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What (who) is bounce - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Bounce (Bon Jovi); Bon Jovi/Bounce; The Bounce; Bounce (song); Bouncing; Bouncy; Bounce (disambiguation); Bounce (album); Bounce (TV series); Bounces
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)
bounce
I
n.
1) a bounce to (there's a bounce to his walk)
2) on the bounce (to catch a ball on the bounce; to hit on the first bounce)
II
v.
1) (d; intr.) to bounce out of (she bounced out of the chair)
2) (d; intr.) to bounce to (he bounced to his feet)
3) (misc.) to bounce up and down (she bounced the ball up and down)
bounce
(bounces, bouncing, bounced)
1.
When an object such as a ball bounces or when you bounce it, it moves upwards from a surface or away from it immediately after hitting it.
I bounced a ball against the house...
My father would burst into the kitchen bouncing a football.
...a falling pebble, bouncing down the eroded cliff...
They watched the dodgem cars bang and bounce.
VERB: V n prep, V n, V prep/adv, V, also V n with adv
•
Bounce is also a noun.
The wheelchair tennis player is allowed two bounces of the ball.
N-COUNT
2.
If sound or light bounces off a surface or is bounced off it, it reaches the surface and is reflected back.
Your arms and legs need protection from light bouncing off glass...
They work by bouncing microwaves off solid objects.
VERB: V off n, V n off n
3.
If something bounces or if something bounces it, it swings or moves up and down.
Her long black hair bounced as she walked...
Then I noticed the car was bouncing up and down as if someone were jumping on it...
The wind was bouncing the branches of the big oak trees.
= bob
VERB: V, V adv, V n
4.
If you bounce on a soft surface, you jump up and down on it repeatedly.
She lets us do anything, even bounce on our beds.
VERB: V prep/adv, also V
5.
If someone bounces somewhere, they move there in an energetic way, because they are feeling happy.
Moira bounced into the office.
VERB: V prep/adv
6.
If you bounce your ideas off someone, you tell them to that person, in order to find out what they think about them.
It was good to bounce ideas off another mind...
Let's bounce a few ideas around.
VERB: V n off n, V n around
7.
If a cheque bounces or if a bank bounces it, the bank refuses to accept it and pay out the money, because the person who wrote it does not have enough money in their account.
Our only complaint would be if the cheque bounced...
His bank wrongly bounced cheques worth ?75,000.
VERB: V, V n
8.
If an e-mail or other electronic message bounces, it is returned to the person who sent it because the address was wrong or because of a problem with one of the computers involved in sending it. (COMPUTING)
VERB: V
Wikipedia
Bounce
Bounce or The Bounce may refer to:
- Deflection (physics), the event where an object collides with and bounces against a plane surface
Examples of use of bounce
1. "The big players – and make no mistake he is one of them – all bounce back and they bounce back stronger.
2. Reduction in bounce However, when women wore a normal bra, the "bounce" was reduced by an average of 38 per cent.
3. "Where is the bounce?" the e–mail subject line read.
4. "If polls are taken tomorrow, the president gets a bounce.
5. The mirrors or heliostats can bounce rays to a target.