| 单词 | bound |
| 释义 | Word Frequency bound 1(baʊnd) verb 1. the past tense and past participle of bind adjective 2. in bonds or chains; tied with or as if with a rope a bound prisoner 3. (in combination) restricted; confined housebound fogbound 4. (postpositive; foll by an infinitive) destined; sure; certain it's bound to happen 5. (postpositive; often foll by by) 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 to deliver bound books See also half-bound 7. (postpositive; foll by on) US resolved; determined bound on winning 8. 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 (sense 21)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. 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 free (sense 22)10. bound up with 11. I'll be bound Word Frequency bound 2(baʊnd) verb 1. to move forwards or make (one's way) by leaps or jumps 2. to bounce; spring away from an impact noun 3. a jump upwards or forwards 4. by leaps and bounds 5. a sudden pronounced sense of excitement his heart gave a sudden bound when he saw her 6. a bounce, as of a ball Word origin C16: from Old French bond a leap, from bondir to jump, resound, from Vulgar Latin bombitīre (unattested) to buzz, hum, from Latin bombus booming soundWord Frequency bound 3(baʊnd) verb 1. (transitive) to place restrictions on; limit 2. (when intr, foll by on) to form a boundary of (an area of land or sea, political or administrative region, etc) noun 3. mathematics 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) See also bounded (sense 1)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. bounds Word origin C13: from Old French bonde, from Medieval Latin bodina, of Gaulish originWord Frequency bound 4(baʊnd) adjective a. (postpositive; often foll by for) going or intending to go towards; on the way to a ship bound for Jamaica homeward bound b. (in combination) northbound traffic Word origin C13: from Old Norse buinn, past participle of būa to prepare |
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