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Bounding vs Bouncing - What's the difference?

bounding | bouncing |

As verbs the difference between bounding and bouncing

is that bounding is present participle of lang=en while bouncing is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between bounding and bouncing

is that bounding is the use of fire protection products within limits determined by scientific tests while bouncing is the act of something that bounces.

As an adjective bouncing is

healthy; vigorous.

bounding

English

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

  • (uncountable) The use of fire protection products within limits determined by scientific tests.
  • A boundary.
  • * Bishop Beveridge
  • Without buttings or boundings on any side.

    References

    * NRC SECY-00-0080: "bounding fire tests for the myriad of fire seal configurations"

    bouncing

    English

    Adjective

  • healthy; vigorous.
  • a bouncing baby girl
  • * Thackeray
  • many tall and bouncing young ladies
  • (obsolete) excessive; big
  • * Beaumont and Fletcher
  • a bouncing reckoning

    Verb

    (head)
  • Derived terms

    * bouncing off the walls

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of something that bounces.
  • * 1997 , Daniel Price, Without a Woman to Read: Toward the Daughter in Postmodernism
  • this book, with its multiple trajectories and frequently violent juxtapositions, is the record, in many senses, of those bouncings .

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