun. If the interjection is deleted, I'd like to see the cites put as illustrations of use under one of the senses. - -sche (discuss) 05:49, 24 April 2011 (UTC)
Passed. - -sche (discuss) 06:18, 6 August 2011 (UTC)


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221: Celebrating Friendship

February 21

Today, David told me that the world’s greatest geniuses including Albert Einstein– who also happen to be some of the most productive and successful of the Earth’s inhabitants, only slept on average an hour per night. So it’s probably okay, he said, that I only got five hours of sleep last night and feel great. I wake up smarter each morning by staying up late to write and research and scheme.

(I meant to post this yesterday on 2/21, but for the record, it is now 12:21am.)

As I mentioned earlier, I am on a mission to undercover the messages behind number sequences that appear to me on a daily basis. 221 is one of them, so I dedicated February 21st to solving its mystery– or any part of it. I discovered that the main theme of 221 is celebrating the love of friendship.

In the past 24 hours, I have been fortunate enough to spend time with both my closest and longest friends. All in 24 hours, I’ve made a music video with my artsy friend from senior year of high school, had quality morning coffee time with my best friend/sister since first grade, enjoyed a formal high tea with my writing group gals, mingled with all my favorite Starbucks customers, and sang 90s songs with my coworkers. I’ve also been reminiscing on memorable times with friends I haven’t seen in awhile, those living out of town.

These kinds of things don’t just occur on a daily basis. Do they? Perhaps this may just be the beginning of my fortune in friendship.

In reality, I should have done a better job of hiding from the public since I bailed on the Unitarian Universalist Church and their request for me to sing at their service today in which the main theme was “Love and Friendship”. However, I failed to finish the song I began writing about friendship. I believe I have found the inspiration to finish it now.


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I’ve always prayed that I wouldn’t lose any family member. If anyone had to go, let it be me. Maybe thats the most selfish prayer ever made but I cant imagine what life would be without them. I’m so dependent on the people around me and family means a lot to me. I have been let down by too many friends to completely trust someone but family..They’re there even when you dont want them around. You stick together through everything. They’re the ones who see you in your worst moments and still bother talking to you. They’re the ones who know you inside out. I wouldnt last one day without them.

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“Palin will also be assigned to pacify conservatives. On the evidence of the numerous emails reprinted here, that will be easily done. Reader after reader said that the base was now energized. You would have thought the base was energized by being in a war. If not, perhaps we need a new base,” – Rick Brookhiser.

And then he  explains:

He’s discovering that the actual people in the Republican base are much less interested in national security than in religious orthodoxy. Who knew? The only relevant criterion for the Christianists is that Palin is a pro-life evangelical. What other criterion should they have? This isn’t about governing; it’s about believing.

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Professor Kammen: What Scientists Should Focus on Under Trump

kammenNine experts, including ERG Professor Daniel Kammen, reflect on where researchers should direct their efforts during the next US administration in Nature.

“As shown by the activity at COP22, the United Nations climate summit currently happening in Marrakesh, Morocco, the world will be pursuing clean-energy and climate-friendly goals with or without the United States. It would be folly not to want to lead and profit from this transition.”

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