Dash vs Bounce - What's the difference?

In intransitive terms the difference between dash and bounce

is that dash is to run quickly or for a short distance while bounce is to move quickly up and then down, or vice versa, once or repeatedly.

In transitive terms the difference between dash and bounce

is that dash is to complete hastily, usually with down or off while bounce is to cause to move quickly up and then down, or vice versa, once or repeatedly.

As an interjection dash

is damn.

dash

English

Noun

(es)

(typography) Any of the following symbols: (''horizontal bar ).

sometimes dash'' is also used colloquially to refer to a ''hyphen'' or ''minus sign .

A short run.

A small quantity of a liquid substance; less than 1/8 of a teaspoon.

Add a dash of vinegar

Vigor.

Aren't we full of dash this morning?

A dashboard.

* 1955 , edition, ISBN 0553249592, page 31:

The dash clock said 2:38 when.

One of the two symbols of Morse code.

(Nigeria) A bribe or gratuity.

* 1992 , George B. N. Ayittey, Africa betrayed (page 44)

The traditional practice of offering gifts or "dash " to chiefs has often been misinterpreted by scholars to provide a cultural explanation for the pervasive incidence of bribery and corruption in modern Africa.

* 2006 , Adiele Eberechukwu Afigbo, The Abolition of the Slave Trade in Southeastern Nigeria, 1885-1950 (page 99)

Writing in 1924 on a similar situation in Ugep, the political officer, Mr. S. T. Harvey noted: "In the old days there was no specified dowry but merely dashes given to the father-in-law

* 2008 , Lizzie Williams, Nigeria: The Bradt Travel Guide (page 84)

The only other times you'll be asked for a dash is from beggars.

(obsolete, euphemistic) A stand-in for a censored word, like "Devil" or "damn". (Compare deuce.)

* 1824 , "Kiddywinkle History, No. II", Blackwood's Magazine (15, May 1824) p. 540

I'll be dashed if I gan another step for less 'an oaf.

* 1853 , (William Makepeace Thackery), (The Newcomes)'', Chapter VI, serialized in ''Harper's New Monthly Magazine , (VIII, no. 43, Dec 1853) p. 118

Sir Thomas looks as if to ask what the dash is that to you! but wanting still to go to India again, and knowing how strong the Newcomes are in Leadenhall Street, he thinks it necessary to be civil to the young cub, and swallows his pride once more into his waistband.

*:Comment : Some editions leave this passage out. Of those that include it, some change the 'you!' to 'you?'.

* 1884 , (Lord Robert Gower), My Reminiscences'', reprinted in "The Evening Lamp", ''The Christian Union , (29) 22, (May 29, 1884) p. 524

Who the dash' is this person whom none of us know? and what the ' dash does he do here?

* 1939 , , (Uncle Fred in the Springtime) Chapter 8

I'll be dashed if I squash in with any domestic staff.

Hyponyms

* See also

Hypernyms

* punctuation mark

Derived terms

* dashing * dash off * em dash, en dash

Verb

(es)

To run quickly or for a short distance.

He dashed across the field.

(informal) To leave or depart.

I have to dash now. See you soon.

To destroy by striking (against).

He dashed the bottle against the bar and turned about to fight.

* 1897 , (Bram Stoker), (Dracula) Chapter 21

"`Silence! If you make a sound I shall take him and dash his brains out before your very eyes.'

* 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 4

Kala was the youngest mate of a male called Tublat, meaning broken nose, and the child she had seen dashed to death was her first; for she was but nine or ten years old.

To throw violently.

The man was dashed from the vehicle during the accident.

* Francis Bacon

If you dash a stone against a stone in the bottom of the water, it maketh a sound.

To sprinkle; to splatter.

* Thomson

On each hand the gushing waters play, / And down the rough cascade all dashing fall.

(of hopes or dreams) To ruin; to destroy.

Her hopes were dashed when she saw the damage.

* {{quote-news

, year=2011 , date=September 13 , author=Sam Lyon , title=Borussia Dortmund 1 - 1 Arsenal , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Arsenal's hopes of starting their Champions League campaign with an away win were dashed when substitute Ivan Perisic's superb late volley rescued a point for Borussia Dortmund.}}

To dishearten; to sadden.

Her thoughts were dashed to melancholy.

To complete hastily, usually with down'' or ''off .

He dashed''' down his eggs'', ''she '''dashed off her homework

To draw quickly; jot.

* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 1

"Scarborough," Mrs. Flanders wrote on the envelope, and dashed a bold line beneath; it was her native town; the hub of the universe.

To throw in or on in a rapid, careless manner; to mix, reduce, or adulterate, by throwing in something of an inferior quality; to overspread partially; to bespatter; to touch here and there.

to dash''' wine with water; to '''dash paint upon a picture

* Addison

I take care to dash the character with such particular circumstance as may prevent ill-natured applications.

* Tennyson

The very source and fount of day / Is dashed with wandering isles of night.

Interjection

(en interjection)

(euphemistic) Damn!

Anagrams

* * * ----

bounce

English

(wikipedia bounce)

Verb

(bounc)

To change the direction of motion after hitting an obstacle.

The tennis ball bounced off the wall before coming to rest in the ditch.

To move quickly up and then down, or vice versa, once or repeatedly.

He bounces nervously on his chair.

* {{quote-news, year=2012

, date=May 13 , author=Alistair Magowan , title=Sunderland 0-1 Man Utd , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=The Black Cats contributed to their own downfall for the only goal when Titus Bramble, making his first appearance since Boxing Day, and Michael Turner, let Phil Jones' cross bounce across the six-yard box as Rooney tucked in at the back post.}}

To cause to move quickly up and then down, or vice versa, once or repeatedly.

He bounced the child on his knee.

To leap or spring suddenly or unceremoniously; to bound.

She bounced into the room.

To be refused by a bank because it is drawn on insufficient funds.

We can’t accept further checks from you, as your last one bounced .

(informal) To fail to cover (have sufficient funds for) (a draft presented against one's account).

He tends to bounce a check or two toward the end of each month, before his payday.

(slang) To leave.

Let’s wrap this up, I gotta bounce .

(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.

The squadron was bounced north of the town.

(electronics) To turn power off and back on; to reset

See if it helps to bounce the router.

(intransitive, Internet, of an e-mail message or address) To return undelivered.

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.

(aviation) To land hard and lift off again due to excess momentum.

The student pilot bounced several times during his landing.

(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

Another bounces as hard as he can knock.

* Jonathan Swift

Out bounced the mastiff.

(archaic) To boast; to bluster.

Synonyms

* (change direction of motion after hitting an obstacle) bounce back, rebound * (move quickly up and down) bob

Derived terms

* bounceable * bounce back, bounceback * bouncedown * bouncer * bounce rate * bouncing * bouncy * debounce

Noun

(en noun)

A change of direction of motion after hitting the ground or an obstacle.

* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=June 9, author=Owen Phillips, work=BBC Sport

, title= 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.}}

A movement up and then down (or vice versa), once or repeatedly.

An email return with any error.

The sack, licensing.

A bang, boom.

* 1773 , (Oliver Goldsmith),

I don't value her resentment the bounce of a cracker.

A drink based on brandy^(w).

* , chapter=6

, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=He had one hand on the bounce bottle—and he'd never let go of that since he got back to the table—but he had a handkerchief in the other and was swabbing his deadlights with it.}}

A heavy, sudden, and often noisy, blow or thump.

* Dryden

The bounce burst open the door.

Bluster; brag; untruthful boasting; audacious exaggeration; an impudent lie; a bouncer.

(Johnson)

(De Quincey)

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.

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 ups

Derived terms

* bouncy * on the bounce English ergative verbs