Bounce vs. Tumble — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Bounce and Tumble
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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
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Tumble
To perform acrobatic feats such as somersaults, rolls, or twists.
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Bounce
Jump repeatedly up and down, typically on something springy
Emma was happily bouncing up and down on the mattress
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Tumble
To fall, roll, or move end over end
The rocks tumbled down the hill. The kittens tumbled over each other. The asteroids tumble through space.
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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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Tumble
To spill, roll out, or emerge in confusion or disorder
Toys tumbled out of the closet.
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Bounce
Eject (a troublemaker) forcibly from a nightclub or similar establishment.
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Tumble
To pitch headlong; fall
Tumbled on the ice.
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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
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Tumble
To move quickly or awkwardly
We tumbled into the kitchen for lunch.
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Bounce
A rebound of a ball or other object
The wicket was causing the occasional erratic bounce
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Tumble
To hang down
Her hair tumbled onto her shoulders.
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Bounce
An act of jumping or of moving up and down jerkily
Every bounce of the truck brought them into fresh contact
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Tumble
To collapse
The wall tumbled down.
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Bounce
To rebound after having struck an object or a surface.
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Tumble
To undergo a decline in position, status, or fortune
He tumbled from high office.
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Bounce
To move jerkily; bump
The car bounced over the potholes.
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Tumble
To decrease
Prices tumbled.
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Bounce
To bound
Children bouncing into the room.
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Tumble
To come upon accidentally; happen on
We tumbled on a fine restaurant.
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Bounce
To be left unpaid because of an overdrawn account
A check that bounced.
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Tumble
(Slang) To come to a sudden understanding; catch on
Tumbled to the reality that he had been cheated.
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Bounce
(Computers) To be sent back by a mail server as undeliverable
That email bounced because I used "com" instead of "net.".
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Tumble
To cause to fall or collapse; bring down
The earthquake tumbled the wall.
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Bounce
(Baseball) To hit a ground ball to an infielder
The batter bounced out to the shortstop.
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Tumble
To put, spill, or toss haphazardly
Tumbled the extra parts into a box.
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Bounce
To cause to strike an object or a surface and rebound
Bounce a ball on the sidewalk.
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Tumble
To toss or whirl in a drum, tumbler, or tumbling box
The dryer tumbles the clothes.
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Bounce
To present or propose for comment or approval. Often used with off
Bounced a few ideas off my boss.
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Tumble
To cause to lose position, status, or fortune
A scandal tumbled the government.
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Bounce
To expel by force
Bounced him from the bar.
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Tumble
An act of tumbling; a fall.
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Bounce
To dismiss from employment.
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Tumble
A decrease, as in value
Home prices took a tumble.
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Bounce
To write (a check) on an overdrawn bank account.
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Tumble
A confused or disordered collection or amount of something
A tumble of shacks by the river.
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Bounce
A rebound, as of a ball from the ground.
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Tumble
A fall, especially end over end.
I took a tumble down the stairs and broke my tooth.
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Bounce
A sudden bound or upward movement
The bike went over the rock with a bounce.
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Tumble
A disorderly heap.
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Bounce
The capacity to rebound; spring
A ball with bounce.
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Tumble
(informal) An act of sexual intercourse.
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Bounce
A sudden increase
Got a bounce in the polls.
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Tumble
(intransitive) To fall end over end; to roll over and over.
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Bounce
Cheerfulness or liveliness
"He had managed to recover much of his bounce and spirit" (Paul Auster).
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Tumble
(intransitive) To perform gymnastics such as somersaults, rolls, and handsprings.
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Bounce
(Slang) Expulsion; dismissal
Was given the bounce from the job.
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Tumble
(intransitive) To drop rapidly.
Share prices tumbled after the revelation about the company's impending failure.
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Bounce
A fast, energetic style of hip-hop originating in New Orleans and characterized by repetitive, often sexual call-and-response lyrics.
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Tumble
(transitive) To smoothe and polish, e.g., gemstones or pebbles, by means of a rotating tumbler.
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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.
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Tumble
To have sexual intercourse.
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Bounce
Chiefly British Loud, arrogant speech; bluster.
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Tumble
(intransitive) To move or rush in a headlong or uncontrolled way.
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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.
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Tumble
To muss, to make disorderly; to tousle or rumple.
To tumble a bed
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Bounce
(intransitive) To move quickly up and then down, or vice versa, once or repeatedly.
He bounces nervously on his chair.
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Tumble
(cryptocurrency) To obscure the audit trail of funds by means of a tumbler.
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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.
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Tumble
To comprehend; often in tumble to.
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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.
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Tumble
To roll over, or to and fro; to throw one's self about; as, a person in pain tumbles and tosses.
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Bounce
(intransitive) To leap or spring suddenly or unceremoniously; to bound.
She bounced happily into the room.
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Tumble
To roll down; to fall suddenly and violently; to be precipitated; as, to tumble from a scaffold.
He who tumbles from a tower surely has a greater blow than he who slides from a molehill.
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Bounce
To move rapidly (between).
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Tumble
To play tricks by various movements and contortions of the body; to perform the feats of an acrobat.
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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.
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Tumble
To turn over; to turn or throw about, as for examination or search; to roll or move in a rough, coarse, or unceremonious manner; to throw down or headlong; to precipitate; - sometimes with over, about, etc.; as, to tumble books or papers.
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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.
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Tumble
To disturb; to rumple; as, to tumble a bed.
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Bounce
To leave.
Let’s wrap this up, I gotta bounce.
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Tumble
Act of tumbling, or rolling over; a fall.
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Bounce
To eject violently, as from a room; to discharge unceremoniously, as from employment.
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Tumble
An acrobatic feat of rolling or turning end over end
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Bounce
(sometimes employing the preposition with) To have sexual intercourse.
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Tumble
A sudden drop from an upright position;
He had a nasty spill on the ice
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Bounce
To attack unexpectedly.
The squadron was bounced north of the town.
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Tumble
Fall down, as if collapsing;
The tower of the World Trade Center tumbled after the plane hit it
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Bounce
To turn power off and back on; to reset.
See if it helps to bounce the router.
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Tumble
Cause to topple or tumble by pushing
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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.
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Tumble
Roll over and over, back and forth
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Bounce
To land hard and lift off again due to excess momentum.
The student pilot bounced several times during his landing.
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Tumble
Fly around;
The clothes tumbled in the dryer
Rising smoke whirled in the air
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Bounce
To land hard at unsurvivable velocity with fatal results.
After the mid-air collision, his rig failed and he bounced.
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Tumble
Fall apart;
The building crimbled after the explosion
Negociations broke down
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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.
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Tumble
Throw together in a confused mass;
They tumbled the teams with no apparent pattern
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Bounce
To bully; to scold.
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Tumble
Understand, usually after some initial difficulty;
She didn't know what her classmates were plotting but finally caught on
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Bounce
To boast; to bluster.
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Tumble
Fall suddenly and sharply;
Prices tumbled after the devaluation of the currency
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Bounce
(archaic) To strike or thump, so as to rebound, or to make a sudden noise; to knock loudly.
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Tumble
Put clothes in a tumbling barrel, where they are whirled about in hot air, usually with the purpose of drying;
Wash in warm water and tumble dry
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Bounce
A change of direction of motion after hitting the ground or an obstacle.
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Tumble
Suffer a sudden downfall, overthrow, or defeat
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Bounce
A movement up and then down (or vice versa), once or repeatedly.
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Tumble
Do gymnastics, roll and turn skillfully
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Bounce
(internet) An email that returns to the sender because of a delivery failure.
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Bounce
The sack, dismissal.
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Bounce
A bang, boom.
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Bounce
(archaic) A drink based on brandyW.
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Bounce
(archaic) A heavy, sudden, and often noisy, blow or thump.
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Bounce
(archaic) Bluster; brag; untruthful boasting; audacious exaggeration; an impudent lie; a bouncer.
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Bounce
Scyliorhinus canicula, a European dogfish.
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Bounce
(uncountable) A genre of hip-hop music of New Orleans, characterized by often lewd call-and-response chants.
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Bounce
Drugs.
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Bounce
Swagger.
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Bounce
A good beat in music.
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Bounce
A talent for leaping.
Them pro-ballers got bounce!
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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.
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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.
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Bounce
To boast; to talk big; to bluster.
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Bounce
To drive against anything suddenly and violently; to bump; to thump.
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Bounce
To cause to bound or rebound; sometimes, to toss.
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Bounce
To eject violently, as from a room; to discharge unceremoniously, as from employment.
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Bounce
To bully; to scold.
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Bounce
A sudden leap or bound; a rebound.
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Bounce
A heavy, sudden, and often noisy, blow or thump.
The bounce burst open the door.
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Bounce
An explosion, or the noise of one.
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Bounce
Bluster; brag; untruthful boasting; audacious exaggeration; an impudent lie; a bouncer.
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Bounce
A dogfish of Europe (Scyllium catulus).
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Bounce
With a sudden leap; suddenly.
This impudent puppy comes bounce in upon me.
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Bounce
The quality of a substance that is able to rebound
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Bounce
A light springing movement upwards or forwards
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Bounce
Rebounding from an impact (or series of impacts)
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Bounce
Spring back; spring away from an impact;
The rubber ball bounced
These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide
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Bounce
Hit something so that it bounces;
Bounce a ball
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Bounce
Move up and down repeatedly
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Bounce
Come back after being refused;
The check bounced
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Bounce
Leap suddenly;
He bounced to his feet
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Bounce
Refuse to accept and send back;
Bounce a check
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Bounce
Eject from the premises;
The ex-boxer's job is to bounce people who want to enter this private club
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