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Definition bound

Etymology 1

From Middle English bound, bund (preterite) and bounden, bunden, ibunden, ?ebunden (past participle), from Old English bund- and bunden, ?ebunden respectively. See bind.

Verb

bound

1. simple past tense and past participle of bind

Adjective

bound (not comparable)

1. (with infinitive) Obliged (to).
2. (with infinitive) Very likely (to), certain to
3. (linguistics, of a morpheme) That cannot stand alone as a free word.
4. (mathematics, logic, of a variable) Constrained by a quantifier.
5. (dated) Constipated; costive.
6. Confined or restricted to a certain place; e.g. railbound.
7. Unable to move in certain conditions; e.g. snowbound.

Etymology 2

From Middle English bounde, from Old French bunne, from Medieval Latin bodina, earlier butina (“a bound, limit”)

Noun

bound (plural bounds)

1. (often used in plural) A boundary, the border which one must cross in order to enter or leave a territory.
2. (mathematics) A value which is known to be greater or smaller than a given set of values.

Etymology 3

From Middle English bounden, from the noun (see above).

Verb

bound (third-person singular simple present bounds, present participle bounding, simple past and past participle bounded)

1. To surround a territory or other geographical entity.
2. (mathematics) To be the boundary of.

Etymology 4

From Middle English *bounden (attested as bounten), from French bondir (“to leap, bound, originally make a loud resounding noise”); perhaps from Late Latin bombit?re, present active infinitive of bombit? (“hum, buzz”), frequentative verb, from Latin bombus (“a humming or buzzing”).

Noun

bound (plural bounds)

1. A sizeable jump, great leap.
2. A spring from one foot to the other in dancing.
3. (dated) A bounce; a rebound.

Verb

bound (third-person singular simple present bounds, present participle bounding, simple past and past participle bounded)

1. (intransitive) To leap, move by jumping.
2. (transitive) To cause to leap.
3. (intransitive, dated) To rebound; to bounce.
4. (transitive, dated) To cause to rebound; to throw so that it will rebound; to bounce.

Etymology 5

From Middle English bound, bownde, alternation (with -d partly for euphonic effect and partly by association with Etymology 1 above) of Middle English boun, from Old Norse búinn, past participle of búa (“to prepare”).

Adjective

bound (comparative more bound, superlative most bound)

1. (obsolete) Ready, prepared.
   1. Ready to start or go (to); moving in the direction (of).

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