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Rebound vs Flounce - What's the difference?

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Rebound is a related term of flounce.


As nouns the difference between rebound and flounce

is that rebound is the recoil of an object bouncing off another while flounce is (sewing) a strip of decorative material, usually pleated, attached along one edge; a ruffle(w).

As verbs the difference between rebound and flounce

is that rebound is to bound or spring back from a force or rebound can be (rebind) while flounce is to move in an exaggerated, bouncy manner.

rebound

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) rebondir.

Noun

(en noun)
  • The recoil of an object bouncing off another.
  • A return to health or well-being; a recovery.
  • I am on the rebound .
  • An effort to recover from a setback.
  • A romantic partner with whom one begins a relationship (or the relationship one begins) for the sake of getting over a previous, recently-ended romantic relationship.
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  • (sports) The strike of the ball after it has bounced off a defending player, the crossbar or goalpost.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2010 , date=December 28 , author=Kevin Darling , title=West Brom 1 - 3 Blackburn , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=The inevitable Baggies onslaught followed as substitute Simon Cox saw his strike excellently parried by keeper Bunn, with Cox heading the rebound down into the ground and agonisingly over the bar. }}
  • (basketball) An instance of catching the ball after it has hit the rim or backboard without a basket being scored, generally credited to a particular player.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To bound or spring back from a force.
  • * Sir Isaac Newton
  • Bodies which are absolutely hard, or so soft as to be void of elasticity, will not rebound from one another.
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  • , year=2012 , date=August 23 , author=Alasdair Lamont , title=Hearts 0-1 Liverpool , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Martin Kelly fired in a dangerous cross and the Hearts defender looked on in horror as the ball rebounded off him and into the net.}}
  • To give back an echo.
  • (figuratively) To jump up or get back up again.
  • (Alexander Pope)
  • To send back; to reverberate.
  • * Dryden
  • Silenus sung; the vales his voice rebound , / And carry to the skies the sacred sound.

    See also

    * bound (verb)

    Etymology 2

    see rebind

    Verb

    (head)
  • (rebind)
  • Anagrams

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    flounce

    English

    Verb

    (flounc)
  • To move in an exaggerated, bouncy manner.
  • (archaic) To flounder; to make spastic motions.
  • * Barrow
  • To flutter and flounce will do nothing but batter and bruise us.
  • * Addison
  • With his broad fins and forky tail he laves / The rising surge, and flounces in the waves.
  • To decorate with a flounce.
  • To leave a group dramatically, in a way that draws attention to oneself.
  • After failing to win the leadership election, he flounced dramatically.
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  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (sewing) A strip of decorative material, usually pleated, attached along one edge; a ruffle.(w)
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  • Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […]  Frills, ruffles, flounces , lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.
  • The act of flouncing.
  • Derived terms

    * flouncy