Bound

[baʊnd]

Definition

(verb.) form the boundary of; be contiguous to.

(adj.) confined by bonds; 'bound and gagged hostages' .

(adj.) secured with a cover or binding; often used as a combining form; 'bound volumes'; 'leather-bound volumes' .

(adj.) held with another element, substance or material in chemical or physical union .

(adj.) headed or intending to head in a certain direction; often used as a combining form as in `college-bound students'; 'children bound for school'; 'a flight destined for New York' .

(adj.) bound by an oath; 'a bound official' .

(adj.) (usually followed by `to') governed by fate; 'bound to happen'; 'an old house destined to be demolished'; 'he is destined to be famous' .

(adj.) confined in the bowels; 'he is bound in the belly' .

Edited by Davy--From WordNet

Definition

(imp.) of Bind

(p. p.) of Bind

(n.) The external or limiting line, either real or imaginary, of any object or space; that which limits or restrains, or within which something is limited or restrained; limit; confine; extent; boundary.

(v. t.) To limit; to terminate; to fix the furthest point of extension of; -- said of natural or of moral objects; to lie along, or form, a boundary of; to inclose; to circumscribe; to restrain; to confine.

(v. t.) To name the boundaries of; as, to bound France.

(v. i.) To move with a sudden spring or leap, or with a succession of springs or leaps; as the beast bounded from his den; the herd bounded across the plain.

(v. i.) To rebound, as an elastic ball.

(v. t.) To make to bound or leap; as, to bound a horse.

(v. t.) To cause to rebound; to throw so that it will rebound; as, to bound a ball on the floor.

(n.) A leap; an elastic spring; a jump.

(n.) Rebound; as, the bound of a ball.

(n.) Spring from one foot to the other.

(-) imp. & p. p. of Bind.

(p. p. & a.) Restrained by a hand, rope, chain, fetters, or the like.

(p. p. & a.) Inclosed in a binding or cover; as, a bound volume.

(p. p. & a.) Under legal or moral restraint or obligation.

(p. p. & a.) Constrained or compelled; destined; certain; -- followed by the infinitive; as, he is bound to succeed; he is bound to fail.

(p. p. & a.) Resolved; as, I am bound to do it.

(p. p. & a.) Constipated; costive.

(v.) Ready or intending to go; on the way toward; going; -- with to or for, or with an adverb of motion; as, a ship is bound to Cadiz, or for Cadiz.

Checker: Scott

Synonyms and Synonymous

n. [1]. Limit, BOUNDARY, bourn, border, confine.[2]. Leap, jump, spring, bounce.

v. a. Limit, border, terminate, circumscribe.

v. n. [1]. Jump, leap, spring.[2]. Rebound, spring back.

a. [Followed by to or for.] Destined, tending, going, on the way.

Typed by Arthur

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Confine, limit, circumscribe, terminate, restrict, restrain

ANT:Enlarge, open, extend, spread_out

SYN:Hem, surround, environ, encircle, besiege, beleaguer, embarrass

ANT:Liberate, abandon

SYN:Limit, boundary, inclosure, confine, border

ANT:[See BORDER]

SYN:To_leap, jump, frisk, spring, skip

ANT:Hobble, limp, crawl, creep, shamble

Typed by Emile

Definition

adj. ready to go—as in 'outward bound ' &c.

n. a limit or boundary: the limit of anything as patience—'to break bounds ' to go beyond what is reasonable or allowable: (pl.) a border-land land generally within certain understood limits the district.—v.t. to set bounds to: to limit restrain or surround.—n. Bound′ary a visible limit: border: termination.—p.adj. Bound′ed restricted cramped.—n. Bound′er a boisterous or overbearing person.—adj. Bound′less having no limit: vast.—n. Bound′lessness.

pa.t. and pa.p. of Bind confined bandaged: intimately connected with—'bound up in:' of books having a cover of as 'bound in morocco ' &c. (with in): under obligation or necessity to as 'bound to win.'—n. Bound′-bail′iff a sheriff's officer so called from his bond given to the sheriff for the discharge of his duty.

v.i. to spring or leap.—n. a spring or leap.—p.adj. Bound′ing moving forward with a bound: leaping.—By leaps and bounds by startlingly rapid stages.

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