ALL meanings of pounce
pounce
P p - intransitive verb pounce jump upon prey 1
- intransitive verb pounce leap, spring 1
- intransitive verb pounce seize opportunity 1
- noun pounce leap 1
- verb without object pounce to swoop down suddenly and grasp, as a bird does in seizing its prey. 1
- verb without object pounce to spring, dash, or come suddenly: Unexpectedly she pounced on the right answer. 1
- verb with object pounce to sprinkle, smooth, or prepare with pounce. 1
- verb with object pounce to trace (a design) with pounce. 1
- verb with object pounce to finish the surface of (hats) by rubbing with sandpaper or the like. 1
- noun pounce a fine powder, as of cuttlebone, formerly used to prevent ink from spreading in writing, or to prepare parchment for writing. 1
- noun pounce a fine powder, often of charcoal, used in transferring a design through a perforated pattern. 1
- noun pounce Also called pounce bag, pounce box. a small bag filled with pounce and struck against a perforated design. 1
- verb pounce If someone pounces on you, they come up towards you suddenly and take hold of you. 0
- verb pounce If someone pounces on something such as a mistake, they quickly draw attention to it, usually in order to gain an advantage for themselves or to prove that they are right. 0
- verb pounce When an animal or bird pounces on something, it jumps on it and holds it, in order to kill it. 0
- verb pounce to spring or swoop, as in capturing prey 0
- noun pounce the act of pouncing; a spring or swoop 0
- noun pounce the claw of a bird of prey 0
- verb pounce to emboss (metal) by hammering from the reverse side 0
- noun pounce a very fine resinous powder, esp of cuttlefish bone, formerly used to dry ink or sprinkled over parchment or unsized writing paper to stop the ink from running 0
- noun pounce a fine powder, esp of charcoal, that is tapped through perforations in paper corresponding to the main lines of a design in order to transfer the design to another surface 0
- noun pounce (as modifier) 0
- verb pounce to dust (paper) with pounce 0
- verb pounce to transfer (a design) by means of pounce 0
- noun pounce a claw or talon of a bird of prey 0
- noun pounce the act of pouncing; swoop, spring, or leap 0
- intransitive verb pounce to swoop down, spring, or leap (on, upon, or at a person or thing) in, or as in, attacking or seizing 0
- noun pounce a fine powder, as pulverized cuttlefish bone, formerly used to prevent ink from blotting or to prepare the writing surface of parchment 0
- noun pounce a fine powder sprinkled over a stencil to make a design, as on cloth 0
- verb transitive pounce to sprinkle, rub, finish, or prepare with pounce 0
- verb transitive pounce to stencil with pounce 0