bound
adjective (1)Definition of bound
(Entry 1 of 7)
2 : placed under legal or moral restraint or obligation : obliged duty-bound
3 of a book : secured to the covers by cords, tapes, or glue
leather-bound
4 : determined, resolved was bound and determined to have his way
5 : held in chemical or physical combination
6 : made costive (see costive sense 1a) : constipated
7 : always occurring in combination with another linguistic form un- in unknown and -er in speaker are bound forms — compare free entry 1 sense 11d
bound
Definition of bound (Entry 2 of 7)
past tense and past participle of bind
bound
adjective (2)Definition of bound (Entry 3 of 7)
bound
noun (1) plural bounds
Definition of bound (Entry 4 of 7)
bound
verb (1)bounded; bounding; bounds
Definition of bound (Entry 5 of 7)
1 : to move by leaping
deer bounding across a field She bounded down the stairs.
bound
noun (2) plural bounds
Definition of bound (Entry 6 of 7)
1a : a limiting line : boundary —usually used in pluralThe ball landed out of bounds.
b : something that limits or restrains
beyond the bounds of decency police officers overstepping their bound
3 mathematics : a number greater than or equal to every number in a set (such as the range of a function) also : a number less than or equal to every number in a set
bound
verbbounded; bounding; bounds
Definition of bound (Entry 7 of 7)
2 : to set limits to : confine art … is always greater than the rules with which we may attempt to bound it— C. S. Kilby
3 : to name the boundaries of
Students were asked to bound their state.
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The first known use of bound was in the 13th century
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