Bounce vs Reflect - What's the difference?
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To change the direction of motion after hitting an obstacle.
To move quickly up and then down, or vice versa, once or repeatedly.
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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.
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(archaic) To boast; to bluster.
A change of direction of motion after hitting the ground or an obstacle.
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An email return with any error.
The sack, licensing.
A bang, boom.
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A drink based on brandy(w).
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* 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.
To bend back (light, etc.) from a surface.
To be bent back (light, etc.) from a surface.
To mirror, or show the image of something.
To be mirrored.
To agree with; to closely follow.
To give evidence of someone's or something's character etc.
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(senseid) To think seriously; to ponder or consider.
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In intransitive terms the difference between bounce and reflect
is that bounce is to move quickly up and then down, or vice versa, once or repeatedly while reflect is (think seriously) To think seriously; to ponder or consider.In transitive terms the difference between bounce and reflect
is that bounce is to cause to move quickly up and then down, or vice versa, once or repeatedly while reflect is to give evidence of someone's or something's character etc.As a noun bounce
is a change of direction of motion after hitting the ground or an obstacle.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.
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- 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
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- I don't value her resentment the bounce of a cracker.
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- The bounce burst open the door.
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Synonyms
* (change of direction of motion after hitting an obstacle) rebound * (movement up and down) bob, bobbing (repeated), bouncing (repeated) * (talent for leaping) ups, mad upsDerived terms
* bouncy * on the bounce English ergative verbsreflect
English
Verb
(en verb)- A mirror reflects the light that shines on it.
- The moonlight reflected from the surface of water.
- The shop window reflected his image as he walked past.
- His image reflected from the shop window as he walked past.
- Entries in English dictionaries aim to reflect common usage.
- The team's victory reflects the Captain's abilities.
- The teacher's ability reflects well on the school.
- With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get
- People do that sort of thing every day, without ever stopping to reflect on the consequences.
- Not for the first time, he reflected that it was not so much the speeches that strained the nerves as the palaver that went with them.