What's the difference between bounce and refuse?

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.

Refuse


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To deny, as a request, demand, invitation, or command; to decline to do or grant.
  • (v. t.) To throw back, or cause to keep back (as the center, a wing, or a flank), out of the regular aligment when troops ar/ about to engage the enemy; as, to refuse the right wing while the left wing attacks.
  • (v. t.) To decline to accept; to reject; to deny the request or petition of; as, to refuse a suitor.
  • (v. t.) To disown.
  • (v. i.) To deny compliance; not to comply.
  • (n.) Refusal.
  • (n.) That which is refused or rejected as useless; waste or worthless matter.
  • (a.) Refused; rejected; hence; left as unworthy of acceptance; of no value; worthless.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We were instantly refused entrance by the heavies at the door.
  • (2) There are widespread examples across the US of the police routinely neglecting crimes of sexual violence and refusing to believe victims.
  • (3) Such a science puts men in a couple of scientific laws and suppresses the moment of active doing (accepting or refusing) as a sufficient preassumption of reality.
  • (4) There were no deaths but one refused to have ketamine again.
  • (5) That’s a criticism echoed by Democrats in the Senate, who issued a report earlier this month criticising Republicans for passing sweeping legislation in July to combat addiction , the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (Cara), but refusing to fund it.
  • (6) She successfully appealed against the council’s decision to refuse planning permission, but neighbours have launched a legal challenge to be heard at the high court in June.
  • (7) Tony Abbott has refused to concede that saying Aboriginal people who live in remote communities have made a “lifestyle choice” was a poor choice of words as the father of reconciliation issued a public plea to rebuild relations with Indigenous people.
  • (8) The military is not being honest about the number of men on strike: most of us are refusing to eat.
  • (9) But employers who have followed a fair procedure may have the right to discipline or finally dismiss any smoker who refuses to accept the new rules.
  • (10) Republican presidential hopeful Scott Walker has refused to say whether he believes in the theory of evolution, arguing that it is “a question a politician shouldn’t be involved in one way or the other”.
  • (11) But in a setback to the UK, Somaliland, which broke away from Somalia in 1991, refused British entreaties to attend on the grounds that it would not have been treated as equal to the Somali government.
  • (12) Ten patients had been treated by adrenalectomy, one patient by radiotherapy of the hypophysis, and one patient had refused any treatment.
  • (13) What if the court of justice refuses to answer the question?
  • (14) The only thing the media will talk about in the hours and days after the debate will be Trump’s refusal to say he will accept the results of the election, making him appear small, petty and conspiratorial.
  • (15) A small band of shadow cabinet members have lined up to refuse to serve in posts they haven’t even been offered, on the basis of objection to economic policies they clearly haven’t read.
  • (16) The prerequisite for all champions is the refusal to cave in, so City's equaliser with only three minutes remaining was pleasing.
  • (17) Black males with low intentions to use condoms reported significantly more negative attitudes about the use of condoms (eg, using condoms is disgusting) and reacted with more intense anger when their partners asked about previous sexual contacts, when a partner refused sex without a condom, or when they perceived condoms as interfering with foreplay and sexual pleasure.
  • (18) As long as Israel refuses to cease settlement activities and to the release of the fourth group of Palestinian prisoners in accordance with our agreements, they leave us no choice but to insist that we will not remain the only ones committed to the implementation of these agreements, while Israel continuously violates them,” Abbas said.
  • (19) The people who will lose are not the commercial interests, and people with particular vested interests, it’s the people who pay for us, people who love us, the 97% of people who use us each week, there are 46 million people who use us every day.” Hall refused to be drawn on what BBC services would be cut as a result of the funding deal which will result in at least a 10% real terms cut in the BBC’s funding.
  • (20) These letters are also written during a period when Joyce was still smarting from the publishing difficulties of his earlier works Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.” Gordon Bowker, Joyce’s biographer, agreed: “Joyce’s problem with the UK printers related to the fact that here in those days printers were as much at risk of prosecution on charges of publishing obscenities as were publishers, and would simply refuse to print them.