Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having bounds or limits; limited; circumscribed; confined; cramped; narrow.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective having the limits or boundaries established.
- adjective having a defined physical border.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
bound . - adjective analysis Of a set, that it is capable of being included within a
ball of finite radius.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having the limits or boundaries established
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Examples
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There was a sound of crashing through underbrush, the ringing of steel-shod hoofs on stone, and an occasional and mossy descent of a dislodged boulder that bounded from the hill and fetched up with a final splash in the torrent that rushed over a wild chaos of rocks beneath him.
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A jack-rabbit bounded from a bush under his horse's nose, leaped the stream, and vanished up the opposite hillside of scrub-oak.
Chapter VIII 2010
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In contrast to Attenborough, the boyishly eager Irwin bounded into the frame like Tigger, leaping after the crocs and bantering at full volume: “Crikey!”
Unfair Dinkum 2006
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In contrast to Attenborough, the boyishly eager Irwin bounded into the frame like Tigger, leaping after the crocs and bantering at full volume: “Crikey!”
Unfair Dinkum 2006
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In contrast to Attenborough, the boyishly eager Irwin bounded into the frame like Tigger, leaping after the crocs and bantering at full volume: “Crikey!”
Unfair Dinkum 2006
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These, however, remain bounded by the captivity of our interpretive imagination to the representation of meaning in words.
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Born in captivity, Brunhilda became the face of the controversial program when, as a saucy 9-month-old pup, she bounded from a cage in 1998 as one of the first wolves introduced into the wild.
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It bounded from the man's skull, and the man fell and never spoke again.
The Atlantic | July/August 2001 | Mark Twain's Reconstruction | Blount Jr. 2001
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A jack-rabbit bounded from a bush under his horse's nose, leaped the stream, and vanished up the opposite hillside of scrub-oak.
Chapter VIII 1910
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There was a sound of crashing through underbrush, the ringing of steel-shod hoofs on stone, and an occasional and mossy descent of a dislodged boulder that bounded from the hill and fetched up with a final splash in the torrent that rushed over a wild chaos of rocks beneath him.
Planchette 1906
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