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Definition: Bouncing |
BouncingAdjective1. Moving jerkily up and down; "a bouncing ball"; "a jolting ride"; "the jouncing guns of the battery". 2. Vigorously healthy; "a bouncing baby". 3. Marked by lively action; "a bouncing gait"; "bouncy tunes"; "the peppy and interesting talk"; "a spirited dance". Noun1. Rebounding from an impact (or series of impacts). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "bouncing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Electrical Engineering | An uneven scribing of a diamond point on an oxidised semiconductor slice, caused by build-up of oxide in front of the diamond, causing it to lift and bounce whilst being drawn across the slice. Source: European Union. (references) |
| An unintentional phenomenon which may occur while a contact circuit is making or breaking and which is characterised by the contact tips successively touching and separating before reaching their final condition. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Post & Telecom | In television, a synchronisation fault in a receiver leading to jerky and irregular displacement of the picture. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: BouncingSynonyms: bouncy (adj), jolting (adj), jouncing (adj), peppy (adj), spirited (adj), zippy (adj), bounce (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Size | Corpulent, stout, fat, obese, plump, squab, full, lusty, strapping, bouncing; portly, burly, well-fed, full-grown; corn fed, gram fed; stalwart, brawny, fleshy; goodly; in good case, in good condition; in condition; chopping, jolly; chub faced, chubby faced. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Bouncing |
| English words defined with "bouncing": bouncy ♦ jack, jolting, jouncing ♦ mercifully ♦ peppy ♦ spirited ♦ zippy. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "bouncing": CALATHEA ALLOUIA, CALATOLA ♦ Pong ♦ rockfall ♦ software laser. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "bouncing": Bounce. (references) |
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Screenplays | Ahh, it's a bouncing baby boy. Another ready soldier in the war against communism (Scrubs; writing credit: Gabrielle Allan; Janae Bakken) A frog and a pig. We can have bouncing baby figs (The Muppet Show; writing credit: Joseph A. Bailey; Jack Burns) But what about my old manand my mother? They'll still be there when my checks start bouncing. (In Cold Blood; writing credit: Richard Brooks; Truman Capote) Great bouncing ice bergs (Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer; writing credit: Robert May; Romeo Muller) There'll be Czechs bouncing in the streets of Prague tonight (Professional Foul; writing credit: Tom Stoppard) | |
Lyrics | Well I'm bouncing and I'm out son (All I Have; performing artist: Jennifer Lopez) I'm backstage bouncing (Danger (Been So Long); performing artist: Mystikal) She means we’re bouncing into ("Graceland"; performing artist: Paul Simon) Much nostalgia keeps bouncing through (Ain't No Place Like Home; performing artist: Prince) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Bouncing Sonny (1961) Bouncing Buns (1983) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | F/V HELEN MARG and crew bouncing around in Bristol Bay while fishing for salmon. Credit: Fisheries. |
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 | Coin being dropped into an empty jar and bouncing on the glass. | | Pogo stick bouncing once. |
| A spring coil being sprung; bouncing; jaw harp making a high-pitched boing sound. | | Pogo stick bouncing once. |
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Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | He whistled shrilly, and one bouncing dog ran in, but only one. |
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Economic History | Cote D'ivoire | While imports of building equipment and materials experienced a significant decrease in year 2000, imports for 2001 seem to be bouncing back to nearly the same level as 1999. While, several major government-tendered infrastructure projects totaling around USD 600 million were stopped in 2000 and have yet to resume, many private operators continued to finish investments in infrastructure began before the coup d'etat. (references) |
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| "Bouncing" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 86.12% of the time. "Bouncing" is used about 418 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 86.12% | 360 | 14,962 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 11.72% | 49 | 48,677 |
| Noun (singular) | 1.67% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.48% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 418 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "bouncing": bouncing baby ♦ bouncing Bess ♦ Bouncing Bet ♦ bouncing betty ♦ bouncing busy hour ♦ bouncing cradle ♦ bouncing girl ♦ bouncing power ♦ bouncing putty ♦ bouncing seat. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "bouncing": low-bouncing, track-bouncing. | |
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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. |
| Language | Translations for "bouncing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | kërcim (bounce, bound, caper, dance, fly, footer, gambade, gambado, hop, jump, leap, leaping, pounce, prance, rebound, skip, spring, vault), i madh (bally, big, black, capacious, capital, chuckle, chunking, close, grand, great, gross, intense, large, lumping, major, massive, mighty, pelting, thumping, vast, vasty, voluminous, whacking, whaling). (various references) | |
Arabic | الكذاب (cracker, liar, storyteller). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | едър (big, burly, coarse, full, gross, husky, large, massive, massy, overblown, portly, solid, strapping, substantial, walloping), бабанка. (various references) | |
Chinese | 弹起 (Bounced). (various references) | |
Czech | hromotlucký. (various references) | |
Danish | Bouncing, vibreren (jitter, jumping, pulse jitter), kontaktprel, dirren (jitter, jumping, pulse jitter). (various references) | |
Dutch | bumpen, beeldsprong (jitter, jumping), beeldbibber (jitter, jumping), synchronisatiestoring (jitter, jumping), stuiteren van een contact, springen v.h.beeld (jitter, jumping), opspringen (rebound, start), klepperen (chatter), danseffekt (jitter, jumping). (various references) | |
Finnish | värinä (fibrillation, flicker, quiver, shiver, trembling, tremor, vibration), värähtely (vibration), roima (sturdy), reima (brisk), kosketinvärähtely. (various references) | |
French | bondissant, sautillement, rebondissement (bounce), rebondi, instabilité verticale, instabilité d'image, dodu. (various references) | |
German | prellen (bilk, bounce, bruise, cheat, contuse, hit, swindle, to bounce). (various references) | |
Greek | κλυδωνισμός, γερόσ (able bodied, sound, strong, upstanding), που μπιστάει, χονδρόσ (beefy, big, blocky, bluff, burly, clumpy, clumsy, coarse, crass, gristle, gross, lubberly, lumpish, lumpy, pursy, stubbed, thick, thickset), ζωηρόσ (bobbish, breezy, brisk, buoyant, buxom, cheery, chipper, crisp, dapper, dashing, frisky, gay, grig, jaunty, lightsome, live, lively, lurid, mercurial, peppy, perky, poignant, quick, racy, rompish, smacking, smart, snappish, snappy, spanking, sparkish, spicy, spirited, sprightly, spry, stirring, vibrant, vivacious, vivid, volatile, zippy), αναπήδηση (jump, rebound, repercussion, resilience). (various references) | |
Hebrew | כ"רור (dribble, dribbling), "קפצ" (jogging, jumping). (various references) | |
Hungarian | visszaugró, felszökkenés. (various references) | |
Indonesian | sehat (hale, healthful, healthy, sane, well). (various references) | |
Italian | tremolio d'immagine (jitter, jumping), robusto (able bodied, beefy, burly, chunky, Hale, Hardy, hearty, hefty, muscular, robust, stout, strapping, strong, sturdy, tough), rimbalzo (bounce, rebound, rebound effect, ricochet), grosso (big, bold, corpulent, fat, great, gross, heavy, important, large, lumping, portly, thick, thickly). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 不渡り (dishonouring, non-payment). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ふわたり (dishonouring, non-payment). (various references) | |
Korean | 되튐 (bounce). (various references) | |
Manx | skibbylt (acrobatic, active, active as person, agile, jig, light-footed, nimble, skip, vivacious), clistagh (bounding, jerky, performing, springy). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ouncingbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | ressalto (bounce, bound, cam, dap, heatspot, jut, ledge, lobe, lug, overhang, prominence, prominency, rebound, recoil, resilience, resiliency, rising, salience, shoulder, tappet). (various references) | |
Romanian | viguros (chopping, emphatic, forceful, forcible, forcibly, full-blooded, green, Hale, Hardy, hearty, hot stuff, humming, intense, lusty, nervous, pithy, potent, red blooded, robust, rude, sapful, sinewy, stalwart, stout, stoutly, strapping, strong, strong-limbed, thriving, tough, vigorous, vigorously), robust (Hale, Hardy, hefty, iron, lusty, red blooded, robust, rude, rugged, stalwart, stout, strapping, strong, strong-limbed, sturdy, tough, well knit), activ (acting, active, actively, afoot, aggressive, agile, alive, assets, brisk, busy, dapper, diligent, dynamic, efficient, energetic, fierce, go ahead, industrious, living, operative, pragmatic, quick, regular, spry). (various references) | |
Russian | здоровый (able bodied, fit, flourishing, healthful, healthy, lusty, right, robust, salubrious, salutary, sound, strapper, upstanding, wholesome), подпрыгивание автомобиля. (various references) | |
Scottish | bòilich (bombast, tall talk). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zdrav (able bodied, bonny, healthy, salubrious, salutary, sanatory, sound, well, wholesome), poskakivanje, jedar (crisp, firm, plump, succinct). (various references) | |
Spanish | rebote (rebound, ricochet, skip), jitter (jitter, jumping), inestabilidad de la imagen (jitter, jumping), fuerte (able, bad, big, bold, brawny, burly, cast iron, cogent, ebullient, fierce, firm, forceful, forcible, Fort, forte, full-blooded, grievous, hard, Hardy, heady, hearty, heavy, hefty, high, intense, long, loud, lurid, lusty, manly, metier, mighty, potent, powerful, raw, ripe, robust, rugged, severe, sharp, sharply, solid, spanking, stiff, stoutly, strident, strong, sturdy, telling, throbbing, tough, vigorous). (various references) | |
Swedish | studsning (bounce), studs (hop, rebound), kraftig (big, crash, forcible, hale, hard, hearty, heavy, hefty, high-powered, intense, lusty, meaty, potent, powerful, rich, robust, robustious, round, sinewy, spanking, stalwart, stiff, stout, strong, sturdy, thick-set, vigorous, violent, virtuous), darr (dither, jitter, jumping). (various references) | |
Thai | มีพละกำลังและสุข าพ"ี. (various references) | |
Turkish | sağlam (able bodied, bankable, calculable, cast iron, consolidated, dyed in grain, fast, firm, flat-footed, foolproof, foursquare, gilt-edged, good, granitic, Hale, hard, healthy, hearty, indissoluble, invulnerable, lusty, responsible, rugged, runproof, safe, scatheless, secure, secured, solid, sound, stable, stalwart, stanch, staunch, steady, steely, stout, strong, sturdy, substantial, substantive, sure, tough, unfaltering, unshakable, unshaken, valid, whole), sağlıklı (bonny, fit, florid, healthful, healthy, husky, in good health, in good nick, right, ruddy, salubrious, salutary, sanative, sanatory, sound, well, whole, wholesome), sıçrayan (jumping, salient, saltatory, splashy, vaulter), sıçrama (bounce, bound, caper, capriole, gambol, hop, jump, jumping, leap, rush, saltation, skip, skipping, splash, spring, springing, start, take off, vault, vaulting), hareketli (active, alive and kicking, animate, brisk, bustling, full of action, go-go, like a jack-in-the-box, live, mobile, moving, rattling, restless, shifting, sliding, swinging, zippy), gürbüz (bonny, robust, rude, sturdy), gürültücü (blatant, boisterous, noisy, obstreperous, rackety, rioter, ripsnorter, roisterer, rough, tumultuary, tumultuous, turbulent), güçlü (brawny, energetic, forceful, full-blooded, heroic, high pressure, iron, keen, mighty, pithy, potent, powered, powerful, prepotent, robust, sinewed, sinewy, spirited, stalwart, stout, strong, sturdy, vigorous, virile, voluminous). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | стрибання (dancing, leaping, vaulting), рослий, хвастовитий (blusterous, blustery, boastful, brag, ostentatious, swanky), незграбний (angular, artless, awkward, blundering, bovine, clumsy, cubbish, cumbersome, fumbling, gangling, gauche, gawky, gnarled, graceless, ham-fisted, hulking, lob, lubberly, maladroit, oafish, shamble, splay, splayfooted, uncouth, ungainly, unskilful, wooden), підскакування, дужий (beefy, hard, hefty, iron, lusty, nervous, nervy, pretty, robust, strapping, stubbed). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | to lớn (bulky, capacious, colossal, cyclopean, enourmous, enourmously, goodly, great, howling, huge, mammoth, massive, massy, monster, titanic), to gộ ầm ỹ, nở nang; hoạt bát, "n o khoẻ mạnh. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "bouncing": bouncingly. (additional references) | |
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"Bouncing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bonacina, bonusing, boucing, bounching, bouncings, rouncing. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "bouncing" (pronounced bou"nsing) |
| 5 | -ou" n s i ng | announcing, denouncing, pouncing, pronouncing, renouncing, trouncing. |
| 4 | -n s i ng | advancing, balancing, commencing, condensing, conferencing, convincing, dancing, dispensing, distancing, enhancing, expensing, experiencing, fencing, financing, freelancing, glancing, influencing, Lancing, lensing, licensing, mensing, mincing, outdistancing, prancing, rebalancing, referencing, refinancing, rinsing, romancing, sensing, sentencing, sequencing, silencing, teleconferencing, unconvincing, videoconferencing, wincing. |
| 3 | -s i ng | annexing, accessing, acquiescing, addressing, affixing, amassing, assessing, basing, blessing, boxing, bracing, busing, bussing, buttressing, bypassing, canvassing, caressing, casing, ceasing, chasing, classing, coalescing, coaxing, coercing, collapsing, compressing, confessing, conversing, coursing, crisscrossing, crossing, cursing, cussing, debasing, decreasing, defacing, depressing, diagnosing, digressing, disbursing, discussing, dismissing, dispersing, displacing, distressing, divorcing, dosing, dousing, dowsing, dressing, eclipsing, effacing, embarrassing, embracing, encompassing, endorsing, enforcing, engrossing, enticing, erasing, expressing, facing, faxing, fixing, flexing, focusing, forcing, fundraising, fussing, gassing, greasing, grimacing, grossing, grousing, guessing, hairdressing, harassing, harnessing, hissing, horsing, icing, impressing, increasing, indexing, inducing, intermixing, introducing, invoicing, kissing, lapsing, leasing, loosing, massing, menacing, messing, missing, mixing, noticing, nursing, obsessing, oppressing, outpacing, outsourcing, overproducing, pacing, parsing, passing, perplexing, piecing, piercing, placing, policing, possessing, practicing, prejudicing, pressing, pricing, processing, producing, professing, progressing, promising, pulsing, racing, reassessing, recessing, redressing, reducing, refocusing, rehearsing, reimbursing, reinforcing, reintroducing, rejoicing, relapsing, relaxing, releasing, reminiscing, replacing, repressing, repricing, reprocessing, reproducing, repulsing, repurchasing, resurfacing, retracing, reversing, sacrificing, seducing, servicing, showcasing, slicing, sluicing, sourcing, spacing, spicing, splicing, sprucing, stressing, subleasing, suppressing, surfacing, surpassing, taxing, tossing, tracing, traipsing, traversing, trespassing, unceasing, underpricing, unpromising, vexing, voicing, waltzing, waxing, wissing, witnessing, xeroxing. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: buncoing. | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-g-i-n-n-o-u" | |
-2 letters: boning, bunion, coning, cubing, nuncio. | |
-3 letters: bingo, boing, bunco, coign, conin, cuing, incog, union. | |
-4 letters: bong, bung, bunn, cion, coin, coni, conn, icon, noun, unci, unco. | |
-5 letters: big, bin, bio, bog, bug, bun, cig, cob, cog, con, cub, gib, gin, gnu, gob, gun, inn, ion, nib, nob, nog, nub, nun, obi. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-c-g-i-n-n-o-u" | |
+2 letters: bouncingly, unbecoming, unblocking. | |
+3 letters: concubinage. | |
+4 letters: concubinages, contributing, outbalancing, unbecomingly. | |
+5 letters: backgrounding, confabulating. | |
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