impact vs vamp

impact

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

  • 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. 

noun
  • A significant or strong influence or effect. 

  • A forced impinging. 

  • The striking of one body against another; collision. 

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

vamp

verb
  • To cobble together, to extemporize, to improvise. 

  • To patch, repair, or refurbish. 

  • To travel by foot; to walk. 

  • To attach a vamp (to footwear). 

  • To delay or stall for time, as for an audience. 

  • Often as vamp up: to fabricate or put together (something) from existing material, or by adding new material to something existing. 

  • To seduce or exploit someone. 

  • To turn into a vampire. 

  • To perform a vamp (“a repeated, often improvised accompaniment, for example, under dialogue or while waiting for a soloist to be ready”). 

noun
  • An activity or speech intended to fill or stall for time. 

  • The top part of a boot or shoe, above the sole and welt and in front of the ankle seam, that covers the instep and toes; the front part of an upper; the analogous part of a stocking. 

  • A flirtatious, seductive woman, especially one who exploits men by using their sexual desire for her. 

  • Something added to give an old thing a new appearance. 

  • A repeated and often improvised accompaniment, usually consisting of one or two measures, often a single chord or simple chord progression, repeated as necessary, for example, to accommodate dialogue or to anticipate the entrance of a soloist. 

  • A vampire. 

  • A volunteer firefighter. 

  • Something patched up, pieced together, improvised, or refurbished. 

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