different between bounce vs graze

English

Etymology

From Middle English bunsen (“to beat, thump”), perhaps imitative. Compare Low German bunsen (“to beat”), Dutch bonzen (“to thump, knock, throb”), and akin to bonken (“to bang, smash”), and possibly English bang.

Pronunciation

• enPR: bouns, IPA^(key): /ba?ns/
• Rhymes: -a?ns

Verb

bounce (third-person singular simple present bounces, present participle bouncing, simple past and past participle 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.
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 or 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).
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. (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 [email protected], but my mail to that address bounced back to me.

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 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.

    Bounce tracks two and three to track four, then record the cowbell on track two.

18. (slang, archaic) To bully; to scold.

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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.

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

bounce (countable and uncountable, plural bounces)

1. A change of direction of motion after hitting the ground or an obstacle.
2. A movement up and then down (or 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.
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.

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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.

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

• bouncy
• on the bounce

Translations

References

English

Etymology

From Old English grasian (“to feed on grass”), from græs (“grass”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??e?z/
• Homophones: grays, greys
• Rhymes: -e?z

Noun

graze (plural grazes)

1. The act of grazing; a scratching or injuring lightly on passing.
2. A light abrasion; a slight scratch.
3. The act of animals feeding from pasture.
   • 1904, Empire Review (volume 6, page 188)

     If it be sundown, when the herds are returning from their daily graze in the long grass of the jungle, clouds of dust will be marking their track along every approach to the village […]

Translations

Verb

graze (third-person singular simple present grazes, present participle grazing, simple past and past participle grazed)

1. (transitive) To feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for.
   • 1731, Jonathan Swift, Considerations upon Two Bills Relating to the Clergy

     a field or two to graze his cows

   • 1999: Although it is perfectly good meadowland, none of the villagers has ever grazed animals on the meadow on the other side of the wall. — Stardust, Neil Gaiman, page 4 (2001 Perennial Edition).
2. (transitive, intransitive) To feed on; to eat (growing herbage); to eat grass from (a pasture)

   Cattle graze in the meadows.

   • 1993, John Montroll, Origami Inside-Out (page 41)

     The bird [Canada goose] is more often found on land than other waterfowl because of its love for seeds and grains. The long neck is well adapted for grazing.

3. (transitive) To tend (cattle, etc.) while grazing.
   • 1596-98, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, act I, scene iii:

     Shylock: When Jacob grazed his uncle Laban's sheep

4. (intransitive) To eat periodically throughout the day, rather than at fixed mealtimes.
   • 2008, Mohgah Elsheikh, Caroline Murphy, Polycystic Ovary Syndrome

     Furthermore, people who take the time to sit down to proper meals find their food more satisfying than people who graze throughout the day. If you skip meals, you will inevitably end up snacking on more high-fat high-sugar foods.

5. To shoplift by consuming food or drink items before reaching the checkout.
   • 1992, Shoplifting (page 18)

     Grazing refers to customers who consume food items before paying for them, for example, a customer bags one and a half pounds of grapes in the produce department, eats some as she continues her shopping […]

   • 2001, Labor Arbitration Information System (volume 2, page 59)

     Had the Grievant attempted to pay for the Mylanta or actually paid for it, then she would not be guilty of grazing or shoplifting.

6. (transitive) To rub or touch lightly the surface of (a thing) in passing.

   the bullet grazed the wall

   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 23

     But in that gale, the port, the land, is that ship’s direst jeopardy; she must fly all hospitality; one touch of land, though it but graze the keel, would make her shudder through and through.

7. (transitive) To cause a slight wound to; to scratch.

   to graze one's knee

8. (intransitive) To yield grass for grazing.

Derived terms

• Earth-grazing
• grazing fire
• overgraze

Translations

Anagrams

• Garzê, Zager, gazer

Dutch

Verb

graze

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of grazen