What's the difference between bounciness and springiness?

Bounciness


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.

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 .

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