bounceとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• enPR: bouns, IPA^(key): /baʊns/
• 韻: -aʊns

動詞

bounce (三人称単数 現在形 bounces, 現在分詞 bouncing, 過去形および過去分詞形 bounced)

1. (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.

2. (intransitive) To move quickly up and then down, or vice versa, once or repeatedly.

   He bounces nervously on his chair.

   • 2012 May 13, Alistair Magowan, “Sunderland 0-1 Man Utd”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     The Black Cats contributed to their own downfall for the only goal when Titus Bramble, making his first appearance since Boxing Day, and Michael Turner, let Phil Jones' cross bounce across the six-yard box as Rooney tucked in at the back post.

3. (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.

4. (transitive, colloquial) To suggest or introduce (an idea, etc.) to (off または by) somebody, in order to gain feedback.

   I'm meeting Bob later to bounce some ideas off him about the new product range.

5. (intransitive) To leap or spring suddenly or unceremoniously; to bound.

   She bounced happily into the room.

   • 1731, Jonathan Swift, On Mr. Pulteney's Being Put Out of the Council

     Out bounced the mastiff.

6. To move rapidly (between).
   • 2017 July 30, Ali Barthwell, “Ice and fire finally meet in a front-loaded episode of Game Of Thrones (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club‎^[2]:

     “The Queen’s Justice” had some fantastic moments of wit and heart but the structure and pacing didn’t do it any favors. The first section of the episode mostly bounced between Jon Snow’s arrival at Dragonstone and Cersei Lannister burning through her enemies and giving nary a fuck.

7. (intransitive, informal, of a cheque/check) 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.

8. (transitive, informal) 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.

9. (intransitive, slang) To leave.

   Let’s wrap this up, I gotta bounce.

10. (US, slang, dated) To eject violently, as from a room; to discharge unceremoniously, as from employment.
    • 1946, Yachting (volume 80, page 46)

      Nobody took umbrage and bounced me out of the Union for being a pro.

11. (intransitive, slang, African-American Vernacular) (sometimes employing the preposition with) To have sexual intercourse.
12. (transitive, air combat) To attack unexpectedly.

    The squadron was bounced north of the town.

13. (intransitive, electronics) To turn power off and back on; to reset.

    See if it helps to bounce the router.

14. (transitive, intransitive, Internet, of an e-mail message) To return undelivered.

    What’s your new email address? The old one bounces.

    The girl in the bar told me her address was thirsty@example.com, but my mail to that address was bounced back by the server.

15. (intransitive, aviation) To land hard and lift off again due to excess momentum.

    The student pilot bounced several times during his landing.

16. (intransitive, skydiving) To land hard at unsurvivable velocity with fatal results.

    After the mid-air collision, his rig failed and he bounced.

17. (transitive, sound recording) To mix (two または 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.

18. (slang, archaic) To bully; to scold.
    • 1621 (first performance)​, John Fletcher, “The Wild-Goose Chase; a Comedy”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, OCLC 3083972, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, かつ the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

      passage=Would I had him here again, I would so bounce him , I would so thank his lordship for his lewd plot.

19. (slang, archaic) To boast; to bluster.
20. (archaic) To strike or thump, so as to rebound, or to make a sudden noise; to knock loudly.
    • 1708, John Partridge, Squire Bickerstaff Detected

      Another bounces as hard as he can knock.

同意語

• (change direction of motion after hitting an obstacle): bounce back, rebound
• (move quickly up かつ down): bob
• (have sexual intercourse): bang, do it, have sex; see also Thesaurus:copulate

派生語

名詞

bounce (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 bounces)

1. A change of direction of motion after hitting the ground or an obstacle.
   • 2012 June 9, Owen Phillips, “Euro 2012: Netherlands 0-1 Denmark”, in BBC Sport:

     Krohn-Dehli took advantage of a lucky bounce of the ball after a battling run on the left flank by Simon Poulsen, dummied two defenders and shot low through goalkeeper Maarten Stekelenburg's legs after 24 minutes.

2. A movement up and then down (または vice versa), once or repeatedly.
3. (Internet) An email that returns to the sender because of a delivery failure.
4. The sack, licensing.
5. A bang, boom.
   • 1773, Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer

     I don't value her resentment the bounce of a cracker.

6. (archaic) A drink based on brandy^W.
   • 1870 May, “Irish Life”, in The Saint Pauls Magazine, volume VI, London: Strahan & Co., publishers, 56, Ludgate Hill, OCLC 963571888, page 203:

     A prologue of cherry bounce,—brandy,—preceded the entertainment, which was enlivened by hob-nobs and joyous toasts.

   • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 6, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:

     He had one hand on the bounce bottle—and he'd never let go of that since he got back to the table—but he had a handkerchief in the other and was swabbing his deadlights with it.

7. (archaic) A heavy, sudden, and often noisy, blow or thump.
   • 1685, John Dryden, The Despairing Lover

     The bounce burst ope[sic] the door.

8. (archaic) Bluster; brag; untruthful boasting; audacious exaggeration; an impudent lie; a bouncer.

   (Can we find かつ add a quotation of Johnson to this entry?)

   • 1827, Thomas De Quincey, On Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts

     And, in fact, the whole story is a bounce of his own. For, in a most abusive letter which he wrote “to a learned person,” (meaning Wallis the mathematician,) he gives quite another account of the matter

9. Scyliorhinus canicula, a European dogfish.
10. A genre of New Orleans music.
11. (slang, African-American Vernacular) Drugs.
12. (slang, African-American Vernacular) Swagger.
13. (slang, African-American Vernacular) A 'good' beat.
14. (slang, African-American Vernacular) A talent for leaping.

    Them pro-ballers got bounce!

同意語

• (change of direction of motion after hitting an obstacle): rebound
• (movement up かつ down): bob, bobbing (repeated), bouncing (repeated)
• (talent for leaping): ups, mad ups

派生語

• bouncy
• on the bounce

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