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Bound
Bound Bound, n.
1. A leap; an elastic spring; a jump.
A bound of graceful hardihood. --Wordsworth.
2. Rebound; as, the bound of a ball. --Johnson.
3. (Dancing) Spring from one foot to the other.
BoundBound Bound,
imp. & p. p. of Bind. BoundBound 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. BoundBound 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. Bound
Bound Bound, v. t.
1. To make to bound or leap; as, to bound a horse. [R.]
--Shak.
2. To cause to rebound; to throw so that it will rebound; as,
to bound a ball on the floor. [Collog.]
BoundBound Bound, a. [Past p. of OE. bounen to prepare, fr. boun
ready, prepared, fr. Icel. b[=u]inn, p. p. of b[=u]a to
dwell, prepare; akin to E. boor and bower. See Bond, a.,
and cf. Busk, v.]
Ready or intending to go; on the way toward; going; -- with
to or for, or with an adverb of motion; as, a ship is bound
to Cadiz, or for Cadiz. ``The mariner bound homeward.'
--Cowper.
Meaning of Bound from wikipedia
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Bound or
bounds may
refer to:
Bound variable Upper and
lower bounds,
observed limits of
mathematical functions Bound Brook (Raritan River), a tributary...
- In
computer science, a
computer is CPU-
bound (or compute-
bound) when the time for it to
complete a task is
determined prin****lly by the
speed of the...
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Homeward Bound may
refer to:
Homeward Bound (1923 film), an
American silent film
directed by
Ralph Ince
Homeward Bound (1980 film), a TV film starring...
- effects.
Every atom is
composed of a
nucleus and one or more
electrons bound to the nucleus. The
nucleus is made of one or more
protons and a number...
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Outward Bound (OB) is an
international network of
outdoor education organizations that was
founded in the
United Kingdom by
Lawrence Holt and Kurt Hahn...
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Bound for
Glory may
refer to:
Bound for
Glory (book), a 1943
autobiography by
Woody Guthrie Bound for
Glory (album), a 1956
album by
Woody Guthrie and...
- lower)
bound is said to be
bounded from
above or
majorized (respectively
bounded from
below or minorized) by that
bound. The
terms bounded above (
bounded below)...
- In physics, the
Bekenstein bound (named
after Jacob Bekenstein) is an
upper limit on the
thermodynamic entropy S, or
Shannon entropy H, that can be contained...
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Bound &
Gagged may
refer to:
Bound and
Gagged (comic strip), a
syndicated newspaper comic strip drawn by Dana
Summers Bound &
Gagged (magazine), a ****...
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Bound is a 1996
American neo-noir
crime thriller film
written and
directed by the
Wachowskis in
their feature film
directorial debut.
Violet (Jennifer...
