Sunday, April 6, 2014

Bound

VERB[NO OBJECT]
  • Walk or run with leaping strides
  • (Of an object, typically a round one) rebound from a surface

NOUN
  • A leaping movement upward


Origin
early 16th century (as a noun): from Frenchbond (noun), bondir (verb) 'resound', later 'rebound', from late Latin bombitare, from Latin bombus 'humming'.

NOUN(often bounds)
  • A territorial limit
  • A limitation or restriction on feeling or action
  • (technical) A limiting value.


VERB[WITH OBJECT]
  • Form the boundary of; enclose
  • Place within certain limits; restrict


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

ADJECTIVE
  • Heading toward somewhere
  • Destined or likely to have a specified experience


Origin
Middle English boun (in the sense 'ready, dressed'), from Old Norse bĂșinn, past participle of bĂșa 'get ready'

ADJECTIVE
  • [IN COMBINATION] Restricted or confined to a specified place
  • Prevented from operating normally by the specified conditions
  • [WITH INFINITIVE] Certain to do or have something
  • Obliged by law, circumstances, or duty to do something
  • [IN COMBINATION] (Of a book) having a specified binding
  • Linguistics (Of a morpheme) unable to occur alone, e.g., dis- in dismount.
  • Constipated.


http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/bound?q=bound#bound
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/bound?q=bound#bound-2
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/bound?q=bound#bound-3
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/bound?q=bound#bound-4

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