noun a big jump □ in leaps and bounds very fast ○ The project is going forward in leaps and bounds. ■ adj 1. □ bound for on the way to ○ a ship bound for the Gulf 2. tied up ○ The boy was left bound to a tree. ○ The burglars left him bound hand and foot. ○ a bundle of old letters bound in pink ribbon 3. obliged ○ He felt bound to help her. ○ He is bound by the contract he signed last year. 4. very likely ○ They are bound to be late. 5. unable to move ■ verb to leap, or move fast ○ She bounded into the room. ○ He bounded out of his chair. ○ The dog bounded into the bushes.
bound
n. [OE. bounde, bunne, OF. bonne, bonde, bodne, F. borne, fr. LL. bodina, bodena, bonna; prob. of Celtic origin; cf. Arm. bonn boundary, limit, and boden, bod, a tuft or cluster of trees, by which a boundary or limit could be marked. Cf. Bourne.] 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. “He hath compassed the waters with bounds.
Job xxvi. 10.” “On earth’s remotest bounds.
Campbell.” “And mete the bounds of hate and love.
Tennyson.” To keep within bounds, not to exceed or pass beyond assigned limits; to act with propriety or discretion. Syn. — See Boundary.
Job xxvi. 10.” “On earth’s remotest bounds.
Campbell.” “And mete the bounds of hate and love.
Tennyson.” To keep within bounds, not to exceed or pass beyond assigned limits; to act with propriety or discretion. Syn. — See Boundary.
bound
v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bounded; p. pr. & vb. n. Bounding.]
1. 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. “Where full measure only bounds excess.
Milton.” “Phlegethon …
Whose fiery flood the burning empire bounds.
Dryden.”
2. To name the boundaries of; as to bound France.
1. 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. “Where full measure only bounds excess.
Milton.” “Phlegethon …
Whose fiery flood the burning empire bounds.
Dryden.”
2. To name the boundaries of; as to bound France.
bound
v. i. [F. bondir to leap, OF. bondir, bundir, to leap, resound, fr. L. bombitare to buzz, hum, fr. bombus a humming, buzzing. See Bomb.]
1. 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. “Before his lord the ready spaniel bounds.
Pope.” “And the waves bound beneath me as a steed
That knows his rider.
Byron.”
2. To rebound, as an elastic ball.
1. 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. “Before his lord the ready spaniel bounds.
Pope.” “And the waves bound beneath me as a steed
That knows his rider.
Byron.”
2. To rebound, as an elastic ball.
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