bounce Значение & определение

Значение на bounce на български

• 0 to (cause to) move up or away after hitting a surface:

  • The ball bounced off the goalpost and into the net.

  • She bounced the ball quickly.

  • Her bag bounced (= moved up and down) against her side as she walked.

  • The children had broken the bed by bouncing (= jumping up and down) on it.

  • He bounced the baby (= lifted it up and down) on his knee.

  • figurative Television pictures from all over the world are bounced off satellites (= are sent to and returned from them).

  • Tom bounced in, smiling broadly.

• 1 to (cause a cheque to) not be paid or accepted by a bank because there is no money in the account:

  • I had to pay a penalty fee when my cheque bounced.

  • To my horror the bank bounced the cheque.

• 2 If an email that you send bounces or is bounced, it comes back to you because the address is wrong or there is a computer problem.

• 3 the act of bouncing, or the quality that makes something able to bounce:

  • In tennis you have to hit the ball before its second bounce.

  • figurative This shampoo will give your hair bounce (= make it look attractively thick) and shine.

• 4 an improvement or change to a higher level, for example in how popular a politician or party is:

  • His speech to the convention may have given him a bounce.

  • The city has seen a bounce in homicide.

• 5 to move up or away after hitting a surface, or to cause something to move this way:

  • [ I ] The basketball bounced off the rim of the basket.

  • [ T ] She bounced the baby on her knee.

  • [ I ] fig. Tom bounced into the room (= walked in a happy, energetic way).

• 6 (of a check) to not be paid or accepted by a bank because of a lack of money in the account, or to pay with a check for which there is not enough money in the account:

  • [ T ] He’s bounced checks before, but never on this account.

• 7 an occasion when something such as a ball moves up or away after hitting a surface:

  • In tennis you must hit the ball before its second bounce.

  • a ball that has lost its bounce

• 8 if a cheque bounces, or a bank bounces it, the bank refuses to pay it because there is not enough money in the account:

  • The bank immediately froze the account and bounced outstanding cheques.

  • Payments of $1 million were coming due, but when investors went to cash the checks, they bounced.

• 9 if an email that you send bounces or is bounced, it is returned to you because the address is wrong or there is a computer problem:

  • Customers may be annoyed that spam defences bounce their legitimate e-mail.

  • The report they'd asked me to send bounced, because the email address was invalid.

• 10 to suddenly increase, often after falling to its lowest level:

  • Analysts say that the US economy has bounced.

  • bounce 10%/10p/10 points The Group's shares bounced 20% yesterday as it unveiled its half-year results.

• 11 a sudden increase in value, price, etc.:

  • Dealers took their cue from a strong bounce on Wall Street to push prices higher.

  • a bounce in sth Confidence is growing that we will see a bounce in consumer spending.

  • Today's recovery is being led by a bounce in the technology sector.

  • a bounce back Despite a bounce back in prices after the sales, the volume of business in stores rose in August.