bounce vs life

bounce

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

  • 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 bang, boom. 

  • A talent for leaping. 

  • A good beat in music. 

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

verb
  • (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 attack unexpectedly. 

  • 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. 

life

noun
  • One of a player's chances to play in various children's playground games, lost when a mistake is made, for example being struck by the ball in dodgeball. 

  • A life sentence; a period of imprisonment that lasts until the convict's death (or, sometimes, parole). 

  • An opportunity for existence. 

  • A worthwhile existence. 

  • The state of organisms preceding their death, characterized by biological processes such as metabolism and reproduction and distinguishing them from inanimate objects; the state of being alive and living. 

  • The span of time during which an object operates. 

  • The most lively component or participant. 

  • A particular phase or period of existence. 

  • Nature, reality, and the forms that exist in it. 

  • The period of time during which an object is recognizable. 

  • Animation; spirit; vivacity. 

  • A biography. 

  • One of the player's chances to play, lost when the player's character dies or when certain mistakes are made. 

  • A chance for the batter (or batting team) to bat again, given as a result of an misplay by a member of the fielding team. 

  • Social life. 

  • Something which is inherently part of a person's existence, such as job, family, a loved one, etc. 

  • A particular aspect of existence. 

  • The status possessed by any of a number of entities, including animals, plants, fungi, bacteria, and sometimes viruses, which have the properties of replication and metabolism. 

  • The animating principle or force that keeps an inorganic thing or concept metaphorically alive (dynamic, relevant, etc) and makes it a "living document", "living constitution", etc. 

  • The period during which one (a person, an animal, a plant; a civilization, species; a star; etc) is alive. 

  • Lifeforms, generally or collectively. 

  • A period extending from a when a (positive or negative) office, punishment, etc is conferred on someone until that person dies (or, sometimes, reaches retirement age). 

  • The life insurance industry. 

  • A life assured under a life assurance policy (equivalent to the policy itself for a single life contract). 

  • Existence. 

  • A living individual; the fact of a particular individual being alive. (Chiefly when indicating individuals were lost (died) or saved.) 

verb
  • To replace components whose operational lifetime has expired. 

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