English-Dutch translations for bang

klap
Wat houdt dat in? 11 september legde in één klap de heersende misvatting in het oude veiligheidsbeleid bloot.What should this policy be? September 11 revealed with one bang the prevailing error of the old security policy. Er is nooit sprake geweest van de intentie, laat staan van enig voorstel, om de Europese spoorwegen in één klap te liberaliseren, de zogeheten big bang-liberalisering. There has never been any intention therefore, nor is there any proposition, for what has been described as a 'Big Bang' approach to the liberalization of European rail.
knal
De val van dictaturen gaat immers vaker gepaard met een knal dan dat er sprake is van een fluwelen revolutie. Dictatorships generally fall with a bang rather than by means of velvet revolutions. Vroeg of laat komt er een rookwolk en een luide knal en staat een van uw collega=s in dit Parlement te stralen als een kerstboom. One of these days there will be a puff of smoke, a loud bang and one of your Members will light up like a Christmas tree. Op nog geen 100 meter van het Parlement stond ik stil voor de stoplichten. Ik hoorde een enorme knal en mijn ruit werd ingeslagen aan de passagierskant. Barely 100 metres from the Parliament building, having halted at a red light, I heard an enormous bang and the passenger-side window of my car was smashed in.

A sudden percussive noise
A strike upon an object causing such a noise
: hair hanging over the forehead, especially a hairstyle with such hair cut straight across
The symbol , known as an exclamation point
A factorial, in mathematics, because the factorial of n is often written as n!
An offbeat figure typical of reggae songs and played on guitar and piano
An injection, a shot .
An abrupt left turn
A thrill
To make sudden loud noises, and often repeatedly, especially by exploding or hitting something
To hit hard
To engage in sexual intercourse
To hammer or to hit anything hard
To cut squarely across, as the tail of a horse, or a person's forelock; to cut (the hair
right#Adverb|Right, directly
Precisely
With a sudden impact
A sudden percussive sound, such as made by the firing of a gun, slamming of a door, etc

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