English to English adjective Example:
• bound and gagged hostages
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held with another element, substance or material in chemical or physical union | source: wordnet30
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secured with a cover or binding; often used as a combining form | Example:
• bound volumes • leather-bound volumes
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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. | source: webster1913 adjective satellite
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(usually followed by `to') governed by fate | Example:
• bound to happen • an old house destined to be demolished • he is destined to be famous
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covered or wrapped with a bandage | Example:
• the bandaged wound on the back of his head • an injury bound in fresh gauze
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headed or intending to head in a certain direction; often used as a combining form as in `college-bound students' | Example:
• children bound for school • a flight destined for New York
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• a bound official
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confined in the bowels | Example:
• he is bound in the belly
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a line determining the limits of an area | source: wordnet30
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the line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something | source: wordnet30
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the greatest possible degree of something | Example:
• what he did was beyond the bounds of acceptable behavior • to the limit of his ability
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a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards | source: wordnet30
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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. | source: webster1913
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A leap; an elastic spring; a jump. | source: webster1913 preposition
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Restrained by a hand, rope, chain, fetters, or the like. | source: webster1913 verb
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move forward by leaps and bounds | Example:
• The horse bounded across the meadow • The child leapt across the puddle • Can you jump over the fence?
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form the boundary of; be contiguous to | source: wordnet30
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place limits on (extent or access) | Example:
• restrict the use of this parking lot • limit the time you can spend with your friends
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spring back; spring away from an impact | Example:
• The rubber ball bounced • These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide
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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. | source: webster1913
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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. | source: webster1913
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To make to bound or leap; as, to bound a horse. | source: webster1913
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