bound

  1. Verb.  (past of, bind) .
  2. Adjective.  (context, with infinitive) Obliged (to).
  3. Adjective.  (context, with infinitive) Very likely (to).
  4. Adjective.  (linguistics, of a morpheme) That cannot stand alone as a free word.
  5. Adjective.  (mathematics, logic) Constrained by a quantifier.
  6. Noun.  (often, used in plural) A boundary, the border which one must cross in order to enter or leave a territory.
  7. Noun.  (mathematics) a value which is known to be greater or smaller than a given set of values.
  8. Verb.  To surround a territory or other geographical entity.
  9. Verb.  (mathematics) To be the boundary of.
  10. Noun.  A sizeable jump, great leap.
  11. Verb.  To leap, move by jumping.
  12. Adjective.  (obsolete) ready, prepared.
  13. Adjective.  ready, able to start or go (to); moving in the direction (of).

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