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Coming vs Bouncing - What's the difference?

coming | bouncing |

In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between coming and bouncing

is that coming is (obsolete) ready to come; complaisant; fond while bouncing is (obsolete) excessive; big.

As verbs the difference between coming and bouncing

is that coming is while bouncing is .

As nouns the difference between coming and bouncing

is that coming is the act of arriving; an arrival while bouncing is the act of something that bounces.

As adjectives the difference between coming and bouncing

is that coming is approaching; of the future, especially the near future; the next while bouncing is healthy; vigorous.

coming

English

Etymology 1

Verb

(head)

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) present participle of

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of arriving; an arrival
    • Derived terms
    * second coming

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Approaching; of the future, especially the near future; the next.
    • We expect great things from you this coming year.
    She will have two or three paintings in the coming exhibition.
  • * Byron
    • your coming days and years
  • Deserved.
    • When he was fired, nobody was surprised or upset because they thought he had it coming .
  • Newly in fashion; advancing into maturity or achievement.
    • Ergonomic wallets are the coming thing.
  • (obsolete) Ready to come; complaisant; fond.
    • (Alexander Pope)

    Derived terms

    * coming on * up-and-coming

    Anagrams

    * gnomic

    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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