Bounce vs Slip - 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.
* Jonathan Swift
* Jonathan Swift
(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.
* 1773 , (Oliver Goldsmith),
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.
(obsolete) Mud, slime.
(ceramics) A thin, slippery mix of clay and water.
A twig or shoot; a cutting.
(obsolete) A descendant, a scion.
* Shakespeare
A young person (now usually with (of) introducing descriptive qualifier).
A long, thin piece of something.
* Tennyson
A small piece of paper, especially one longer than it is wide.
To lose one's traction on a slippery surface; to slide due to a lack of friction.
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To err.
* Bible, Eccl. xix. 16
To move or fly (out of place); to shoot; often with out'', ''off , etc.
To pass (a note, money, etc.) often covertly.
To cause to move smoothly and quickly; to slide; to convey gently or secretly.
* Arbuthnot
To move quickly and often secretively; to depart, withdraw, enter, appear, intrude, or escape as if by sliding.
* Prior
* Dryden
* 1883 ,
(figuratively) To move down; to slide.
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(falconry) To release (a dog, a bird of prey, etc.) to go after a quarry.
* Shakespeare
(cooking) To remove the skin of a soft fruit, such as a tomato or peach, by blanching briefly in boiling water, then transferring to cold water so that the skin peels, or slips, off easily.
(obsolete) To omit; to lose by negligence.
* Ben Jonson
To cut slips from; to cut; to take off; to make a slip or slips of.
* Mortimer
To cause to slip or slide off, or out of place.
To bring forth (young) prematurely; to slink.
An act or instance of slipping.
A women's undergarment worn under a skirt or dress; a shift.
A mistake or error.
* Fuller
(nautical) A berth; a space for a ship to moor.
(nautical) A difference between the theoretical distance traveled per revolution of the propeller and the actual advance of the vessel.
(medicine) A one-time return to previous maladaptive behaviour after cure.
(cricket) Any of several fielding positions to the off side of the wicket keeper, designed to catch the ball after being deflected from the bat; a fielder in that position (See first slip, second slip, third slip, fourth slip and fifth slip.)
A number between 0 and 1 that is the difference between the angular speed of a rotating magnetic field and the angular speed of its rotor, divided by the angular speed of the magnetic field.
A leash or string by which a dog is held; so called from its being made in such a manner as to slip, or become loose, by relaxation of the hand.
* Sir S. Baker
An escape; a secret or unexpected desertion.
(printing, dated) A portion of the columns of a newspaper etc. struck off by itself; a proof from a column of type when set up and in the galley.
(dated) A child's pinafore.
An outside covering or case.
(obsolete) A counterfeit piece of money, made from brass covered with silver.
Matter found in troughs of grindstones after the grinding of edge tools.
A particular quantity of yarn.
(UK, dated) A narrow passage between buildings.
(US) A long seat or narrow pew in churches, often without a door.
(mining) A dislocation of a lead, destroying continuity.
(engineering) The motion of the centre of resistance of the float of a paddle wheel, or the blade of an oar, through the water horizontally, or the difference between a vessel's actual speed and the speed it would have if the propelling instrument acted upon a solid; also, the velocity, relatively to still water, of the backward current of water produced by the propeller.
A fish, the sole.
Bounce is a related term of slip.
As nouns the difference between bounce and slip
is that bounce is a change of direction of motion after hitting the ground or an obstacle while slip is briefs ; panties.As a verb bounce
is to change the direction of motion after hitting 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
(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.
- (Johnson)
- (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 verbsslip
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) slype, of uncertain origin.Noun
(-)Etymology 2
Probably from (etyl) slippe or (etyl) slippe. Compare Dutch slip, German Schlippe.Noun
(en noun)- a slip from a vine
- a native slip to us from foreign seeds
- She couldn't hurt a fly, young slip of a girl that she is.
- moonlit slips of silver cloud
Derived terms
* pink slip * sales slipEtymology 3
Apparently from (etyl) slippen (Dutch slippen, German ).Verb
(slipp)citation, page= , passage=Fernando Amorebieta seemed to have checked him, but a stepover created a fraction of room that became significant as the defender slipped , giving Falcao just enough space to curl a superb finish into the top corner.}}
- There is one that slippeth in his speech, but not from his heart.
- A bone may slip out of place.
- She thanked the porter and slipped a ten-dollar bill into his hand.
- He tried to slip a powder into her drink.
- Some errors slipped into the appendix.
- Thus one tradesman slips away, / To give his partner fairer play.
- Thrice the flitting shadow slipped away.
- We slipped along the hedges, noiseless and swift
- Profits have slipped over the past six months.
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- Lucento slipped me like his greyhound.
- And slip no advantage / That may secure you.
- to slip a piece of cloth or paper
- The branches also may be slipped and planted.
- A horse slips''' his bridle; a dog '''slips his collar.
Noun
(en noun)- I had a slip on the ice and bruised my hip.
- a slip of the tongue
- This good man's slip mended his pace to martyrdom.
- We stalked over the extensive plains with Killbuck and Lena in the slips , in search of deer.
- He gave the warden the slip and escaped from the prison.
- (Shakespeare)
- a pillow slip
- the slip or sheath of a sword
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- (Knight)