different between rebound vs flounce

English

Etymology 1

From Old French rebondir.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?i?ba?nd/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??iba?nd/

Noun

rebound (plural rebounds)

1. The recoil of an object bouncing off another.
2. A return to health or well-being; a recovery.

3. An effort to recover from a setback.
4. (colloquial) A romantic partner with whom one begins a relationship (or the relationship one begins) for the sake of getting over a previous, recently-ended romantic relationship.
5. (sports) The strike of the ball after it has bounced off a defending player, the crossbar or goalpost.
6. (basketball) An instance of catching the ball after it has hit the rim or backboard without a basket being scored, generally credited to a particular player.

Translations

Derived terms

• rebound effect
• rebound phenomenon
• rebound relationship
• rebound tenderness
• rebound therapy
• rebound volleyball

Verb

rebound (third-person singular simple present rebounds, present participle rebounding, simple past and past participle rebounded)

1. To bound or spring back from a force.

   • Bodies which are absolutely hard, or so soft as to be void of elasticity, will not rebound from one another.
2. To give back an echo.
   • a. 1714, Alexander Pope, Autumn

     each cave and echoing rock rebounds

3. (figuratively) To jump up or get back up again.
4. (transitive) To send back; to reverberate.

   • Silenus sung; the vales his voice rebound, / And carry to the skies the sacred sound.

Translations

See also

• bound (verb)

Etymology 2

see rebind

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ib??nd/

Verb

rebound

1. simple past tense and past participle of rebind

Anagrams

• bounder, unbored, unrobed

English

Etymology

Probably of North Germanic origin, from Norwegian flunsa (“hurry”), perhaps ultimately imitative. Or, perhaps formed on the pattern of pounce, bounce.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fla?ns/
• Rhymes: -a?ns

Verb

flounce (third-person singular simple present flounces, present participle flouncing, simple past and past participle flounced)

1. To move in an exaggerated, bouncy manner.
2. (archaic) To flounder; to make spastic motions.
   • a. 1677, Isaac Barrow, Of Contentment (sermon)

     To flutter and flounce will do nothing but batter and bruise us.

   • 1717, Joseph Addison, Metamorphoses

     With his broad fins and forky tail he laves / The rising surge, and flounces in the waves.

3. To decorate with a flounce.
4. To depart in a haughty, dramatic way that draws attention to oneself.

Translations

Noun

flounce (plural flounces)

1. (sewing) A strip of decorative material, usually pleated, attached along one edge; a ruffle.^W

   • Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […]  Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.

2. The act of flouncing.

Derived terms

• flouncy

Translations

References

• Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.