1. simple past tense and past participle of bind.

2. tied; in bonds: a bound prisoner.
3. made fast as if by a band or bond: She is bound to her family.
4. secured within a cover, as a book.
5. under a legal or moral obligation: He is bound by the terms of the contract.
6. destined; sure; certain: It is bound to happen.
7. determined or resolved: He is bound to go.
8. constipated.
9. (of a vector) having a specified initial point as well as magnitude and direction.
10. held with another element, substance, or material in chemical or physical union.
11. (of a linguistic form) occurring only in combination with other forms, as most affixes.

12. bound upin / with,
• inseparably connected with.
• devoted or attached to: She is bound up in her teaching.

1. to move by leaps; leap; jump; spring: The colt bounded through the meadow.
2. to rebound, as a ball; bounce: The ball bounded against the wall.

3. a leap onward or upward; jump.
4. a rebound; bounce.

1. a limit or boundary: the bounds of space and time;within the bounds of his estate;within the bounds of reason.
2. something that limits, confines, or restrains.
3. bounds,
• territories on or near a boundary.
• land within boundary lines.
4. a number greater than or equal to, or less than or equal to, all the numbers in a given set.

5. to limit by or as if by bounds; keep within limits or confines.
6. to form the boundary or limit of.
7. to name or list the boundary of.

8. to abut.

9. out of bounds,
• beyond the official boundaries, prescribed limits, or restricted area: The ball bounced out of bounds.
• forbidden; prohibited: The park is out of bounds to students.

1. going or intending to go; on the way to; destined (usually followed by for): The train is bound for Denver.
2. prepared; ready.

1. a combining form of bound¹: snowbound.

1. a combining form of bound⁴: eastbound.

1. the past tense and past participle of bind

2. in bonds or chains; tied with or as if with a rope
3. restricted; confined
4. destined; sure; certain
5. compelled or obliged to act, behave, or think in a particular way, as by duty, circumstance, or convention
6. (of a book) secured within a cover or binding
7. resolved; determined
8. 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
• (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
9. (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
10. closely or inextricably linked with
11. I am sure (something) is true

1. to move forwards or make (one's way) by leaps or jumps
2. to bounce; spring away from an impact

3. a jump upwards or forwards
4. with unexpectedly rapid progess
5. a sudden pronounced sense of excitement
6. a bounce, as of a ball

1. to place restrictions on; limit
2. to form a boundary of (an area of land or sea, political or administrative region, etc)

3. 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)
• more generally, an element of an ordered set that has the same ordering relation to all the members of a given subset
• whence, an estimate of the extent of some set
4. See bounds

• going or intending to go towards; on the way to
• (in combination)

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