Dart vs Bounce - What's the difference?
dart | bounce |
A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand; a short lance; a javelin; any sharp-pointed missile weapon, as an arrow.
* 1769 , Oxford Standard Text, , xviii, 14,
Anything resembling such a pointed missile weapon; anything that pierces or wounds like such a weapon.
* 1830 , , Sensibility'', ''The Works of Hannah More , Volume 1,
(Australia, obsolete) A plan or scheme.
* 1947 , , Halfway to Anywhere , 1970,
A sudden or fast movement.
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=Septembe 24
, author=Ben Dirs
, title=Rugby World Cup 2011: England 67-3 Romania
, work=BBC Sport
(sewing) A fold that is stitched on a garment.
* 2013 , The Economist,
A fish; the dace.
(in the plural) A game of throwing darts at a target.
To throw with a sudden effort or thrust, as a dart or other missile weapon; to hurl or launch.
To send forth suddenly or rapidly; to emit; to shoot
To fly or pass swiftly, as a dart; to move rapidly in one direction; to shoot out quickly
To start and run with speed; to shoot rapidly along
* {{quote-news
, year=2010
, date=December 29
, author=Mark Vesty
, title=Wigan 2 - 2 Arsenal
, work=BBC
To change the direction of motion after hitting an obstacle.
To move quickly up and then down, or vice versa, once or repeatedly.
* {{quote-news, year=2012
, date=May 13
, author=Alistair Magowan
, title=Sunderland 0-1 Man Utd
, work=BBC Sport
To cause to move quickly up and then down, or vice versa, once or repeatedly.
To leap or spring suddenly or unceremoniously; to bound.
To be refused by a bank because it is drawn on insufficient funds.
(informal) To fail to cover (have sufficient funds for) (a draft presented against one's account).
(slang) To leave.
(US, slang, dated) To eject violently, as from a room; to discharge unceremoniously, as from employment.
(intransitive, slang, African American Vernacular English) (sometimes employing the preposition with ) To have sexual intercourse.
(air combat) To attack unexpectedly.
(electronics) To turn power off and back on; to reset
(intransitive, Internet, of an e-mail message or address) To return undelivered.
(aviation) To land hard and lift off again due to excess momentum.
(slang, dated) To bully; to scold.
(archaic) To strike or thump, so as to rebound, or to make a sudden noise; to knock loudly.
* Jonathan Swift
* Jonathan Swift
(archaic) To boast; to bluster.
A change of direction of motion after hitting the ground or an obstacle.
* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=June 9, author=Owen Phillips, work=BBC Sport
, title= A movement up and then down (or vice versa), once or repeatedly.
An email return with any error.
The sack, licensing.
A bang, boom.
* 1773 , (Oliver Goldsmith),
A drink based on brandy(w).
* , chapter=6
, title= A heavy, sudden, and often noisy, blow or thump.
* Dryden
Bluster; brag; untruthful boasting; audacious exaggeration; an impudent lie; a bouncer.
Scyllium catulus , a European dogfish.
A genre of New Orleans music.
(slang, African American Vernacular English) Drugs.
(slang, African American Vernacular English) Swagger.
(slang, African American Vernacular English) A 'good' beat.
(slang, African American Vernacular English) A talent for leaping.
As a verb bounce is
to change the direction of motion after hitting an obstacle.As a noun bounce is
a change of direction of motion after hitting the ground or an obstacle.dart
English
2.Barrel 3.O-ring 4.Shaft 5.Collar 6.Flight 7.Protector.Etymology 1
From (etyl) dart, from (etyl) dart, .Noun
(en noun)- Then said Joab, I may not tarry thus with thee. And he took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, while he was yet alive in the midst of the oak.
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- The artful inquiry, whose venom?d dart / Scarce wounds the hearing while it stabs the heart.
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- Trucking?s my dart too.
citation, page= , passage=Six minutes later Cueto went over for his second try after the recalled Mike Tindall found him with a perfectly-timed pass, before Ashton went on another dart , this time down his opposite wing, only for his speculative pass inside to be ruled forward.}}
Nadia Popova
- Somehow she managed, with a cinched waist here and a few darts there, to look like a Hollywood star.
Derived terms
* dart sacEtymology 2
From (etyl) darten, from the noun (see above).Verb
(en verb)- The sun darts forth his beams.
- Or what ill eyes malignant glances dart ? -
- The flying man darted eastward.
- The deer darted from the thicket.
citation, page= , passage=The impressive Frenchman drove forward with purpose down the right before cutting infield and darting in between Vassiriki Diaby and Koscielny.}}
Derived terms
*References
*Anagrams
* * * * ----bounce
English
(wikipedia bounce)Verb
(bounc)- The tennis ball bounced off the wall before coming to rest in the ditch.
- He bounces nervously on his chair.
citation, page= , passage=The Black Cats contributed to their own downfall for the only goal when Titus Bramble, making his first appearance since Boxing Day, and Michael Turner, let Phil Jones' cross bounce across the six-yard box as Rooney tucked in at the back post.}}
- He bounced the child on his knee.
- She bounced into the room.
- We can’t accept further checks from you, as your last one bounced .
- He tends to bounce a check or two toward the end of each month, before his payday.
- Let’s wrap this up, I gotta bounce .
- The squadron was bounced north of the town.
- See if it helps to bounce the router.
- What’s your new email address – the old one bounces .
- The girl in the bar told me her address is
thirsty@example.com
, but my mail to that address bounced back to me.
- The student pilot bounced several times during his landing.
- Another bounces as hard as he can knock.
- Out bounced the mastiff.
Synonyms
* (change direction of motion after hitting an obstacle) bounce back, rebound * (move quickly up and down) bobDerived terms
* bounceable * bounce back, bounceback * bouncedown * bouncer * bounce rate * bouncing * bouncy * debounceNoun
(en noun)Euro 2012: Netherlands 0-1 Denmark, passage=Krohn-Dehli took advantage of a lucky bounce of the ball after a battling run on the left flank by Simon Poulsen, dummied two defenders and shot low through goalkeeper Maarten Stekelenburg's legs after 24 minutes.}}
- I don't value her resentment the bounce of a cracker.
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=He had one hand on the bounce bottle—and he'd never let go of that since he got back to the table—but he had a handkerchief in the other and was swabbing his deadlights with it.}}
- The bounce burst open the door.
- (Johnson)
- (De Quincey)