What is the difference between bounce and short?
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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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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.
Having a small distance from one end or edge to another, either horizontally or vertically.
(of a person) Of comparatively little height.
Having little duration; opposite of long.
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Of a word or phrase, constituting an abbreviation (for another) or shortened form (of another).
(cricket, Of a ball) that bounced relatively far from the batsman.
(cricket, Of a fielder or fielding position) that is relatively close to the batsman.
Brittle (of pastry, and some metals); see also shortening, shortcrust.
Abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant.
Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty.
Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied; scantily furnished; lacking.
Deficient; less; not coming up to a measure or standard.
* Landor
(obsolete) Not distant in time; near at hand.
* Spenser
* Clarendon
In a financial investment position that is structured to be profitable if the price of the underlying security declines in the future.
Abruptly, curtly, briefly.
Unawares.
Without achieving a goal or requirement.
(cricket, of the manner of bounce of a cricket ball) Relatively far from the batsman and hence bouncing higher than normal; opposite of full.
(finance) With a negative ownership position.
A short circuit.
A short film.
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(Used to indicate a short-length version of a size)
(baseball) A shortstop.
(finance) A short seller.
(finance) A short sale.
A summary account.
* Shakespeare
(phonetics) A short sound, syllable, or vowel.
* H. Sweet
(label) An shorter than normal integers; usually two bytes long.
To cause a in (something).
Of an electrical circuit, to .
To shortchange.
To provide with a smaller than agreed or labeled amount.
(business) To sell something, especially securities, that one does not own at the moment for delivery at a later date in hopes of profiting from a decline in the price; to sell short .
(obsolete) To shorten.
Deficient in.
(finance) Having a negative position in.
As verbs the difference between bounce and short
is that bounce is to change the direction of motion after hitting an obstacle while short is to cause a in (something).As nouns the difference between bounce and short
is that bounce is a change of direction of motion after hitting the ground or an obstacle while short is a short circuit.As a adjective short is
having a small distance from one end or edge to another, either horizontally or vertically.As a adverb short is
abruptly.As a preposition short is
deficient in.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
(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.
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- The bounce burst open the door.
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- (De Quincey)
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 verbsshort
English
(wikipedia short)Adjective
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- Our meeting was a short six minutes today. Every day for the past month it's been at least twenty minutes long.
- “Phone” is short''' for “telephone” and "asap" '''short for "as soon as possible".
- He gave a short answer to the question.
- a short supply of provisions
- to be short of money
- The cashier came up short ten dollars on his morning shift.
- an account which is short of the truth
- Hardly anything short of an invasion could rouse them again to war.
- Marinell was sore offended / That his departure thence should be so short .
- He commanded those who were appointed to attend him to be ready by a short day.
- I'm short General Motors because I think their sales are plunging.
Usage notes
* (having a small distance between ends or edges) (term) is often used in the positive vertical dimension and used as is (shallow) in the negative vertical dimension; in the horizontal dimension (narrow) is more commonly used.Synonyms
* (having a small distance between ends or edges) low, narrow, slim, shallow * little, pint-sized, petite, titchy (slang) * (having little duration) brief, concise * an abbreviation of, a short form ofAntonyms
* (having a small distance between ends or edges) tall, high, wide, broad, deep, long * tall * (having little duration) long * longAdverb
(-)- They had to stop short to avoid hitting the dog in the street.
- He cut me short repeatedly in the meeting.
- The boss got a message and cut the meeting short .
- The recent developments at work caught them short .
- His speech fell short of what was expected.
- We went short most finance companies in July.
Noun
(en noun)- Preceded by a Simpsons short shot in 3-D—perhaps the only thing more superfluous than a fourth Ice Age movie—Ice Age: Continental Drift finds a retinue of vaguely contemporaneous animals coping with life in the post-Pangaea age.
- 38 short suits fit me right off the rack.
- Do you have that size in a short .
- Jones smashes a grounder between third and short .
- The market decline was terrible, but the shorts were buying champagne.
- He closed out his short at a modest loss after three months.
- The short and the long is, our play is preferred.
- If we compare the nearest conventional shorts and longs in English, as in "bit" and "beat", "not" and "naught", we find that the short vowels are generally wide, the long narrow, besides being generally diphthongic as well.
Verb
(en verb)- This is the third time I've caught them shorting us.
Preposition
(English prepositions)- We are short a few men on the second shift.
- He's short common sense.
- I don't want to be short the market going into the weekend.