bounce vs jump

bounce

verb
  • To attack unexpectedly. 

  • (sometimes employing the preposition with) To have sexual intercourse. 

  • 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. 

  • To leave. 

  • To cause to move quickly up and down, or back and forth, once or repeatedly. 

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

  • To leap or spring suddenly or unceremoniously; to bound. 

  • To land hard at unsurvivable velocity with fatal results. 

  • To change the direction of motion after hitting an obstacle. 

  • To move rapidly (between). 

  • To land hard and lift off again due to excess momentum. 

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

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

  • To suggest or introduce (an idea, etc.) to (off or by) somebody, in order to gain feedback. 

  • To return undelivered. 

  • To turn power off and back on; to reset. 

noun
  • A genre of hip-hop music of New Orleans, characterized by often lewd call-and-response chants. 

  • Drugs. 

  • Scyliorhinus canicula, a European dogfish. 

  • An email that returns to the sender because of a delivery failure. 

  • The sack, dismissal. 

  • Swagger. 

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

  • A bang, boom. 

  • A talent for leaping. 

  • A good beat in music. 

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

jump

verb
  • To attack suddenly and violently. 

  • To pass by a spring or leap; to overleap. 

  • To employ a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location. 

  • To bore with a jumper. 

  • To increase the height of a tower crane by inserting a section at the base of the tower and jacking up everything above it. 

  • To propel oneself rapidly upward, downward and/or in any horizontal direction such that momentum causes the body to become airborne. 

  • To jump-start a car or other vehicle with a dead battery, as with jumper cables. 

  • To move the distance between two opposing subjects. 

  • To cause to jump. 

  • To employ a move in certain board games where one game piece is moved from one legal position to another passing over the position of another piece. 

  • To engage in sexual intercourse with (a person). 

  • To cause oneself to leave an elevated location and fall downward. 

  • To increase speed aggressively and without warning. 

  • To react to a sudden, often unexpected, stimulus (such as a sharp prick or a loud sound) by jerking the body violently. 

  • To join by a buttweld. 

  • To thicken or enlarge by endwise blows; to upset. 

  • To increase sharply, to rise, to shoot up. 

  • To move to a position (in a queue/line) that is further forward. 

  • To start executing code from a different location, rather than following the program counter. 

noun
  • An instance of employing a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location. 

  • An object which causes one to jump; a ramp. 

  • An abrupt increase in the height of the surface of a flowing liquid at the location where the flow transitions from supercritical to subcritical, involving an abrupt reduction in flow speed and increase in turbulence. 

  • A kind of loose jacket for men. 

  • An instance of reacting to a sudden stimulus by jerking the body. 

  • A button (of a joypad, joystick or similar device) used to make a video game character jump (propel itself upwards). 

  • A jumping move in a board game. 

  • An early start or an advantage. 

  • An effort; an attempt; a venture. 

  • A change of the path of execution to a different location. 

  • An instance of propelling oneself upwards. 

  • A discontinuity in the graph of a function, where the function is continuous in a punctured interval of the discontinuity. 

  • An instance of causing oneself to fall from an elevated location. 

  • An obstacle that forms part of a showjumping course, and that the horse has to jump over cleanly. 

  • An abrupt interruption of level in a piece of brickwork or masonry. 

  • A dislocation in a stratum; a fault. 

  • An instance of faster-than-light travel, not observable from ordinary space. 

  • Synonym of one-night stand (“single evening's performance”) 

  • The act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound. 

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