different between pounce vs rounce

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa?ns/
• Rhymes: -a?ns

Etymology 1

From French ponce, from Latin p?mex. Doublet of pumice.

Noun

pounce (usually uncountable, plural pounces)

1. (historical) A type of fine powder, as of sandarac, or cuttlefish bone, sprinkled over wet ink to dry the ink after writing or on rough paper to smooth the writing surface.
2. (historical) Charcoal dust, or some other coloured powder for making patterns through perforated designs, used by embroiderers, lacemakers, etc.

Translations

Verb

pounce (third-person singular simple present pounces, present participle pouncing, simple past and past participle pounced)

1. (transitive) To sprinkle or rub with pounce powder.

   to pounce paper, or a pattern

Etymology 2

From Middle English pounce, probably akin to punch. Possibly from Old French ponchonner (compare French poinçonner).

Noun

pounce (plural pounces)

1. A sudden leaping attack.
2. (archaic) The claw or talon of a bird of prey.

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3. A punch or stamp.
   • 1602, John Withals, A Dictionarie in English and Latine for Children

     a pounce to print money with

4. Cloth worked in eyelet holes.
   • 1571, John Jewel et al., "An Homily Against excess of apparel" in The Second Tome of Homilees […]

     one spendeth his patrimony upon pounces and cuts

Verb

pounce (third-person singular simple present pounces, present participle pouncing, simple past and past participle pounced)

1. (intransitive) To leap into the air intending to seize someone or something.

2. (intransitive) To attack suddenly by leaping.

3. (intransitive) To eagerly seize an opportunity.
4. (transitive) To strike or seize with the talons; to pierce, as with the talons.
   • 1782, William Cowper, Table Talk

     Stooped from his highest pitch to pounce a wren.

   • 1621, John Fletcher, The Pilgrim (play)

     Now pounce him lightly, / And as he roars and rages, let's go deeper.

5. (transitive) To stamp holes in; to perforate.

Synonyms

• (instance of propelling oneself into air): leap, jump, bounce
• (instance of causing oneself to fall from an elevated place): strike, attack

Translations

References

• pounce at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Cupeño

Middle English

Noun

pounce

1. Alternative form of paunche

English

Etymology 1

Compare French ronce (“bramble, brier, thorn”), ranche (“a round, step, rack”), or English round.

Noun

rounce (plural rounces)

1. (printing) The handle by which the bed of a hand press, holding the form of type, etc., is run in under the platen and out again.
2. (printing) The whole apparatus by which the form is moved under the platen.

Etymology 2

Noun

rounce (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of rams (“card game”)

Anagrams

• conure, ouncer