different between rounce vs jounce

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

English

Etymology

Of unknown origin, possibly a Portmanteau / Blend of jolt +? bounce.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a?ns

Verb

jounce (third-person singular simple present jounces, present participle jouncing, simple past and past participle jounced)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To jolt; to shake, especially by rough riding or by driving over obstructions.
   • 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Library of America, 1985, p.51:

     She felt herself swooping, then she was lying on the bed beside Gowan, on her back, jouncing to the dying chatter of the shucks.

Derived terms

• jouncy

Translations

Noun

jounce (countable and uncountable, plural jounces)

1. (physics) The fourth derivative of the position vector with respect to time; the time derivative of jerk.