• If the pattern is designed correctly the reflected light will bounce off at an angle that causes it to strike the surface again and to have a second chance to be absorbed.
• That's when transmitted radio signals bounce off barriers and take multiple paths to get to a receiver, resulting in interference.
• Radio signals bounce off different pieces of matter - floors, metal, even the air around you - at different angles and speeds.

• Last night we got word from a reader that an email had bounced.
• The non-yahoo e-mail bounced and I received no reply from the yahoo one for two weeks.
• If the email bounces or is undeliverable, it is placed into the mail queue for later processing.

• Each time he bounces back, but each recovery takes its toll on his authority.
• The players, once able to bounce back from setbacks and adversity, are looking more and more like dead men walking.
• Any tips for a young reporter on bouncing back from a minor set-back?

Synonyms

• The floor vibrated and bounced under my feet.
• The stadium swayed and bounced under my feet as the crowd stomped up and down.
• I stuck my key down into the slot, where it bounced up and down, but did nothing to help start the car.

• She was still bouncing her child lightly in an attempt to soothe her.
• Sitting outside a group of tents closely placed together, she bounced a toddler on her knee.
• Two of his daughters were there, laughing and carrying small children, and he was bouncing a third child on his knees.

• A dilapidated cab bounced along a pitch-black dirt road and we could see in the silhouette, large structures shadowed around us.
• The truck bounced wildly along the trail and spun out onto the road.
• Our carriage bounced along that road, and I was sitting across from both of my parents.

• He is bouncing around in a manner ill-befitting one who has recently consumed so much lager.
• I like the company of other people and, as a performer, I am at my happiest when I'm bouncing around a stage that is very much shared.
• Jenna stood in the doorway, looking overly happy and practically bouncing across the room to the end of the bed.

Synonyms

• Even if a cheque cleared on a Wednesday, technically a bank could bounce that cheque up to mid-day on Thursday.
• Today you're even more stressed because you're overdrawn and have to make a deposit by noon or your bank will bounce your mortgage payment.
• Last month the bank bounced a cheque for a very large sum of money - the deposit on a house purchase.

• He was bounced from the team after testing positive for marijuana.
• Could it be that another juror is about to be bounced from the case?
• Maybe the women wanted her to bounce the president out of the White House because he had been disloyal to her.

• They bowled with discipline on a surface lacking in bounce, and fielded with a tigerish resolve to win by eight runs.
• On a surface a yard slower in pace and lower in bounce than Lord's, he sent down the same old stuff.
• He could not repeat his Bristol explosiveness, with the slower, variable bounce upsetting his ability to hit cleanly.

Synonyms

• ‘I don't think anything we have seen suggests we are going to see a sudden bounce,’ he said.
• A small bounce in share prices and the picture will look quite different.
• But what was interesting about the bounce was that it was not accompanied by a rise in the corporate bond market.

• And it is not clear that he will be sailing into the summer convention with a great deal of brag and bounce.
• But there was no bounce and cheerfulness in her voice like there used to be.
• He was relaxed, enthusiastic, full of bounce.

Synonyms

• It is the professional who feels the texture, quality and decides a cut that gives balance and bounce to the hair.
• It includes two products that work together to hydrate and tone your hair, imparting softness and bounce to natural body.
• She attempted to get her curls to regain their bounce, and she managed to do a good job.