bang vs impact

bang

noun
  • A strike upon an object causing such a noise. 

  • An explosion. 

  • A sudden percussive noise. 

  • An explosive product. 

  • A thrill. 

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

  • A factorial, in mathematics, because the factorial of n is often written as n! 

  • An act of sexual intercourse. 

  • An injection, a shot (of a narcotic drug). 

  • strong smell (of) 

  • An abrupt left turn. 

  • The symbol !, known as an exclamation point. 

adv
  • With a sudden impact. 

  • Precisely. 

  • Right, directly. 

verb
  • To inject intravenously. 

  • 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). 

  • To make sudden loud noises, and often repeatedly, especially by exploding or hitting something. 

intj
  • A sudden percussive sound, such as made by the firing of a gun, slamming of a door, etc. 

impact

noun
  • The striking of one body against another; collision. 

  • A significant or strong influence or effect. 

  • A forced impinging. 

  • The force or energy of a collision of two objects. 

verb
  • To stamp or impress onto something. 

  • To collide or strike, the act of impinging. 

  • To significantly or strongly influence or affect; to have an impact on. 

  • To compress; to compact; to press into something or pack together. 

How often have the words bang and impact occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )