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Bound meaning
bound - 25 dictionary results
- 1. held with another element, substance or material in chemical or physical union
- 2. of Bind
- 3. 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.
- 4. To name the boundaries of; as, to bound France.
- 5. 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.
- 6. To rebound, as an elastic ball.
- 7. To make to bound or leap; as, to bound a horse.
- 8. To cause to rebound; to throw so that it will rebound; as, to bound a ball on the floor.
- 9. A leap; an elastic spring; a jump.
- 10. Rebound; as, the bound of a ball.
- 11. Spring from one foot to the other.
- 12. imp. & amp; p. p. of Bind.
- 13. Restrained by a hand, rope, chain, fetters, or the like.
- 14. Inclosed in a binding or cover; as, a bound volume.
- 15. Under legal or moral restraint or obligation.
- 16. Resolved; as, I am bound to do it.
- 17. Constipated; costive.
- 18. 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.
- 19. imp. & p. p. of Bind.
- 20. Constrained or compelled; destined; certain; - followed by the infinitive; as, he is bound to succeed; he is bound to fail.
- 21. 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.
- 22. A limit; boundary; a leap.
- 23. Of to bind.
- 24. To leap.
- 25. To limit.
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