(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.
Saltation
Definition:
(n.) A leaping or jumping.
(n.) Beating or palpitation; as, the saltation of the great artery.
(n.) An abrupt and marked variation in the condition or appearance of a species; a sudden modification which may give rise to new races.
Example Sentences:
(1) By the use of time-lapse microscopy to locate saltating particles prior to fixation and histochemical examination of the cells, structures of several kinds have been shown to move in this manner.
(2) Middlesevere cases (Hb 9-15 g%) showed in 57.2% an undulating and in 42.8% a saltatoring types of oscillation.
(3) The change in the orientation of pigment granule saltations following fertilization requires both a transient increase in the cytoplasmic concentration of Ca2+ and an elevation of cytoplasmic pH.
(4) Saltations in the unfertilized egg are very non-radial and are as likely to be directed toward the cortex as away.
(5) However, the appearance of saltations in such simple systems suggests that their appearance in a process as complex as biological evolution is not surprising.
(6) Bidirectional saltations are seen along the long axes of fully spread cells.
(7) The previous result of Rasminsky & Sears (1972) of delayed saltation in demyelinated nerve fibres was confirmed.
(8) In cases of severe fetal anemia (Hb less than 9 g%) we found at 64.2% a silent to narrowed undulating and at 21.4% saltatoring types of oscillations.
(9) It is suggested that such saltations may not represent more rapid rates of evolution but, rather, the persistence of evolutionary change in a given direction for a longer than normal period.
(10) Quantitation of vesicle saltations before and after fertilization demonstrates that while there is no significant difference in the speed or path-length of vesicle movement, there is a dramatic change in the orientation of these saltations.
(11) Immediately after injection, cells were recorded with a time-lapse video imaging system; later analysis of the tapes revealed that particles in cells injected with one of these antibodies (CG1, specific for CEF tropomyosin isoforms 1 and 3) showed a dramatic decrease in instantaneous speed while moving, distance moved per saltation, and proportion of time spent in motion.
(12) Saltations appear as a natural dynamical behavior in the evolution of simplistic information processing networks.
(13) Thus the 'larger vesicles' stopped moving at 25 degrees C, the small ones did not; both stopped at 18 degrees C. The 'small vesicles' continued to move actively after cell uptake of the polyanion poly-D-glutamic acid, while the saltations of the 'larger vesicles' were markedly slowed; both sets of vesicles stopped after uptake of ammonium chloride.
(14) Sequencing has revealed that the spacer DNA of X. laevis contains different kinds of simple DNA sequences, but no evidence has been found that spacer DNA once arose by saltation of a 15 bp segment.
(15) vignae revealed three categories of movement: a) general movement of cytoplasm, plus organelles, into the developing portions of the fungus during which the nuclei, in particular, maintained their characteristic position with remarkable constancy, b) relatively slow movements of various organelles such that they became displaced relative to one another and to the growing fungal tip, and c) erratic, rapid, saltations of small organelles over short distances.
(16) The co-transport of spectrin, actin, and calmodulin with cytomembranes undergoing rapid saltations departs from reported results of radioactive labeling experiments insofar as spectrin, actin, and calmodulin are not normally associated with rapidly transported membrane components in the latter studies.
(17) This transition must reflect underlying changes in the cellular structures necessary for pigment granule saltations.
(18) Trichocyst saltations end with either cortical insertion of the organelle, or return to cyclosis.
(19) Using acridine orange as a vital stain for acidic organelles, in combination with video-enhanced fluorescence microscopy, and subsequent immunolabeling with rabbit antibodies against ACTH, we have shown that these secretory granules move by saltations along the processes.
(20) This is the saltation phenomenon, and as presented in this theoretical note, it is a phenomenon which is easily accommodated by a theoretical rotation of space-time axes.