{
    "term": "bounce",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "bounce",
            "heSheIt": "bounces"
        },
        "pastSimple": "bounced",
        "pastParticiple": "bounced",
        "ingForm": "bouncing"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "if something bounces or you bounce it, it moves quickly away from a surface it has just hit or you make it do this",
            "sensetop": "bounce off something+ adv./prep.bounce something (against/on/off something)",
            "labels": "(figurative)",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The ball bounced twice before he could reach it."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Short sound waves bounce off even small objects.",
                    "contextForm": "bounce off something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The light bounced off the river and dazzled her."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The ball bounced high and she missed it.",
                    "contextForm": "+ adv./prep."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She bounced the ball against the wall.",
                    "contextForm": "bounce something (against/on/off something)"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The stone hit the window but bounced off."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The idea had been bouncing around in my head for some time."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["high", "back", "off"],
                "preposition": ["against", "around", "down"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "to jump up and down on something",
            "sensetop": "bounce (up and down) (on something)",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She bounced up and down excitedly on the bed."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "to move a child up and down while they are sitting on your knee in order to entertain them",
            "sensetop": "bounce somebody (up and down) (on something)",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I bounced the baby on my knee while Pete did the dishes."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "to move up and down; to move something up and down",
            "sensetop": "bounce (something) (up and down)",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Her hair bounced as she walked."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 5,
            "definition": "to move up and down in a particular direction",
            "sensetop": "+ adv./prep.",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The bus bounced down the hill."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The car bounced its way along the dirt road."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 6,
            "definition": "to move somewhere in a lively and cheerful way",
            "sensetop": "+ adv./prep.",
            "cefr": "c2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He bounced across the room to greet them."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Personal qualities"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 7,
            "definition": "if a cheque bounces, or a bank bounces it, the bank refuses to accept it because there is not enough money in the bank account to pay it",
            "sensetop": "bounce (something)",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 8,
            "definition": "to tell somebody your ideas in order to find out what they think about them",
            "sensetop": "bounce ideas (off somebody)/(around)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He bounced ideas off colleagues everywhere he went."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 9,
            "definition": "if an email bounces or the system bounces it, it returns to the person who sent it because the system cannot deliver it",
            "sensetop": "bounce (something) (back)",
            "cefr": "c2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I tried to send her an email but it bounced."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The system automatically bounces emails which contain attachments."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Phones, email and the internet"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 10,
            "definition": "to force somebody to leave a job, team, place, etc.",
            "sensetop": "bounce somebody (from something)",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He was soon bounced from the post."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 11,
            "definition": "to leave a place or group of people",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "All right, cool, we'll bounce."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to be so full of energy or so excited that you cannot keep still",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The kids have been bouncing off the walls all day."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/baʊns/",
                "audio": "bo/bounce/bounce__gb_2.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈbaʊnsɪz/",
                "audio": "bo/bounce/bounces__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/baʊnst/",
                "audio": "bo/bounce/bounced__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈbaʊnsɪŋ/",
                "audio": "bo/bounce/bouncing__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/baʊns/",
                "audio": "bo/bounce/bounce__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈbaʊnsɪz/",
                "audio": "bo/bounce/bounces__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/baʊnst/",
                "audio": "bo/bounce/bounced__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈbaʊnsɪŋ/",
                "audio": "bo/bounce/bouncing__us_2.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English bunsen ‘beat, thump’, perhaps imitative, or from Low German bunsen ‘beat’, Dutch bons ‘a thump’."
}