(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.
Springiness
Definition:
(n.) The state or quality of being springly.
Example Sentences:
(1) He's finding solace, fleeting and fragmentary, and every springy guitar lick is its own benediction," Chinen wrote.
(2) In our dog days this was a favoured spot, a conifer plantation where he could do no harm, a springy floored place without seasons where a wee up a tree was all he could leave behind.
(3) We strolled across springy heather and moss as wet as a sponge, and a strange cackling call of “go-back, go-back” rose on the wind: small coveys of red grouse whirred away from us.
(4) People throughout Asia use springy bamboo poles to carry the loads of everyday life.
(5) Nonarticulated components, such as the solid-ankle cushion heel foot, have various keel designs; energy-storing variants provide springiness for walking and running.
(6) Popular with journalists and staff from Editora Abril – the offices of Brazil's magazine leviathan are just down the road – Ella offers silky, exquisite homemade pasta, springy gnocchi and tender milanesas (breaded steak in a superbly crunchy coating).
(7) I put the recorder inside and hit it: a kind of springy reverb sound.
(8) In two other versions the pins are movable by means of special springs and volumetric elastic (springy) materials which allows to ensure electrical contact with uneven body surface.
(9) the process of healing was followed by regular structure of new aorta walls together with well developed flexible and springy fibre and neglidgeble immunological reactions.
(10) Bake for 35 to 40 minutes or until the sponges are well risen and springy to the touch and have shrunk slightly from the sides of the tin.
(11) Present problems are related to the possible need of an implant material of a more springy character tan that of the 2353 (316L) steel implant, used at present and also to reduce the manufacturing costs.
(12) Allow the dough to prove for 1½–2 hours, until it has doubled in size and is springy to the touch.
(13) The new design is characterized by functional mechanical action and by the presence of a system of springy planes.
(14) During more pronounced exercise loading, a reversible "springiness" of the fracture results, which might stimulate callus formation and improved stability.
(15) Check him out with a springy, teddyboy quiff, causing a fracas on the dancefloor in his first film, The Wild And The Willing , from 1962, or as a smouldering gypsy in 1965's Sky West And Crooked .