Hurtle vs Bounce - What's the difference?
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To move rapidly, violently, or without control.
(archaic) To meet with violence or shock; to clash; to jostle.
* Fairfax
(archaic) To make a threatening sound, like the clash of arms; to make a sound as of confused clashing or confusion; to resound.
* Shakespeare
* Elizabeth Browning
To hurl or fling; to throw hard or violently.
(archaic) To push; to jostle; to hurl.
A fast movement in literal or figurative sense.
* 1975 , Wakeman, John. Literary Criticism
* Monday June 20, 2005 , The Guardian newspaper
A clattering sound.
* 1913 , Eden Phillpotts. Widecombe Fair p.26
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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, title= 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),
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.
In intransitive terms the difference between hurtle and bounce
is that hurtle is to move rapidly, violently, or without control while bounce is to move quickly up and then down, or vice versa, once or repeatedly.In transitive terms the difference between hurtle and bounce
is that hurtle is to hurl or fling; to throw hard or violently while bounce is to cause to move quickly up and then down, or vice versa, once or repeatedly.hurtle
English
Verb
(hurtl)- The car hurtled down the hill at 90 miles per hour.
- Pieces of broken glass hurtled through the air.
- Together hurtled both their steeds.
- The noise of battle hurtled in the air.
- The earthquake sound / Hurtling 'neath the solid ground.
- He hurtled the wad of paper angrily at the trash can and missed by a mile.
Noun
(-)- But the war woke me up, I began to move left, and recent events have accelerated that move until it is now a hurtle .
- Jamba has removed from Marlowe's Doctor Faustus all but the barest of essentials - even half its title, leaving us with an 80-minute hurtle through Faustus's four and twenty borrowed years on earth.
- There came a hurtle of wings, a flash of bright feathers, and a great pigeon with slate-grey plumage and a neck bright as an opal, lit on a swaying finial.
Anagrams
* *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
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- I don't value her resentment the bounce of a cracker.
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- The bounce burst open the door.
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