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== English == === Alternative forms === bownd (archaic) === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈbaʊnd/ (Northumbria) IPA(key): /ˈbʊnd/, /ˈbuːnd/ Rhymes: -aʊnd === Etymology 1 === From Middle English bound, bund (preterite) and bounden, bunden, ibunden, ȝebunden (past participle), from Old English bund- and bunden, ġebunden respectively. See bind. ==== Verb ==== bound simple past and past participle of bind ==== Adjective ==== bound (not comparable) (with infinitive) Obliged (to). (linguistics, of a morpheme) That cannot stand alone as a free word. (mathematics, logic, of a variable) Constrained by a quantifier. (dated) Constipated; costive. Confined or restricted to a certain place. Unable to move in certain conditions. ===== Antonyms ===== (antonym(s) of “logic: constrained by a quantifier”): free ===== Hyponyms ===== ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Related terms ===== ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 2 === From Middle English bownde, alternation (with -d partly for euphonic effect and partly by association with Etymology 1 above) of Middle English boun, from Old Norse búinn, past participle of búa (“to prepare”). ==== Adjective ==== bound (comparative more bound, superlative most bound) (obsolete) Ready, prepared. Ready to start or go (to); moving in the direction (of). (with infinitive) Very likely (to), certain to ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Related terms ===== bound to I'll be bound / I dare be bound ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 3 === From Middle English bounde, from Old French bunne, from Medieval Latin bodina, earlier butina (“a bound, limit”). ==== Noun ==== bound (plural bounds) (often used in plural) A boundary, the border which one must cross in order to enter or leave a territory. (mathematics) A value which is known to be greater or smaller than a given set of values. Hyponyms: upper bound, lower bound ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 4 === From Middle English bounden, from the noun (see above). ==== Verb ==== bound (third-person singular simple present bounds, present participle bounding, simple past and past participle bounded) (transitive) To surround a territory or other geographical entity; to form the boundary of. (transitive, mathematics) To be the bound of. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 5 === From Middle English *bounden (attested as bounten), from French bondir (“leap", "bound", originally "make a loud resounding noise”); perhaps from Late Latin bombitāre (“hum, buzz”), frequentative verb, from Latin bombus (“a humming or buzzing”). ==== Noun ==== bound (plural bounds) A sizeable jump, great leap. A spring from one foot to the other in dancing. (dated) A bounce; a rebound. ===== Derived terms ===== by leaps and bounds ===== Translations ===== ==== Verb ==== bound (third-person singular simple present bounds, present participle bounding, simple past and past participle bounded) (intransitive) To leap, move by jumping. (transitive) To cause to leap. , Act V, Scene II, page 93: […] Or if I might buffet for my Loue, or bound my Horſe for her fauours, I could lay on like a Butcher, and fit like a Iack an Apes, neuer off. (intransitive, dated) To rebound; to bounce. (transitive, dated) To cause to rebound; to throw so that it will rebound; to bounce. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== === Anagrams === Dubon == Middle English == === Noun === bound alternative form of band