Bound meanings. All definitions of Bound

noun bound Bound is the past tense and past participle of bind. 3

phrase bound If you say that something is bound to happen, you mean that you are sure it will happen, because it is a natural consequence of something that is already known or exists. 3

phrase bound If you say that something is bound to happen or be true, you feel confident and certain of it, although you have no definite knowledge or evidence. 3

adjective bound If one person, thing, or situation is bound to another, they are closely associated with each other, and it is difficult for them to be separated or to escape from each other. 3

adjective bound If a vehicle or person is bound for a particular place, they are travelling towards it. 3

adjective bound Bound is also a combining form. 3

noun plural bound Bounds are limits which normally restrict what can happen or what people can do. 3

verb bound If an area of land is bounded by something, that thing is situated around its edge. 3

passive verb bound If someone's life or situation is bounded by certain things, those are its most important aspects and it is limited or restricted by them. 3

verb bound If a person or animal bounds in a particular direction, they move quickly with large steps or jumps. 3

countable noun bound A bound is a long or high jump. 3

verb bound If the quantity or performance of something bounds ahead, it increases or improves quickly and suddenly. 3

adjective bound in bonds or chains; tied with or as if with a rope 3

adjective bound restricted; confined 3

adjective bound destined; sure; certain 3

adjective bound compelled or obliged to act, behave, or think in a particular way, as by duty, circumstance, or convention 3

adjective bound (of a book) secured within a cover or binding 3

adjective bound resolved; determined 3

adjective bound denoting a morpheme, such as the prefix non-, that occurs only as part of another word and not as a separate word in itself 3

adjective bound (in systemic grammar) denoting a clause that has a nonfinite predicator or that is introduced by a binder, and that occurs only together with a freestanding clause 3

adjective bound (of a variable) occurring within the scope of a quantifier that indicates the degree of generality of the open sentence in which the variable occurs: in (x) (Fx → bxy), x is bound and y is free 3

verb bound to move forwards or make (one's way) by leaps or jumps 3

verb bound to bounce; spring away from an impact 3

noun bound a jump upwards or forwards 3

noun bound a sudden pronounced sense of excitement 3

noun bound a bounce, as of a ball 3

verb bound to place restrictions on; limit 3

verb bound to form a boundary of (an area of land or sea, political or administrative region, etc) 3

noun bound a number which is greater than all the members of a set of numbers (an upper bound), or less than all its members (a lower bound) 3

noun bound more generally, an element of an ordered set that has the same ordering relation to all the members of a given subset 3

noun bound whence, an estimate of the extent of some set 3

adjective bound going or intending to go towards; on the way to 3

adjective bound (in combination) 3

intransitive verb bound to move with a leap or series of leaps 3

intransitive verb bound to spring back from a surface after striking it, as a ball; bounce; rebound 3

verb transitive bound to cause to bound or bounce 3

noun bound a jump; leap 3

noun bound a springing back from a surface after striking it; bounce 3

abbreviation BOUND bind 3

adjective bound confined by or as by binding; tied 3

adjective bound closely connected or related 3

adjective bound certain; sure; destined 3

adjective bound under compulsion; obliged 3

adjective bound constipated 3

adjective bound provided with a binding or attached cover, as a book 3

adjective bound having one's mind made up; resolved 3

adjective bound designating a form, or morpheme, that never occurs alone as an independent word 3

noun bound a boundary; limit 3

noun bound an area near, alongside, or enclosed by a boundary 3

verb transitive bound to provide with bounds; limit; confine 3

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