bound

Definitions


[baʊnd], (Verb)

Definitions:
- walk or run with leaping strides
(e.g: Louis came bounding down the stairs)


Phrases:

Origin:
early 16th century (as a noun): from French bond (noun), bondir (verb) ‘resound’, later ‘rebound’, from late Latin bombitare, from Latin bombus ‘humming’


[baʊnd], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a leaping movement towards or over something
(e.g: I went up the steps in two effortless bounds)


Phrases:

Origin:
early 16th century (as a noun): from French bond (noun), bondir (verb) ‘resound’, later ‘rebound’, from late Latin bombitare, from Latin bombus ‘humming’


[baʊnd], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a territorial limit; a boundary
(e.g: the ancient bounds of the forest)


Phrases:
- in bounds
- out of bounds

Origin:
Middle English (in the senses ‘landmark’ and ‘borderland’): from Old French bodne, from medieval Latin bodina, earlier butina, of unknown ultimate origin


[baʊnd], (Verb)

Definitions:
- form the boundary of; enclose
(e.g: the ground was bounded by a main road on one side and a meadow on the other)


Phrases:
- in bounds
- out of bounds

Origin:
Middle English (in the senses ‘landmark’ and ‘borderland’): from Old French bodne, from medieval Latin bodina, earlier butina, of unknown ultimate origin


[baʊnd], (Adjective)

Definitions:
- going or ready to go towards a specified place
(e.g: an express train bound for Edinburgh)


Phrases:

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 bound


[baʊnd], (Verb)

Definitions:


Phrases:
- I'll be bound
- bound up in
- bound up with

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[baʊnd], (Adjective)

Definitions:
- certain to be or to do or have something
(e.g: there is bound to be a change of plan)

- restricted or confined to a specified place
(e.g: his job kept him city-bound)

- (of a book) having a specified binding
(e.g: fine leather-bound books)

- (of a grammatical element) occurring only in combination with another form


Phrases:
- I'll be bound
- bound up in
- bound up with

Origin:




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