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Definition: Bounce |
BounceNoun1. The quality of a substance that is able to rebound. 2. A light springing movement upwards or forwards. 3. Rebounding from an impact (or series of impacts). Verb1. Spring back; spring away from an impact; "The rubber ball bounced"; "These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide". 2. Hit something so that it bounces, as of a ball. 3. Move up and down repeatedly. 4. Come back after being refused; "the check bounced". 5. Leap suddenly; "He bounced to his feet". 6. Refuse to accept and send back; "bounce a check". 7. Eject from the premises; "The ex-boxer's job is to bounce people who want to enter this private club". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "bounce" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1595. (references) |
Note: Bounce \Bounce\, intransitive verb [imperfect & past participle. Bounced; Bouncing.]. (references) |
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Computing | Bounce v. 1. [common; perhaps by analogy to a bouncing check] An electronic mail message that is undeliverable and returns an error notification to the sender is said to `bounce'. See also bounce message. 2. [Stanford] To play volleyball. The now-demolished D. C. Power Lab building used by the Stanford AI Lab in the 1970s had a volleyball court on the front lawn. From 5 P.M. to 7 P.M. was the scheduled maintenance time for the computer, so every afternoon at 5 would come over the intercom the cry: "Now hear this: bounce, bounce!", followed by Brian McCune loudly bouncing a volleyball on the floor outside the offices of known volleyballers. 3. To engage in sexual intercourse; prob. from the expression `bouncing the mattress', but influenced by Roo's psychosexually loaded "Try bouncing me, Tigger!" from the "Winnie-the-Pooh" books. Compare boink. 4. To casually reboot a system in order to clear up a transient problem (possibly editing a configuration file in the process, if it is one that is only re-read at boot time). Reported primarily among VMS and Unix users. 5. [VM/CMS programmers] _Automatic_ warm-start of a machine after an error. "I logged on this morning and found it had bounced 7 times during the night" 6. [IBM] To power cycle a peripheral in order to reset it. Source: Jargon File. |
Mining | A. A sudden spalling off of the sides of ribs and pillars due to excessive pressure; a bump b. The rapid up-and-down reciprocating motion induced in a drill string by rod vibration, drill string wrap-up, excessive volume or pressure of circulation media, or the running of a bit on and over small, loosematerials on the bottom of a drill hole. (references) |
Slang | Verb. Source: Heather, a group member of AKA's. Definition: To leave. Context: Casual conversation used between the AKA's. Social Source: AKA'S (Aoistair, Kenny, and Amon) . Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
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Bounce is also:
Bon Jovi's tenth album, Bounce was released in October of 2002. Bounce was heavily influenced by the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack, owing in part to Jon Bon Jovi's close proximity to New York.
Critical response to Bounce was largely positive. While Crush was sometimes criticized by long-time fans as being too "poppy", Bounce represented a return to Bon Jovi's "roots". However, this return to a more "classic Bon Jovi" sound, while a relief to some fans, also brought out some critics that accused the band of being too "formulaic", a critcism that had been leveled at the band in the past.
Bounce debuted at #2 on the "Billboard 200" chart, making it Bon Jovi's highest debut in the band's history.
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[*] May not be present on all releases, especially U.S. release.Bounce (musical)
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Synonyms: BounceSynonyms: bounciness (n), bouncing (n), leap (n), leaping (n), saltation (n), bound (v), jounce (v), rebound (v), recoil (v), resile (v), ricochet (v), spring (v), take a hop (v). (additional references) |
| Antonym: clear (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Abrogation | Dismissal, conge, demission; bounce; deposal, deposition; dethronement; disestablishment, disendowment; deconsecration; sack, walking papers, pink slip, walking ticket; yellow cover. |
Dismiss, discard; cast off, turn off, cast out, cast adrift, cast out of doors, cast aside, cast away; send off, send away, send packing, send about one's business; discharge, get rid of; (eject); bounce; fire, fire out; sack. | |
Arrival | Come to hand; come at, come across; hit; come upon, light upon, pop upon, bounce upon, plump upon, burst upon, pitch upon; meet; encounter, rencounter; come in contact. |
Boasting | Noun: boasting; Verb: boast, vaunt, crake; pretense, pretensions; puff, puffery; flourish, fanfaronade; gasconade; blague, bluff, gas; highfalutin, highfaluting; hot air, spread-eagleism; brag, braggardism; bravado, bunkum, buncombe; jactancy; bounce; venditation, vaporing, rodomontade, bombast, fine talking, tall talk, magniloquence, teratology, heroics; Chauvinism; exaggeration. |
Ejection | Eject, reject; expel, discard; cut, send to coventry, boycott; chasser; banish; (punish); bounce ; fire, fire out; throw; throw out, throw up, throw off, throw away, throw aside; push; throw out, throw off, throw away, throw aside; shovel out, shovel away, sweep out, sweep away; brush off, brush away, whisk off, whisk away, turn off, turn away, send off, send away; discharge; send adrift, turn adrift, cast adrift; turn out, bundle out; throw overboard; give the sack to; send packing, send about one's business, send to the right about; strike off the roll; (abrogate); turn out neck and heels, turn out head and shoulders, turn out neck and crop; pack off; send away with a flea in the ear; send to Jericho; bow out, show the door to. |
Elasticity | Verb: stretch, flex, extend, distend, be elastic. Adjective: bounce, spring back. (recoil). |
Inexpectation | Be unexpected; Adjective: come unawares; adVerb: turn up, pop, drop from the clouds; come upon one, burst upon one, flash upon one, bounce upon one, steal upon one, creep upon one; come like a thunder clap, burst like a thunderclap, thunder bolt; take by surprise, catch by surprise, catch unawares, catch napping; yach. |
Insolence | Impertinence; sauciness; Adjective: flippancy, dicacity, petulance, procacity, bluster; swagger, swaggering; Verb: bounce; terrorism. |
Leap | Verb: leap; jump up, jump over the moon; hop, spring, bound, vault, ramp, cut capers, trip, skip, dance, caper; buck, buck jump; curvet, caracole; foot it, bob, bounce, flounce, start; frisk; (amusement); jump about; (agitation); trip it on the light fantastic toe, trip the light fantastic, dance oneself off one's legs, dance off one's shoes. |
Recoil | Verb: recoil, react; spring back, fly back, bounce back, bound back; rebound, reverberate, repercuss, recalcitrate; echo, ricochet. |
Noun: recoil; reaction, retroaction; revulsion; bounce, rebound, ricochet; repercussion, recalcitration; kick, contrecoup; springing back; Verb: elasticity; reflection, reflexion, reflex, reflux; reverberation; (resonance); rebuff, repulse; return. | |
Untruth | Noun: untruth, falsehood, lie, story, thing that is not, fib, bounce, crammer, taradiddle, whopper; jhuth. |
Violence | Outbreak, outburst; debacle; burst, bounce, dissilience, discharge, volley, explosion, blow up, blast, detonation, rush, eruption, displosion, torrent. |
Break out, fly out, burst out; bounce, explode, go off, displode, fly, detonate, thunder, blow up, crump, flash, flare, burst; shock, strain; break open, force open, prize open. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Bounce |
| English words defined with "bounce": bounce out, Bounced, Bouncingly ♦ dead ♦ lollop. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "bounce": atomic moisture meter ♦ barfmail ♦ software laser, sorcerer's apprentice mode ♦ TO BULLOCK, transrectal ultrasound, transvaginal ultrasound. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Bounce" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Swedish (studsa). |
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Screenplays | Come on, Rabbit, let's you and me bounce. (Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too!; writing credit: A.A. Milne; Ralph Wright) Good! Bounce the ball (Big Man on Campus; writing credit: Allan Katz) Aye, I'd better see to him. The bounce has gone from his bungee (Wallace & Gromit: A Close Shave; writing credit: Bob Baker; Nick Park) My God, I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna bounce you off every wall of this office (Cheers; writing credit: Isaac Cronin; Wayne Wang) Another urban myth dispelled: ninjas don't bounce. (The Tick; writing credit: Larry Charles; Lon Diamond) | |
Lyrics | So I guess it's time for me to bounce the ball like Sprewell (Take Your Time; performing artist: HOT) HuH HUH Now I'm show you or love, there's no belly you bounce from (Down Ass Bitch; performing artist: Ja Rule) All my mamis bounce, uh (Hey Papi; performing artist: Jay-Z) WAIT A MINUTE DON'T BOUNCE BABY LET'S TALK ABOUT THIS MAN (All I Have; performing artist: Jennifer Lopez) All we wanna do is make you bounce (Touch It; performing artist: Monifah) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Big Bounce (1969) Caught on the Bounce (1952) Eggs Don't Bounce (1944) The Grand Bounce (1937) Canada Vignettes: Ice Carnival Montreal 1885 - Canadian Bounce (1986) | |
Song Titles | Bounce Me Brother With A Solid Four (performing artist: The Andrews Sisters) Bounce With Me (performing artist: Lil Bow Wow) Bounce With Me (performing artist: Xscape) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | Trying to bounce the boss. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Space bounce. | |
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Author Unknown | A hard fall means a high bounce... If you're made of the right material. |
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Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | When I opened my door in the evening, off they would go with a squeak and a bounce. |
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Health | If stones are present, the sound waves will bounce off them, too, showing their location. (references) | |
The sound waves bounce off the gallbladder, liver, and other organs, and their echoes make electrical impulses that create a picture of the organ on a video monitor. (references) | ||
Ultrasonography is another procedure for viewing areas inside the body. High-frequency sound waves that cannot be heard by humans enter the body and bounce back. Their echoes produce a picture called a sonogram. (references) | ||
Economic History | Chile | These values may double if copper price in the international market bounce back from the current 70 cents per pound or so to the more traditional level of 85 to 90 cent per pound. (references) |
Equatorial Guinea | In 1969 Equatorial Guinea produced 36,161 tons of highly bid cocoa, but production dropped to 4,800 tons in 2000. Coffee production also dropped sharply during this period to bounce back to 100,000 metric tons in 2000. Timber is the main source of foreign exchange after oil, accounting for about 12.4% of total export earnings in 1996-99. Timber production increased steadily during the 1990s; wood exports reached a record 789,000 cubic meters in 1999 as demand in Asia (mainly China) gathered pace after the 1998 economic crisis. (references) | |
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Bob Costas | Paychecks are going to bounce, two clubs aren't going to be able to make their payrolls. The truth is that some clubs do have trouble, but they made their payrolls. So it undermines his credibility. |
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| "Bounce" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 44.99% of the time. "Bounce" is used about 429 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 44.99% | 193 | 22,089 |
| Noun (singular) | 31% | 133 | 27,614 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 22.84% | 98 | 33,072 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.17% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 429 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "bounce": bounce at ♦ bounce back ♦ bounce back on ♦ bounce dive ♦ bounce into ♦ bounce message ♦ bounce off ♦ bounce out ♦ bounce out of ♦ catch the ball on the bounce ♦ Cherry bounce ♦ forearm bounce pass ♦ give smb. the bounce ♦ make bounce ♦ she is full of bounce. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "bounce": bounce-back, bounce-free, bounce-it-off-the, bounce-lighting. | |
Ending with "bounce": anti-bounce. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
bounce out | 1,337 | big bounce | 26 |
bounce | 739 | bounce lyrics | 25 |
bounce house | 361 | bounce dryer sheet | 25 |
super bounce out | 292 | anti bounce | 25 |
moon bounce | 177 | bounce rate | 23 |
bounce game | 121 | bounce round | 22 |
bounce out game | 113 | bounce sondheim | 21 |
brooklyn bounce | 76 | bounce tit | 21 |
bounce around | 57 | inflatable bounce house | 21 |
anti bounce paltalk | 55 | bounce game yahoo | 18 |
bounce moon rental | 55 | bounce spam mail | 18 |
bon jovi bounce | 53 | bounce shock wave | 18 |
bounce super | 51 | email bounce | 17 |
bounce house rental | 46 | booty bounce | 16 |
awesome bounce | 36 | bounce and play | 16 |
bounce free game | 32 | bounce back | 16 |
bounce ball | 32 | bounce fabric softener | 16 |
bounce spam | 31 | bounce movie | 16 |
inflatable bounce | 29 | bounce house sale | 15 |
bounce game super | 27 | bounce house dallas | 15 |
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| Language | Translations for "bounce"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | mburrje (arrogance, bluster, boast, brag, braggery, bravado, fanfaronade, gasconade, hokum, jactation, jactitation, puff, rodomontade, splurge, swank, talk big, vainglory, vaunt), kërcim (bouncing, bound, caper, dance, fly, footer, gambade, gambado, hop, jump, leap, leaping, pounce, prance, rebound, skip, spring, vault), kërcej (bound, capriole, cavort, dance, hop, jump, leap, prance, skip, spit, spring), hidhem (bound, caper, dash, Frisk, hop, jig, jounce, jump, launch, leap, lunge, peg, pounce, skip, spring, vault, Wade), fryrje (blow, blowing, bulge, distention, flatulence, flatulency, hot air, inflation, injection, insufflation, puff, puffery, vainglory, wind). (various references) | |
Arabic | فجأة (all at once, all of a sudden, bang, by surprise, on the spur of the moment, out of the blue, overnight, short, suddenly, unawares, unexpectedly), نهض بسرعة, نشاط (action, activity, alacrity, bang, energy, forcefulness, ginger, go, kick, lift, liveliness, mettle, momentum, movement, pep, promptitude, prosperity, pursuit, spirit, spunk, stir, strenuousness, tuck, verve, vigor, vigour, vim, virility, zip), وثب (bound, clear, dance, gambol, rebound, skip, skipping, spring, start up, vault), طرد (banish, banishment, bouncer, cashier, cast out, chuck, deport, deportation, disgrace, dislodge, dismiss, dismissal, dispossess, dispossession, disqualification, drive out, drum, eject, ejection, eliminate, elimination, evaporate, evict, eviction, expel, expulsion, fence, fight down, get off, hunt, in order of the boot, oust, ouster, pitch, poke, put out, removal, remove, repel, rout, sack, scat, send, send packing, sending away, shake, shrift, sling out, spurn, throw out, toss, toss out, turf, turf out, turn away, turn off, turn out), ضربة قوية (chop, crack, knocking, slog, slug, thump), إرتداد (apostasy, defection, kick, rebound, recall, recantation, recess, recoil, reflection, reflexion, regress, relapse, renunciation, repercussion, retroversion, reverberation, withdrawal), إرتد (cringe, draw back, rebound, recant, recoil, reflex, regress, renegade, renounce, reverberate, shrink, withdraw), أبعد (alien, alienate, deport, distance, drive away, drive out, estrange, exclude, far, farther, hold off, oust, out of the way, outmost, preclude, relegate, send, send packing, stave off, supplant, take away, throw out, transport, ulterior, ultimate, warn off), رد الشيك, دخل مرة ثانية. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | скок (bound, caper, gambade, gambado, hop, jump, leap, lunge, prance, saltation, skip, spring), самохвалство (bluster, boast, boastfulness, brag, braggadocio, braggery, bragging, bull, fanfaronade, jactation, ostentation, rodomontade, splurge, swagger, vainglory, vaunt), хваля се (boast, brag, flourish, glory, rodomontade, splurge, swagger, talk big, talk tall, vapor, vapour, vaunt), отскачам (bound, carom, glance, jump, jump back, kick, nip, rebound, recoil, resile, skip, spring, take off), накарвам (get, have, make, move, predetermine, prevail, send), еластичност (contractility, deflection, deflexion, ductility, elasticity, give, pliability, resilience, resiliency, spring, springiness, stretch, tension), безсрамие (brass, immodesty, impudence, impudicity, shamelessness), подскок (bound, gambol, leap), подскачане (dap, jump, porpoising, prance), изскачам (fling, jump out, shoot out), изхвърлям (cast aside, cast away, detrude, discharge, dump, ejaculate, eject, excrete, expel, out, project, push out, put out, reject, relegate, sack, shoot out, spew, spill, spirt, spurt, throw, throw out, throw up, thrust forth, tip, turf out, vomit, whop), изгонване (chuck, eviction, expulsion, extrusion), изплющяване (snap). (various references) | |
Chinese | 退票 , 亂跳 . (various references) | |
Czech | vitalita (energy, lustiness, resilience, vigor, vigour, vitality), skákat (bound, hop, jump, leap, skip, spring), rána (bang, bash, biff, blow, clout, hit, knock, rap, report, shock, shot, slap, slash, sock, strike, stroke, swipe, whack, whang, wound), pružnost (elasticity, flexibility, give, resilience, springiness, stretch), poskakovat (Bob, cavort, flounce, gambol, hop, hop about, scamper about, skip), odskoèit (rebound, recoil, ricochet), odrazit se (bounce back, glance off, head off, rebound, recoil, reflect), odraz (rebound, reflection, reflexion, reverberation, ricochet, take off, takeoff), houpat (cradle, sway), elán (Ardor, ardour, buoyancy, drive, eagerness, elan, enthusiasm, guts, high spirits, pep, spirit, verve, vim, vivacity, zest). (various references) | |
Danish | bounce message (barfmail, bounce mail, bounce message). (various references) | |
Dutch | terugslag (arc back, arc-back, atavism, backfire, back-fire, choc en retour, flashback, flyback, kickback, rebound, rebound effect, relapse, retrace, throw back). (various references) | |
Farsi | پس جستن , پریدن (Hip, Jump, Nip, Spout, Spring, Stow, Tumble, Vault), پرش (Convulsion, Fly, Jump, Jumpoff, Leap, Spout, Startle, Wing), موردتوپ وتشرقراردادن , گزاف گوءی کردن , گزاف گوءی (Extravaganza, Hyperbole), جست (Leap), بیرون انداختن (Eject, Excrete, Expel, Sputter), بالاجستن . (various references) | |
Finnish | töyssähtää. (various references) | |
French | bond (bound), bondir (bound), bondis, bondissent, bondissez, bondissons, flanquer la porte, coup fort, animation, faire rebondir, vivacité, rebond, rebondir, rebondissement (bouncing), refuser, saut (bound), sauter (bound), se lever très vite, vider, enthousiasme. (various references) | |
German | prellen (bilk, bouncing, bruise, cheat, contuse, hit, swindle, to bounce). (various references) | |
Greek | κάνω γκελ, γκελ, μπιστάω, πήδημα (bound, hop, jump, leap, saltation, shock, skip, spring, vault, vaulting), εκβάλλω (doff, drive out, eject, evict, extrude, oust, put out, take off, utter), αναπηδώ (bob, bound, jerk, jig, leap, prance, ramp, rebound, recoil, spring, start). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ל"קפיץ כ"ור, תיר" (hopping, jumping, leap, skipping). (various references) | |
Hungarian | ugrálás (hop, jiggle, jumping, skipping), ruganyosság (adaptability, spring, springiness). (various references) | |
Indonesian | mengambul (rebound, ricochet), memecat (depese, dismiss), memantul, auntul, anjal (elastic, rebound, resilent). (various references) | |
Italian | buttare fuori (fire, sack, turf out), balzo (bolt, bound, dart, dash, dodge, flounce, hop, jump, leap, lope, skip, spring, start), slancio (abandon, abbandonato, bound, burst, dart, dash, fit, leap, liveliness, pep, rush, spring, upsurge), rimbalzo (rebound, rebound effect, ricochet), rimbalzare (bounce back, rebound, ricochet), raggirare (circumvent, cozen, deceive, juggle, swindle), licenziare (abrogate, bump, cashier, deny, discharge, dismiss, furlough, give notice, refuse, sack, shed), far rimbalzare (glance). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | バイヤー法 (all-terrain vehicle, baccalaureat, bacteria, bacteriophage, Bagdad, baggy look, bagpipe, baguette, basilisk, bass, bassoon, bath, baumkuchen, Bayer process, bazaar, bilingual, bind, binder, binding, bound, bow side, bucket, budget, bug, bug fix, bug list, bug report, bugbear, buggy, bus, by-line, holidays, honey wagon, pail, sand buggy, surf clam, vacation, vacuum, vacuum car, vacuum cleaner, vagabond, vagina). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | バウンド (bound). (various references) | |
Korean | 되튐 (Bouncing). (various references) | |
Manx | lhiemmey (copulate, copulation, copulation of animals, frisk), lheimyragh (frisk, hop, jumping, leap, long jump, pounce, spring, vault, vaulting), lheim (bound, buck, embrace, flush, hop, jump, leap, leaping, limp, lope, pounce, spring, start, tup; jumping, vault), daanys-chree, clistey (gambol, jerk, spring, starting), clistal (gambol, jerk, spring, start). (various references) | |
Norwegian | bykse, sprette. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ouncebay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | orgulho (haughtiness, lordliness, morgue, pride, self-conceit, vainglory), demissão (abdication, boot, chuck, demission, dismissal, dismission, displacement, lay-off, resignation), demitir (boot, cashier, demit, discharge, dismiss, displace, dispose of, drive away, fall, remove, sack), elasticidade (elasticity, give, pliability, pliancy, resilience, resiliency, spring, stretch), exagero (bouncer, exaggeration, extreme, overstatement), fazer ressaltar, formar (achieve, brigade, constitute, constrain, create, drive, educate, fashion, form, frame, hammer out, make up, mold, mould, perform, shape, spell, squash), contar vantagem, impelir a, vivacidade (animation, brightness, color, colour, fervency, flotage, ginger, hastiness, life, liveliness, mettle, nimbleness, quickness, quicksilver, raciness, readiness, snap, verve, vivacity, warmth), pulo (bound, buck, capriole, fling, frisk, hop, jump, leap, skip, spring), repreender (admonish, berate, carpet, censure, correct, find fault with, jaw, lecture, lesson, rebuke, reprehend, reprimand, reproach, reprove, scold, sermonize, snub, take to task, tell off, twit, upbraid, vituperate), ressaltar (beetle, bound, highlight, jut, protrude, rebound, recoil, verge), ressalto (bound, cam, dap, heatspot, jut, ledge, lobe, lug, overhang, prominence, prominency, rebound, recoil, resilience, resiliency, rising, salience, shoulder, tappet), ruidosamente (loud, loudly, slap-bang), subitamente (all of a sudden, bolt, out of the blue, plump, short, suddenly), galão (braid, cordon, galloon, gimp, gold braid, lacing, orris, stripe). (various references) | |
Romanian | buzna, brusc (abrupt, abruptly, all at once, bang, brusque, plop, plump, rash, roughly, rude, sharp, sharply, short, shortly, snap, sudden, suddenly, unawares, unexpected, unexpectedly), ricoşeu (bound, rebound, ricochet), cu zgomot (flop, resoundingly), expulza (banish, exclude, expel), face sã sarã (jump, skip), izbiturã (bang, blow, bump, concussion, dash, hit, jolt, knock, stroke), laudã (beslaver, commendation, compliments, display, eulogy, glory, Laud, pat on the back, praise, vaunt), trânti (flunk, hit, knock down, overthrow, plough, pluck, plump, slam, throw, toss), sãlta (Bob, bound, dance, Frisk, heave up, help up, hod, hop, jump, leap, Mount, rebound, rise, skip, spring), sãri (Bob, bound, break, caper, dance, dap, frolic, gambol, hop, jump, lark, leap, leave out, lop, lope, Miss, rebound, skip, spirt, splash, spout, spring, spurt, start), sãriturã (bound, gambol, hop, jump, leap, rebound, resilience, saltation, somersault, spring), salt (bound, caper, dive, Frisk, gambol, header, hop, jump, leap, resilience, saltation, skip, spring, start, vault, vaulting), se fuduli (swagger), se lãuda (boast, brag, pique oneself, talk through one's hat, vaunt), lãudãroşenie (bluster, boast, boastfulness, brag, braggadocio, bragging, hot air, swagger, vaunt, yarn). (various references) | |
Russian | скачок (bound, break-through, caper, jump, leap, saltation, skip, upswing), отскок (rebound, recoil), отскакивать (bound, bound back, bound off, carom, fly off, rebound, recoil), прыгать скачок;рикошет;упругость, прыжок (bound, caper, capriole, gambado, gambol, hop, jump, leap, lunge, prank, skip, spring), подпрыгивать (hop, skip, spring). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | uleteti (barge into, cannon into, fly in, fly into), skok (bound, caper, curvet, hop, jump, leap, plunge, rally, rise, skip, spring, upturn), poskakivati (hop, skip), otpuštanje (discharge, dismissal, dismission, lay off, redundance, redundancy), odskok (rebound, ricochet), odskakivati (bound), izleteti (fly out, rush out), drska laž. (various references) | |
Spanish | brincar (bond, caper, dance, Frisk, galumph, gambol, hop, jump, jump about, jump around, leap, leap about, leapfrog, lift out, romp, skip, spring), bote (boat, bound, can, canister, dinghy, jackpot, kitty, launch, pot, thrust, tin), botar (bound, dispose of, launch, sail, throw, throw aside, throw away, throw out, turn out), volver de rebote (rebound), vitalidad (animal spirits, life, stamina, vitality), ser rechazado, salto (capriole, curvet, dap, dive, diving, hop, jump, leap, pounce, skip), rebote (rebound, ricochet, skip), rebotar (glance off, overflow, rebound, ricochet, skip, whip back), hacer botar, fanfarronería (blustering, bragging), alardear (boast, brag). (various references) | |
Swedish | studsa (bound, dap, rebound). (various references) | |
Thai | เ"้ง, ความสามารถในการสะท้อน. (various references) | |
Turkish | sıçrama (bouncing, bound, caper, capriole, gambol, hop, jump, jumping, leap, rush, saltation, skip, skipping, splash, spring, springing, start, take off, vault, vaulting), canlılık (alacrity, animation, brightness, brio, buoyancy, color, colour, crispness, dynamics, elan, exhilaration, friskiness, ginger, life, liveliness, lustiness, perkiness, quickness, raciness, richness, saturation, spiritedness, sprightliness, stamina, stir, verve, vivacity, vividness), dalmak (barge, bathe, be absorbed in, be lost in thought, be wraped up in, break, break into, conk, contemplate, cut into, dip, dive, drop, drowse off, duck, engross, groove, jut into, lose oneself in, meditate, muse, nip in, pitch into, plummet, plunge, pore, pore over, rush in, rush into, sail in, sink, sink into), fırlamak (bolt, boom, break, burst, dart, dash, dodge, fling, flirt, fly off, fly out, goggle, high-tail, hurl oneself, hurtle, jump, leap up, make a dash, shoot, shoot ahead, shoot off, shoot out, shoot up, skyrocket, soar, spring, stand out, start, start up, steepen, tear, whip, whisk, zoom), girivermek, işten atma (kiss off), işten cıkarmak, kovma (ax, axe, banishment, brushoff, exclusion, expelling, expulsion, firing, gate), kovmak (ax, axe, banish, boot, can, cashier, cast out, chuck out, dislodge, dismiss, drive away, drive out, eject, elbow out, elbow smb. out, exclude, exile, expel, fend off, fire, get rid of, give smb. the bag, give smb. the chuck, give smb. the gate, give smb. the push, give the sack, kick out, make a clean sweep of, order away, order out, out, pack off, repulse, sack, send away, shoo, shoo away, show out, show smb. the door, show the door, turf out, turn away, turn out), övünme (big talk, blow, boast, boasting, brag, bragging, egotism, gas, rodomontade, self praise, vaunt), palavra (applesauce, baloney, boasting, boloney, braggadocio, bragging, bunk, bunkum, claptrap, cock and bull story, eyewash, fish story, flubdub, flummery, gaff, hot air, jazz, lie, palaver, talkee-talkee, tall story), zıplatmak (hop), sıçramak (bound, buck, capriole, cavort, gambol, hop, jerk, jink, jump, leap, leap up, skip, skitter, spatter, splash, splatter, splutter, spring, sputter, squirt, start up, take off, vault), sekme (bound, hop, hopping, leap, rebound, ricochet, ricochetting, skipping, trip), sekmek (hop, leap, rebound, ricochet, skim, skip, trip), sektirmek (make hop, make rebound, skim), sepetlemek (ax, bundle, bundle off, ditch, give the sack, sack, send packing, send smb. packing, stave off), yüksekten atma (big talk, blow, bluster, brag, flatulence, pretension, tub-thumping), zıplama (bound, capriole, gambol, hop, jump, saltation, skip, skipping), zıplamak (bound, capriole, cavort, dap, gambol, hop, jump, leap, prance, ricochet, skip), martaval (bouncer, cock and bull story, hooey, hot air, romance, story). (various references) | |
Turkmen | bцkmek (jump). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | стрибок (bound, caper, curvet, dive, gambade, gambado, gambol, hop, jump, leap, leaping, pounce, prance, saltation, skip, souse, spirt, spring, spurt), стрибати (bound, caper, cavort, dance, gambol, hop, jump, leap, lope, skip, spring, vault), рухатися з шумом, раптовий удар, хвастощі (blow, blowing, boast, boasting, brag, braggery, bravadoes, display, flash, gasconade, jactation, jactitation, ostent, ostentation, rodomontade), хвалитися (boast of), звільнення (acquittal, acquittance, affranchisement, amendment, deliverance, disengagement, dismissal, dismission, ejection, emancipation, enfranchisement, enlargement, exemption, exoneration, freedom, immunity, liberation, push, quit, quittance, release, remission, remittal), підстрибувати (jump about), пружність (elasticity, give, resilience, resiliency, spring, springiness, toughness). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | bất chợt (casual, promiscuous), vụt ầm ĩ, thình lình (slap-bang, sudden, unexpected), sự thải h"i, sự tống cổ ra, sự nảy lên (bound), "n o (bobbery, larrikin, noisy, rakety, riotous, rumbustious, tumultuous, uproarious). (various references) | |
Welsh | bostio (boast, brag), ysboncio (jump, splash, spurt), ymffrostio (boast, brag, vaunt), swalpio (flounder, jump), neidio (bound, jump, leap, throb), adlamu. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "bounce": bounced, bouncer, bouncers, bounces. (additional references) | |
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"Bounce" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Behnke, Bohncke, Bohnke, boiunce, Bojnice, Bonacci, Bonnke, bouc, bouce, bouche, bouine, bouncey, bounch, bounde, bouneau, Brusnice, bunke, Counce, Dounce, nounce, Obecni, Rounce, tounce. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "bounce" (pronounced bou"ns) |
| 3 | -ou" n s | announce, denounce, flounce, mispronounce, ounce, pounce, pronounce, renounce, trounce. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-e-n-o-u" | |
-1 letter: bunco, ounce. | |
-2 letters: bone, cone, cube, ebon, once, unbe, unco. | |
-3 letters: ben, bun, cob, con, cub, cue, ecu, eon, neb, nob, nub, obe, one. | |
-4 letters: be, bo, en, ne, no, nu, oe, on, un. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-c-e-n-o-u" | |
+1 letter: bounced, bouncer, bounces, buncoed, buncoes. | |
+2 letters: bouncers, bouncier, buncombe, buoyance, icebound, uncombed. | |
+3 letters: bounciest, buncombes, buoyances, colubrine, columbine, concubine, countable, curbstone, subdeacon, unblocked. | |
+4 letters: beclouding, bescouring, buoyancies, columbines, concubines, consumable, contribute, counterbid, curbstones, cuttlebone, debouching, honeybunch, nonsubject, outbalance, procumbent, scrubwomen, subdeacons, subeconomy, subjection, suboceanic, subpotency, subsection, unbecoming, uncombined, unsociable. | |
+5 letters: accountable, carburetion, concubinage, conductible, confabulate, construable, consumables, contributed, contributes, counterbade, counterbids, counterblow, cuttlebones, debouchment, knucklebone, musclebound, nonsubjects, obscureness, outbalanced, outbalances, subcolonies, subcounties, subdecision, subjections, subsections, uncombative, uncountable, uncrossable, unshockable, untouchable. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Sounds | 9. Quotations: Familiar 10. Quotations: Fiction 11. Quotations: Non-fiction 12. Quotations: Spoken | 13. Usage Frequency 14. Expressions 15. Expressions: Internet 16. Translations: Modern | 17. Derivations 18. Rhymes 19. Anagrams 20. Bibliography |
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