Bounce vs. Spring — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Bounce and Spring
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Bounce
(with reference to an object, especially a ball) move quickly up, back, or away from a surface after hitting it
He was bouncing the ball against the wall
The ball bounced away and he chased it
Spring
To move upward or forward in a single quick motion or a series of such motions; leap
The goat sprang over the log.
Bounce
Jump repeatedly up and down, typically on something springy
Emma was happily bouncing up and down on the mattress
Spring
To move suddenly, especially because of being resilient or moved by a spring
I let the branch spring forward. The door sprang shut.
Bounce
(of a cheque) be returned by a bank to the payee when there are not enough funds in the drawer's account to meet it
A further two cheques of £160 also bounced
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Spring
To start doing something suddenly
The firefighters sprang into action.
Bounce
Eject (a troublemaker) forcibly from a nightclub or similar establishment.
Spring
To appear or come into being quickly
New businesses are springing up rapidly.
Bounce
Pressurize (someone) into doing something, typically by presenting them with a fait accompli
The government should beware being bounced into any ill-considered foreign gamble
Spring
To issue or emerge suddenly
A cry sprang from her lips. A thought springs to mind.
Bounce
A rebound of a ball or other object
The wicket was causing the occasional erratic bounce
Spring
To arise from a source; develop
Their frustration springs from a misunderstanding.
Bounce
An act of jumping or of moving up and down jerkily
Every bounce of the truck brought them into fresh contact
Spring
(intransitive) To burst forth.
Bounce
To rebound after having struck an object or a surface.
Spring
(of liquids) To gush, to flow suddenly and violently.
The boat sprang a leak and began to sink.
Bounce
To move jerkily; bump
The car bounced over the potholes.
Spring
To gush, to flow out of the ground.
Bounce
To bound
Children bouncing into the room.
Spring
(of light) To appear, to dawn.
Bounce
To be left unpaid because of an overdrawn account
A check that bounced.
Spring
(of plants) To sprout, to grow,
Bounce
(Computers) To be sent back by a mail server as undeliverable
That email bounced because I used "com" instead of "net.".
Spring
(now chiefly botanical) To grow taller or longer.
Bounce
(Baseball) To hit a ground ball to an infielder
The batter bounced out to the shortstop.
Spring
To rise from cover.
Bounce
To cause to strike an object or a surface and rebound
Bounce a ball on the sidewalk.
Spring
(of landscape) To come dramatically into view.
Bounce
To present or propose for comment or approval. Often used with off
Bounced a few ideas off my boss.
Spring
(figurative) to arise, to come into existence.
Hope springs eternal.
He hit the gas and the car sprang to life.
Bounce
To expel by force
Bounced him from the bar.
Spring
To move with great speed and energy; to leap, to jump; to dart, to sprint; of people: to rise rapidly from a seat, bed, etc.
Deer spring with their hind legs, using their front hooves to steady themselves.
He sprang to his feet.
A bow, when bent, springs back by its elastic power.
Don't worry. She'll spring back to her cheerful old self in no time.
It was the first thing that sprang to mind.
She sprang to her husband's defense and clocked the protestor.
Bounce
To dismiss from employment.
Spring
(usually with from) To be born, descend, or originate from
He sprang from peasant stock.
Bounce
To write (a check) on an overdrawn bank account.
Spring
To descend or originate from.
The Stoics sprang from the Cynics.
Bounce
A rebound, as of a ball from the ground.
Spring
(obsolete) To rise in social position or military rank, to be promoted.
Bounce
A sudden bound or upward movement
The bike went over the rock with a bounce.
Spring
To become known, to spread.
Bounce
The capacity to rebound; spring
A ball with bounce.
Spring
To emit, to spread.
Bounce
A sudden increase
Got a bounce in the polls.
Spring
To grow.
Bounce
Cheerfulness or liveliness
"He had managed to recover much of his bounce and spirit" (Paul Auster).
Spring
(transitive) To cause to burst forth.
Bounce
(Slang) Expulsion; dismissal
Was given the bounce from the job.
Spring
To cause to well up or flow out of the ground.
Bounce
A fast, energetic style of hip-hop originating in New Orleans and characterized by repetitive, often sexual call-and-response lyrics.
Spring
To bring forth.
Bounce
A style of dance performed to this music characterized by rapid body movements, especially of the gluteal and hamstring muscles in a way that resembles bouncing while keeping the feet on the ground.
Spring
To cause to become known, to tell of.
Bounce
Chiefly British Loud, arrogant speech; bluster.
Spring
To cause to move energetically; (equestrianism) to cause to gallop, to spur.
Bounce
(intransitive) To change the direction of motion after hitting an obstacle.
The tennis ball bounced off the wall before coming to rest in the ditch.
Spring
To cause to rise from cover.
His dogs sprang the grouse and partridges and flushed the woodcock.
Bounce
(intransitive) To move quickly up and then down, or vice versa, once or repeatedly.
He bounces nervously on his chair.
Spring
To shift quickly from one designated position to another.
Bounce
(transitive) To cause to move quickly up and down, or back and forth, once or repeatedly.
He bounced the child on his knee.
The children were bouncing a ball against a wall.
Spring
To breed with, to impregnate.
Bounce
To suggest or introduce (an idea, etc.) to (off or by) somebody, in order to gain feedback.
I'm meeting Bob later to bounce some ideas off him about the new product range.
Spring
(of mechanisms) To cause to work or open by sudden application of pressure.
He sprang the trap.
Bounce
(intransitive) To leap or spring suddenly or unceremoniously; to bound.
She bounced happily into the room.
Spring
To make wet, to moisten.
Bounce
To move rapidly (between).
Spring
To rise suddenly, (of tears) to well up.
The documentary made tears spring to their eyes.
Bounce
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.
Spring
To burst into pieces, to explode, to shatter.
Bounce
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.
Spring
To go off.
Bounce
To leave.
Let’s wrap this up, I gotta bounce.
Spring
To cause to explode, to set off, to detonate.
Bounce
To eject violently, as from a room; to discharge unceremoniously, as from employment.
Spring
To crack.
Bounce
(sometimes employing the preposition with) To have sexual intercourse.
Spring
To have something crack.
Bounce
To attack unexpectedly.
The squadron was bounced north of the town.
Spring
To cause to crack.
Bounce
To turn power off and back on; to reset.
See if it helps to bounce the router.
Spring
To surprise by sudden or deft action.
Bounce
To return undelivered.
What’s your new email address? The old one bounces.
The girl in the bar told me her address was [email protected], but my mail to that address was bounced back by the server.
Spring
To come upon and flush out
Bounce
To land hard and lift off again due to excess momentum.
The student pilot bounced several times during his landing.
Spring
To catch in an illegal act or compromising position.
Bounce
To land hard at unsurvivable velocity with fatal results.
After the mid-air collision, his rig failed and he bounced.
Spring
(obsolete) To begin something.
Bounce
To mix (two or more tracks of a multi-track audio tape recording) and record the result onto a single track, in order to free up tracks for further material to be added.
Bounce tracks two and three to track four, then record the cowbell on track two.
Spring
(obsolete) To produce, provide, or place an item unexpectedly.
Bounce
To bully; to scold.
Spring
To put bad money into circulation.
Bounce
To boast; to bluster.
Spring
To tell, to share.
Bounce
(archaic) To strike or thump, so as to rebound, or to make a sudden noise; to knock loudly.
Spring
(of news, surprises) To announce unexpectedly, to reveal.
Sorry to spring it on you like this but I've been offered another job.
Bounce
A change of direction of motion after hitting the ground or an obstacle.
Spring
To free from imprisonment, especially by facilitating an illegal escape.
His lieutenants hired a team of miners to help spring him.
Bounce
A movement up and then down (or vice versa), once or repeatedly.
Spring
To be free of imprisonment, especially by illegal escape.
Bounce
(internet) An email that returns to the sender because of a delivery failure.
Spring
To build, to form the initial curve of.
They sprung an arch over the lintel.
Bounce
The sack, dismissal.
Spring
To extend, to curve.
The arches spring from the front posts.
Bounce
A bang, boom.
Spring
To turn a vessel using a spring attached to its anchor cable.
Bounce
(archaic) A drink based on brandyW.
Spring
To raise a vessel's sheer.
Bounce
(archaic) A heavy, sudden, and often noisy, blow or thump.
Spring
To raise a last's toe.
Bounce
(archaic) Bluster; brag; untruthful boasting; audacious exaggeration; an impudent lie; a bouncer.
Spring
(transitive) To pay or spend a certain sum, to cough up.
Bounce
Scyliorhinus canicula, a European dogfish.
Spring
To raise an offered price.
Bounce
(uncountable) A genre of hip-hop music of New Orleans, characterized by often lewd call-and-response chants.
Spring
To act as a spring: to strongly rebound.
Bounce
Drugs.
Spring
To equip with springs, especially to equip with a suspension.
Bounce
Swagger.
Spring
To provide spring or elasticity
Bounce
A good beat in music.
Spring
To inspire, to motivate.
Bounce
A talent for leaping.
Them pro-ballers got bounce!
Spring
(ambitransitive) To deform owing to excessive pressure, to become warped; to intentionally deform in order to position and then straighten in place.
A piece of timber sometimes springs in seasoning.
He sprang in the slat.
Bounce
To strike or thump, so as to rebound, or to make a sudden noise; a knock loudly.
Another bounces as hard as he can knock.
Against his bosom bounced his heaving heart.
Spring
To reach maturity, to be fully grown.
Bounce
To leap or spring suddenly or unceremoniously; to bound; as, she bounced into the room.
Out bounced the mastiff.
Bounced off his arm+chair.
Spring
To swell with milk or pregnancy.
Bounce
To boast; to talk big; to bluster.
Spring
To sound, to play.
Bounce
To drive against anything suddenly and violently; to bump; to thump.
Spring
(intransitive) To spend the springtime somewhere
Bounce
To cause to bound or rebound; sometimes, to toss.
Spring
(of animals) to find or get enough food during springtime.
Bounce
To eject violently, as from a room; to discharge unceremoniously, as from employment.
Spring
(countable) An act of springing: a leap, a jump.
Bounce
To bully; to scold.
Spring
(countable) The season of the year in temperate regions in which plants spring from the ground and into bloom and dormant animals spring to life.
Spring is the time of the year most species reproduce.
You can visit me in the spring, when the weather is bearable.
Bounce
A sudden leap or bound; a rebound.
Spring
(astronomy) The period from the moment of vernal equinox (around March 21 in the Northern Hemisphere) to the moment of the summer solstice (around June 21); the equivalent periods reckoned in other cultures and calendars.
Spring Festival" throughout East Asia because it is reckoned as the beginning of their spring.
Bounce
A heavy, sudden, and often noisy, blow or thump.
The bounce burst open the door.
Spring
(meteorology) The three months of March, April, and May in the Northern Hemisphere and September, October, and November in the Southern Hemisphere.
I spent my spring holidays in Morocco.
The spring issue will be out next week.
Bounce
An explosion, or the noise of one.
Spring
The time of something's growth; the early stages of some process.
Bounce
Bluster; brag; untruthful boasting; audacious exaggeration; an impudent lie; a bouncer.
Spring
A period of political liberalization and democratization
Arab Spring
Bounce
A dogfish of Europe (Scyllium catulus).
Spring
Someone with ivory or peach skin tone and eyes and hair that are not extremely dark, seen as best suited to certain colors of clothing.
Bounce
With a sudden leap; suddenly.
This impudent puppy comes bounce in upon me.
Spring
(countable) Something which springs, springs forth, springs up, or springs back, particularly
Bounce
The quality of a substance that is able to rebound
Spring
(geology) A spray or body of water springing from the ground.
This beer was brewed with pure spring water.
Bounce
A light springing movement upwards or forwards
Spring
The rising of the sea at high tide.
Bounce
Rebounding from an impact (or series of impacts)
Spring
(oceanography) nodot=a, the especially high tide shortly after full and new moons.
Neap tide
Bounce
Spring back; spring away from an impact;
The rubber ball bounced
These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide
Spring
A mechanical device made of flexible or coiled material that exerts force and attempts to spring back when bent, compressed, or stretched.
We jumped so hard the bed springs broke.
Bounce
Hit something so that it bounces;
Bounce a ball
Spring
(nautical) A line from a vessel's end or side to its anchor cable used to diminish or control its movement.
Bounce
Move up and down repeatedly
Spring
(nautical) A line laid out from a vessel's end to the opposite end of an adjacent vessel or mooring to diminish or control its movement.
You should put a couple of springs onto the jetty to stop the boat moving so much.
Bounce
Come back after being refused;
The check bounced
Spring
(figurative) A race, a lineage.
Bounce
Leap suddenly;
He bounced to his feet
Spring
(figurative) A youth.
Bounce
Refuse to accept and send back;
Bounce a check
Spring
A shoot, a young tree.
Bounce
Eject from the premises;
The ex-boxer's job is to bounce people who want to enter this private club
Spring
A grove of trees; a forest.
Spring
An erection of the penis. en
Spring
A crack which has sprung up in a mast, spar, or (rare) a plank or seam.
Spring
(uncountable) Springiness: an attribute or quality of springing, springing up, or springing back, particularly
Spring
Elasticity: the property of a body springing back to its original form after compression, stretching, etc.
The spring of a bow
Spring
Elastic energy, power, or force.
Spring
(countable) The source from which an action or supply of something springs.
Spring
(countable) Something which causes others or another to spring forth or spring into action, particularly
Spring
A cause, a motive, etc.
Spring
(obsolete) A lively piece of music.
Spring
To leap; to bound; to jump.
The mountain stag that springsFrom height to height, and bounds along the plains.
Spring
To issue with speed and violence; to move with activity; to dart; to shoot.
And sudden lightSprung through the vaulted roof.
Spring
To start or rise suddenly, as from a covert.
Watchful as fowlers when their game will spring.
Spring
To fly back; as, a bow, when bent, springs back by its elastic power.
Spring
To bend from a straight direction or plane surface; to become warped; as, a piece of timber, or a plank, sometimes springs in seasoning.
Spring
To shoot up, out, or forth; to come to the light; to begin to appear; to emerge; as a plant from its seed, as streams from their source, and the like; - often followed by up, forth, or out.
Till well nigh the day began to spring.
To satisfy the desolate and waste ground, and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth.
Do not blast my springing hopes.
O, spring to light; auspicious Babe, be born.
Spring
To issue or proceed, as from a parent or ancestor; to result, as from a cause, motive, reason, or principle.
[They found] new hope to springOut of despair, joy, but with fear yet linked.
Spring
To grow; to thrive; to prosper.
What makes all this, but Jupiter the king,At whose command we perish, and we spring?
Spring
To cause to spring up; to start or rouse, as game; to cause to rise from the earth, or from a covert; as, to spring a pheasant.
Spring
To produce or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly; as, to spring a surprise on someone; to spring a joke.
She starts, and leaves her bed, and springs a light.
The friends to the cause sprang a new project.
Spring
To cause to explode; as, to spring a mine.
Spring
To crack or split; to bend or strain so as to weaken; as, to spring a mast or a yard.
Spring
To cause to close suddenly, as the parts of a trap operated by a spring; as, to spring a trap.
Spring
To bend by force, as something stiff or strong; to force or put by bending, as a beam into its sockets, and allowing it to straighten when in place; - often with in, out, etc.; as, to spring in a slat or a bar.
Spring
To pass over by leaping; as, to spring a fence.
Spring
To release (a person) from confinement, especially from a prison.
Spring
A leap; a bound; a jump.
The prisoner, with a spring, from prison broke.
Spring
A flying back; the resilience of a body recovering its former state by its elasticity; as, the spring of a bow.
Spring
Elastic power or force.
Heavens! what a spring was in his arm!
Spring
An elastic body of any kind, as steel, India rubber, tough wood, or compressed air, used for various mechanical purposes, as receiving and imparting power, diminishing concussion, regulating motion, measuring weight or other force.
Spring
Any source of supply; especially, the source from which a stream proceeds; an issue of water from the earth; a natural fountain.
Spring
Any active power; that by which action, or motion, is produced or propagated; cause; origin; motive.
Our author shuns by vulgar springs to moveThe hero's glory, or the virgin's love.
Spring
That which springs, or is originated, from a source;
Spring
That which causes one to spring; specifically, a lively tune.
Spring
The season of the year when plants begin to vegetate and grow; the vernal season, usually comprehending the months of March, April, and May, in the middle latitudes north of the equator.
Spring
The time of growth and progress; early portion; first stage; as, the spring of life.
O how this spring of love resemblethThe uncertain glory of an April day.
Spring
A crack or fissure in a mast or yard, running obliquely or transversely.
Spring
The season of growth;
The emerging buds were a sure sign of spring
He will hold office until the spring of next year
Spring
A natural flow of ground water
Spring
A metal elastic device that returns to its shape or position when pushed or pulled or pressed;
The spring was broken
Spring
A light springing movement upwards or forwards
Spring
The elasticity of something that can be stretched and returns to its original length
Spring
A point at which water issues forth
Spring
Move forward by leaps and bounds;
The horse bounded across the meadow
The child leapt across the puddle
Can you jump over the fence?
Spring
Develop into a distinctive entity;
Our plans began to take shape
Spring
Spring back; spring away from an impact;
The rubber ball bounced
These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide
Spring
Produce or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly;
He sprang a new haircut on his wife
Spring
Develop suddenly;
The tire sprang a leak
Spring
Produce or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly;
He sprang these news on me just as I was leaving
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