The meaning of Bound
Bound – definition
nounA leaping movement towards or over something.
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I went up the steps in two effortless boundsnounA territorial limit; a boundary.
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The ancient bounds of the forest
adjectiveGoing or ready to go towards a specified place.
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An express train bound for edinburgh
adjectivePast and past participle of bind.
adjectiveCertain to be or to do or have something.
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There is bound to be a change of planadjectiveRestricted or confined to a specified place.
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His job kept him city-boundadjective(of a book) having a specified binding.
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Fine leather-bound booksadjective(of a grammatical element) occurring only in combination with another form.
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And that left a lot of people feeling anxiously that they were never allowed to use ‘they’ as a bou…
verbTie or fasten (something) tightly together.
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They bound her hands and feetverbStick together or cause to stick together in a single mass.
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Mix the flour with the coconut and enough egg white to bind themverbCause (people) to feel united.
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It's music that has bound us togetherverbImpose a legal or contractual obligation on.
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A party who signs a document will normally be bound by its termsverbFix together and enclose (the pages of a book) in a cover.
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A small, fat volume, bound in red moroccoverbTrim (the edge of a piece of material) with a decorative strip.
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A frill with the edges bound in a contrasting colourverb(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.
verb(of a rule or set of grammatical conditions) determine the relationship between (coreferential noun phrases).
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Word origin
Old English bindan, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch and German binden, from an Indo-European root shared by Sanskrit bandh .
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