Dictionary Definition
bind n : something that hinders as if with
bonds
Verb
1 stick to firmly; "Will this wallpaper adhere to
the wall?" [syn: adhere,
hold
fast, bond, stick, stick to]
2 create social or emotional ties; "The
grandparents want to bond with the child" [syn: tie, attach, bond]
3 make fast; tie or secure, with or as if with a
rope; "The Chinese would bind the feet of their women" [ant:
unbind]
4 wrap around with something so as to cover or
enclose [syn: bandage]
5 secure with or as if with ropes; "tie down the
prisoners"; "tie up the old newspapes and bring them to the
recycling shed" [syn: tie down,
tie up,
truss]
6 bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted;
"He's held by a contract"; "I'll hold you by your promise" [syn:
oblige, hold, obligate]
7 form a chemical bond with; "The hydrogen binds
the oxygen"
8 provide with a binding; "bind the books in
leather"
9 fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord;
"They tied their victim to the chair" [syn: tie] [ant: untie]
10 cause to be constipated; "These foods tend to
constipate you" [syn: constipate] [also: bound]bound adj
1 held with another element, substance or
material in chemical or physical union [ant: free]
2 confined by bonds; "bound and gagged hostages"
[ant: unbound]
3 secured with a cover or binding; often used as
a combining form; "bound volumes"; "leather-bound volumes" [ant:
unbound]
4 (usually followed by `to') governed by fate;
"bound to happen"; "an old house destined to be demolished"; "he is
destined to be famous" [syn: bound(p), destined]
5 covered or wrapped with a bandage; "the
bandaged wound on the back of his head"; "an injury bound in fresh
gauze" [syn: bandaged]
6 headed or intending to head in a certain
direction; often used as a combining form as in `college-bound
students'; "children bound for school"; "a flight destined for New
York" [syn: destined]
7 bound by an oath; "a bound official"
9 confined in the bowels; "he is bound in the
belly" [syn: bound(p)]
Noun
Verb
1 move forward by leaps and bounds; "The horse
bounded across the meadow"; "The child leapt across the puddle";
"Can you jump over the fence?" [syn: jump, leap, spring]
2 form the boundary of; be contiguous to [syn:
border]
3 place limits on (extent or access); "restrict
the use of this parking lot"; "limit the time you can spend with
your friends" [syn: restrict, restrain, trammel, limit, confine, throttle]
4 spring back; spring away from an impact; "The
rubber ball bounced"; "These particles do not resile but they unite
after they collide" [syn: bounce, resile, take a hop,
spring, rebound, recoil, reverberate, ricochet]bound See bind
User Contributed Dictionary
See also -bound
English
Pronunciation
- /"baUnd/
- /ˈbaʊnd/
-
- Rhymes: -aʊnd
Etymology 1
Verb
boundEtymology 2
Noun
Translations
border of territory
- Finnish: raja
- German: Abgrenzung
- Polish: granica
- Swedish: gräns
value greater (or smaller) than a given set
- Finnish: raja-arvo
- German: Schranke
- Swedish: gräns
Derived terms
Verb
- To surround a
territory.
- Nebraska, Missouri, Oklahoma and Colorado bound Kansas.
- Usage notes: Tends to be used in passive voice, as Kansas is bounded by Nebraska on the north, Missouri on the east ....
Etymology 3
Translations
Verb
- To move by jumping.
- The rabbit bounded down the lane.
Derived terms
Translations
- Finnish: hyppiä, hypähdellä
- Swedish: skutta
Etymology 4
Alteration of boun, with -d partly for euphonic effect and partly by association with Etymology 1, above.Adjective
- Ready, prepared.
- Ready to start or go (to); moving in the direction (of).
- Is that message bound for me?
- Which way are you bound?
- The leaking fuel tank was bound to explode sooner or later.
- Which way are you bound?
- Is that message bound for me?
- Constrained by something, or constrained to something
- He was bound to his chair.
- Because of his oath, he was bound to follow the king's command.
- He was bound to his chair.
Translations
Ready, prepared
Ready to start or go (to); moving in the
direction (of)
Constrained by something, or constrained to
something
- Danish: begrænset
- Finnish: sidottu
Related terms
Extensive Definition
Bound may refer to:
- Upper and lower bounds, observed limits of mathematical functions
- Terms or bounds, segments of each astrological sign that are said to have different ruling planets
- Bound state, a composite of two or more building blocks which behave as a single object
- In law, parties can be bound to an enforceable contract
- Bound, a descriptor of a book that has gone through the bookbinding process
- Edward McKendree Bounds, a Methodist minister and author of books chiefly on prayer
- Bound up as in bound and gagged
- "Bound for (a place)" can mean "going to (that place)".
- Bound (film), a film by the Wachowski brothers
- "Bound (Enterprise episode)", a fourth season episode of Star Trek: Enterprise
- Bound, a rock band from Jacksonville, FL.
- The boundaries of a town or village, as in Beating the bounds
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Highland fling, absolute, adjoin, affianced, affiliate, affiliated, allied, and jump, apodictic, apprenticed, articled, assembled, associate, associated, assured, backfire, backlash, backlashing, banded
together, barred,
befringe, beholden, beholden to, beleaguer, beleaguered, beset, besiege, besieged, betrothed, bind, blockade, blockaded, blocked, booked, boomerang, border, border line, borders, bounce, bounce back, bound and
determined, bound back, boundary, boundary condition,
boundary line, bounded,
bounden, bounden to,
bounds, bourn, box in, bracketed, break boundary,
breakoff point, broad jump, buck, buckjump, cabined, cage, caged, cannon, cannon off, canter, caper, capriole, carom, ceiling, certain, chamber, choked, choked up, circle in,
circumscribe,
circumscription,
clear, clear and distinct,
clear as day, clogged,
clogged up, cloistered, close in,
closed-in, collateral, collected, committed, compass, compelled, compromised, conclusive, condition, conditioned, confine, confined, confines, congested, conjoined, conjugate, connected, constipated, constrained, contain, contracted, contrecoup, coop, coop in, coop up, cooped, copulate, copyright, copyrighted, cordon, cordon off, cordoned, cordoned off,
corral, corralled, correlated, costive, coupled, cramped, cribbed, curvet, cutoff, cutoff point, deadline, decided, decisive, dedicated, define, definite, delimit, delimitate, delimitation, demarcate, demivolt, destined, determinant, determinate, determine, determined, devoted, directed, discipline, disciplined, divide, division line, doomed, draw the line,
duty-bound, earnest,
edge, encircle, enclose, enclosed, encompass, end, enframe, engaged, enshrine, enslaved, extent, extremity, fast, fastened, fated, fence in, fenced, fettered, finish, finite, fix, fixed, floor, fly back, flying jump,
forced, foul, fouled, fox-trot, frame, fringe, frolic, frontier, full, galliard, gallop, gambol, gathered, gelandesprung, get, git, grand jete, guaranteed, hampered, hand-in-glove,
hand-in-hand, handcuffed, handspring, have
repercussions, headed,
hedge, hedge about, hedge
in, hedged, hem, hem in, hemmed, high jump, high-water
mark, hightail,
hippety-hop, hop, hop along,
hotfoot, house in,
hurdle, immured, implicated, impound, imprison, imprisoned, in bonds, in
chains, in duty bound, in irons, incarcerate, incarcerated, include, incorporated, indebted to,
indentured, ineluctable, inevitable, infarcted, integrated, intended, interface, interlinked, interlocked, interrelated, intimate, involved, ironbound, jail, jailed, jammed, jete, jig, joined, jump, jump over, jump shot, jump
turn, jump-hop, jump-off, kennel, kick, kick back, kickback, knotted, lap, lash back, lavolta, lay off, leagued, leaguer, leaguered, leap, leap over, leapfrog, likely, limen, limit, limitation, limited, limiting factor,
limits, line, line of demarcation, linked, list, long jump, lop, lope, low-water mark, lower limit,
make tracks, manacled,
march, marge, margin, marginate, mark, mark boundaries, mark off,
mark out, mark the periphery, matched, mated, measure, merged, mete, mew, mew up, mewed, moderate, moderated, morris, narrow, necessary, negotiate, obligate, obligated, obliged, obliged to, obstinate, obstipated, obstructed, of that ilk, of
that kind, overjump,
overleap, overskip, packed, paired, paled, parallel, patent, patented, pen, pen in, penned, pent-up, perfectly sure,
persevering,
persistent, pledged, plighted, plugged, plugged up, pocket, pole vault, positive, pounce, pounce on, pounce upon,
precincts, predestined, predetermined, prescribed, promised, proscribed, purfle, purl, purlieus, purposeful, qualified, qualify, quarantine, quarantined, rail in,
railed, rebound, rebuff, recalcitrate, recalcitration, recoil, register, related, relentless, repercuss, repercussion, repulse, required, resile, resilience, resolute, resolved, restrain, restrained, restrict, restricted, ricochet, rim, romp, rope off, run, running broad jump, running
high jump, saddled, saut
de basque, scant, scheduled, secured, separate, serious, set off, set the limit,
shackled, shrine, shut in, shut up,
shut-in, side, sincere, single-minded, ski
jump, skip, skirt, snap back, specialize, specify, spliced, spring, spring back, sprint, stable, stake out, start, start aside, start up,
starting line, starting point, steeplechase, step, step along, step lively,
stint, stopped, stopped up, strait, straiten, straitened, strapped, stuffed, stuffed up, sure, sure-enough, surround, sworn, target date, tenacious, term, terminal date, terminus, tethered, threshold, tied, tied down, tied up, time
allotment, tour jete, trammeled, trim, trip, trot, true, twinned, unambiguous, under
obligation, underwritten, undivided, unequivocal, united, univocal, unmistakable, updive, upleap, upper limit, upspring, vault, verge, wall in, walled, walled-in, warranted, wed, wedded, wholehearted, wrap, yard, yard up, yoked