Bang
noun
A loud sharp noise caused by something hitting or breaking.
The door slammed with a loud bang
Often appears as...
- with a bang
- bang of a door
verb
To hit or knock something causing a loud noise.
She banged the table with her fist
Often appears as...
- bang on the door
- bang the drum
noun
A burst or explosion of energy, action or effect.
The decision came with quite a bang
Often appears as...
- a big bang
- start with a bang
noun
A fringe of hair cut straight across the forehead.
She had a new haircut with bangs
adverb
Exactly, directly.
The arrow hit bang in the middle of the target
Often appears as...
- bang in the middle
- bang on target
Usage tips
Informal
verb
To have sexual intercourse.
They banged all night
Usage tips
Informal, Disapproving
Colloquial
noun
A loud sharp noise caused by something hitting or breaking.
The door slammed with a loud bang
Often appears as...
- with a bang
- bang of a door
verb
To hit or knock something causing a loud noise.
She banged the table with her fist
Often appears as...
- bang on the door
- bang the drum
noun
A burst or explosion of energy, action or effect.
The decision came with quite a bang
Often appears as...
- a big bang
- start with a bang
noun
A fringe of hair cut straight across the forehead.
She had a new haircut with bangs
adverb
Exactly, directly.
The arrow hit bang in the middle of the target
Often appears as...
- bang in the middle
- bang on target
Usage tips
Informal
verb
To have sexual intercourse.
They banged all night
Usage tips
Informal, Disapproving
Colloquial
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Pro Tip 1/2Sudden Events
Use 'bang' to describe the unexpectedness of a loud, abrupt sound.
Out of nowhere came the bang of a backfiring car.
Pro Tip 2/2Heightened Drama
'Bang' often adds a dramatic effect when describing scenes or stories.
With a bang, the fireworks lit up the night sky.
Pro Tip 1/2Sudden Events
Use 'bang' to describe the unexpectedness of a loud, abrupt sound.
Out of nowhere came the bang of a backfiring car.
Pro Tip 2/2Heightened Drama
'Bang' often adds a dramatic effect when describing scenes or stories.
With a bang, the fireworks lit up the night sky.
Pro Tip 1/2Sudden Events
Use 'bang' to describe the unexpectedness of a loud, abrupt sound.
Out of nowhere came the bang of a backfiring car.
Pro Tip 2/2Heightened Drama
'Bang' often adds a dramatic effect when describing scenes or stories.
With a bang, the fireworks lit up the night sky.
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Dark matter: The matter...
But there was more to come. Early this century, scientists studying the outer reaches of the universe confirmed that not only is everything moving apart from everything else, as you would expect in a universe that began in hot, dense big bang, but that the universe's expansion also seems to be accelerating. What's that about?
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Why specializing early...
they bang around like they're doing something, then they sew the patient back up. That performed just as a well. And yet surgeons who specialize in the procedure continue to do it by the millions. So if hyperspecialization isn't always the trick in a wicked world, what is? That can be difficult to talk about,
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Can VR help create...
do you actually change behavior we ran an experiment where subjects came to the lab they put on the helmet they had a haptic device that shook their hands like a chainsaw and we forced them to cut down trees the trees crash through the floor banged their feet up it feels very real in fact
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Peter Attia: What if...
are still banging their shins into coffee tables. How much better would we be if we treated the cause -- telling people to pay attention when they walk through the living room -- rather than the effect? Getting the cause and the effect right makes all the difference in the world.
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Gary Haugen: The hidden...
and the kind of bang you can get for your buck in terms of leveraging a criminal justice system that could function if it were properly trained and motivated and led, and these countries, especially a middle class that is seeing that there's really no future
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Is our universe the only...
part part three because such a mechanism has been found by cosmologists trying to understand the big bang you see when we speak of the big bang we often have an image of a kind of cosmic explosion that created our universe and set space rushing outward but
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Origins of the Universe...
And it is from this explosion, this bang, that all matter, energy, space, and time were created. What happened next were two major stages of the universe's evolution. Called the radiation and matter eras,
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The Creation Of The...
and the pattern of the ripples was imprinted into our universe as regions of slightly different density in the hydrogen and helium gas that formed shortly after the big bang
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The search for dark...
just a fraction of a second after the big bang. In this first moment, there was no matter at all. The universe was expanding very fast. And quantum mechanics tells us
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What is the universe...
The universe began its cosmic life in a big bang nearly fourteen billion years ago, and has been expanding ever since.
Video examples
Dark matter: The matter...
But there was more to come. Early this century, scientists studying the outer reaches of the universe confirmed that not only is everything moving apart from everything else, as you would expect in a universe that began in hot, dense big bang, but that the universe's expansion also seems to be accelerating. What's that about?
Video examples
Why specializing early...
they bang around like they're doing something, then they sew the patient back up. That performed just as a well. And yet surgeons who specialize in the procedure continue to do it by the millions. So if hyperspecialization isn't always the trick in a wicked world, what is? That can be difficult to talk about,
Video examples
Can VR help create...
do you actually change behavior we ran an experiment where subjects came to the lab they put on the helmet they had a haptic device that shook their hands like a chainsaw and we forced them to cut down trees the trees crash through the floor banged their feet up it feels very real in fact
Video examples
Peter Attia: What if...
are still banging their shins into coffee tables. How much better would we be if we treated the cause -- telling people to pay attention when they walk through the living room -- rather than the effect? Getting the cause and the effect right makes all the difference in the world.
Video examples
Gary Haugen: The hidden...
and the kind of bang you can get for your buck in terms of leveraging a criminal justice system that could function if it were properly trained and motivated and led, and these countries, especially a middle class that is seeing that there's really no future
Video examples
Is our universe the only...
part part three because such a mechanism has been found by cosmologists trying to understand the big bang you see when we speak of the big bang we often have an image of a kind of cosmic explosion that created our universe and set space rushing outward but
Video examples
Origins of the Universe...
And it is from this explosion, this bang, that all matter, energy, space, and time were created. What happened next were two major stages of the universe's evolution. Called the radiation and matter eras,
Video examples
The Creation Of The...
and the pattern of the ripples was imprinted into our universe as regions of slightly different density in the hydrogen and helium gas that formed shortly after the big bang
Video examples
The search for dark...
just a fraction of a second after the big bang. In this first moment, there was no matter at all. The universe was expanding very fast. And quantum mechanics tells us
Video examples
What is the universe...
The universe began its cosmic life in a big bang nearly fourteen billion years ago, and has been expanding ever since.
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Patrick Beverley
American Basketball Player
We understand that you can't play all 82, trust me, with injuries and all that. But if you're feeling OK - a lot of people have been banged up, but if you're feeling OK, then you should play. That's what you get paid for. That's what fans deserve. The fans definitely deserve that.
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John McEnroe
American Tennis Player
The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. Life is a learning process and you have to try to learn what's best for you. Let me tell you, life is not fun when you're banging your head against a brick wall all the time.
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David Crosby
American Musician
Describing Woodstock as the 'big bang,' I think that's a great way to describe it, because the important thing about it wasn't how many people were there or that it was a lot of truly wonderful music that got played.
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Emily Hampshire
Canadian Actress
To get - or not to get - bangs is a question that women struggle with all their life. I consider this question to be amongst those like, 'What happens when we die? or 'Is there life on other planets?
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James Purefoy
English Actor
I wasn't accepted the first time I tried to get into drama school. I said, 'I'll give this one more shot... and if that doesn't work, I won't bang my head against this painful brick wall.
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Brian Schmidt
Australian Scientist
I don't even really know what the big bang is, and so when people want to go through and say, 'Well, I believe that the universe started by God starting it,' that's fine by me.
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Chris Borland
American Athlete
I just thought to myself, 'What am I doing? Is this how I'm going to live my adult life, banging my head, especially with what I've learned and know about the dangers?
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Jay IDK
American Musician
I want people to understand balance. I might make a banger, and that's the way that I feel, and then I may want to make a song that's really deep.
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Aquaria
American
Sometimes in life, you're not always given a second chance, but if you do, take advantage of it, and go out with a bang!
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Brian Greene
American Physicist
There may have been many big bangs, one of which created our universe. The other bangs created other universes.
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Patrick Beverley
American Basketball Player
We understand that you can't play all 82, trust me, with injuries and all that. But if you're feeling OK - a lot of people have been banged up, but if you're feeling OK, then you should play. That's what you get paid for. That's what fans deserve. The fans definitely deserve that.
Quote examples
John McEnroe
American Tennis Player
The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. Life is a learning process and you have to try to learn what's best for you. Let me tell you, life is not fun when you're banging your head against a brick wall all the time.
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David Crosby
American Musician
Describing Woodstock as the 'big bang,' I think that's a great way to describe it, because the important thing about it wasn't how many people were there or that it was a lot of truly wonderful music that got played.
Quote examples
Emily Hampshire
Canadian Actress
To get - or not to get - bangs is a question that women struggle with all their life. I consider this question to be amongst those like, 'What happens when we die? or 'Is there life on other planets?
Quote examples
James Purefoy
English Actor
I wasn't accepted the first time I tried to get into drama school. I said, 'I'll give this one more shot... and if that doesn't work, I won't bang my head against this painful brick wall.
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Brian Schmidt
Australian Scientist
I don't even really know what the big bang is, and so when people want to go through and say, 'Well, I believe that the universe started by God starting it,' that's fine by me.
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Chris Borland
American Athlete
I just thought to myself, 'What am I doing? Is this how I'm going to live my adult life, banging my head, especially with what I've learned and know about the dangers?
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Jay IDK
American Musician
I want people to understand balance. I might make a banger, and that's the way that I feel, and then I may want to make a song that's really deep.
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Aquaria
American
Sometimes in life, you're not always given a second chance, but if you do, take advantage of it, and go out with a bang!
Quote examples
Brian Greene
American Physicist
There may have been many big bangs, one of which created our universe. The other bangs created other universes.
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