bounce : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: bounce	by the DICT Development Group
7 results for bounce
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bounce n the quality of a substance that is able to rebound [syn: bounce, bounciness] a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards Synonym(s): leap, leaping, spring, saltation, bound, bounce rebounding from an impact (or series of impacts) Synonym(s): bounce, bouncing v spring back; spring away from an impact; "The rubber ball bounced"; "These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide" Synonym(s): bounce, resile, take a hop, spring, bound, rebound, recoil, reverberate, ricochet hit something so that it bounces; "bounce a ball" move up and down repeatedly Synonym(s): bounce, jounce come back after being refused; "the check bounced" Antonym(s): clear leap suddenly; "He bounced to his feet" refuse to accept and send back; "bounce a check" eject from the premises; "The ex-boxer's job is to bounce people who want to enter this private club"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bounce \Bounce\, adv. With a sudden leap; suddenly. This impudent puppy comes bounce in upon me. --Bickerstaff.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bounce \Bounce\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Bounced}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Bouncing}.] [OE. bunsen; cf. D. bonzen to strike, bounce, bons blow, LG. bunsen to knock; all prob. of imitative origin.] 1. To strike or thump, so as to rebound, or to make a sudden noise; a knock loudly. Another bounces as hard as he can knock. --Swift. Against his bosom bounced his heaving heart. --Dryden. 2. To leap or spring suddenly or unceremoniously; to bound; as, she bounced into the room. Out bounced the mastiff. --Swift. Bounced off his arm+chair. --Thackeray. 3. To boast; to talk big; to bluster. [Obs.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bounce \Bounce\, v. t. 1. To drive against anything suddenly and violently; to bump; to thump. --Swift. 2. To cause to bound or rebound; sometimes, to toss. 3. To eject violently, as from a room; to discharge unceremoniously, as from employment. [Collog. U. S.] 4. To bully; to scold. [Collog.] --J. Fletcher.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bounce \Bounce\, n. 1. A sudden leap or bound; a rebound. 2. A heavy, sudden, and often noisy, blow or thump. The bounce burst open the door. --Dryden. 3. An explosion, or the noise of one. [Obs.] 4. Bluster; brag; untruthful boasting; audacious exaggeration; an impudent lie; a bouncer. --Johnson. De Quincey.[?] 5. (Zo[94]l.) A dogfish of Europe ({Scyllium catulus}).
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
bounce v. 1. [common; perhaps by analogy to a bouncing check] An electronic mail message that is undeliverable and returns an error notification to the sender is said to `bounce'. See also {bounce message}. 2. [Stanford] To play volleyball. The now-demolished {D. C. Power Lab} building used by the Stanford AI Lab in the 1970s had a volleyball court on the front lawn. From 5 P.M. to 7 P.M. was the scheduled maintenance time for the computer, so every afternoon at 5 would come over the intercom the cry: "Now hear this: bounce, bounce!", followed by Brian McCune loudly bouncing a volleyball on the floor outside the offices of known volleyballers. 3. To engage in sexual intercourse; prob. from the expression `bouncing the mattress', but influenced by Roo's psychosexually loaded "Try bouncing me, Tigger!" from the "Winnie-the-Pooh" books. Compare {boink}. 4. To casually reboot a system in order to clear up a transient problem. Reported primarily among {VMS} and {Unix} users. 5. [VM/CMS programmers] _Automatic_ warm-start of a machine after an error. "I logged on this morning and found it had bounced 7 times during the night" 6. [IBM] To {power cycle} a peripheral in order to reset it.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
bounce 1. (Perhaps by analogy to a bouncing check) An {electronic mail} message that is undeliverable and returns an error notification (a "{bounce message}") to the sender is said to "bounce". 2. To play volleyball. The now-demolished {D. C. Power Lab} building used by the {Stanford AI Lab} in the 1970s had a volleyball court on the front lawn. From 5 PM to 7 PM was the scheduled maintenance time for the computer, so every afternoon at 5 would come over the intercom the cry: "Now hear this: bounce, bounce!", followed by Brian McCune loudly bouncing a volleyball on the floor outside the offices of known volleyballers. 3. To engage in sexual intercourse; probably from the expression "bouncing the mattress", but influenced by Roo's psychosexually loaded "Try bouncing me, Tigger!" from the "Winnie-the-Pooh" books. Compare {boink}. 4. To casually reboot a system in order to clear up a transient problem. Reported primarily among {VMS} users. 5. (VM/CMS programmers) Automatic warm-start of a computer after an error. "I logged on this morning and found it had bounced 7 times during the night" 6. (IBM) To {power cycle} a peripheral in order to reset it. [{Jargon File}] (1994-11-29)