bound
verb
[ baʊnd ]
• walk or run with leaping strides.
• "Louis came bounding down the stairs"
Similar:
leap,
jump,
spring,
bounce,
hop,
vault,
hurdle,
skip,
bob,
dance,
prance,
romp,
caper,
cavort,
sport,
frisk,
frolic,
gambol,
gallop,
hurtle,
curvet,
rollick,
capriole,
bound
noun
• a leaping movement towards or over something.
• "I went up the steps in two effortless bounds"
Origin:
early 16th century (as a noun): from French bond (noun), bondir (verb) ‘resound’, later ‘rebound’, from late Latin bombitare, from Latin bombus ‘humming’.
bound
noun
• a territorial limit; a boundary.
• "the ancient bounds of the forest"
Similar:
borders,
boundaries,
confines,
limits,
outer limits,
extremities,
margins,
edges,
fringes,
marches,
periphery,
perimeter,
circumference,
compass,
precinct,
pale,
bound
verb
• form the boundary of; enclose.
• "the ground was bounded by a main road on one side and a meadow on the other"
Similar:
enclose,
surround,
encircle,
circle,
ring,
circumscribe,
border,
hedge in,
wall in,
fence in,
close in,
hem in,
lock in,
cut off,
Origin:
Middle English (in the senses ‘landmark’ and ‘borderland’): from Old French bodne, from medieval Latin bodina, earlier butina, of unknown ultimate origin.
bound
adjective
• going or ready to go towards a specified place.
• "an express train bound for Edinburgh"
Origin:
Middle English boun (in the sense ‘ready, dressed’), from Old Norse búinn, past participle of búa ‘get ready’; the final -d is euphonic, or influenced by bound4.
bound
verb
• past and past participle of bind.
bound
adjective
• certain to be or to do or have something.
• "there is bound to be a change of plan"
• restricted or confined to a specified place.
• "his job kept him city-bound"
• (of a book) having a specified binding.
• "fine leather-bound books"
• (of a grammatical element) occurring only in combination with another form.
bind
verb
• tie or fasten (something) tightly together.
• "they bound her hands and feet"
Similar:
tie,
tie up,
fasten (together),
hold together,
secure,
make fast,
attach,
rope,
strap,
lash,
truss,
tether,
hitch,
chain,
fetter,
pinion,
shackle,
hobble,
moor,
• stick together or cause to stick together in a single mass.
• "mix the flour with the coconut and enough egg white to bind them"
• cause (people) to feel united.
• "it's music that has bound us together"
Similar:
unite,
join,
bond,
knit together,
draw together,
yoke together,
• impose a legal or contractual obligation on.
• "a party who signs a document will normally be bound by its terms"
• fix together and enclose (the pages of a book) in a cover.
• "a small, fat volume, bound in red morocco"
• trim (the edge of a piece of material) with a decorative strip.
• "a frill with the edges bound in a contrasting colour"
• (of a quantifier) be applied to (a given variable) so that the variable falls within its scope. For example, in an expression of the form ‘For every x, if x is a dog, x is an animal’, the universal quantifier is binding the variable x.
• (of a rule or set of grammatical conditions) determine the relationship between (coreferential noun phrases).
Origin:
Old English bindan, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch and German binden, from an Indo-European root shared by Sanskrit bandh .
in bounds
• inside the part of a sports field or court in which play is conducted.
