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Ricochet

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

verb-intransitive. To rebound at least once from a surface.

n. The act or an instance of ricocheting.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A method of firing a projectile so that it skips along a surface.

n. An instance of ricocheting; a glancing rebound.

v. To rebound off something wildly in a seemingly random direction.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A rebound or skipping, as of a ball along the ground when a gun is fired at a low angle of elevation, or of a fiat stone thrown along the surface of water.

v. To operate upon by ricochet firing. See ricochet, n.

verb-intransitive. To skip with a rebound or rebounds, as a flat stone on the surface of water, or a cannon ball on the ground. See ricochet, n.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The motion of an object which rebounds from a flat surface over which it is passing, as in the case of a stone thrown along the surface of water.

To bound by touching the earth or the surface of water and glancing off, as a cannon-ball.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. spring back; spring away from an impact

n. a glancing rebound

Word Usage

"One cannot help jumping when death, in the form of a piece of flying lead, hits the rail beside him, or the mast over his head, or whines away in a ricochet from the steel shrouds."

Verb Form

ricochets ricochetted ricochetting

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

repercussion rebound backlash recoil

Cross Reference

ricochet fire ricochet battery ricochet shot

Variant

ricochetted ricochetting

Form

ricochetted ricochetting

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

glance

Same Context

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