What's the difference between bounce and bouncy?

Bounce


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To strike or thump, so as to rebound, or to make a sudden noise; a knock loudly.
  • (v. i.) To leap or spring suddenly or unceremoniously; to bound; as, she bounced into the room.
  • (v. i.) To boast; to talk big; to bluster.
  • (v. t.) To drive against anything suddenly and violently; to bump; to thump.
  • (v. t.) To cause to bound or rebound; sometimes, to toss.
  • (v. t.) To eject violently, as from a room; to discharge unceremoniously, as from employment.
  • (v. t.) To bully; to scold.
  • (n.) A sudden leap or bound; a rebound.
  • (n.) A heavy, sudden, and often noisy, blow or thump.
  • (n.) An explosion, or the noise of one.
  • (n.) Bluster; brag; untruthful boasting; audacious exaggeration; an impudent lie; a bouncer.
  • (n.) A dogfish of Europe (Scyllium catulus).
  • (adv.) With a sudden leap; suddenly.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Many hope this week's photocalls with the two men will be a recruiting aid and provide a desperately needed bounce in the polls.
  • (2) "I felt so relaxed today, I wasn't bouncing off the walls ready to race.
  • (3) Officials at the ONS said it was hard to assess the full impact of June's additional public holiday on GDP in the second quarter, but officials expect a bounce back from the loss of production in the third quarter, when the London Olympics should also provide a boost to activity.
  • (4) Photograph: Geektime The same developer’s Red Bouncing Ball Spikes game has also been doing well on the App Store, although as yet Flying Cyrus fever hasn’t spread to Android – the game has been installed less than 5,000 times according to its Google Play store page.
  • (5) Salmond also made a tacit admission that the "Brown bounce" – the prime minister's success in rebuilding voters' confidence during the financial crisis – had been a factor.
  • (6) And then the ball is in Caballero's hands.At the other end, Courtois beats away an awkward, bouncing drive from long range.
  • (7) Besides, his tax cuts are already factored in with voters.” The Tories had no bounce when Cameron first sprung these tax cuts.
  • (8) Radio 3's commitment to bring the BBC Proms to a wider audience has been rewarded as the network bounces back above the 2 million mark."
  • (9) The Labour leader Ed Miliband has maintained his post-conference speech bounce in the polls, with an 11-point lead.
  • (10) Despite the spring-heeled bounce in their hair-raising hardcore storm – and their productive affair with Funkmaster George Clinton – the Peppers’ soul stew remains predominantly, ragingly punky.
  • (11) Although Obama's campaign team played down the chances of Obama securing a poll bounce from the Democratic convention, beginning Tuesday, it is privately hoping he can open up a significant lead after months in which the two have been tied in the polls.
  • (12) Southampton's manager Mauricio Pochettino praised his side's ability to bounce back from adversity.
  • (13) Too many people had been asked if they would be interested in joining for it to remain secret for long Plans for the Hatton Garden job were bouncing around for 18 months.
  • (14) She served four double-faults at around 30mph and could hardly bounce the ball.
  • (15) But international analysts have called the recovery a dead cat bounce – and the leadership’s reputation with its own people for sound management, along with the promise for international investors that the government was on track for overdue economic reforms, has suffered a serious blow.
  • (16) However, analysts said that with construction also weak, there was little sign that the recession-hit UK is bouncing back strongly.
  • (17) She bounced back into the charts in 1989 with Another Place and Time, overseen by the British producers Stock, Aitken and Waterman, and the single This Time I Know It's for Real was a major international success.
  • (18) Charity leaders accept that circumstances aren’t changing anytime soon, so they’re bouncing back; building great teams that support great services.
  • (19) Of the three relegated clubs, Norwich have adjusted best to the Championship and, Alex Neil having replaced Neil Adams as manager in January, are challenging for a bounce-back promotion.
  • (20) His right-foot effort was miscued but the ball bounced conveniently for Evans, running in at the far post, to beat Mannone from close range.

Bouncy


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A bouncy function has now been incorporated into a knee of the semi-automatic knee lock design in a pilot laboratory trial involving six patients.
  • (2) At 52, Stewart has the bouncy energy of a man half his age and, unlike most in the public eye, has an aversion to compliments.
  • (3) His casting marks a departure from Tennant and Matt Smith's bouncy young Doctors, which might be a risk considering Doctor Who relies on new generations of devotion.
  • (4) The Bouncy Knee concept has previously proved of value when fitted to stabilised knee units of active amputees.
  • (5) When bouncy spermatozoa were tested for sperm-vitelline membrane interaction at a low (10:1) sperm to egg ratio, they penetrated fewer zona-free hamster eggs.
  • (6) She was about my age, smiley, bouncy, expressive, and completely adorable.
  • (7) On the lawn outside, they had installed two big bouncy castles.
  • (8) Ukip's Nigel Farage has not been his usual bouncy self.
  • (9) As we left the intimate cocoon of the pub, my bouncy excitement became more of a trudge as, heart in mouth, I babbled and swore, and panicked that I couldn't do it, terrified that stage fright and nerves would overtake me, and that my tentative voice would abandon me altogether.
  • (10) A Bouncy Knee is a knee control device for use in above-knee prostheses, designed to give a natural flex-extend action during the stance phase of the walking cycle.
  • (11) 11) If you're Kanye West, you can rock a mullet and no one will say anything Of course, it's not like your crew will have much room to criticise, but if anyone was going to try to stop the party around the back of Kanye's bonce, it clearly didn't do any good, as it was there, bouncy, fresh, and mullety.
  • (12) Here, players wield a portal gun, a device that creates dimensional wormholes in walls, floors and ceilings – but they're only introduced to one facet of the gun at a time, and when it has been mastered, new items such as super-bouncy gels are introduced.
  • (13) We get something called Hotel Tent where you pay an outrageous sum of money and they basically set up a tent and give you bouncy mattresses and pillows and lots of lavvies."
  • (14) "It's a very modern stadium but the pitch looked not much cop, very sticky and bouncy.
  • (15) Terrific bouncy Chinese noodles that you can have in a variety of ways.
  • (16) It’s so hard to tell.” Abu Rumaysah once worked in Boots before running a business renting out bouncy castles to children’s parties.
  • (17) Spermatozoa from bouncy mutants also bound to eggs in lower numbers.
  • (18) Photograph: Christian Sinibaldi At the time, Brown was politically embattled and clearly much taken by the bouncy conviction of his single-minded transport secretary.
  • (19) These findings indicate that spermatozoa from the bouncy mutant have a severe defect in sperm-zona interaction.
  • (20) Tim Read, a young ecologist with a bouncy stride, took me on a tour of the wood.