I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a ball bounces
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In tennis, the ball must only bounce once.
a bullet bounces/ricochets off sth (= hits something and moves away from it again )
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The bullet ricocheted off a wall.
a cheque bounces (= is not paid by a bank because there is not enough money in the account )
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The cheque bounced because my account was overdrawn.
bounce a ball
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He was in the yard bouncing a ball against the wall.
fire/bounce ideas off one another (= discuss each other’s ideas and think of good new ones )
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Our regular meetings are opportunities to fire ideas off each other.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
about
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General Shafter corrected, and the three officers, bouncing about as they tried to peer down through the clouds, laughed.
along
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Experienced workers lead the kids through sand, water play, and bounce along !
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The Chris-Craft bounced along nicely: an expensive wheel-steered vessel, trim and fast.
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Billy's short legs kept getting tangled in the heather, so he bounced along like a kangaroo through the springy tufts.
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Socialism and fun were here colliding, whereas conservatism and fun seem to bounce along happily in the YCs.
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She hacked at the ball, which bounced along the snooker table and rolled into a pocket.
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It bounces along wonderfully, with Caine obviously having a whale of a time, and is ideal kiddies' Christmas fare.
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It bounced along above the pushchair, flashing gold, red and silver in the sunshine.
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Dexter bounced along behind Blanche with renewed energy.
around
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I got on before I could change my mind and we bounced around for a few minutes.
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As the numbers bounced around , Sen.
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The various lessons involve showing large and colourful letters on the screen, sometimes the float and bounce around .
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The 49ers have bounced around in their training camp locations.
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She was bouncing around in a tent-like dress, patterned in psychedelic swirls of purple and brown.
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Some wild wine ideas are bouncing around right now.
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No-one bounces around my school without my permission.
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He says the Dow is bouncing around 8, 000, headed eventually to 10, 000.
back
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When the laser reaches the pale stone surface the light emitted is bounced back instead of absorbed and the process ceases.
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The case bounced back and forth between a federal district judge and a court of appeals three times.
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But with 6 minutes to go, United bounced back .
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Now the Lakers just need Ceballos to bounce back .
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The radar waves bounce back off the cars that approach, and are registered by the receiving apparatus.
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In 1990 it lost 3. 1 percent but in 1991 it bounced back with a return of 30. 77 percent.
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Their 1987 balance sheets took a hit because of defaults, but have bounced back nicely in 1988.
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Then, as the yen weakened again to 104. 2 in mid-September, the Nikkei bounced back to 18474. 38.
down
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He dropped it, and it bounced down the stairs.
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But to Boro's frustration, the ball hit the crossbar, bounced down and was cleared.
off
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The first bullet bounced off his skull, leaving the 38-year-old father of two virtually unscathed.
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From them he receives counsel and bounces off ideas.
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He bounced off the side, then rolled into a ditch.
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He says it loudly enough to bounce off Maryellen and reach Allen.
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If none of the light bounced off the electron into the microscope there would be nothing to see.
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Before I could grasp what was happening, I had bounced off the wall and was crumpling on to the floor in pain.
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Ian Durrant told me that later that the ball had bounced off a sprinkler head.
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He found places where the waves bounced off the boundary and then returned to the surface near a large bank of seismographs.
over
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It swerved wildly towards the wall, bounced over the pavement and came to a stop four feet from the concrete wall.
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Now imagine your house is on wheels, bouncing over several hundred miles of road a day.
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Squigs bounce over intervening troops and scenery and land where indicated.
up
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The Feldwebel bounced up and down on his seat with laughter as he had done in the car at Amsterdam.
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We sat bouncing up and down in our seats for the excitement.
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You then bounce up and down until you stop.
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Then he flexed his knees and bounced up and down.
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The leaves of the giant rubber plants bounce up and down.
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Few of us bounce up and down in glee at the prospect of paying taxes.
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Linda skipped up , Ella bounced up.
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So he played gently enough not to make the hammers of Stein's pianos bounce up and hit the strings again.
■ NOUN
ball
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The ball bounced their way, but sometimes it didn't quite go far enough.
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The unhappy ball does not bounce .
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Yes, Ezra is a tennis ball , does bounce on, off, along, over everything.
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She feels like a Ping-Pong ball , bouncing between her boss and a woman she considers her friend.
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Television replays confirmed that the ball bounced behind the line.
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Without warning the ball bounces faster.
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Ian Durrant told me that later that the ball had bounced off a sprinkler head.
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Striking the ball was a total physical pleasure, and the ball flew, bounced , and rolled some 220 yards.
idea
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You can bounce ideas off them and benefit from their expertise, as they have often been self-employed themselves.
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From them he receives counsel and bounces off ideas .
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He bounced ideas off colleagues everywhere he went, and they were greeted with enthusiasm.
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We spend an awful lot of time together bouncing ideas , talking about the right thing to do.
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They can bounce ideas off one another and provide a mutual critique or one another's work.
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We were always getting together and bouncing ideas around about improving products and offering customers more value.
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Is there some one I can bounce ideas off?
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We could bounce ideas off each other and share problems.
wall
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The sound ricocheted around the hall, bouncing from the marble walls , piercing his throbbing head.
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Before I could grasp what was happening, I had bounced off the wall and was crumpling on to the floor in pain.
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The car bounced off the wall and came toward me.
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The sound swelled, bounced from wall to wall, was projected down at her from the roof.
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Hrun landed rolling, bounced off a wall and came up on his feet.
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She was only too glad to have even this talk bouncing against walls that had become a tomb.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Doherty's case has bounced him from court to court.
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Grosso talks rapidly, bouncing from one thought to the next.
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I was in a sea plane with 10 others, bouncing in the air currents.
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If the check bounces, the bank charges a fee of $18.
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She tried to mail him several times but the message always bounced.
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That June, he bounced the other two leaders and named himself President.
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Two boys stood on the corner bouncing basketballs.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Daks are known to bounce back, but this one looks beyond recall.
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First I thought that a bullet had hit me on the helmet and somehow bounced off.
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Socialism and fun were here colliding, whereas conservatism and fun seem to bounce along happily in the YCs.
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The ball couldn't have bounced better for Steve White, who took aim and and hit the target with some style.
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The Nikkei 225-stock index has spent most of the past two years bouncing between 14000 and 20000.
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Unfortunately, when you write, your thoughts bounce around the page in a similar fashion.
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We sat bouncing up and down in our seats for the excitement.
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We were encouraged to bounce links off each other.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
get
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Abraham got the bounce of the ball and made the most of it with a cracking shot.
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You get a bounce as the week progresses.
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If you get a soft bounce with your 4 you're going to have a very difficult chip.
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I always felt aggressive, I always had a great deal of self-control, I always felt I would get good bounces .
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Perot deservedly got no popularity bounce from his nomination, as both Dole and Clinton did after their conventions.
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They commonly get a stock price bounce after announcing layoffs.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I caught the ball on the first bounce .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Chang felt that the surface, which offered an unusually high bounce for an indoor court, suited a baseliner like himself.
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Lee hacked on and collected a favourable bounce to dot down at the posts.
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Perot deservedly got no popularity bounce from his nomination, as both Dole and Clinton did after their conventions.
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The ball glanced on a bounce off the foot of a spectator and back down toward the fairway.
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This type of groove should be played very tight, smack on the beat at all times, but with a little bounce .
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You get a bounce as the week progresses.