bounce
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: From Middle English bounsen, bunsen (“to beat, thump”), cognate with Scots bunce, bonce (“to bounce”). Of uncertain origin. Perhaps imitative, related to bump, or related to Middle English bonchen (“to pound, beat”) and Dutch bonken (“to bump”).
Compare Saterland Frisian bumzje (“to pound, bang, bounce”), West Frisian bûnzje (“to throb, bounce, pulsate”), Dutch bonzen (“to thump, knock, throb, bounce”), German Low German bunsen, bumsen (“to beat, bounce”), German bumsen (“to thud, bang, pound”).
Inflected forms:
form: bounces
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bouncing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bounced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bounced
pos: verb
tags: past
form: bounces
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To change the direction of motion after hitting an obstacle.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The tennis ball bounced off the wall before coming to rest in the ditch.
gloss: To move quickly up and then down (or vice versa), once or repeatedly.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: He bounces nervously on his chair.
The Black Cats contributed to their own downfall for the only goal when Titus Bramble, making his first appearance since Boxing Day, and Michael Turner, let Phil Jones' cross bounce across the six-yard box as Rooney tucked in at the back post.
gloss: To cause to move quickly up and down, or back and forth, once or repeatedly.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He bounced the child on his knee.
The children were bouncing a ball against a wall.
gloss: To suggest or introduce (an idea, etc.) to (off or by) someone, in order to gain feedback.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
transitive
examples: I'm meeting Bob later to bounce some ideas off him about the new product range.
gloss: To leap or spring suddenly or unceremoniously; to bound.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: She bounced happily into the room.
Out bounced the mastiff.
gloss: To move rapidly (between).
pos: verb
examples: “The Queen’s Justice” had some fantastic moments of wit and heart but the structure and pacing didn’t do it any favors. The first section of the episode mostly bounced between Jon Snow’s arrival at Dragonstone and Cersei Lannister burning through her enemies and giving nary a fuck.
gloss: To be refused by a bank because it is drawn on insufficient funds.
pos: verb
tags: informal
intransitive
examples: We can’t accept further checks from you, as your last one bounced.
gloss: To fail to cover (have sufficient funds for) (a cheque/check drawn on one's account).
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
examples: He tends to bounce a check or two toward the end of each month, before his payday.
gloss: To leave.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
examples: Let’s wrap this up, I gotta bounce.
I was definitely looking forward to getting me some more of Yasmere in the future, so I took a quick second to give her a last little bit of love before I bounced.
All right, look, don't prang out. They had this paint-party-brunch thing. But I only stayed for 45 minutes, painted a tiny bit of a door, ate half an almond croissant and bounced.
gloss: To eject violently, as from a room; to discharge unceremoniously, as from employment.
pos: verb
tags: US
dated
slang
transitive
examples: Nobody took umbrage and bounced me out of the Union for being a pro.
Anyone who gets bounced out of [this bar] is not just pushed onto the street — he is walked home, or put in a cab.
gloss: To have sexual intercourse.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
sometimes
gloss: To attack unexpectedly.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The squadron was bounced north of the town.
gloss: To turn power to (a device) off and back on; to reset; to reboot.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: See if it helps to bounce the router.
gloss: To return undelivered.
pos: verb
tags: Internet
ergative
examples: What’s your new email address? The old one bounces.
The girl in the bar told me her address was thirsty@example.com, but my mail to that address was bounced back by the server.
gloss: To land hard and lift off again due to excess momentum.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The student pilot bounced several times during his landing.
gloss: To land hard at unsurvivable velocity with fatal results.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: After the mid-air collision, his rig failed and he bounced.
gloss: To mix (two or more tracks of a multi-track audio recording) and record the result onto a single track, in order to free up tracks for further material to be added.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Bounce tracks two and three to track four, then record the cowbell on track two.
gloss: To render two or more tracks to computer storage so that they can be played back and re-recorded with further material added.
pos: verb
examples: bouncing stems
gloss: To bully; to scold.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
slang
examples: Would I had him here again, I would so bounce him, I would so thank his lordship for his lewd plot.
gloss: To boast; to bluster.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
slang
gloss: To strike or thump, so as to make a sudden noise upon rebound; to knock loudly.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
examples: Another bounces as hard as he can knock.
gloss: To race poorly after a successful race.
pos: verb
tags: slang
gloss: A change of direction of motion after hitting the ground or an obstacle.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Krohn-Dehli took advantage of a lucky bounce of the ball after a battling run on the left flank by Simon Poulsen, dummied two defenders and shot low through goalkeeper Maarten Stekelenburg's legs after 24 minutes.
gloss: A movement up and then down (or vice versa), once or repeatedly.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An email that returns to the sender because of a delivery failure.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
countable
uncountable
gloss: A hypothetical event where a collapsing system, such as a universe in the Big Bounce theory, reaches a point of extreme density and then rebounds back into an expanding phase, essentially reversing the contraction due to quantum mechanical effects.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The sack, dismissal.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
examples: Someone more clever than I said, "It's not the bounce that counts, it's the bounce back. "
Customers said I was a hoot; management gave me the bounce.
I was no longer with the Oakhaven Hospital when I decided to come out here to the island; they'd fired me when they traced a long-distance call I'd made to San Francisco, under the director's name, to a man the papers had said got pinched out there, under suspicion of having lifted a poke with 10 grand in it—but later released—a man named Andy Glover. I thought sure he was a certain lug who'd been in stir with me, and thought to make a touch—however, skip it!—the point is that it was the wrong Andy Glover!—the call got traced to the phone in the hospital urinal room—and I got the bounce.
gloss: A bang, boom.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: I don't value her resentment the bounce of a cracker.
gloss: A drink based on brandy, cherry bounce.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: A prologue of cherry bounce,—brandy,—preceded the entertainment, which was enlivened by hob-nobs and joyous toasts.
He had one hand on the bounce bottle—and he'd never let go of that since he got back to the table—but he had a handkerchief in the other and was swabbing his deadlights with it.
gloss: A heavy, sudden, and often noisy, blow or thump.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: The bounce burst ope the door.
gloss: Bluster; brag; untruthful boasting; audacious exaggeration; an impudent lie; a bouncer.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: And, in fact, the whole story is a bounce of his own. For, in a most abusive letter which he wrote “to a learned person,” (meaning Wallis the mathematician,) he gives quite another account of the matter
gloss: Scyliorhinus canicula, a European dogfish.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A genre of hip-hop music of New Orleans, characterized by often lewd call-and-response chants.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Drugs.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
gloss: Swagger.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
gloss: A good beat in music.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
gloss: A talent for leaping.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
examples: Them pro-ballers got bounce!
gloss: An increase in popularity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
uncountable
gloss: An obstacle for a horse to jump over, consisting of two fences close together so that the horse cannot take a full stride between them, nor jump both at once.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The situation where a horse races poorly after a successful race.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
Derived words: bounceable
bounce around
bounceback
bounce back
bounced cheque
bouncedown
bounce in
bounce into
bounce off
bounce off the walls
bounce on it
bouncer
bounce rubble
bounce the rubble
bounce to the ounce
bouncing
bouncing Bet
bouncing castle
debounce
jounce
pec bounce
rebounce
air bounce
antibounce
Boris bounce
bounce house
bounceless
bounce rate
bouncy
Brown bounce
dead-cat bounce
dead cat bounce
eye bounce
keybounce
key bounce
moonbounce
moon bounce
multibounce
on the bounce
postbounce
superbounce
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: tulla hylätyksi
lang: Finnish
word: ei kelvata
lang: German
word: platzen
lang: Spanish
word: rebotar
lang: Spanish
word: devolver
lang: Spanish
word: bounsear
lang: Spanish
word: bouncear
lang: Spanish
word: baunsear
lang: Tagalog
word: talbog
lang: Thai
word: เด้ง
roman: dêng