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unbound1 /ʌnˈbaʊnd /adjective1Not bound or tied up: her hair was unbound figurative they were unbound by convention...- It's refreshing to watch a band so completely unbound by such conventions, and to know that the cultural tapestry that is New York has finally produced a band which reflects that.
- Each was also to imagine itself unbound by convention or costs, beats or bosses.
- It seems truly frustrating to be suspended between the rhetorical promises of two equally undesirable futures: one of unbound connectivity and file sharing, the other of nothing but commercial trademarks and legal binding.
1.1(Of printed sheets) not bound together: other copies were sold in the form of unbound printed sheets...- The most striking but by no means the only instances are the hole cut in a page of his novel Albert Angelo and the presentation, in The Unfortunates, of a box containing a bundle of unbound gatherings to be read in random order.
- A large sheaf of unbound A4 pages is messy and difficult to file.
- If you want to bind it I doubt any publisher/editor/slushpile reader would mind, nor will they object at all if it's unbound.
1.2(Of a bound book) not provided with a proper or permanent cover: two thick, unbound volumes...- ‘I have piles and piles of unbound books, and I just look at them and think, I'm never going to finish,’ he admits with a chuckle.
- In his will, Michele d' Alessio stipulated that any unbound volumes should be bound, and that each book should be annotated on its flyleaf with his name as donor.
- Cave Birds was first presented to the world in print in a limited edition of 125 unbound books published by the Scolar Press in 1975.
1.3 Chemistry & Physics Not held by a chemical bond, gravity, or other physical force: unbound electrons...- They detected fewer particles from the collisions than standard theory predicts, suggesting that a tiny blob of unbound quarks and gluons may have been created.
- Energetically, the fundamental limitation of these solvent-screened electrostatic potentials of the unbound molecule is that they ignore the important desolvation effects incurred upon binding.
- The concentration of unbound protein in the supernatant was determined spectrophotometrically at 410 nm.
unbound2 /ʌnˈbaʊnd / Past and past participle of unbind. |