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.
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