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11 Definitions of: bound

1. verb, the past tense and past participle of bind
2. adjective, in bonds or chains; tied with or as if with a rope
3. adjective, restricted; confined
4. adjective, destined; sure; certain
5. adjective, compelled or obliged to act, behave, or think in a particular way, as by duty, circumstance, or convention
6. adjective, (of a book) secured within a cover or binding. See also half-bound
7. adjective, resolved; determined
8. adjective, linguistics a) 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 b) (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
9. adjective, 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
10. adjective, bound up with closely or inextricably linked with
11. adjective, I'll be bound I am sure (something) is true
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1. verb, to move forwards or make (one's way) by leaps or jumps
2. verb, to bounce; spring away from an impact
3. noun, a jump upwards or forwards
4. noun, by leaps and bounds with unexpectedly rapid progess
5. noun, a sudden pronounced sense of excitement
6. noun, a bounce, as of a ball
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1. verb, to place restrictions on; limit
2. verb, to form a boundary of (an area of land or sea, political or administrative region, etc)
3. noun, maths a) 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) b) more generally, an element of an ordered set that has the same ordering relation to all the members of a given subset c) whence, an estimate of the extent of some set
4. noun, See bounds
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1. adjective, a) going or intending to go towards; on the way to b) (in combination)
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Synonyms:	caper, spring, leap, bob, jump, bounce, hurdle, skip, vault, pounce	And more...

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