Collins English-English Dictionary

bound [baυnd]

1. 1. vb the past tense and past participle of bind

2. 2. adj in bonds or chains; tied with or as if with a rope

   a bound prisoner

3. 3. adj [in combination] restricted; confined

   housebound

   fogbound

4. 4. adj [postpositive, foll by an infinitive] destined; sure; certain

   it's bound to happen

5. 5. adj [postpositive, often foll by by] compelled or obliged to act, behave, or think in a particular way, as by duty, circumstance, or convention

6. 6. adj (of a book) secured within a cover or binding - See also half-bound

   to deliver bound books

7. 7. adj [postpositive, foll by on] [US] resolved; determined

   bound on winning

8. 8. adj [linguistics] denoting a morpheme, such as the prefix non-, that occurs only as part of another word and not as a separate word in itself - Compare free

9. 9. adj (in systemic grammar) denoting a clause that has a nonfinite predicator or that is introduced by a binder, and that occurs only together with a freestanding clause - Compare freestanding

10. 10. adj [logic] (of a variable) occurring within the scope of a quantifier that indicates the degree of generality of the open sentence in which the variable occurs: in (x) (Fx bxy), x is bound and y is free - Compare free

bound [baυnd]

1. 1. vb to move forwards or make (one's way) by leaps or jumps

2. 2. vb to bounce; spring away from an impact

3. 3. n a jump upwards or forwards

4. 4. n a sudden pronounced sense of excitement

   his heart gave a sudden bound when he saw her

5. 5. n a bounce, as of a ball

6. 6. n [Etymology] C16: from Old French bond a leap, from bondir to jump, resound, from Vulgar Latin bombitire (unattested) to buzz, hum, from Latin bombus booming sound

bound [baυnd]

1. 1. vt. [tr] to place restrictions on; limit

2. 2. vt. [when intr, foll by on] to form a boundary of (an area of land or sea, political or administrative region, etc)

3. 3. n [maths] a number which is greater than all the members of a set of numbers (an upper bound), or less than all its members (a lower bound) - See also bounded

4. 4. n more generally, an element of an ordered set that has the same ordering relation to all the members of a given subset

5. 5. n whence, an estimate of the extent of some set

6. 6. n See bounds

7. 7. n [Etymology] C13: from Old French bonde, from Medieval Latin bodina, of Gaulish origin

bound [baυnd]

1. 1. adj [postpositive, often foll by for] going or intending to go towards; on the way to

   a ship bound for Jamaica

   homeward bound

2. 2. adj (in combination)

   northbound traffic

3. 3. adj [Etymology] C13: from Old Norse buinn, past participle of bua to prepare