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Bound
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- 1 Obliged (to). not-comparable, with-infinitive
"You are not legally bound to reply."
- 2 Ready, prepared. obsolete
"This certain,—that a band of war / Has for two days been ready boune, / At prompt command to march from Doune […]."
- 3 That cannot stand alone as a free word. not-comparable
- 4 Ready to start or go (to); moving in the direction (of).
"Which way are you bound? —I'm already homeward bound."
- 5 Constrained by a quantifier. not-comparable
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- 6 Very likely (to), certain to with-infinitive
"They were bound to come into conflict eventually."
- 7 Constipated; costive. dated, not-comparable
- 8 Confined or restricted to a certain place. not-comparable
"railbound"
- 9 Unable to move in certain conditions. not-comparable
"snowbound"
- 1 confined by bonds wordnet
- 2 secured with a cover or binding; often used as a combining form wordnet
- 3 (usually followed by ‘to’) governed by fate wordnet
- 4 confined in the bowels wordnet
- 5 held with another element, substance or material in chemical or physical union wordnet
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- 6 bound by contract wordnet
- 7 headed or intending to head in a certain direction; often used as a combining form as in ‘college-bound students’ wordnet
- 8 covered or wrapped with a bandage wordnet
- 9 bound by an oath wordnet
- 1 A surname.
- 1 A boundary, the border which one must cross in order to enter or leave a territory. often
"I reached the northern bound of my property, took a deep breath and walked on."
- 2 A sizeable jump, great leap.
"The deer crossed the stream in a single bound."
- 3 a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards wordnet
- 4 A value which is known to be greater or smaller than a given set of values.
- 5 A spring from one foot to the other in dancing.
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- 6 the greatest possible degree of something wordnet
- 7 A bounce; a rebound. dated
"Balzo, a bound of a ball"
- 8 the line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something wordnet
- 9 a line determining the limits of an area wordnet
- 1 simple past and past participle of bind form-of, participle, past
"I bound the splint to my leg."
- 2 To surround a territory or other geographical entity; to form the boundary of. transitive
"France, Portugal, Gibraltar and Andorra bound Spain."
- 3 To leap, move by jumping. intransitive
"The rabbit bounded down the lane."
- 4 place limits on (extent or amount or access) wordnet
- 5 To be the bound of. transitive
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- 6 To cause to leap. transitive
"to bound a horse"
- 7 spring back; spring away from an impact wordnet
- 8 To rebound; to bounce. dated, intransitive
"A rubber ball bounds on the floor."
- 9 move forward by leaps and bounds wordnet
- 10 To cause to rebound; to throw so that it will rebound; to bounce. dated, transitive
"to bound a ball on the floor"
- 11 form the boundary of; be contiguous to wordnet
Etymology
From Middle English bound, bund (preterite) and bounden, bunden, ibunden, ȝebunden (past participle), from Old English bund- and bunden, ġebunden respectively. See bind.
From Middle English bound, bund (preterite) and bounden, bunden, ibunden, ȝebunden (past participle), from Old English bund- and bunden, ġebunden respectively. See bind.
From Middle English bownde, alternation (with -d partly for euphonic effect and partly by association with Etymology 1 above) of Middle English boun, from Old Norse búinn, past participle of búa (“to prepare”).
From Middle English bounde, from Old French bunne, from Medieval Latin bodina, earlier butina (“a bound, limit”).
From Middle English bounden, from the noun (see above).
From Middle English *bounden (attested as bounten), from French bondir (“leap", "bound", originally "make a loud resounding noise”); perhaps from Late Latin bombitāre (“hum, buzz”), frequentative verb, from Latin bombus (“a humming or buzzing”).
From Middle English *bounden (attested as bounten), from French bondir (“leap", "bound", originally "make a loud resounding noise”); perhaps from Late Latin bombitāre (“hum, buzz”), frequentative verb, from Latin bombus (“a humming or buzzing”).
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