Meaning

13 senses

  1. A sudden percussive noise.

    When he struck it with a hammer, there was a loud bang.

    Knall

    уда́рudár, трескtresk, бахbax

    a sudden very loud noise

  2. A heavy strike upon an object causing such a noise.

    I gave the door a bang and it swung open.

    That bang on his head has sent him funny.

    Schlag, Hieb

  3. (informal)An explosion.

    When he pushed the detonator, the bang blew him off his feet.

    Knall, Explosion

  4. (US)The symbol !, known as an exclamation point.

    An e-mail address with an ! is called a bang path.

    Ausrufzeichen

    восклица́тельный знакvosklicátelʹnyj znak

  5. A factorial, in mathematics, because the factorial of n is written as n!

  6. (slang, vulgar)An act of sexual intercourse.

  7. An offbeat figure typical of reggae songs and played on guitar and piano.

  8. (slang)An explosive product.

    Load the bang into the hole.

  9. (slang)An injection, a shot (of a narcotic drug).

  10. (US, slang)An abrupt left turn.

  11. (Ireland, colloquial, slang)Strong smell (of)

    There was a bang of onions off his breath.

  12. (slang)A thrill.

Examples

286 sentences

  1. She banged the table with her fist.

    Вона вдарила кулаком по столу. — aandrusiak

    ruОна ударила кулаком по столу. — shanghainese

    deSie schlug mit der Faust auf den Tisch. — samueldora

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  2. Tom banged his head.

    Том ударився головою. — deniko

    deTom stieß sich den Kopf. — Sudajaengi

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  3. Tom did a bang-up job.

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  4. I heard a loud bang.

    ruЯ услышал громкий взрыв. — astru

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  5. Tom heard a loud bang.

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Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 3
a sudden percussive noise:
hair hanging over the forehead:
the symbol !:
Deutsch
By meaning 5
a sudden percussive noise:
a strike upon an object causing such a noise:
an explosion:
hair hanging over the forehead:
the symbol !:

Origin

From Middle English *bangen, from Old English *bangian or borrowed from Old Norse banga (“

From Middle English *bangen, from Old English *bangian or borrowed from Old Norse banga (“to pound, hammer”); both from Proto-Germanic *bangōną (“to beat, pound”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰen- (“to beat, hit, injure”). Cognate with Scots bang, bung (“to strike, bang, hurl, thrash, offend”), Icelandic banga (“to pound, hammer”), Old Swedish bånga ("to hammer"; whence modern Swedish banka (“to knock, pound, bang”)), Danish banke (“to beat”), bengel (“club”), Low German bangen, bangeln (“to strike, beat”), West Frisian bingel, bongel, Dutch bengel (“bell; rascal”), German Bengel (“club”), bungen (“to throb, pulsate”).

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Forms

plural: bangs
Singularbang
Pluralbangs

regular

Synonyms

33 synonyms
boomB1reportA2strikeA2blowA2explosionB1clapB2crackB2bangsblamboom-boomkaboompowkerboom
the symbol !:exclamation markB2exclamation pointpling
Close in meaning

Antonyms

3 antonyms
abrupt left turn:hangB2
hummingmurmurB2

Word family

3 related words
RelatedtapA2snapB2beep

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
bandybanebangerbangkokbangle

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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