Bounding vs Bouncing - What's the difference?
bounding | bouncing |
(uncountable) The use of fire protection products within limits determined by scientific tests.
A boundary.
* Bishop Beveridge
healthy; vigorous.
* Thackeray
(obsolete) excessive; big
* Beaumont and Fletcher
The act of something that bounces.
* 1997 , Daniel Price, Without a Woman to Read: Toward the Daughter in Postmodernism
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
- 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
- a bouncing baby girl
- many tall and bouncing young ladies
- a bouncing reckoning
Verb
(head)Derived terms
* bouncing off the wallsNoun
(en noun)- this book, with its multiple trajectories and frequently violent juxtapositions, is the record, in many senses, of those bouncings .