英语词汇“bound”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词

bound

释义

bound¹/bownd/ adj

(also used in combinations) going or intending to go somewhere specified

I was driving along the M5, bound for home

the northbound carriageway

[Middle English boun ready, prepared to go, from Old Norse būinn, past part. of būa to dwell, prepare]

bound²noun (usu in pl, treated as sing. or pl)

a limiting line; a boundary

something that limits or restrains

beyond the bounds of decency

out of bounds

outside the permitted limits

The town centre was out of bounds for boarding-school pupils

said of the ball in team sport, etc: outside the area of play

[Middle English via Old French from medieval Latin bodina]

bound³verb trans (usu in passive)

to set limits to (something)

His views were not bounded by any narrow ideas of expediency — A Jameson

to form the boundary of (a country, region, etc)

a landlocked country bounded by high mountain ranges

bound⁴adj

(usu used in combinations) confined to a place

house-bound

desk-bound

certain or sure (to do something)

It's bound to rain soon

(also used in combinations) placed under legal or moral obligation (to do something)

am bound to say

are duty-bound to assist

held in chemical or physical combination

bound water in a molecule

(often used in combinations) said of books: having the kind of binding specified

a leather-bound volume

said of a linguistic element: always occurring in combination with another linguistic form, e.g. the negative prefix un- as in unknown and the agent suffix -er as in speaker

bound up with

closely connected with or dependent on (something)

I'll be bound

I bet; I'll warrant

I'm bound to say

I must admit

[past part. of bind¹]

bound⁵noun

a leap or jump

a bounce

[early French bond, from bondir to rebound, earlier to resound, from Latin bombus: see bomb¹]

bound⁶verb intrans

to move by leaping

to rebound or bounce

bound⁷verb

past tense and past part. of bind¹

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bound1/bownd/ adj

bound2noun (usu in pl, treated as sing. or pl)

bound3verb trans (usu in passive)

bound4adj

bound5noun

bound6verb intrans