单词 | inbound |
释义 | inboundadj.1 Bound inward or homeward. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > travel in specific course or direction > [adjective] > inwards inbound1894 1894 Outing 24 473/1 Inbound vessels told of passing these valiant American schooners. 1967 Jane's Surface Skimmer Syst. 1967–8 63/1 Inbound freight is sorted on arrival at terminal. 1971 D. Potter Brit. Elizabethan Stamps xiii. 144 Clever collectors with new issues of stamps purchased at the all-night post office in London, would rush to stations within 50 miles or so of London to post their covers on inbound services. 1973 D. Westheimer Going Public ix. 127 Drivers on the inbound lanes slowed to a crawl. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2021). inboundadj.2 Of a leaf, gathering, etc., in a manuscript or book: bound within. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > [adjective] > bound > bound within inbound1953 1953 D. C. C. Young in Scriptorium 8 15 There is an inbound quaternion of blanks. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online June 2019). † inboundv. Obsolete. transitive. To enclose as a boundary; to bound. (See also embound v.) ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > boundary > bound or form boundary of [verb (transitive)] > enclose as a boundary circumscribe1578 conscribe1588 inbound1600 1600 E. Fairfax tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne xviii. xx. 319 On the greene banks which that faire streame inbound, Flowers and odours sweetely smilde and smeld. 1627 J. Speed Eng. Abridged v. §1 Vpon the East Kent doth imbound it [Surrey]. 1652 W. Blith Eng. Improver Improved ix. 47 Your Marsh Lands..lie under the Levell of the Sea, and were it not inbounded by the banks,..would all return to the Sea again. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < adj.11894adj.21953v.1600 |
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